Back in black BMW e30

[dillon7]

The wheels look sweet! What suspension do you plan on running?

give me about 3 days and you will have your answer

[skiierman]

This build is looking pretty awesome, cant wait to see this thing dropped. And your jeep is amazing, I wish I had one as nice as yours.

[dillon7]

This build is looking pretty awesome, cant wait to see this thing dropped. And your jeep is amazing, I wish I had one as nice as yours.

thanks man, I can't wait either!

Made some progress today.

Finished welding the exhaust up. I can't TIG weld very well so I had my Dad do that while I took some pics.






I also picked up a late model front valence the other day. It is nice and straight so should work well. I did a quick test fit and it looks really close but I might have to do some tweaking. It will be sanded down, prepped, and painting tomorrow.









Also, some big parts came in today and hopefully the rest come in tomorrow. This build is about to get interesting again

[dillon7]

Today was basically christmas when this showed up to my house










So the parts list includes:

Air Lift Sleeve-over strut kit

Air House 2 rear bag

5 gallon tank

dual 444 compressors

3/8 lines

water traps

325is front lip


Pretty stoked about all the parts. I'll be installing everything over the next couple days so I'll have plenty of updates. Hopefully everything goes along smoothly and I should learn a lot along the way.


Besides opening boxes I sanded down and primed the late model front valence. Going to wait for the weather to be perfect before I paint it.



Say goodbye to static

[Chasen88]

Man this has comes a long way.

[Queef|Chief]

Air ride is gonna be amazing!

[MrViicc]

Ahhh so exciting!

[dillon7]

I've been working on the car a ton so sorry for no updates but it is now time.

I'm 85% complete with the whole bag set up. All of the difficult fabricating is finished so now it's time to touch everything up before it all goes in for the final time. I now see why not a lot of people bag these things...takes a lot of work.

Enough talking time for pictures and stuff.

I started on the rears first. Got the spring out and this is what I was presented with.



Time to play with air tools. ;D Anyways, cut it off and was left with this.



I cut it a little too high so I had a crap ton of grinding to do on this side. Learned from that for the other side which went a lot quicker. Here is what they all ended up looking like after grinding them down flat.



After that I decided to move to the front and start making measurements for all the cuts that needed to be made. It was a little confusing but luckily after some trial and error I got it right. Gathered up all of my parts and headed to my Dad's shop to do a little fabrication.



Making the cut on strut tube.



tacked in. A little too long still so I cut another 1/4" off.





The top hat that comes with the kit is huge and I had the shorten the diameter so I got to use thing awesome machine. It was quite a tedious process and whatever metal it's made of is reallyyyy strong so it took forever.



Drilling the holes



Picture of the room I was working in.



Also decided to make some 3/16" spacers since the 5mm ones were a little aggressive. Just used the 5mm ones as a template and used this awesome machine to punch the holes out instead of having to drill them out.







Final product



KYB Camaro shocks also showed up for the rear.



Back to the rear. Drilled a hole through the control arm for the bolt to mount the bag.




While I was doing the rear my Dad started welding up the front.



Had to do a lot of cutting and some welding on the rear top hat for the bag. Didn't take too many pictures but this is how it came out.



Dad finished up welding the front struts and they came out fantastic.



I forgot to take pictures but built some brackets for the tank as well. Nothing fancy just some simple bends but it gets the job done. Also plugged all the holes in the tank.



For some reason I jump around a lot but I got out the new shocks and assembled the top mount. The diameter for the lower bolt is too big so I have to find something to press in to fit better.



Started wiring everything together. Ran the ignition wire to the front to the fuse box, wired the compressors and the power and ground to the battery. For some reason wiring the ignition to the ignition fuse didn't work but running it to the radio/speedo did, oh well. It's all a mess right now but the compressors work so I just need to clean it all up.



While I was doing all this I painted my late model front valence and is lip using duplicolor universal black. It matches pretty well and I was happy with it. I'll get a better idea of how I like it once I get everything on the car.




All in all it's been a busy past couple of days. I had no idea there was so much involved. Just looking at pictures and reading this thread probably doesn't seem like a lot but it is. I can't wait to come home and finish it so I can see all the work paid off. Until then, I'll just use this picture for inspiration.

[Queef|Chief]

wow talk about quality work. keep it up

[Zic]

Love the work here. Awesome.

[dillon7]

wow talk about quality work. keep it up

Love the work here. Awesome.

thanks guys!

[RobbieGreene508]

Wow, really nice e30, so inspiring to me and my car.... thanks for posting!

[CubbyChowder]

I know how you feel, bagging a car is not exactly a simple task, especially if you have to cut a bunch of shit up and what not. It ends up being way more work than you initially anticipated. Nice work though, look forward to seeing it done!

[K-Line]

Well shit...

[dillon7]

Wow, really nice e30, so inspiring to me and my car.... thanks for posting!

Thanks man

I know how you feel, bagging a car is not exactly a simple task, especially if you have to cut a bunch of shit up and what not. It ends up being way more work than you initially anticipated. Nice work though, look forward to seeing it done!

Oh yes, a lot more work than I thought. It's definitely going to be worth it though. Get back to your 2002 now! That's my favorite build thread to read, can't wait to see it finished.

Well shit...

I have this problem where I finish one big mod then get bored for a couple days and start another one...and I still haven't even driven this thing on the street. At this rate my first time driving it will be to SOWO