e23 love...

[D Unit]

[extra_slick]

AAANNNNDDDD now I want to actually treat my e23 right and make it nice

[chayden]

AAANNNNDDDD now I want an old BMW again

[D Unit]

Was waiting on a couple of things to attempt to install my wing again...

This wing is legit.


Here's the secret sauce.


Decided to dremel off the bolts and tape on the wing.


Then painted over the dremel marks to prevent rust.


Taped up the wing...


Made a complex measuring tool using a snipped zip tie...


Prepped the surface...






Fits like a glove...






Next project will be to mount the front fogs and re-do the exhaust tips...

[evoDRichie]

sick

[D Unit]

I finished the rear parcel shelf yesterday... I was able to squeeze out both middle consoles and the rear shelf using only 1 yard. Don't mind the lack of speaker grill covers since I forgot to put them on before I took the pic.



Next up, the cocomats. I've been pretty hesitant spending some coin on something as simple as floormats but once I saw "how" and "where" they were made I was sold. I placed my order online and the very next day a rep called to go over my order. Wow... great service! We discussed my options and he ended up mailing me their e23 floor mat patterns to verify a perfect fit. I honestly thought that would be overkill, but what the hell, I didn't want to argue with the man.

He also sent me a few samples. Seems like the blue will be a perfect match.


When I received the patterns, I went into the garage thinking I'd spend 5-10 minutes or so verifying/modifying the pattern. Low and behold, it took me nearly 2 hours. It wasn't so much the patterns were off, but moreso, it was kind of fun tweaking them out to be perfect. The blue shows how much material I wanted to add the the red portion I trimmed out.







I made the least changes to the front passenger seat...


And then went a little coo coo in the rear. Here's what I started off with... The e23 rear floor is not leveled but I wanted more coverage. This is what I ended up with.



Next step was to label the front


And... here's the wheels I bought from some guy in Germany (daywalker) a few months ago. They are Oz Futura 17x8.5/10 and only took 4 days to deliver. I was going to refinish them myself, but ended up sending them off to get professionally refurbished by a pro.

[D Unit]

What a nice looking car. Ideal for daily driver.

Haha... it's my daily driver now. Seems like I retired the e36 m3.

Anyways, it came to my attention the other day that I installed the small yellow ring on the wrong gear... I'm correcting it here just in case someone copies my dumb ass. It should look like this... BTW, if you have an e23, you will probably need the gear set similar to an e24 and not the e28. I ended up re-using 2 of my original gears and only changed out the e1 gear which was bad.

First thought before seeing any pics was black/grey, but it seems like the picture shows it being pretty close to black/white. I thought it would be a little more subdued.

That blue/black will probably look best in there, tie into the highlights from the M fabric.

First thought before seeing any pics was black/grey, but it seems like the picture shows it being pretty close to black/white. I thought it would be a little more subdued.

That blue/black will probably look best in there, tie into the highlights from the M fabric.

X2 on the mats.

Would it kill you to update your Instagram every now and again? :

I bit the bullet and ordered the black and blue cocomats... I honestly had trouble pulling the trigger but after watching "how they are made" video, I couldn't resist... Besides, if my wife can I have a closet full of Air Jordans, then this was chump change... LOL.

https://youtu.be/Rb5QNNYXwcM

I also custom ordered red thread stitching around the drivers heel pad and black thread stitching everywhere else. Hopefully the blue and black combo will still look subdued with a little pop with the red heel pad... They don't advertise it on their site, but here's an example of what one of the reps emailed me.

[thofdahl]

What a nice looking car. Ideal for daily driver.

[y200yk]

охуитительно получилось
ну то есть... nice work men

[Nixxon]

Thanks a million.

I found a company in the Netherlands a couple of years ago that has a lot of BMW fabric, except for this one.

[D Unit]

Where did you get the M-rain material from?

I have been looking for this for years without much success. I have seats for my E36 in that fabric and it is a little worn in a couple of places and wanted to have it reupholstered and do the door-card inserts in the same material.

Any info would be greatly appreciated.

Right here player.

http://www.bmwfabric.com/

Today I was able to watch the Lakers game and pull out my cluster.


My odometer stopped working before the shop and my temp gauge called it quits while it was in at the shop. I was hoping I could fix both, but I could only fix the odometer gears. I couldn't see anything blatantly wrong with the temp gauge so I'm going to assume the issue is non cluster related. Lakers won btw...

[190Evan]

BRB soiled my trousers m8

[fackinsteve]

This car came together beautifully man, I love the E23 platform

[Nixxon]

Where did you get the M-rain material from?

I have been looking for this for years without much success. I have seats for my E36 in that fabric and it is a little worn in a couple of places and wanted to have it reupholstered and do the door-card inserts in the same material.

Any info would be greatly appreciated.

[D Unit]

It's a perfect car and i like it alot, but fake wheels dumb down the car IMO. I understand the money thing, but honestly the money you'll spend on wheels and tires you could've bought rebuildable wheels. It's no race to perfect a car, so why buy temps to reach your goal.

My car hasn't had any wheels in months and i've owned 2 sets of 3pc for 1100 combined (1st set 700.00/ 2nd 425.00), but i'm waiting until i can buy legit. Fake wheels steal from our community and it urks me a little.

Need-less-to-say. the e23 is a beautiful car and i love the mods up to this point. Keep it going man!
just my .02, which means nothing haha

Your comment has stuck with me for awhile man... I was able to snatch a set of Oz Futura 17x8.5/10 from daywalker in Germany a few months ago and I've been communicating with The_Sauce to come pick them up this Thursday to refinish them...