e23 love...

[D Unit]

Here's some stuff I've been working on. Dyed the door panels black since I swapped the tan carpet to black.


Also got this idea from some dude on bigcoupe forum.



Since I didn't have matching carpet on the center console pieces, I decided to wrap them matching the door panels.


The result was somewhat underwhelming once I combined the middle console pieces with the door cards... Looked way too busy. Long story short, I'm going to redo the whole thing again.



Instead I'm going to re-do the center console pieces in m-rain fabric and wrap the door cards in black faux leather.

[AtlantisTouring]

Sick build man, the car is a minter!!

[D Unit]

Fixed the window circuit breaker and rear lockout. Also re-did the door panel in faux black leather and replaced the knee panel and glovebox to black... Looks much better now.

[D Unit]

I've finally been able to drive the car the passed couple of days and the b35 and manual are very fun to drive. The original plan was to turbo the car, but I don't think that may be necessary anymore...

Well... I told you guys I wasn't happy with how the interior came out, so I reluctantly gave it another go... What a fuckin' pain in the ass. I must've taken my interior a part about half a dozen times now... argh.

The old man interior was driving me nuts so the mtech material came just in time...







I am so glad I got the interior over with... I'd rather poke my eye out with a blunt screw driver.


While I was dealing with the interior, I bought a new 5 channel D amp to replace by MB Quartz stuff. I wanted the 5 channel amp to simplify the wiring and be more efficient on my alternator. The amp is so tiny...



First amp rack I've ever made out of velcro...


Amp is well hidden...


This morning I had to re-install my front bumper since the shop only had time to zip tie one of the sides. I've been hoarding a lot of spare parts and Frankenstein my best bumper/chrome pieces...


During the install, I had to cut a piece of the body... Not sure why I didn't have to do this last time but oh well.


Here's the final front bumper... For the life of me, I couldn't figure out how to mount the fogs. I went to Home Depot to try to make some custom brackets but FAILED at that too. I'm going to try the gluing/JB weld technique next weekend.

[lmerani]

Wow! Love what you've done with the interior

[D Unit]

Updated new shots of the interior... Still need to order some genuine Cocomats but I'm not sure which color yet... I'm either thinking all black, black + red, or black + blue. What do you guys think?








Installed a new headunit... it's a Clarion fz102e from Europe with no RCAs so I had to run dual LOCs for the components and sub amp.


Also finished up my exhaust recently. I ended up with a vibrant resonator, CARB'd approved Magnaflow cat, Magnaflow muffler, and some chrome 2.25 dual tips. Sounds excellent now.






I don't think I ever posted pictures of the b35 swap... Thanks again to German Autosport in Berekely, CA.




Sitting pretty in my driveway...

New signal lights... check.
New low beam lights... check.
New kidney grills... check.
New license plate molding... check.
New BBS air dam (clone)... check.
Fresh paint on the air dam, bumper carrier, and early sharknose conversion... check.


Custom coilovers sitting pretty... 350lbs Fronts, 375lbs Rear... custom valved Billy e30 ix front struts and e28 Billy sports rear. Car rides very comfortable and current wheel setup does not rub at all.

[Toivoku]

Ohh, thats a beauty, i hope to build e23 for myself in a couple of years . Respect for not giving up

[delvin]

Holy smokes that looks really really classy man. Great job!

[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...

[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.

[fackinsteve]

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

[190Evan]

BRB soiled my trousers m8

[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...

[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.

[y200yk]

охуитительно получилось
ну то есть... nice work men