Another E36 build

[Tim Holm]

moved both cars out of the workshop

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[Tim Holm]

welded in some reenforcemnts on the subframe

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old powerflex from the red car mounted, and painted the with hammerite
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My house is full of car parts at the moment :P bathroom
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painted the last parts on the beetle

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and got the tires mounted
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built a workbench for the new home workshop

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[Tim Holm]

Beetle update!

painting stuff

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needs another coat but you get the idea

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[Tim Holm]

oh and I got the boat moved to my house
not I can watch it rot from my kitchen window..
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[Tim Holm]

Got myself a new LSD, old one is the one thats welded.
that one was 3.15 ratio new one is 3.64 so it should be fun.
its of an e34 so I have to swap the internals over to the e36 housing.
Might get it machined for some more lock later on

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new bushings everywhere

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and I traded some spacers for this intercooler. last pice of the turbo puzzle

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[Tim Holm]

bmw update


started wetsanding and polishing the roof
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and I found out how bad the subframe was on the new shassis :/
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got some more parts as well

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[Tim Holm]

doing a complere teardown of the xs this winter, think Ill change some things, its been 3 years sins i first buildt

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cuting the front beam 4"
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had to bash the chassis a little but fits great now, no cuting

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[Tim Holm]

finally did one of the wheels for the beetle

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and the wet sanding and buffing is going well

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[Tim Holm]

Modded the hinges to open further
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found a small clipp from the old chassis

[Tim Holm]

Killed of some ugly bmw seats
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need to do some work on the bike as well soon
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put everything in the front togther today, not sure about the mirros yet, migh go with OEM
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[EasySpeed*Inc]

Very good thread you have here

[Tim Holm]

Finally got the bimmer painted!!
not perfect but I'll keep working on it

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went out for a drive offroad with a buddy in a range rover today, pretty tired of working on the bmw now so it was nice to do someting else for a change

the 4runner was mint, got up everywhere had to pull the Range Rover up a hill at one point

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finised the day by prepping the engine and engine bay to meet.
need to re tap the holes for the engine mount on one side, turns out it'd pulled out the threds last time I was driving it

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[Tim Holm]

Beetle looks good in natural light
Got the rear windows in as well today

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pretty happy with how the paint turned out
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