Gertrude: to hell and back e28

[_e90]

Not that it really matters. But I like where this is headed.

Nice euro bumpers and stuff.

[Bronzit]

Bird Poo Fitment.

[SnazzyQ]

16x9.5 et35 with 45mm adapters? that makes the wheels essentially 16x9.5 et-15 right?

either way this is incredibly awesome and makes me want to buy an e28 even more

[Welfare]

Jesus, what an update.
That setup.

And yes, $400 is a lot, but we don't have many options over here in Australia

[3EyedGoat]

Just loving how your cars tuning out man , Ill be honest . I was becoming quite angry at mine but every time I see your thread it pushes me to work on mine , In any case ... thanks for the inadvertent motivation lol . Cant wait to see the wheels man . Its gonna look great !

On a scale of 1-10 how hard was the dash cover ? I picked up one but im lacking motivation to do mine cause I am a lazy ass

Shucks thanks dude! your car is awesome, keep on keepin on. the dash isn't hard, just make sure you keep track of your screws and bolts and don't just throw them on the floor board like i did and spend an hour trying to figure out what screw goes where. new dash kicks ass

awesome -looks like you have some good times in this car!

keepin the goodtimes rollin

Not that it really matters. But I like where this is headed.

Nice euro bumpers and stuff.

Thanks

Bird Poo Fitment.

16x9.5 et35 with 45mm adapters? that makes the wheels essentially 16x9.5 et-15 right?

either way this is incredibly awesome and makes me want to buy an e28 even more

your right but i'm a dingus, the wheel offset is 38 not 35 so final fitment with 45 mm adapters are 16x9.5 et awesome

that's all

[12vsex]

Nice find on the e12 mirror !

[mikey G]

Looking good. Are you deleting the passenger side mirror and just putting the e12 mirror on? Also, that dash was a STEAL...fuck.

[3EyedGoat]

I'm real bad at updating this thread so here's an update, 6 months later..

Did some maintenance stuff, real fun stuff



Car started feeling like i was steering a boat, mostly due to a worn out idler arm.. I fixed it.



bought a real nice seat



Sanded down the grip royal wheel, which was a royal pain in the ass.. Then stained it with some sort of walnut color





Then i bought a Nardi wheel and noticed all that work on the grip royal wheel was for nothing



Made a horn button for the nardi, Here's a good blurry picture of it mounted in the car



Made a leather boot for the ebrake



Found a bronzit 535is parts car on craigslist, got all excited and bought the hood and all the doors since they were in nice shape. Also scored a middle console without power seat controls for freeeee



Bought a set of 205/45 595's then visited a good friend Eli the tire wizard and had them mounted




Then Ossie came over the house and helped me grind my fenders down, we spent two days rolling and cutting the fenders



should've went with a 195



After hours of grinding and rollin my fenders into bacon i finally had enough clearance to drive on so Ossie and i jumped in the car and drove down the street to the graveyard for a quick photo. Ended up having no tire clearance with both us in the car, leaving smoke trails all down the street and to top it off my exhaust hanger snapped so my exhaust was laying on the ground throwing sparks.

The wheels are Riken's mesh potatoes, nothing to special but they were in near perfect shape and i picked them up fairly cheap





Oil pan was taking a serious beating so i ordered new motor mounts and raised the motor using a few washers under each mount. Pan sits above the sub frame now which is nice



Finally got around to changing out all four doors with the new ones, it was a real pain. Lizzy didn't help at all she just licked her butt and watched me suffer threw lining up each door



I also bought a new car and took more photos of ole gertie that ill post later

[FowlerE30]

"Swaggin" is the only word that comes to mind! And is that side hatchet "functional" haha

[Wyatt Lay]

I love this car so much, youve really done great things. Single mirror <3

[cosmo135]

This is so sweet!!!

And if you don't mind me asking where'd you nab that wood shift knob?

[Robitussin]

You've got this thing looking spot on! Totally jealous of your euro goodies.

[Bronzit]

Love this bird poop hover car.

[SnazzyQ]

Damn that looks good. I better see it at stancewars.

[12vsex]

Always love seeing progress on this . Sad to see it end so quick but I'm super excited to see the Euro come up