E36 Widebody Build

[crf1877]

I Hope you Upgrade that engine or your body kit is useless lol!

[mo diesil]

after all of the fiberglassing, bondo, and all of that shit, wont this car weight more and be less safe than what it originally was....?

only if he drives it,

[Angelic0-]

in all honesty i feel your getting too the point where you are just all over the place personally id put the factory nose with an m3 bumper and make it clean and if you dont like the e36 lines then buy something else

x2

[MikeG]

Keep going!!

[X5X]

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This

[K.rischan]

^This.


I'm not a friend of e36's with an e46's front end/hood/light swap. But i'll stay tuned and check how it'll look like once done.
I wish you good luck and hopefully everything will be like you expected it to be.

[bmw4sho]

u got big balls

i been around this game a long time , stereos in the late 80s n 90s lowrider super shows wit my candy 5.0, import boom thru the 2000s wit my bmw, IT takes balls of steel to do what you are doing wit probally zero exp. I am willing to bet 98% of the people would write a check to the bodyshop and say c ya in a month, I applaud you, People like you wit your attitude helped make import and euro scene what it was , keep it up , and i wish you well,

me on the other hand...

[Paltsu]

From this pic you can see, how this mashup fucks up all the lines. There are reasons why people design these cars in production, there's not a single line or thing that works in that front end. No flow in any directions, the weight doesn't settle and bumper really looks like it's just a straight line in 10 degree angle downwards. You need shape and lines that follow it.

[blowntwofive]

in all honesty i feel your getting too the point where you are just all over the place personally id put the factory nose with an m3 bumper and make it clean and if you dont like the e36 lines then buy something else

[CaptainSlow]

after all of the fiberglassing, bondo, and all of that shit, wont this car weight more and be less safe than what it originally was....?

Why would it be less safe?

[KürBFèéleR]

I cant wait to see the finished result.goodluck

[fromthelbc]

after all of the fiberglassing, bondo, and all of that shit, wont this car weight more and be less safe than what it originally was....?

[Mark Ostrowski]

Started with a fiberglass mold of my friends e46 hood to create the nose piece:



so then step 2... wait...



yeah i actually ended up throwing everything away except the kidney housing

So next step after the headlights came in was to mock them up...fail.

they sat too far out in front of the bumper, this is what i was worried would happen..so I decided the best solution (since they all were a lot of work) was fabricate my top half to the bumper so it came out far enough to meet up with headlights, in progress:



prepped and ready:





Glassed:







After that, I attached my new bumper clip, laid filler and it was good to go

next step: the hood. I used that kidney grill housing from above and the headlights to create a mock up, then more glass:





popped that off, trimmed it up, and slapped on some filler:








and this is where i leave you for the day gentlemen, i didn't really want to post this up until i got it a little more cleaned up, but i figured this thread deserved an update, long way to go still, but for the most part all the structural components are done, just need to fabricate the corner pieced for fenders, and clean up the headlight socket and then the major glasswork is over with

ok im done talking, back to the garage

[Andtho]

Subscribed.

Cant say im all into that front end conversion though.