My E24 628 CSI - Old Skool Business!!

[Khalil]

Super awesome stuff man, cant wait to see more!

[Beware]

Love a tidy E24....keep up the good work!!

Those "poverty spec" bumpers you speak of, in my opinion, are the only bumpers for an E24. Those big chunky plastic things look horrid.....the slim chrome ones keep a classic look about it. Just try and find the deeper front lower lip for it.

[Queef|Chief]

Very cool car, and glad to see its getting cleaned up nicely!

[andy318is]

Keep it going, cool to read about these little but oh so satisfying jobs.

Thanks Rubins! Plenty more updates to come!! :-)

Wow, this is unreal!
Is this the same Andy318is that built the crazy E46-front-ended E36 back in the Bimmerforums heyday?

That's me Mike :-) when you say 'built'.... I'm still building! 8 years and counting! I've a thread on here as well for the e36 but I've stopped on that while I tidy up the e24 but will be getting back into it very soon :-)

http://www.stanceworks.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40328

Super awesome stuff man, cant wait to see more!

Thanks

Love a tidy E24....keep up the good work!!

Those "poverty spec" bumpers you speak of, in my opinion, are the only bumpers for an E24. Those big chunky plastic things look horrid.....the slim chrome ones keep a classic look about it. Just try and find the deeper front lower lip for it.

I **** those plastic chunky bumper! Like you say the chrome is the only choice to suit the era! Hmmm the jurys out on getting a lower lip, not my thing really :-)

Very cool car, and glad to see its getting cleaned up nicely!

[andy318is]

As with any e24 fighting leaks are a royal ballache! and mine is no different to others unfortunately. The sunroof seak had seen better days but the motor is dead so I had to strip out the front section of the roof lining to get at the motor to take a look and open it manually



Now the sunroof leaks and has coursed the head liner to sag and in heavy rain water drips through onto the driver seat.... not ideal! So I was hoping for a blocked drain hole....

Ta-daaaaa



Got that cleared out and ran a long length of wire down the drain to make sure it was clear :-)

So onto the seal.... when the car was re-sprayed in the shops infinite wisdom they didn't make a very good job of masking so the seal had loads of over spray, I did start to clean it up but the condition was ideal so bit the bullet and ordered a new seal from the dealers



Managed to get it fitted without removing the lid :-) seals soooo much tighter!! Very happy!!

Before



After



More happenings over the break..... the under bonnet deadening was missing and it looked a real mess!



Having done a bit of googling there are companies out there selling under bonnet deadening foam kits for waaaaaaaay more than I thought reasonable! so...... after a bit of research seems like they are using nothing more than closed cell foam cut to shape with a sticky backing. A few miles down the road from me is a foam manufacturer / stockist so went down to see them and scored a sheet of 15mm closed cell foam for not much money!



Sat on the engine I rustled up some card templates necessary....



Drew around those onto the foam and cut them out



Spent probably an hour with a scraper / panel wipe and cleaning cloths prepping the underside



I've got some high temp contact adhesive so spread that over the underside of the bonnet and the foam, let it tack up and stuck the deadening on, I gotta say for what it cost me I'm well happy with the results! I must admit only time will tell regarding the quality of the adhesive...



Onto the next.....

The exhaust has only ever had 1 non-OEM henger rubber so wanting to sort that I ordered in 2 new rubbers



Other than discovering the exahust has got a whole in it :roll: got the new rubbers fitted up without an issue

[lower99]

Beautiful work so far!

[BSloss13]

Man I wish you were one of my car's previous owners!!

[b5Avant]

Man I wish you were one of my car's previous owners!!

[AiredE39]

good work man, not over the top but just taking the time to do it right.

[theseeker411]

Hell yeah, this is awesome! Love seeing more e24s on here.

[andy318is]

So this weeks update is a good'un (well I think it is LOL)

When I first for the car the front seat were in a VERY bad way! Well the driver side mainly so I wanted to get that sorted pretty quickly, not waiting a all singing all dancing 'show car' retrim I just found a trimmer local to me who re-trimmed the driver seat base, repaired a few tears in the seams on both seats and gave them a dye & colour. Now I'm super super picky so I know these aren't particularly good but for what I paid I felt generally happy - again keeping of the mind that this is just a cheap(ish) run around!

So onto the pictures....

Passenger before



Driver side before





Passenger after



Driver side after



I still want to give them a proper deep clean and condition maybe another dye but that'll be for another day.

So they went back into the car while I leak tested the car... fyi... it leaked! LOL



Again more small bits that come from being a 30 (nearly 31) year old car, bodged repairs from old owners.... at some point the passenger doorcard must have been loose so instead of fixing it properly someone had used a load of screws to hold it back together damaging the doorcard centre and bottom section :roll: having sourced another bottom section I wanted to make some new centers for both sides....

Befores....



Screwholes



Generally worn out



So I stripped the vinyl from the front of one to use the board as a template for the new ones.... having cut 2 new ones from 3mm chipboard (same as OE) I lined with with 3mm scrim foam



And trimmed with to the same extents as the originals... looking a hundred times better!!



Taking my time to re-fit everything as it should and giving everything a good wipe down with some diluted APC the finished articles.... I'm happy!!

[Anonymoose]

In awe of your work Andy, amazing skills.

I second what BSloss13 said haha

[andy318is]

In awe of your work Andy, amazing skills.

I second what BSloss13 said haha

DUDE!! Good to see you still about! Rocking a Lexus now?!

Thanks for the comments mate, appreciate it :-)

[Kriss Hansen]

Your work looks solid man. I see there was rust in alot of the same places as on my e28..

I love red e24s my dad got a red m635csi

[andy318is]

Cracking on with the updates and progress and other couple small jobs, one important, on not so.... :lol:

Firstly as always the important one! During one of the many leak tests on the old girl saw water dropping in through a wiring loom grommet on the driver side so....

The leaky little so and so..... the 'sealant' was very hard



So much so it came away in one piece :roll:



Using some bitumen based rain gutter sealant I ran a nice new bead around the grommet and bobs your uncle..... no more leak.... from there at least!



Something abit more decorative now.... in the centre console I've got this not so nice cubby hole tray.... most e24's I've seen have a quite slick looking curved grill type thing to hide the depths of the dash but no, not this car! :lol: it was in a real bad way through years of neglect



Got the rubber strips out and gave it a good sand down



I had some wood stain knocking around in the cupboards so gave it a couple good coats, let it dry and put it all back together.... well happy with the result!! I've no got a picture of it fitted up so will grab one soon