Touring with fiberglass M3 arches?

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Kit_L
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Sun Jul 07, 2013 5:11 pm

Has anyone here attempted this?

I have an itch to get an E30 again, I live in Dubai now so it'll just be a project for while I'm home.

These are the arches I will be buying: http://www.pesch.cz/en/category/bmw/bmw-e30-m3

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Sun Jul 07, 2013 6:13 pm

That definitely looks mental and uber sexy :D I've seen it done to quite a few Tourings, so it's possible, but I would guess there's tons of work involved for the rear arches/doors.
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Sun Jul 07, 2013 6:32 pm

Google 'vlad e30 m3 touring', it's all metal :D
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Mon Jul 08, 2013 12:47 am

I though that name was a dirty word in bmw circles.

There is a red one built a long time ago that is far better in there of workmanship.
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Mon Jul 08, 2013 5:31 am

HairyScreech wrote:I though that name was a dirty word in bmw circles.
What do you mean?
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Mon Jul 08, 2013 6:41 am

Vlad. Renowned con-artist and bodge merchant, who built an M3 Touring in that colour blue. The car looks beautiful, but the guy's a nobber.
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Mon Jul 08, 2013 9:51 am

Crazy amount of work I imagine, and can look very very wrong easily

I really have to say aswell that the fibreglass stuff is, well I have yet to see a good panel from Fibreglass. The bumper I have on my car is a p.o.s
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Mon Jul 08, 2013 11:26 am

Phill172 wrote:Crazy amount of work I imagine, and can look very very wrong easily

I really have to say aswell that the fibreglass stuff is, well I have yet to see a good panel from Fibreglass. The bumper I have on my car is a p.o.s
the M3 arches and skirts and also the Breyton valances and arches by raymond in scotland are good quality kits phil... me and davey b on here have had those kits supplied by him
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Mon Jul 08, 2013 11:47 am

Kit_L wrote: These are the arches I will be buying: http://www.pesch.cz/en/category/bmw/bmw-e30-m3
Last stuff I bought from them was not great quality, you had better be careful.
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Mon Jul 08, 2013 4:16 pm

I would imagine a fibreglass kit would be a pain to bond onto a touring properly, and be able to witstant the opening and closing of the rear doors, plus you're going to have to box in the massive holes you'd see between arch and door skin when the door was opened, and work out how you're going to do the dogleg around the arch.

some of the finished ones out there look amazing, but i bet there are lots that get scrapped half way through.
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Mon Jul 08, 2013 7:10 pm

The_Haywood wrote:
Phill172 wrote:Crazy amount of work I imagine, and can look very very wrong easily

I really have to say aswell that the fibreglass stuff is, well I have yet to see a good panel from Fibreglass. The bumper I have on my car is a p.o.s
the M3 arches and skirts and also the Breyton valances and arches by raymond in scotland are good quality kits phil... me and davey b on here have had those kits supplied by him
Do you have a link as I'd be interested
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Mon Jul 08, 2013 10:42 pm

im quite interested in doing this to my touring would prefer steel rear quarters tho any one know where you can get them from?
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Tue Jul 09, 2013 9:25 am

Phill172 wrote:
The_Haywood wrote:
Phill172 wrote:Crazy amount of work I imagine, and can look very very wrong easily

I really have to say aswell that the fibreglass stuff is, well I have yet to see a good panel from Fibreglass. The bumper I have on my car is a p.o.s
the M3 arches and skirts and also the Breyton valances and arches by raymond in scotland are good quality kits phil... me and davey b on here have had those kits supplied by him
Do you have a link as I'd be interested
I'll dig out the links to our threads, but i don't have a link to a site for raymond, just his number, which i can pm you.

http://www.e30zone.net/modules.php?name ... 8&start=75

This is daveyb's build thread with it finished has both m3 arches and skirts and then breyton valances, all fg
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Wed Jul 10, 2013 1:29 pm

There's a guy I know over here that's building a full metal body one from a bare sell resto and sticking an S62 up front with Z3m rear axle :)

It should be quite nice when finished :)
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Wed Jul 10, 2013 7:34 pm

More updates needed on that one winkeye
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Thu Jul 11, 2013 7:47 pm

what do you thing i good example of an m3 touring might be worth?
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Thu Jul 11, 2013 7:59 pm

Love the look. Your giving me ideas.
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Thu Jul 11, 2013 8:53 pm

fearlessphil wrote:what do you thing i good example of an m3 touring might be worth?
What someone's willing to pay, same with most project cars :)
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Thu Jul 11, 2013 8:56 pm

ImysE30 wrote:
fearlessphil wrote:what do you thing i good example of an m3 touring might be worth?
What someone's willing to pay, same with most project cars :)

Indeed, in most cases, a lot less than the build costs ! :(
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