Project Frankenstein. . { 320i auto to 335i manual }

[leeparkes]

Polished rims and winter is a massive fail once they start to pitt its harder to polish out later.

[leeparkes]

You could polish them the hardcore way

I did a set like this using a bubble shape rover as my machine lol

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Watch your fingers though bud

[Cypriotgeeza]

i think ill stick to autosol. . .

"Only in america"

[leeparkes]

There's worse ones than that on youtube

[Rav335uk]

Meguirs polish ALL THE TIME!!!!

[Cypriotgeeza]

Meguirs polish ALL THE TIME!!!!

Nice! What ill do is get maguires and do another wheel and take pics next to each other so we can see the difference!

[Cypriotgeeza]

Meguirs polish ALL THE TIME!!!!

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whats everyones opinions on this kit?

[leeparkes]

Looks decent, yes id give it a whirl, what you have to think is if you go for just a pot of megs polish its a good idea to get polishing wheels anyway as it makes the job a whole lot easier and that polishing wheel can be cleaned.

You are lucky as yours are already half polished.

I had to get these shiney





But hours of hard work.....

[Cypriotgeeza]

But hours of hard work.....

whoa!

Was that with that metal polish you recommended?

[leeparkes]

Yes, they had been hidden in a cellar for years in Germany and was a right nightmare to bring back to life.
Once they were down to a wet sanded state, ie around 1000grit the megs did the rest.

Id never ever ever never ever ever ever do another set.

[e30Passion]

Now that's jaw dropping awesome.. Excellent work!

[Speedtouch]

Id never ever ever never ever ever ever do another set.

Know what you mean. I spent days flatting back a set of Minor van wheels which had several coats of paint on, and they were steelies so I was able to use a rotary disc wheel, paint stripper and scrapers, so goodness only knows what it's like to do a set of alloy cross-spokes with indentations...

[Hedley48]

But hours of hard work.....

thats incredible

[Cypriotgeeza]

My updates are getting few and far between again as the weathers been so shite recently!

Got the interior built back up again after annoying my mum with the carpet infront of the heater for the last few weeks lol

Finally had some time to spray the inner skins with the fertan getting it all into the nooks and crannys!

This stuff stinks!! Also makes it look like its actually rusty in the pics lol




Also good seeing you again today Andy! Looking forward to next summer seeing alot more of the zoners at the meets!

[andyp]

yep good to see a man hard at work on an E30 in that weather, but worth it as you have made the carpet look like new, keep up the good work, get down to ace 1st Monday of each month

[Cypriotgeeza]

yep good to see a man hard at work on an E30 in that weather, but worth it as you have made the carpet look like new, keep up the good work, get down to ace 1st Monday of each month

cheers mate!

[Gert_8]

Enjoyed reading all of this. Keep up the good work

[Cypriotgeeza]

Enjoyed reading all of this. Keep up the good work

cheers mate! This will get really interesting spring onwards next year (if all goes well)

[Cypriotgeeza]

Well i went out to work on the beast today, my intentions being to take off the doorcards and FERTAN the inner skins..

I stood there for a minute with her glinting in the sunshine and thought "F*@K THIS!! Im going for a drive...topless" lol

Considering my tax runs out at the end of this month and it will be SORN until next summer i couldn't resist taking it for one last spin..

It will probably be the last time i drive that silky smooth M20 cruiser and i gave it a good send off lol













Ill be honest i FROOOZZEEE! lol But it was well worth it! Enjoyed every minute..i can only imagine what kind of fun im going to have with the M30 in there!!

[Gert_8]

Your answer is to have the heating on, wind deflector fitted, but more importantly, heated seats

[Cypriotgeeza]

Your answer is to have the heating on, wind deflector fitted, but more importantly, heated seats

+1!

Or maybe leave the top down driving for the 2 / 3 days of summer we get lol

[kingludba]

Great write up chap, whereabouts are you? Would love to have a look at you roof mechanism as mine is not locking the horse shoe down as its a electric one thats not working....

[Cypriotgeeza]

Great write up chap, whereabouts are you? Would love to have a look at you roof mechanism as mine is not locking the horse shoe down as its a electric one thats not working....

Thanx mate

im in london and mine is a manual roof so not sure how much help it would be to you lol

[Cypriotgeeza]

Ok heres a couple of Vids of that silky smooth M20 in action lol

All Noise and no trousers if you ask me but you just cant beat that 6pot howl!!:wan:

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[kingludba]

Great write up chap, whereabouts are you? Would love to have a look at you roof mechanism as mine is not locking the horse shoe down as its a electric one thats not working....

Thanx mate

im in london and mine is a manual roof so not sure how much help it would be to you lol

I need to see what parts to get to convert mine to manual as motors are gone. I can manually drop the top but cant lock the horse shoe down

[Cypriotgeeza]

Great write up chap, whereabouts are you? Would love to have a look at you roof mechanism as mine is not locking the horse shoe down as its a electric one thats not working....

Thanx mate

im in london and mine is a manual roof so not sure how much help it would be to you lol

I need to see what parts to get to convert mine to manual as motors are gone. I can manually drop the top but cant lock the horse shoe down

Hmm not sure on the electric cabby's but im guessing the latches are electronically closed (hooked into place) when the hood is under the horse shoe..

Next time im messing about with mine i can take some pics of the latches if you like? (not sure when that will be though)

[kingludba]

cheeers. just bought a manual locking kit from pacerpete on here, will try and fit. My call you if struggling...lol

[Cypriotgeeza]

cheeers. just bought a manual locking kit from pacerpete on here, will try and fit. My call you if struggling...lol

Yea mate Pm me if you need anything (emails linked to my phone)

[Cypriotgeeza]

Slight update

Went and picked this up the other day






Just watched the video someone posted on the detailing section about replacing a hood, and im both looking forward to it and im not! lol

Pictures will be provided of the steps i take, just need the weather to start warming up now!

This summer should be a good one!

[Gert_8]

Looking forward to that!!

[Cypriotgeeza]

Looking forward to that!!

I am and im not to be honest lol Cant wait to see the end result..

[Cypriotgeeza]

Got to work on removing the 3.5 today seeing as the sun finally decided to show itself



Like i said before to all the peeps who've been following my 3.5 project, the guy who did the conversion had a cable tie fetish bigtime!







If all goes well i hope to have the engine and box out tomorrow then the frag-fest begins on the rest of the car!

[Cypriotgeeza]

So the day FINALLY came to remove the lump from its rusty tomb! i now understand why people call these boat anchors! what a heavy lump of metal!

I did buy a load leveller but the chains it came with had some wierd shaped hooks attached which made it useless to me, so i took a chance and went for it anyway. ill be honest i really didnt think it was going to take the weight just on the front hook but i couldnt see a rear hook other than above the gearbox

going to get some chains and clamps for getting it into the cabby because im not risking that again lol

Heres my day in pictures:

Started off by removing the prop, gearbox mounts, gear linkages, and exhaust and heres some more cable tie action



Hmm.. getting it out took minutes compared to building the crane up lol

There we go



and here we go. . .



Easy does it..



My arse was well and truly twitching here



On the home stretch! !


and thats how you do that...


as she stands, ready for a strip down/ clean up and spray job!

[zaust]

Surely the tyre s are not road legal !!!

[Cypriotgeeza]

Haha that whole car is'nt road legal!

If i was ever going to use them wheels id definantly change the tyres as they are shot!