my E30 M3 replica build

[breakermart]

todays efforts on the n/s quater


not actualy bonded on yet, just taped on to make sure everything lines up but looking go for that tiger seal lol


thats about it for now. cant realy do much until i manage to source a pre facelift rear panel. cant realy travel far either or id have one by now some people have said that this is one of the better looking replicas, does anyone have an example of a not so good replica?

[adit]

you're getting on with it mate.
i have a good non-rusty pre f/l rear panel available

cheers, adi

[breakermart]

portsmouth? lol dammit

[adit]

arranging a courier should be no problem

[breakermart]

im thinking about my funds at the moment lol or lack of!

[ImysE30]

Nice project, looks well

[breakermart]

Nice project, looks well

thankyou, going to be doing a bit more tomorow. hopefully do the same to the o/s rear more pics looking very similar though pffft be nice when i do some real changes with some real progress

[BMG]

Since you asked for views good or bad, I would say leave the Warsteiner look. I don't recall ever seeing one car that looked even half right. Plus it's been done to death IMHO.
Since you are building a replica, I would maybe look at painting it in a modern colour which fits. The Aston Martin range has some fantastic metallic silvers and greys which would look great, and not unlike some period BMW colours like Nogaro Silver.

[turk]

Nogaro silver and Black wheels would look the nuts

[tonybtonyb]

Coming along nice I see

[si1988]

and the end of the day, its your own hard work and dreams and money which make your car what and how ever you like. great project mate. do what YOU want to do. itll look great what ever the out come. simon

[breakermart]

iv decided to open a vote as to what colour to paint my car, put the suggestions down via this link.

http://www.e30zone.net/modules.php?name ... 88#2328888

[redcar]

Nogaro silver and Black wheels would look the nuts

I love this colour on m3s.
Especially when there are some far 8 piston brakes peeping underneath the black wheels lol!

[Hoobs]

I've got a boot you can have for £70 - new double skinned item

[Hoobs]

I've got a boot you can have for £70 - new double skinned item

[Sanchez]

Good progress.

[breakermart]

Hi all thats interested, im going to make a start on the rear panel this weekend as found sombody in my town with the pre facelift car so il be cutting that up and welding it onto mine to get that original m3 look. will get plenty of pictures up as soon as i can.

[Kedge]

Keep the pics coming then

Anything else worth having off the prefacelift?

[breakermart]

Keep the pics coming then

Anything else worth having off the prefacelift?

will do mate, as for the doner, as far as i know its a bare shell. just want the arse end off it

[breakermart]

bit of an update, managed to get hold of the rear panel wich il be having a play with tomorow now, and also managed to source a trim that sits along the roof on the rear window extention, so all coming on nicely, will take some pics tomorow
just excited to crack on with the arse end and get my quarters in place

[dan-t-man]

Since you asked for views good or bad, I would say leave the Warsteiner look. I don't recall ever seeing one car that looked even half right. Plus it's been done to death IMHO.
Since you are building a replica, I would maybe look at painting it in a modern colour which fits. The Aston Martin range has some fantastic metallic silvers and greys which would look great, and not unlike some period BMW colours like Nogaro Silver.

paint it estoril blue like mine!!

[breakermart]

Since you asked for views good or bad, I would say leave the Warsteiner look. I don't recall ever seeing one car that looked even half right. Plus it's been done to death IMHO.
Since you are building a replica, I would maybe look at painting it in a modern colour which fits. The Aston Martin range has some fantastic metallic silvers and greys which would look great, and not unlike some period BMW colours like Nogaro Silver.

paint it estoril blue like mine!!

iv had a look at your cabby in estoril blue and it looks great, but my mind is set on alpine white now, half my reason for white is because im doing all the bodywork and prep work and paintwork myself, at home, in a garage lol. so any small imperfections wont be very noticeable and is a very forgiving color to paint and still looks great when finished. plus a close friend of mine drives a e46 alpina in estoril blue and would just get on my tits that they have a bmw same color lol.

[pukar]

it might be a little way off, but there's a guy on s14.net who does warsteiner decals....the thread is interesteing as it as lots of variants

http://www.s14.net/forums/showthread.ph ... warsteiner

(if you're ordering, it seems the OP dissapeared , but if you get to the end pages, then i all gets sorted)

[breakermart]

well heres todays poor efforts, started to remove the old rear panel when i realised im out of cutting disks, what a C**T lol my car looks like its worthy of scapping when you stand there and look at its sorry arse end lol. oh well, tomorow il go shop n get more disks and finish this butchery. here how its looking in the mean time, look away now if your sqeemish or easily offended



if your wondering what im doing, for those who arent following me closely, im changing the facelift rear panel for a pre facelift hounestly

[Sanchez]

Progress is always good.

Friendly snowman mechanic looking over a freelander engine bay

[breakermart]

Progress is always good.

Friendly snowman mechanic looking over a freelander engine bay

haha yeah i know, looks a like a bloody jack in the box coming out the engine bay lol

[pacerpete]

Progress is always good.

Friendly snowman mechanic looking over a freelander engine bay

haha yeah i know, looks a like a bloody jack in the box coming out the engine bay lol

2 freeloaders and a mini ! You make me look normal !

[breakermart]

if you could see all the cars there, youd see 3 minis 2 freelanders, 2 golfs, 2 mercs, a subaru and a bmw lol

[pacerpete]

There is no excuse for freeloaders or minis ! Unless you are an iron yard !

[breakermart]

ok then fellow followers heres my latest efforts from this weekend...
just been putting the pre facelift rear panel onto my facelift car lol.



you can see just how much difference there is with lineing up the panels but most of these sins will be hidden by the f/g quarters, the inside will be lined with somthing, either f/g matting or sheet ally then carpeted over, not sure yet but next weekend il be busy welding all this lot as im currently waiting on more welding gas. but once its all in place and fixed securely il move onto bondong the quaters on and fitting the skirts......

i do enjoy going about this in such a hard way lol
but the end results will be well worth it.
apparts from the fact its a right hooker. it should look just like the real thing promise lol

[tonybtonyb]

It's getting there

[breakermart]

cheers mate, it seems to look worse before it looks better

[breakermart]

ok, boot lid arrived so offerd all the panels up to get an idea of whats going where exactly.....


looking to do the welding on saturday then get these panels fitted permanently at some point soon

[si1988]

iv posted mine up for sale bud, may be have a look

[breakermart]

feel free to leave comments anyone, im sure theres parts of this build that you would do diffrently. i know id have done a few bit diffrently if i did it again, i just get a bit carried with a cutting disk for instance lol