How's it Looking?

[Ollie_bwoii]

What do you think? How does it look?

Finished off my rear arch today, with some T-cut to blend it in then a polish!













I Can't be happier with how it looking!

[gooner1]

Looking very Ollie, all credit to you. Must have a proper read of your resto thread.

Now for christ,s sake get it off the axle stands.

[Ollie_bwoii]

Thanks! And it is on 4 wheels at the moment, But not for long! Waxoiling is the next job!

[jamie323i]

Good job there ollie!

Looks to be coming along nicely.

Need to do my sills on my moredoor soon,they really tidy the car up dont they.

What do you have left to do?

[Alex]

looking good, now get the polish out, back to black, window cleaner, chrome cleaner, and wax it

it NEEDS a tech 1 front valance have you done the inner arches too ?

only thing letting it down is the interior, if i lived near i would come over and clean it loads and get that engine bay done, i really think you should take didllys offer up

you should give the old people a ring who you bought it off and send them some pictures, they will probably be proud of you

how did you spray it ???? looks quite good

[josh-hocking]

looks good!!!!

and gonner meant lower it i think

[gooner1]

looks good!!!!

and gonner meant lower it i think

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[Alex]

ollie is this any good for you, seen it the other day

http://www.bmminiparts.com/PartDetails. ... 00167FA5D2

if you plan on keeping the original seats

[SLIMADI]

Looking good fella top job

[ImysE30]

Not jealous at all

Looks fab Ollie, great work

[Leemc2009]

Why is it so high?

Looks very tidy! I like it

[Ollie_bwoii]

Good job there ollie!

Looks to be coming along nicely.

Need to do my sills on my moredoor soon,they really tidy the car up dont they.

What do you have left to do?

Thanks, I've got to wire brush all the underneith and then waxoil it, Also got the other sill to paint, Then some fog lights to fit! And that will be that for the moment!

looking good, now get the polish out, back to black, window cleaner, chrome cleaner, and wax it

it NEEDS a tech 1 front valance have you done the inner arches too ?

only thing letting it down is the interior, if i lived near i would come over and clean it loads and get that engine bay done, i really think you should take didllys offer up

you should give the old people a ring who you bought it off and send them some pictures, they will probably be proud of you

how did you spray it ???? looks quite good

I've got my Autoglym polishing kit for when all the jobs are finished!
The inner arches were actually not to bad so just a small bit of fibre glass to prevent from major work!
Interior doesn let it down, But I want a contrasting interior like beige!
I Have the old owners email address my send them some pictures!
Sprayed it by priming the repaired areas, then keying the rest masking it up and then several coats of gloss black, then blended it into the old paintwork and a polish!

looks good!!!!

and gonner meant lower it i think

Oh Yep maybe one day!

ollie is this any good for you, seen it the other day

http://www.bmminiparts.com/PartDetails. ... 00167FA5D2

if you plan on keeping the original seats

Don't plan on keeping them! Not the nicest But they will do until I've finished all the other jobs! And at that price!

Looking good fella top job!

Thanks!

Not jealous at all

Looks fab Ollie, great work

Nothing to be jelous about its only got 4 cylinders!

Why is it so high?

Looks very tidy! I like it

Standard 316 suspension! 4x4's at heart!

[Alex]

Alex wrote:
looking good, now get the polish out, back to black, window cleaner, chrome cleaner, and wax it

it NEEDS a tech 1 front valance have you done the inner arches too ?

only thing letting it down is the interior, if i lived near i would come over and clean it loads and get that engine bay done, i really think you should take didllys offer up

you should give the old people a ring who you bought it off and send them some pictures, they will probably be proud of you

how did you spray it ???? looks quite good


I've got my Autoglym polishing kit for when all the jobs are finished!
The inner arches were actually not to bad so just a small bit of fibre glass to prevent from major work!
Interior doesn let it down, But I want a contrasting interior like beige!
I Have the old owners email address my send them some pictures!
Sprayed it by priming the repaired areas, then keying the rest masking it up and then several coats of gloss black, then blended it into the old paintwork and a polish!

Fiber glass possibly the worse bodge after chewing gum, use new metal bud

[Ollie_bwoii]

ITs not a bodge! Very strong stuff and just a cheaper way of repairing the inner arch as I can;t afford to have all the panel distorted meaning a respray of the whole panel etc.... Just can't afford to do that on a 316 worth a few hundred quid!

Its also only one side as the previous owner had the other side welded at a cost of £300 iirc!

[Felix79]

Good work there Olli. Fancy doing some work on my Alpina for me

That interier is very rare to see these days. I just took some of the matching door cards out of my Alpina and swapped them for houndstooth ones with Adi.

Are you still going to go for the badge leather interier?

[Ollie_bwoii]

Thanks felix!

Isn't a bad interior just hate the rip! I am currently enquiring about a hounstooth sports interior, But it has some stains on it so looking into how you would remove them first!

[Felix79]

Stains are pretty easy to get rid of. Any good wet vac with some decent chemicals will shift the most stubbern of stains. The biggest trick is obviously clean well before fitting in and make sure it is well dry before fitting. Dad uses a George vac ( they have the face on them and it's green ) and will use a dish brush and nail brush and scrub the seats with the detergent mixture to get deep into the cloth. He used this method on my houndstooth to get it back to mint condition and it just needs a hover every few weeks to keep on top of it.

If your interier has a rip on the grey cloth it can be fixed pretty easy and it will do your car wonders with that trim. Dans M52 beast has the same as your but with highbacks. Santapod is only round the corner or try and do a meet we both can be at before hand ( could even pop up to say hello ) and I be happy to give you some headrests that are in the same grey as the bolsters and see if we can salvage the material. And I guess you can have a look at the Alpina if you really want to ( don't want to bore you with it lol )

[Bob_S]

ITs not a bodge! Very strong stuff and just a cheaper way of repairing the inner arch as I can;t afford to have all the panel distorted meaning a respray of the whole panel etc.... Just can't afford to do that on a 316 worth a few hundred quid!

Its also only one side as the previous owner had the other side welded at a cost of £300 iirc!

only a tool will distort a panel welding.
Just get a couple of plates in and be done with it.

[Blitz]

Looks great.

[Ollie_bwoii]

May give it a go felix if I get the sports interior! Been offered it for £75!
Would love to see your Alpina some time!


Oh and here's a cr4ppy video of how it sounds!

[pac1982]

Looks really nice but why is it sitting higher than my dads my Honda CRV?

[ImysE30]

Standard suspension ride height

Don't fancy selling do ya Ollie?

[Ollie_bwoii]

Would love to give it a little drop some day! Maybe 40mm!

And imy I would have sold a few months ago when I first got it, But after all the work it will stay at least a year!

[pac1982]

OMG is that really the standard ride height? i thought i may have been becuase you had it jacked up and the suspension needed to settle again, bet that rolls like fuck in the corners!

Still dont mean to sound harsh it does look really nice after all the work you've put in but it really really needs a drop, you say 40mm but looking at how high it is now i think 80mm is more like it

[ImysE30]

Needs to be ghetto slammed innit

60mm on bottletops

[Blitz]

I like the high ride height. Dont have to worry about scraping something.

[Ollie_bwoii]

Yeh no I was going to go 60-80mm but it just isn't practical and at the end of the day doesn't even look that good!

40 or 45 mm is fine eventually! But it doesn't look so bad in the flesh!

[pac1982]

I like the high ride height. Dont have to worry about scraping something.

[Alex]

OMG is that really the standard ride height? i thought i may have been becuase you had it jacked up and the suspension needed to settle again, bet that rolls like **** in the corners!

Still dont mean to sound harsh it does look really nice after all the work you've put in but it really really needs a drop, you say 40mm but looking at how high it is now i think 80mm is more like it

typical 4 pot chrome bumper car, mine was just as high

[Ollie_bwoii]

They only look that high in pictures but when you look at one in the flesh they are fine!

[Alex]

mine was the same



think the tyre profile was something like 70 which never helped lol

[Ollie_bwoii]

God I wish you had kept that interior! It would have looked stunning in my chromie!

[Alex]

God I wish you had kept that interior! It would have looked stunning in my chromie!

it would be better in my attic

a nice example of unmolesterd 1984 leather

[Ollie_bwoii]

Alex do you agree that when you stand next to a chrome turd they don't actually look as high as they do in pics?

[Alex]

Alex do you agree that when you stand next to a chrome turd they don't actually look as high as they do in pics?

they look massive in the flesh too, you just havent had many e30s ollie