Lennerd320i - E30 320i M-Tech2 (from Belgium)

[Lennerd320i]

Hi guys,

thnx to a friend of me (Jimmybmw) i've started to visit this site and decided to show you all what I'm doing in my spare time.

My BMW is a 320i type2, 1988, 4 doors, Delphingrey.

I bought the car in january '06 with only one goal: restore her and give her a new way of life.






I had decided to do it on a proper way... so we start buying stuff.

A gruppe A exhaust
2 sportseats (recaro's)
Red/white clear taillights
M-tech2 bumperkit (black)
Borbet wheels (16", 7.5J and 9J)
M-tech2 mirror inside
M-tech2 steering wheel
Bavaria Radio
Electrical windows
M-tech2 suspension
...

I've placed a complete list in and on the car that I even can't remember what anymore

hereby a few pic's of how she looks today.

you'll notice that there is still some tape to hold the m-tech up, but that's already managed today Also the front bumper is repainted and I know that I still have to drop the car the Gruppe A isn't yet installed on the pic's, but that's also already managed...













so, I'd say: SHOOT YOUR COMMENTS

tnx ;)

[dazleeds]

gonna be a very nice looking car mate

only thing not to my taste is the rear lights

spray up the kit, drop it a bit and perfect

[Lennerd320i]

ow I almost forgot to add this picture ...



this was just before the bumper restoration... I've no picture from after the restoration that's usefull to show

with kind regards

Lennerd

[maxfield]

Looking good altho agree with daz not feeling the lights smoked ones would look better.

[dazleeds]

ow I almost forgot to add this picture ...



this was just before the bumper restoration... I've no picture from after the restoration that's usefull to show

with kind regards

Lennerd

thats a seriously moody looking pic

[Lennerd320i]

@all: tnx for the comments

and I already had a dozen discussions about the mtech kit and the lights

the lights is one of the things that i'll replace (on a short term)
the mtech stays matt black, she gives me the feeling to be wider and more agressive this way

[dazleeds]

may as well smoke the headlights too fella

if ya gonna go moody looking its the only way

[Lennerd320i]

the smoked headlights are on their way ;) shipped in germany so i'll receive them within days

[eun]

very good work its certainly taking shape.

so your keeping the kit black?

[Pal318is]

Loving the wheels

As per eun, you spraying it? Have you dropped the suspension on yet...Will definately look the part once done.

Pal

[Lennerd320i]

@eun: the kit stays black yeah... I can't help it but it looks just great to me

I think there are 3 types of wheels that are looking awesome on an E30... Azev A, Borbet A and alpina's

[d6dph]

Great work, its really comming along well. needs to be on its ass to complete the look, but I'm sure thats in hand.

Keep us updated mate

[eun]

ah right ive never seen that look before

ive just had a look for a while and i think that could grow on me actually.

borbet a would defo be my choice out of those 3

[AC-SCHNITZER]

nice car, mine is same but type1
also from belgium

love the rims

[Lennerd320i]

and the restoration can continue... today I've received a package from germany that brought me my new brakes... just a little more and she can visit the road again... and then I hope that she'll stand How would you be after a few years of doing nothing

[nwmlarge]

looks like a nice project

i'd defo be spraying the kit myself but each to their own
nice to see a non coupe for once too

[Lennerd320i]

A lot of people say that they would spray the kit... and the few that are telling to leave the kit black, they ask me if I don't plan to respray the complete car in matt black... nah it's a bmw, not a vw golf I ratstyle ;)

and it isn't a coupé, but i'm planning to buy one more when this one is as good as it gets... have 3 options:

1. cabrio
2. Touring
3. coupé

it doesn't matter to me, as long as it is an E30 ;)

[AC-SCHNITZER]

i like the touring more and more, the guy from who i bought my exhaust, was driving an 325i touring, i love that touring ass

[Lennerd320i]

a nice wide and low touring, fully m-tech2... awesome :d

[Lennerd320i]

what does a man do when he's at home and is having a project in the garage? right... he starts to hear some things... when he's trying to find out what he hears, he notices that the car is screaming at him... screaming for some attention... at that point I can't resist her anymore and decide to do something... at that point, she starts smiling

ok back serious now...

i'm having some time of so working a bit on the car...

The M-tech2 front bumper had a little crack that had to be fixed, so we've done that today, i have to finish it tomorrow and so we also can respray that
I've removed the manual antenna and replaced it by an electrical version, now i only need to find the original cabling
After that i started with some threatments inside the trunk. 3 spots of rust 1 is a little hole now, so that will be fixed tomorrow, the other 2 are already managed... I've decided also to remove everything in the trunk, to clean it completely up and treat the complete trunk with tectyl. After that i'm sure that she's allright there
I've also done a little restoration in the front of the car, 1 very smile spot of rust that 's removed and repainted ;)

Besides that I've also another set of rear light for my beauty... smoked ones. I guess that my car will look real bad when she's finished... dark headlights, dark sidemarkers, matt black kit around, dark rear lights,...

Tomorrow i will be threating the trunk and front bumper, maybe i'm gonna start also to change the brakes or will be installing the Edition seat belts in my car. as you can see, still al ot of work has to be done ;) but peace by peace will give me the result i want

cheers and pic's will follow tomorrow

[Lennerd320i]

and up we go

As promised also a few pics today...

Yesterday I've worked on the front bumper, which is not yet finished (started too late today ), but as you can see, this was how she looked like yesterday:



And afterwards we went onto the back of the car... The rust problem is managed, not the entire trunck received a coat of tectyl, but the 2 parts on the sides, the place for the sparewheel and the weldinglines in the trunk did... (no pic of that). if you watch the pic, you can see that the rust is removed, the hole is fixed and afterwards threated with tectyl (both the spots on the right and the left ):



After that i've installed the carpets in the trunk etc and placed my new rear lights , hope you like them more then the red/white clear lights




And offcourse, i've changed one of the rubbers on the pedals, because that one was broken...

before:


after:


Today I also received (tnx to my brother for picking it up) my new thermostat and DHL passed by with my new sunroof ;)

PS: you'll notice that the clothing inside the car isn't done yet

hope you guys like it ;)

[Tyson]

nice work..the rearlights are waaaaay better then the clear ones..

[Gouki]

what a massive improvment well done so far, looks very promising.

[Lennerd320i]

tnx guys Even I am wondering what the result will be

[cliffybabe]

loooking good mate i like these threads that how a work in progress congrats

[Lennerd320i]

I was just looking at it... so maybe nice for some guys here to know what the interior looked like when I started with the work ;)



the whole carpet is been cleaned with my 2 hands and a lot of patience



and the result:



and these are my seats:



and this is what some parts will look like when finished Just love 'Alcantara'

[DennesShi]

Hello Lennerd,

good yop your doing there.
well how are things going now with the car?

take care, Dennes

[Lennerd320i]

tomorrow we have a day off here in belgium and then i will do again something to my sweety...

like :

replace thermostat
finish my front bumper
hope to also be able to replace my sunroof and start with the brakes

next weekend i have (not yet) no meetings on the schedule, so as everything stays like that i'll be working again for 2 whole days on my car

[Lennerd320i]

finally... i've done again something to my beloved that's parked in the garage...

- Replaced thermostat
- renewed cooling water (old out, flush of system, new in)
- replaced sunroof

Replacing the thermostat wasn't hard probleem at all. Being sure that there was no aire in the cooling system went smooth, my temp meter don't raise above the middle. I only have to replace the temp. sensor and the sensor that gives the temperature towards the ECU (cost about 35Ԛ£ and done) and after that my car will run as she should run ;)

Sunroof... damn, what a f*cking task... As you can see in here below, the roof didn't close and open anymore as it should. When it was closed, it looked like this:



I already bought a new one, this because mine was starting have some spots of metal that became weak and i wanna be sure that it's done quite allright. The only pain in the ass was that it didn't went as easy as i wanted. Because of this there allready a few scratches on the roof, but i hope i can get it away with some polishing... But after all i made it and i know how the shitty thing works now. So all i gotta do there is put the clothing in place ;)

result:



Normally everything should go a lot quicker with my precious ;)

keep you posted ;)

[jimmybmw]

nice job bro.

make sure you finish your car this weekend, so we can take care of my baby next week.

[ed325i]

Never seen seats like that before. what are they out a sport ?

[Lennerd320i]

don't know how or what exactly, but they are made by recaro, sit damn good (for me better then the usual sport seats...

interested?

[Tyson]

yo ziet er goed uit he kerel..Seg waar hebt ge de mtech2 kit gevonden en weet gij of di ook op de cabrios passen??

[Lennerd320i]

Die mtech2 kit komt uit nederland. En ja je hebt mtech2 kits voor de cabrio, maar die zijn nogal aan de dure kant. Sommigen kopen de set van een coupé en passen deze dan aan (beplating en sideskirts zijn anders), bumpers passen zo. Maar je moet dan wel zien dat je een type2 cabrio hebt of anders je voorfront aanpassen. Type1 keienvanger er uit en type2 keienvanger er op

[Lennerd320i]

it's been a while, but I have done some changes.

the 26th of november we had our latest meeting for this year, so a few pics of that day:

small overview (forum existed 3 weeks that day):


my car:



After that I got myself a M3 interior + M3 tacho, a new window and all the breakes are changed (pads + discs):

old interior:



as extra -> Edition seatbelts:


new window:


new interior (needs some attention, but a (girl)friend of me did already a huge work):



and the new tacho:


today I installed the lower part of the front spoiler as it should be, black rings for the black headlights:


I hope you can enjoy this