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murran
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Sat Feb 23, 2008 9:52 am

ive got the drifting bug from doing the tramp drift west 2 weekend and a santa pod day in jan.
was thinking about building a drift spec car. so bought an e21 320/6 for mucho cheapness few months back. ive been busy doing this and that on it since. done all the brakes, cambelt+water pump, stripped and cleaned the carb, stripped it out etc.
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the whole car is quite rotten in places, me and my mate tom (whos my partner in all this) started the weldathon. ive done build thread on trampdrift.com but i thought id put some pics up on here too see what you think........
rust damage to rear axle mounts
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holes in the boot/inner arches
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repairs in progress
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back axle painted and diff welded
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finished and done
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back together
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also cut the spare wheel well out
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replacement panel made
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and plug welded in and painted
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put fuel lines and brack pipe thru the car
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bit of other work inside too
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back running but still needing more welding in the front foot wells and behind front wings but alot further along than it was.
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skids well too!
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thats where were at so far. going up there tomora to get some more done.
any comments welcome!

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Sat Feb 23, 2008 12:16 pm

Hot diggity dawg. Good job on all welding, specialy that diff. What size plate is that?

Looks tops, whens it gonna be skidding?
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Sat Feb 23, 2008 12:27 pm

Nice build mate! good work. Il be following this so keep the pics coming!! :D
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Sat Feb 23, 2008 12:31 pm

:rock: Looks fun!
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Sat Feb 23, 2008 8:16 pm

jimthejunior wrote:Hot diggity dawg. Good job on all welding, specialy that diff. What size plate is that?

Looks tops, whens it gonna be skidding?
those little bits welded in the diff? didnt measure them, but it was 8mm thick stuff. just cut out some cardboard bits the right size then cut the metal to that size. bang the welder up for some good penetration........

was hoping to make the 12th of march pod day. good job ive not booked it yet cus ive been thinking thats a little optimistic as theres lots more to do on it. defo guna make the april one tho.....
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Sun Feb 24, 2008 10:24 pm

only had bout 4 hours on it today and, well as usual with us two we started with the holes in the baulkhead inside the front wing then we decided to cut out all the old patches someone else had previously badly welded in........ left us with this! 8O
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so we started welding the baulkhead first........ 5 patches later!
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bit of etch primer......
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sealered up and stone chipped will look a ok.

hole in the floor, guna weld in a piece of inch square box section along edge of the sill (so we can jack it up in a hurried care free manner!) then make up the floor bit in two big patches........
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drifting on the cheap......... www.trampdrift.com
e21zone........ www.bmwe21.net
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Sun Feb 24, 2008 11:22 pm

aaah, reminds me of my mk2 escort days!
good work, you'll be well chuffed once it's done! :D
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Tue Feb 26, 2008 3:15 pm

just seen this tread,what a shed that turned out to be :D looking good now

the car back in the day ,guess who owned it :D

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Tue Feb 26, 2008 3:51 pm

that looks like good fun!!! :cool:
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Tue Feb 26, 2008 4:03 pm

nice :)
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Tue Feb 26, 2008 5:14 pm

good work murran your a braver man than I 8O 8)
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Tue Feb 26, 2008 6:24 pm

dips346 wrote:just seen this tread,what a shed that turned out to be :D looking good now

the car back in the day ,guess who owned it :D

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holy sh1t, thats amazing!! you got any history for it? all i got with it were the keys!
when did you buy it? off who? whod you sell it two? what you pay for it sell it for etc?
i bought it off some bearded weed somking southerner. cant remember his name but he said he had it for bout two years.

front looks like it had a bump before you got it then? what happened to the original spoiler then? had some bodged fibreglass thing on it when i got it.
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drifting on the cheap......... www.trampdrift.com
e21zone........ www.bmwe21.net
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Mon Mar 10, 2008 11:14 pm

well been hard at it. pics of more welding really..........
completed the drivers floor.......
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note new acc. pedal......... half vw polo, half bmw!

then started on the other side........
made holes bigger.......
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welded them up.......
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hole in the floor will have to wait till next sunday.......
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had a nosey at rolling the front arches a touch. and tried the passengers seat frame for fit.........
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back on the floor......
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thats it up to now..........
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drifting on the cheap......... www.trampdrift.com
e21zone........ www.bmwe21.net
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Mon Mar 10, 2008 11:21 pm

Sweet.

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Mon Mar 17, 2008 11:09 pm

wow alot of work ! looking forward to seeing finished article
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Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:31 pm

another update from this sunday just gone..........
passengers floor and baulkhead stone chipped and all sorted!
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passengers seat bolted in, still waiting from my mate pete to give me his other harness!
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patch on the inner arch next to the strut top all done.........
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then turned our attention to the rear valance panels i bought ages ago. cut them to our needs, then welded the three bits together, patched up the exhaust cut out, and filled the bits. were guna bolt the whole thing on cus were both sick to death of welding things!
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also the front wings are getting some more much needed love.........
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more pics of the sexy front wings to come!
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Fri Mar 21, 2008 12:31 am

dips346 wrote:just seen this tread,what a shed that turned out to be :D looking good now

the car back in the day ,guess who owned it :D

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that looks like kos's house there
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Fri Mar 21, 2008 12:38 am

nice drift weapon
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Fri Mar 28, 2008 1:00 am

well its kind of nearly finished.......... and its back home now.

put some pics up on the photo galleries bit........
http://www.e30zone.net/modules.php?name ... ic&t=97293
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e21 killing tyres with e30 325 powerzzz
drifting on the cheap......... www.trampdrift.com
e21zone........ www.bmwe21.net
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