Building the Tango Beemer

[TangoBeemer]

I know its not an E30 but i thought i would share this with you as it is my pride and joy.

hope you dont mind

*Name - James Cooper
*Car - bmw E36 316i SE
*Colour - Originally black but wrapped in orange vinyl
*Year - 1996
*Mileage - 137500
*Mods - Full body wrap in orange vinyl (K2 Graphics), 18inch MV2 alloys, lowered 30mm at the front, 20mm at the rear on Eibach springs, colour coded calipers, M-Tec front bumper, lip and GT corner splitters, side skirts, rear boot spoiler and rear window spoiler, Angel eyes,crystal clear fogs, M3 Rear Lights, real carbon eye brows, real carbon door pillars, carbon style badges all round, M3 mirrors, M-Tec dorr rubbings, full custome exhaust system and sports cat (MIJ Performance), Magnecor HT Leads, Performance sparks, induction kit, custom air intake pipe, full samco hosing, Sports chip (B&W ChipTune), XCS Currnet regulator, cleaned and painted engine, Fusion sub, amp and 6x9's, M-Tec gear and brake gaiters.
i'm sure there are other parts but cant think of them, I'll keep adding pics.

I am going to try and give you some pics of the car as i built it and most of it was done at home with my younger bro. i did not start taking pics till late on in the build but please bare in mind this was a bog standard loon 10 months ago. Hope you all enjoy because i damn well have, it's taken me hours to put this together and have been lucky enough to win one of the PBMW competitions along the way as you will see below....

Rear end before anything was done apart from the spoiler and carbon style badge....



After the M3 lights, full cutome exhaust system and sports cat and M-Tec rear diffuser:



Before the M-Tec front bumper and side skirts, but after angel eyes, Carbon eye brows, M-Tec style front lip and M3 mirrors:




After the M-Tec Bumber, front lip, GT corner splitter and Side skirts, all fitted by me and my bro at home!!!!




Carbon Styling on all the badges:




Engine bay after induction kit and before samco hoses (See below for full engine clean as these are mega dirty photos of the engine bay)!!!!!





after some more Samco hosing but still very dirty:



after engine clean and paint, again see below for more pics:



Before the original door rub strips came off:




a bit of M-Tec stripping:




after M-Tec stripping done:




This was as things were taking off, before all the M-Tec went on and i got serious



This was at BimmerFlex 2007 after about 9 months of modding and about a week before the wrap went on:


I was lucky enough to win the PBMW competition earlier this year and this is what i got for it!!!

This was the vinyl being put on by the very skillfull Jason at K2 Graphics (enquires@k2-graphics.co.uk) Make sure you quote TangoBeemer or James if you contact him and he will sort you out. I gave him just over four days to do the whole thing, this guy is incredible and one of the nicest blokes in the world, he has really looked after me and the car. (By the way the reason the black is so shiny in the first photo is because Jason waxed the bollox off it before wrapping it.














These are with the wrap on and almost finished and some of the advertising stickers.:









Engine Bay Clean Up
Before!!!!!



After a bit of elbow grease





After some serious hard work


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[Returnof318i]

my initial reply was gonna be jog on this is for e30s but tbh i kinda like it

[Chris-W]

Moved to Other BMW Chat.

[Gortour]

Strangely, so do I, and I've never been a fan of the E36...

[TangoBeemer]

thanks guys

i know its not an E30 and i am not rying to be cheecky by putting it on here i just really loved the E30's i saw at the portsmouth meet so wanted to say hi and just thought i would share with you what i had done.

i'm kinda hoping the fact that i have fitted about 90% of all the parts on there my self people might have a little more time for it, especially as i am not a mechanic

cheers again for your comments, like i always say, it like marmite, you'll either like this or hate it, every one is entitled to an opinion.

all i can say is your cars are great and i am close to going out and getting an e30.

[wrobstar21]

mingin

[Gortour]

If you can make an E36 look good, can't wait to see what you can do to an E30...

[oakey]

I love this vinyl wrapping idea! Seems the way forward to me. Is it possible to get a deep shine with the vinyl as with paint?
I think my tech1 would look sweet vinyl wrapped in jet black

I bet the car needs to have lovely flat panels for the vinyl to stick without air bubbles etc

[gooner1]

mingin

Dont you just love these deep and meaningful comments.
So its not an E30 but in what way is it mingin mate?

[Gortour]

Bad day at the office dear?

[curryp]

no point in negative comments

its different to the usual stuff we see and i quite like it.

i think it would look a lot better lowered though IMO

[TangoBeemer]

I love this vinyl wrapping idea! Seems the way forward to me. Is it possible to get a deep shine with the vinyl as with paint?
I think my tech1 would look sweet vinyl wrapped in jet black

I bet the car needs to have lovely flat panels for the vinyl to stick without air bubbles etc

Hi there, it is definatly the way forward for afordability and just easy application etc...

the black generally does have a deeper shine than the other colours but the more you wax it the better it comes up

with regards to flat pannels, not a t all mate, for the first 2 - 3 weeks of the vinyl being on the car it expands and contracts with the varying heat and this automatically gets rid of any air bubbles, i have a couple of dents in mine and the paint work wasnt great and there is not one air buble over the whole car

[TangoBeemer]

no point in negative comments

its different to the usual stuff we see and i quite like it.

i think it would look a lot better lowered though IMO

thanks guys, i dont take offence to that persons comment, up to them if they dont like it but at least provide constructive critism ah????

since those photos it has been lowered and is now hugging the wheels at the front and back

thanks again for your comments.

[whipsey]

what sort of price do they charge for that work?

[Cloggy Saint]

I've never heard of this vinyl wrapping before, it's definitely different. How durable is it, and how much would it have cost for the whole car?

[TangoBeemer]

Hi all

i have just been intouch with Jason at K2 and got some figures for you all:

This is for printed vinyl with laminate. We include a bit of artwork, but we do charge per the hour if it gets too complicated! (35.00 per hour)
Bonnet £150.00 + vat
Roof £120.00 + vat
Bonnet & roof £230.00 + vat

Full wrap (dependent on car size) average between £1200.00 to £1900.00 + vat

Single colour (like Tango Beemer or just gloss black for example)

Bonnet £120.00 +vat
Roof £100.00 + vat
Bonnet & roof £190.00 +vat

Full wrap, same details as above
This can range quite heavily, ie using pearl and colour change vinyls.
Can be anything around £1000.00 up to £1900.00 +vat
But a flat colour like yours is around £1200.00 +vat

We can do a discount of 15% if they mention TangoBeemer or James, hope that's okay (5% above our usual discount rate)

hope this helps, any questions let me know.

i know before people have asked but yes they can do pretty much anything and as stated above they can do pear and colour change.....cool

[Philwild]

Nice car mate!

What did you use to get the engine that clean? I urgently need to do that to mine

[TangoBeemer]

to clean the engine i used Gunk and Auto Glymm engine gleaner and a lot of hard work, it took a day of scrubbing with wire brushes to get all the old laquer off and the general grime then i painted the engine with caliper paint.

i am yet to spray the engine with clear laquer to protect it and give it a deeper, brighter shine.

hope this helps

[Philwild]

Nice one, thanks for that. That will give me something to do this weekend!

Just another question, although off topic, how do you get the piccy of your car at the bottom of each post you do? Sorry to sound like a newbie but that is exactly what I am! Tried serching for it but no luck

Cheers

[TangoBeemer]

on you profile you need to add it to you signiture.

best thing to do is upload the pic using Photo Bucket and then re-size it so it is in signiture size then copy and paste the IMG code in to the signiture section on your profile.

when you do the engine clean make sure you cover and electricals in the engine bay with plastic bags, go to google and type in engine clean and there will be sites that have a step by step guide.

get the gunk or auto glym cleaner from halfords, fairly cheap there

[TangoBeemer]

again guys i just wanted to say thanks for making me feel welcome.

your cars really are in a class of thier own.

[Philwild]

Thats sorted it!

Thanks for the advice pal.

[TangoBeemer]

there it is, nice one

[eko]

Tango,got to say that although im not a fan of the colour scheme my hat goes off to you at the work and commitment you have put in
At least its different to the `norm`!

Fair play i say mate.Keep up the good work

[TangoBeemer]

Tango,got to say that although im not a fan of the colour scheme my hat goes off to you at the work and commitment you have put in
At least its different to the `norm`!

Fair play i say mate.Keep up the good work

cheers eko

that is what it is all about for me at the mo, thinking outside the box and doing something a little different.

as for the work put in it has been hard but well worth it, i only got the car 9 months ago and it was bog standard when i got it.

it gives great satisfaction to do this and i think it gives others confidence that are also not mechanics that you can still get out there and do it.

cheers again mate

[snoops]

I thought it would look stupid when I first saw the title but it looks sweet! good work!

[TangoBeemer]

I thought it would look stupid when I first saw the title but it looks sweet! good work!

cheers buddy

[suchy]

How council is that!! Bet you probably live on Hayling or somewhere similar!!

[saqi]

looks nice, how much did it set you back then?

[TangoBeemer]

looks nice, how much did it set you back then?

nothing mate, i won it in a competition and now they sponsor the car

[saqi]

sweet . reason i was asking was that i might get the m colour stripes over my car like the wasrsteiner m3 and was wondering how much they would quote me.

[TangoBeemer]

sweet . reason i was asking was that i might get the m colour stripes over my car like the wasrsteiner m3 and was wondering how much they would quote me.

here are some prices mate and the guy to contact but if you quote Performance BMW, James or TangoBeemer to Jason when you phone you will get 15% discount

this is the website: www.k2-vehiclegraphics.co.uk
you need to speak to Jason

i have just been intouch with Jason at K2 and got some figures for you:

This is for printed vinyl with laminate. We include a bit of artwork, but we do charge per the hour if it gets too complicated! (35.00 per hour)
Bonnet £150.00 + vat
Roof £120.00 + vat
Bonnet & roof £230.00 + vat

Full wrap (dependent on car size) average between £1200.00 to £1900.00 + vat

Single colour (like Tango Beemer or just gloss black for example)

Bonnet £120.00 +vat
Roof £100.00 + vat
Bonnet & roof £190.00 +vat

Full wrap, same details as above
This can range quite heavily, ie using pearl and colour change vinyls.
Can be anything around £1000.00 up to £1900.00 +vat
But a flat colour like yours is around £1200.00 +vat

We can do a discount of 15% if they mention TangoBeemer, James or Performance BMW hope that's okay (5% above our usual discount rate)

hope this helps, any questions let me know.

i know before people have asked but yes they can do pretty much anything and as stated above they can do pearl and colour change.....cool

hope this helps mate, best thing to do because you want something slightly different is give him a shout and he will sort you out.

would look sweet getting the stripes done

[saqi]

thankyou very much bruv i will give the guys a call probably tomorrow and get something sorted will keep you posted, cheers bud

[TangoBeemer]

nice one.

make sure you do keep me posted

[jbh]

its diffrent bud but i like it well done