Worlds longest Resto, my C2 2.7 19/3/18 Vent guage action

[bss325i]

OK will get pics Hopefully tomorow, its white with gold stripes lol if thats any use. Dont know whether to sell straight on, its not been started in a while.

Is it two or four door?

[Returnof318i]

Four

[Returnof318i]

Sorry to thread Hijack, no more

[The_Diddler]

Any progress with this yet????

[powelly]

Festering in the brother in Laws garage.

[On_a_Roll]

This could be the biggest anti-climax ever - come on man!

[SickEddy]

Gaydon last year

thats my car! in background, not the pina black one with the naaaaasty chrome arches, they went before i bought it. anybody know if the previous owner is on here?

[B7]

Festering in the brother in Laws garage.

I think it's back in simons e30 emporium now. I know he wants me to help him clear it out to create a safer and bigger envioroment for it.

[Simon13]

tis back in my garage now! been out the way for 8months! hopefully got some private jobs coming in to raise some funds for new front and rear screens with all the trim, not much change from £400 for that lot

Mind you if i had the space and my daily E30 wasn't broken down sat in the road with a clutch pedal thats died 2 weeks ago

I've got the cylinder head work done but there is plenty i can get on with tbh with out spending any money, rear axle is complete and ready, i've got a minty LSD ready,half shafts to bolt on along with front subframes struts anti roll bar. A/C to buy and fit. Loads really just ALOT still to do! Sunroof mech and panel can all go back in. Cruise control to tidy up and fit. Gearbox is here, seats also! need a carpet and dash.

OH who am i kidding still a fair way to go until a tax disc will be in the screen

[bimbler]

Be worth it in the end mate, don't lose faith now!!

[B7]

Good to see ya back. How nervous will you be fitting the sunroof panel back in???

[steve_k]

any more updates on progress of this car??

[e30topless]

wonderful my dear watkins....... headlining in! By far one of the most challenging jobs so far and another massive step in the right direction as it opens the doors to lots of parts to be re fitted!

It's hard to get a good shot but here we go, cream sh!t replaced by the black rightness!





I'm chuffed as i doubt i could do it any better second time round and really pleased with the result


Whilst i was on a roll out came the opening rear quarters from hibernation!





Best zone old style zone stickers on of course, i put these on when the car was still being driven which seems an age

not looking forward to this on my own project

any tips simon ?

[B7]

Yes, get someone else to do it would be my tip!!!

[Simon13]

topless, yes patience! you'll want some double sided tape type stuff, work from the sun roof back. And don't forget to clip the metal bars up on the sun roof tray in the middle or it will sag. I did this first time Looked ok for a while but i had to redo it.

Once its in and your happy with it refit all the screen rubbers and door rubbers and rear quarter light ones if you have the openers. This will hold it all in the place and give the glue in the tape a chance to really hold it in place. If you don't it will unstick as the headlining needs quite a bit of tension in it to get all the creases out

hth

[bss325i]

Dragging your heels aint'ya bert!

Get one of those tourings sold!

[On_a_Roll]

Paid £100 to have mine fitted by pros and they also re-fitted the sunroof panel, all trim/lights, sunroof motor and glass etc all parts new and supplied by me. Looks easy enough but I haven't a clue how to deal with the sunroof panel part and didn't want to try either!

[bss325i]

Paid £100 to have mine fitted by pros and they also re-fitted the sunroof panel, all trim/lights, sunroof motor and glass etc all parts new and supplied by me. Looks easy enough but I haven't a clue how to deal with the sunroof panel part and didn't want to try either!

I have done it twice now and i'm sure i'll do it again at some point.

Its not fun!

[e30topless]

Yes, get someone else to do it would be my tip!!!

thinking about it !!

topless, yes patience! you'll want some double sided tape type stuff, work from the sun roof back. And don't forget to clip the metal bars up on the sun roof tray in the middle or it will sag. I did this first time Looked ok for a while but i had to redo it.

Once its in and your happy with it refit all the screen rubbers and door rubbers and rear quarter light ones if you have the openers. This will hold it all in the place and give the glue in the tape a chance to really hold it in place. If you don't it will unstick as the headlining needs quite a bit of tension in it to get all the creases out

hth

simon thanks for that I was thinking of starting at the back end

[StefanAnghel]

Took me two nights to read it all!

I'm waiting for the updates now ...

Cool thread Si

[Dan318-is]

Is this still not finished?

[78dude]

He is out playing ice hockey so no time for the Alpina at the moment.....

[e30topless]

topless, yes patience! you'll want some double sided tape type stuff, work from the sun roof back. And don't forget to clip the metal bars up on the sun roof tray in the middle or it will sag. I did this first time Looked ok for a while but i had to redo it.

Once its in and your happy with it refit all the screen rubbers and door rubbers and rear quarter light ones if you have the openers. This will hold it all in the place and give the glue in the tape a chance to really hold it in place. If you don't it will unstick as the headlining needs quite a bit of tension in it to get all the creases out

hth

many many thanks simon, after fighting most of the weekend with it I got it done, turned out really well.
also converted to elecy roof at same time

[Simon13]

no problem!

Watch this space i'm desperately trying to aquire a prize morsel!

[spook]

no problem!

Watch this space i'm desperately trying to aquire a prize morsel!

As two thousand zoners franticly search ebay for that prized morsel

[Alex]

Nothing here too see

[spook]

Told ya moosh

[Simon13]

Nice one

[gooner1]

For Alex.

For Si.

[Simon13]

Well seriously talk about piss on ya fire! I don't want anyone else getting hold of it!

[Alex]

sorry

prehaps i shouldnt have done that

[e30topless]

sorry

prehaps i shouldnt have done that

edit it quick !

[Alex]

done

now its gooner

[Simon13]

back to the top!

So after a 9 month lay off, mincing around and wasting money on certain tourings which shall remain unamed we are back to the main focus!

Selling the Red one has made funds available in the kitty for the 2dr, the only real downside being my trusty J reg white E36 4dr 316i hub cap meister rocketship is back on the driveway for another daily stint with MPG's an M20 can only dream off

Any how only minor but in the right direction. The OE homos will be please with this choice



Orange indicators and side repeaters! lol As some might know all of this is NLA, in true hording 13 style i have vast stock of these so these where the best i could find. Out came the tooth brush, polish and back to black!




Orange kinda goes with black so its ok me thinks



After playing around trying to repaint the C-pillar trims i bit the bullet and bought 2 new ones this week, £30 each fitting these back on means the long shadowline gutter trim can go back on. This wasn't as traumatic as i thought it might be. Alas only drivers side could be done as the new passenger side trim is scratched! So i'll be taking that back, after waiting 3 days for it to come from Germany.

Then i took a step backwards and nearly removed the black head line as i though i had done it wrong. Turns out in my mind i hadn't made the mistake i originally thought Which was not clipping the metal bar to the sunroof tray. Which i did tonight and it looked a mess. So i'm going to put it all back to how it was 2moro night after work! deja vu

So now we have some shekels with a bit of time i'm going to try me best to get stuck into it and make some progress. I've been busy kind of "finding" certain parts so time hasn't been totally wasted!

It still amazes me just how much time it takes p!ssing about with all the small bits. As you always end up cleaing something you thought was clean enough/ok months years ago to back on!

[E30BeemerLad]

Good to see you back on with it mate