Tech1 sport to be resurrected

[adit]

ola young steven!

i may know of a beautiful one for sale soon......nah, not really, a few more bits to do yet!

(p.s. steve: http://www.e30zone.net/modules.php?name ... c&t=158822 )

[e30topless]

I saw that, looks good , but not yet.....

I'm sure Iain will have told you about another e30 I have in the pipeline ?

[painterman]

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[painterman]

here r some more pics

[adit]

...where??

yes steve, i'm second in line!

[painterman]

http://s782.photobucket.com/albums/yy10 ... g&newest=1 thank u wayne carter 4 letting me do adi tek 1

[painterman]

the pic i put on please clik on it thank u

[gaszman]

still waiting for some finished pics adi

[adit]

still waiting for a nice sunny day and a few hours spare Mr. T.

BTW: anyone know why 5 of the pics have been deleted?
can you try to put them up again please chris? now done. see below.

[adit]

more snaps of the sport in the operating theatre (cosmetic surgery. well she is getting on in years ), as some disappeared last time:

re-working of an old repair (being done properly this time!):




no, it's not all filler, it's just smoothing out the edges of the new wheel arches:


including repair to the rusty aerial hole:








masked up ready for primer:




primer on:






on goes the Dolphin Grey!






thanks again Painterman

[Alex]

going to look good when finished will be better than an IS with leather look seat covers

[adit]

thank you alex

my black leather sport seats will have leather look seat covers too

(i.e. v v v v bless her little dirty paws)

[Alex]

Oh i see, for the dog, i will excuse you then

[adit]

too kind.
in fact it's probably a lot easier to wipe clean black leather than light grey cloth!

[Ollie_bwoii]

Damn that looks nice. Can't wait to see finished pics.

BTW I know how you feel about the dog, I had my german shepherd in the car today, and he has made right mess in the back of my car. I always forget to put some kind of cover on the seat.

[leeparkes]

Cant wait to see this all back together

Dolphin tech-1's are lush

[Blitz]

Looks great.

[Blitz]

Damn that looks nice. Can't wait to see finished pics.

BTW I know how you feel about the dog, I had my german shepherd in the car today, and he has made right mess in the back of my car. I always forget to put some kind of cover on the seat.

I've always wanted a German Shepard. My favorite dog.

[gaszman]

we need some updates on hows shes going adi ????

[VeinAST]

Looked well when I saw it

[adit]

well, i couldn't ignore the old girl any longer. i'd lost a bit of heart in her tbh, running like a bag of %^&*! (only a temporary loss of interest you understand, while i have been busy.)

so today, after having obtained another ECU, plugged it in, fitted the touring battery in her and turned the key.... fired up on the button, so off i went.
just a quick blast to the end of the road (my insurance is transferred to the touring atm) and, dare i say it, all seemed well


oh joy! i had completely forgotten what a lovely machine she is. fast, sounds great and has power steering! (the touring p.a.s. has a leak so is practically non-existant )

i even got the bucket and sponge out earlier and so we washed and made up

enthusiasm rekindled

[lesward]

looks realy nice mate thanks for pump

[gaszman]

adi came to see me today sorted out a fuel leak then thought lets start getting the old girl finished whats this carpet is wet no so adi cut the carpet out then found tin worm gutted he will post pics but still she is fight ing all the way

[adit]

despite the delaying tactics employed mercilessly by Mr.T. (i.e. a full english breakfast...mushrooms, egg, bacon, toast, beans, orange juice, coffee, etc. etc.) i had to have a good look at the Sport....and this is what we found:

passenger footwell repaired (as above). all nice and dry. i scraped a bit more of the sound-deadening back, so i shall repaint this area with the special paint donated by gaszman:





and so to the other side. no surprise really :







i may have a(nother) little job for you Painterman (well if it's worth doing, it's worth doing properly).

ahh, don't they look nice together:

[skipunda]

Nice job your doing here, Adit. It'll look great when you've finished!

[adit]

cheers chris.

i'm dying to do all the nice jobs, like cleaning, feeding and refurbing the leather seats, door cards, fitting the new carpet, a rear blind parcel shelf, nice stereo, leather gaitors, new fogs, skirts, "new" x-spokes, etc., etc. then doing the underside, then giving her a damn good polish and wax....but no point until the last of the welding and bodywork has been done.
tick, tock, tick, tock

[steve_k]

been reading this thread for a while.

looking good adi but are there any more updates? is she finished & back on the road?

[gaszman]

not yet still awaiting the surgen and then its all hands to the pump

[adit]

....still waiting

no, hang on a mo, there's a rumour he's back
he cut my conv. rear 1/4 off yesterday with no probs, so...
my baby needs attention Painterman

[/// KAMI]

good to see a tec1 coming back

[QuickSilver]

The whole resto looks great! I love how great the paint came out!

If you don't mind me asking, how much does a Sport 325 in that shape set people back on your side of the world? Over here, even a run down M325i can still be quite costly!

Also, how come so many cars suffer from rust so badly over there? I live in an area where it sure as hell rains a lot, but I don't see it nearly as bad on my cars!

[Alex]

The whole resto looks great! I love how great the paint came out!

If you don't mind me asking, how much does a Sport 325 in that shape set people back on your side of the world? Over here, even a run down M325i can still be quite costly!

Also, how come so many cars suffer from rust so badly over there? I live in an area where it sure as hell rains a lot, but I don't see it nearly as bad on my cars!

in the winter the goverment like to spread salt on most roads nearly every day

[beemerbird]

The whole resto looks great! I love how great the paint came out!

If you don't mind me asking, how much does a Sport 325 in that shape set people back on your side of the world? Over here, even a run down M325i can still be quite costly!

Also, how come so many cars suffer from rust so badly over there? I live in an area where it sure as hell rains a lot, but I don't see it nearly as bad on my cars!

in the winter the goverment like to spread salt on most roads nearly every day

.... and a lot of housing over here dates from the Victorian times / early to mid 20th century with no allowance for garaging cars, so they get stuck, unprotected, on the street.

[adit]

The whole resto looks great! I love how great the paint came out!

If you don't mind me asking, how much does a Sport 325 in that shape set people back on your side of the world? Over here, even a run down M325i can still be quite costly!

Also, how come so many cars suffer from rust so badly over there? I live in an area where it sure as hell rains a lot, but I don't see it nearly as bad on my cars!

thanks QS, i was very pleased, he's good.

ooh, they're sooo much more desireable than Tech2s
especially in Dolphin grey and with air con and no sunroof
when it's all done, i wouldn't be interested in selling it for less than £4.5-5K tbh. i'm not sure if that's unreasonable but to me it'll be worth that amount.

i don't think it can all be blamed on the road salt as salt doesn't get in the scuttle area and between the inner and outer rear quarters, does it?

[gaszman]

need to start a thred on the wonderfull cabby adi