Alpina C2 2.7 touring. At the paint shop

[Dezzy]

Looking great Si.

Now ffs finish the 2 door

[csl]

Nice

[oguz327]

Looking good Si!

Should be a good trip, take plenty of pics

[gareth]

Si, do the 'ring on the way back

Oh, if you get a chance, you need to drive the Susten Pass, Grimsel Pass and Furka Pass in switzerland. The very wiggly road on here are from my recent trip round these roads, simply awesome! Oh and if you want to be scared, put the SS300 into your tomtom...!

Enjoy

[Felix79]

Touring looks really nice with the new stance, it really has a compleat look about it too. Think the black on black works well with the touring shape.

[capri_rob]

Diamond Schwartz 6 Pot tourings FTW

[Simon13]

Well theres a list of jobs for this, all of them sh!t or expensive.


As i was on one of my travels shopping in the scrapyard i found this in a black 88 325i touring




£10 was a bit of a job driving home with it in the E36 but it was okish! Its not factory and its a retrim with a sort of vinyl like an E30 door grab. The sunroof bit was missing but maybe just paint dye my beige one and be done with it? certainly will look 100% better than the saggy one in there at the moment.


I also just one these on the bay

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... K:MEWAX:IT

I'm also watching the touring tech 2 tailgate spoiler to really finish the wagon off. Then hopefully a repaint down both sides. Then the stripes

Just waiting for Dips to repair my pina snowplough so it doesn't look silly for santa pod!

[darren_mk]

Bargain side skirts!

[Gortour]

Don't think the Tech2 spoiler will be... Over £100 already and 4 days to go...

[toby]

Bargain headlining as well! Nice find! I'd grab a bit of vinyl for the sunroof section or I could send you some leather, but think matching vinyl would look best.

Are you going to just cut round the old headlining where it tucks under those trim pieces at the sunroof hole?

[Dezzy]

Looking forward to having a nose round this at pod.

[Simon13]

Looking forward to having a nose round this at pod.

don't get your hopes up its no cream pie, you'll hear it before you see it though.

I'm going to do the valve clearances for the santa pod show down. I sh!t, you not!

Toby i'll take a close picture see if maybe i can get a match and do the sunroof bit the same

[Bump]

Good luck with the headlining. I'd rather eat my head in an omelette than do that again.

[Bump]

Good luck with the headlining. I'd rather eat my head in an omelette than do that again.

[Gortour]

Did you get that tailgate spoiler then Simon?

If it's the one I was looking at, it went for £225...

For a little spoiler...

[Simon13]

no Gordon, i went mad and went to £220 and went out so lost that one by a fiver!

[Gortour]

Shame. But it's a lot of money for a small bit of plastic. You can almost get a whole Tech 2 kit for that sort of money...

Would love one on my car though...

[Simon13]

I'm now ready for the pod with this uber mod. Are you?

[Rodderz]

Did you fit new pistons when you did a rebuild?

[Simon13]

Relax Rod i only changed the rear badge!

You talking about the engine? Then no i didn't

[Rodderz]

Are they still available in plus sizes?

[Simon13]

Yes, your engine f**ked? They're like £200 a slug though, comes with the rings and wrist pin! i think

[Rodderz]

No, I did wonder about amassing all the parts for a rebuild, if ever I wanted to carry one out. But at that price they are a 'need to buy' only item! lol

[Simon13]

Been lazy as of late but i did this before santa pod but didn't post any pictures, anyhow about the last place on the car i haven't touched removed or f**ked has now been tinkered.

So i picked this up in the scrappy for a tenner a while ago





Heres what was there



What a bloody state, ripples in the wind when driving with the windows down!






Sunroof and trim bits out, you need to remove pretty much all of it to get the old one out as its glued and screwed down all around the sunroof opening.





The old one out, see that metal strip in the top picture? this has come unstuck and used to rattle everytime you shut a door, highly annyoing. Thing was you couldn't see what it was with the sunroof in, used to drive me up the wall! Onto the money shots











No grot So pleased there the last place to be inspected so a huge relief i secretly thought hoped it was good up there which bodes very well for long term ownership prospects! i did squirt some clear 3M cavity wax about up there to keep it noice







All back up wasn't anywhere near as sad as people have made out imo. took me a couple oof hours at a sedate pace. I had black sunvisors in stock but i need to get some black D pillar trims and maybe black trims for the tailgate to make it look more factory as its all grey. I've had all this in the past but threw it all away!






Tried to re grease all the worm drive help it all along, but i think i need a newer better motor and i of all people don't have a spare!! It just no man enough to tilt it up these days, needs a helping hand. Goes back and forth speedy now though

Just need to sort a sunroof bit out now, OR do i get the old stuff sorted out and trimmed in something nice?





I also won these skirts on the bay a while back for £25 but i had to collect from doncater which was 450 mile round trip. After seeing that red Alpina touring forsale not long ago with the skirts and spoiler i thought that looked mustard. Hopeing to have them painted and on for gaydon.

I was thinking of maybe getting both sides painted as its fairy tidy but it needs to be really nice if i put the alpina deco kit/war paint on it. So just a tech 2 tailgate to finish her off i think.


Air con? no leave it be!

I am seriously considering buying a set of B4 dampers as i'm sick of the hard ride from the B8 dampers. As we all know the roads are toilet and i really don't think the handling on the road would suffer, in fact i think it would improve as its a bit skitty/skippy on the back end when laying all the power down even in the dry. Some softer dampers would allow more grip i think. Plus it has all the other morsel trinkets fitted. But overall shes tramping on well and has covered 23,000 since the rebuild on the donk due a cambelt very soon!

MOT also coming up it never ends!




I'm also seriously considering getting the original alpina springs re powder coated and back on to go back to its normal ride height, but i'm not 100% give it that proper nose down alpina stance again. These are the only pics i have of it on stock height which was the day we bought it!

[oguz327]

Good work Si and great news the roof is rot free!

Now give it a wash!

[Simon13]

i did on friday! AND i hoovered the inside.

Fixed the PAS leak, fixed the brake pad warning light, fucking wire was cut by a stone or something! New wipers all round too! it just keeps coming!

[oguz327]

Nice one Bert, will have to pop up soon!

[Blitz]

Nice work. I think the that vinyl headlining looks good and much less likely to sag.

[capri_rob]

Nice work Simon. I'm gonna get the headlining out of my turd in the next few days hopefully - glad it doesnt look as bad a job as I thought

[Simon13]

With Gaydon looming we have to look better than last year! Got the pina skirts painted in time.









Being black you barely bloody notice them, shame but a bit different from the Touring skirts, matches the 2dr now too.

I'll get some better pics with the snow plough on 2moro at gaydon, as i was pushed for time today.

[Dezzy]

Are you going to wash it you scruffy c unt?

[Simon13]

i have washed it for gaydon, hoovered, fed the leather!

Hopefully closing in on a deal for a tech 2 tailgate spoiler

I might* get up early as i won't have a hangover this year and try and clay bar wax it too! you won't recognise it.

[Dezzy]

i have washed it for gaydon, hoovered, fed the leather!

Hopefully closing in on a deal for a tech 2 tailgate spoiler

I might* get up early as i won't have a hangover this year and try and clay bar wax it too! you won't recognise it.

Good lad. You let the side down at Pod. Mind you so did i

[Simon13]

well heres a few shots from Gaydon today. I never take a camera so i thought i would this year. The battery went flat after 5 shots. So this is all i got must of been 6 C2's today including another touring his paintwork was much better than mine!








The paint match on the skirts is pretty dam good. No one said holy moly who painted the skirts! I think they look good with the cow catcher just like the 2door now

[kingludba]

Looks good, will keep an eye out for you around the area.