What did you do to your E30 today?

Post Tue Apr 01, 2014 8:19 pm

gave it its first wash in 3 years

Post Tue Apr 01, 2014 9:04 pm

Glenn

Is she road legal yet ? Would be nice to meet up with the m3's

Leigh

Post Tue Apr 01, 2014 9:08 pm

removed my injectors (modified bosch 280150035) and sent off for flow testing suspect number 6 partially siezed as it doesn't tick like the others.

Post Tue Apr 01, 2014 9:34 pm

bigbird76 wrote:Glenn

Is she road legal yet ? Would be nice to meet up with the m3's

Leigh

not yet leigh......but not far off

Post Wed Apr 02, 2014 1:41 pm

Gert_8 wrote:I know. He's like you. I think he'll also make his own.

I'll show you these once they're finished.

I'm nothing like Polsta, he builds tech 1's, I dismantle them.

Hopefully they clean up

Post Wed Apr 02, 2014 2:52 pm

bab-91 wrote:
Gert_8 wrote:I know. He's like you. I think he'll also make his own.

I'll show you these once they're finished.

I'm nothing like Polsta, he builds tech 1's, I dismantle them.

Hopefully they clean up

20 years of ingrained poo!

I've just given them another clean with some saddle soap, so that they are clean and conditioned. I've taken a sample swatch from the rear of the backrest, and it is much lighter. I'll send this off to the supplier and get the dye for the leather to match.

Next step, prep, dye, get rid of the crazy paving effect, seal and fit.

Post Wed Apr 02, 2014 5:13 pm

Gert_8 wrote:
bab-91 wrote:
Gert_8 wrote:I know. He's like you. I think he'll also make his own.

I'll show you these once they're finished.

I'm nothing like Polsta, he builds tech 1's, I dismantle them.

Hopefully they clean up
20 years of ingrained poo! I've just given them another clean with some saddle soap, so that they are clean and conditioned. I've taken a sample swatch from the rear of the backrest, and it is much lighter. I'll send this off to the supplier and get the dye for the leather to match.

Next step, prep, dye, get rid of the crazy paving effect, seal and fit.

Bum leakage is not nice.

I'd be worried about dyeing, seen some horrific examples. Cream leather wouldn't be my cup of tea but should be a nice contrast to the vert!

Look forward to seeing them cleaned up!

Post Wed Apr 02, 2014 5:17 pm

I'm keeping it the same colour, so that's not going to be an issue. I've seen some results and the seats look brilliant. The people that have done this work seem to be very pleased.

Post Wed Apr 02, 2014 5:31 pm

If I were you I would look at liquidleather.com they match BMW colour according to colour codes. I used them to touch up my cardinal red.

Just used furniture clinic stuff on some carpets and the colour sample I sent them and the colour on the carpet is different....

Post Wed Apr 02, 2014 5:32 pm

Does liquid leather remove the cracking in the leather?

Post Wed Apr 02, 2014 5:44 pm

glenn wrote:
bigbird76 wrote:Glenn

Is she road legal yet ? Would be nice to meet up with the m3's

Leigh
not yet leigh......but not far off

Hopefully keep this one away from tyre walls...

Will be good to see this one Glenn

Post Wed Apr 02, 2014 10:08 pm

Drove it & collected some more wheels.

Post Thu Apr 03, 2014 3:51 pm

paid the rent ....it's gone up again

Post Sat Apr 05, 2014 9:57 pm

Rolled it out of the garage for the first time in nearly a year and got it through an MOT. Shame the weather has been utter shite.

Post Sat Apr 05, 2014 10:56 pm

jmc330i wrote:
glenn wrote:
bigbird76 wrote:Glenn

Is she road legal yet ? Would be nice to meet up with the m3's

Leigh
not yet leigh......but not far off
Hopefully keep this one away from tyre walls...

Will be good to see this one Glenn

LoL ask him about LLandow quite a few years ago in his old E30...

Post Sat Apr 05, 2014 11:00 pm

Thought I'd join this thread after doing a little bit of work on my Cabrio today. I have slowly been getting the car closer to the way BMW intended it to be and I have splashed out the proper size battery. It makes quite a difference to the look of the engine bay to have a quality item under there. Before I could fit that I had to sand back the rusty battery tray and treat with rust stopper. It has now been treated to a coat of hammerite. Last year I deleted the headlight wash system and have never been happy with still having the twin bottle so I have also replaced that with a single bottle. Whilst I was in that area I decided to have a go at cleaning up the paintwork in the bay as it was covered in a coat of yellowing wax. I don't know if this was from the factory or someone had done it but it was looking bad so I got a little scraper out then some cutting paste. It came out not bad but needs more detail to make it really good.

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Post Sun Apr 06, 2014 8:23 am

Went over to the valleys in South Wales got my exhaust supplied and fitted by maggs power , great guy knows his stuff around a e30 I came out a happy customer.

Post Sun Apr 06, 2014 9:56 am

Finally got this turd home..!

A BIG thanks to all those involved in lining up the purchase and special thanks to those involved in the resto work, nice one chaps thanks to you i'm fooking skint..!

Post Sun Apr 06, 2014 8:16 pm

Top work ajay!

Post Sun Apr 06, 2014 9:07 pm

ajay wrote:Finally got this turd home..!

driven past this place a million times, always appreciate the thumbs up lol

Post Sun Apr 06, 2014 9:29 pm

Put the transfer box back together with new fluid seals. That's the easy bit, next up is seating the coont.

Post Mon Apr 07, 2014 12:54 pm

Big thanks to pukar, fitted the dealer stuff today and they look splendid, high quality and a super finishing touch

Post Mon Apr 07, 2014 1:44 pm

bigbird76 wrote:
jmc330i wrote:
glenn wrote: not yet leigh......but not far off
Hopefully keep this one away from tyre walls...

Will be good to see this one Glenn
LoL ask him about LLandow quite a few years ago in his old E30...

I was there that day. I can remember Glenn saying something like "I'll just go out for one last session..."

Post Mon Apr 07, 2014 10:18 pm

Pre sale rear end clean up and lots of niggles sorted

Post Mon Apr 07, 2014 10:48 pm

spook wrote:

Quality bonnet strut. Is that larch?

Ben

Post Mon Apr 07, 2014 11:18 pm

Barratts pine mate

Post Mon Apr 07, 2014 11:20 pm

I use maple, nothing's too good for an E30.

Ben

Post Tue Apr 08, 2014 11:13 pm

BenHar wrote:I use maple, nothing's too good for an E30.

Ben

I'm a fan of off-cut roof battern.. Probably the worst grade of pine.

Post Thu Apr 10, 2014 4:04 pm

320i passed its MOT for another year.

Not bad for a £70 car 8 years ago

Post Thu Apr 10, 2014 4:33 pm

hennabm wrote:320i passed its MOT for another year.

Not bad for a £70 car 8 years ago

£70. What the hell. How come?

Just watched mine roll over the 200 000 mile mark!

Mot due end of the month

Post Thu Apr 10, 2014 6:04 pm

Just happened to be in the right place at the right time.
A fella had taken the car to the Fiat main dealer for its MOT and was in front of me in the queue.
He received his fail and left.

When I went out onto the forecourt he was still there shaking his head at the car.

Turned out he lived in a terraced house so had no where to take the car as it was out of MOT and had a month's tax left on it.

Negotiations started at £100 and I went off with the car for £70.

Took me about 3mths to put it right and cost me about £320 including tax and insurance to put it back on the road.

And here we are for the 8th year through the test

Post Thu Apr 10, 2014 9:57 pm

That's brilliant.
Wish I could pick one up that cheap.

Post Fri Apr 11, 2014 12:04 am

A little m42 strip down due to a possible head gasket. Turned out to be cracked head. Had a Spare head just waiting on gasket parts.

Post Sun Apr 13, 2014 5:37 pm

Committed to buy a diamond black iS with m52b28 dyno'd @ 225bhp

Post Sun Apr 13, 2014 11:13 pm

i did this