new updates (paint finished)

[treeseries]

this is my recently aquired shell, i bought it start of this month, and have spent countless hours prepping it for paint which i can know reveal the first pictures of thanks to my mate pricie and his technical wizardry and he also helped me prep it to be fair. its a 318is, im currently driving 1 so hopefully if i pull my finger out and can convince my mate to help me again i'll put it all together one coming weekend in time for the next lakeside meet. and post more pics before hand.











its estoril blue should you care

[d6dph]

Should look cool in estoril. Keep the updates coming

[Sjoerd320i]

looking good mate, really loving that colour

[Rkive]

Yeah nice colour mate.

[321gazza]

great colour mate, i had my ople manta gte sprayed estoril blue, when the sunshine hits it nothing else looks better,i was thinking of doing that to my e30 aswell,love it

[rebelcruiser]

thats a really nice colour.

[12345kevin]

Looking good, would be nice to see it at the Lakeside meet, next week !!

[Pricie]

I'll try and get up the workshop with my proper camera rather than that naff camera fone, then we can get some proper pics up for you to ogle over! lol

Looks 10 times better in the flesh.

[Pricie]

Oh forgot to say, if the definition of 'better' is 'slower' then your well on track!

[treeseries]

ah jealousys a terrible thing. what u just saw there was a rare sighting of pricies green eyed monster.

[treeseries]

it should be done and ready for next weeks meet but it just depends on if i pull my finger out my arse and put it back together. any help would be appreciated plus free beer as an incentive?

[Pricie]

heres the finished article well kinda i still have got round to building it but i think it'l have to wait til after x mas.

treeseries

[aceraf]

Looking good...get some better pics up

[Pricie]

Got some better pictures with a better camera, still abit shite due to crap light in the workshop, but i'll let the pics do the talking.... she fired up for the first time this afternoon.

[whipsey]

looks good mate color is nice shame you didn't clean up the engine before fitting it

[Jhonno]

i wouldnt have painted the rub strips.. kinda ruins it a little.

Nice colour tho

[Pricie]

What ya talking about? the rubbing strips makes it.

It creates the look of one smooth sheet of colour, theres plenty of black detailing on the car without the rubbing strips being black aswell.

See it in the flesh

[1an]

looking good mate but again like Jhonno said i would of left the rubbing strips black as youll find thepaint might start to crack up.

[potman]

nice colour m8. i would have removed the rub strips and had it bare sided. thats what i'm gonna do to mine.

have to agree with ian about cracking paint.

hope to c it at the lakeside meet in feb

[treeseries]

i keep missing the meets due to various things it begining to get on my tits. but with some luck (and some money) i'll be there. if the paint does start to crack i can always change them but it was what i wanted at the time, i mite do away with them and smooth the sides over?

and i didnt clean the engine whilst it was out cos its in desperate need of a service, and some work, so i'll send to the car valet service down the road once its all finished.

potman what car do you drive? just wondering if i'd seen ya out and about

[Jhonno]

What ya talking about? the rubbing strips makes it.

It creates the look of one smooth sheet of colour, theres plenty of black detailing on the car without the rubbing strips being black aswell.

See it in the flesh

Not really imo, it makes it look like a blob with no definition to its shape.. I will await the finished pics tho