E30 #4

#candids

Pics taken for sale purposes. Never did the manual conversion so still got all the bits 🤔

Finally cut and polished the bonnet after paint. Did the roof and trunk while I was at it. Need to tackle clear lifting on drivers side next 😑

Goal? I think so.

Fitted some tyres this morning at a friends shop then went to work on the car. E90 Drophats in the front (springs now not captive 🤔) and put on some 15" weaves I collected a couple weeks back. Looking pretty fly I reckon

Dropped some new springs in the day after paint…Front end springs were barely captive but still sits higher? Bloody E30’s, also glued a golf rear window spoiler on for cool factor 😎

Boom. Base and clear on over the weekend, looks ok but will need a decent wetsand and polish to bring it up to standard!

Painted the window trim Black and moved the car to a mates to get into the terrible paint! Started sanding back the bonnet, I've never painted a car before so this should be fun!!

Picked up most of the bits for a manual conversion today. Lol. All that autotragic hassle for nothing. Will swap this in down the track when I've got all the bits together!

Day 8: Got the new auto box in ;). Glovebox latch was broken, so replaced it with a keyless version. Dug up an old IS lip I destroyed years ago too, so I fixed it up and painted it.

Day 7: Cars still in air awaiting new torque converter so removed the jap plate holder.

Day 6: Removed auto box. It's actually the torque converter that's the problem. See the final hole in there, should be teeth like in the middle lol. Too many neutral drop skids me think

Day 5: Painted bumpers factory colour -zinnoberot red. Textured paint on the bump strips

Day 4: Removed and starting prepping bumpers for paint.

First things first, replaced the faulty ignition switch, engine runs alright which is a bonus. M40 engines have notoriously loud tappets. This ones no different.