wkohler wrote:How many times have I suggested that for this car?!
I am very excited to see this in July. I think this is the only time I'll ever admit to being excited to seeing an E24. Better note the date and time.
I know you have...
It will most likely not be there again as I have so many other projects that take presidence over it at this time. I have way more projects than one person should have, which makes it very difficult to get anything done.... that coupled with my failing joints makes things take that much longer.
You dont wanna go jagermeister.. my friend/work are doing a tribute with buried graphics. Dude spent $700 in stencils. It's 4 or 5 layers deep between clear. I know there's 300 hours in that body work/paint job.
86GT635 wrote:You dont wanna go jagermeister.. my friend/work are doing a tribute with buried graphics. Dude spent $700 in stencils. It's 4 or 5 layers deep between clear. I know there's 300 hours in that body work/paint job.
86GT635 wrote:You dont wanna go jagermeister.. my friend/work are doing a tribute with buried graphics. Dude spent $700 in stencils. It's 4 or 5 layers deep between clear. I know there's 300 hours in that body work/paint job.
Stencils are for pussies.
There was still so much correction that had to be done after the stencils. The logo's or decals or whatever you wanna call em are all multi layered. There's no way someone could tape that stuff out. It would be impossible. My friend went back and forth between vinyl and having the shit buried. Vinyl shop wanted what the stencils cost. My workshop wanted the recognition.. It's gonna be perfect.
My G4 phone just took a shit after a system update (kill command; since lg just dropped the G6 2 weeks ago) or I would boot up some pics of the progress. It is absolutely insane the amount of detail that's going into this. Airbrush gun and that plastic tape. It would no doubt be a $8k paint job with the hours invested.
The car will definitely make the rounds at shows. It will be at the Concours de elegance at keeneland in July next to a Vaydor.. The shop I work at builds and owns the rights to these..
I started converting the rear over to e28 suspension. I ordered a new 533i differential cover and installed it on a 373lsd, installed the subframe and trailing arms. I need to have the rear section of the driveline shortened approximately an inch. The e28 track width is about 10mm narrower per side which help's fit the wide wheels.
I've been working on the e24 a bit, I ordered e34 540i brakes, new axles and hardware, 235/40zr17 and 275/40zr17 for the hartge 17x9.5/10.5" wheels. I'm finishing up the e28 rear suspension swap, still need to make mounts for the sway bar... coil overs still need to go on.
bkbimmer wrote:I started converting the rear over to e28 suspension. I ordered a new 533i differential cover and installed it on a 373lsd, installed the subframe and trailing arms. I need to have the rear section of the driveline shortened approximately an inch. The e28 track width is about 10mm narrower per side which help's fit the wide wheels.
Could you explain the e28 suspension swap? I wanted to do this to my usd 1981 633csi a while back.
bkbimmer wrote:I started converting the rear over to e28 suspension. I ordered a new 533i differential cover and installed it on a 373lsd, installed the subframe and trailing arms. I need to have the rear section of the driveline shortened approximately an inch. The e28 track width is about 10mm narrower per side which help's fit the wide wheels.
Could you explain the e28 suspension swap? I wanted to do this to my usd 1981 633csi a while back.
Basically bolt in an e28 subframe, trailing arms and diff, e28 axles, e28 shocks, 533i diff cover, e12 diff mount... you have to slightly modify the brake line above the subframe and or clearance the subframe and have the rear section of the driveshaft shortened and balanced.
