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Before stripping exterior.

Note wheels, i dont know whether to:

leave them as is,

get them fully polished,

or polish the lip more and powdercoat/paint the centre black.

What ya'll think?

I have finally decided to turn my pre f/l320i into a project car, first stage is the full on strip and paint.

Stripping took around 5 hours + other little trim bits that needed removing as i got further into the repairs.

There were a few bits of rust here and there, expected places, rear tail lights, rear left guard, windscreen seals etc

Primer on sills indicates where the sills were starting to rust but i managed to catch it early

New wheels have replaced the chromes and some other new bits will be shown later in the build....

Things i will be doing over the next few months:

Aesthetic:

PPG 'Cherry Black,' with extra gold and Candy Red pearl

M-Tec 1 Full Spoiler Kit

Satin Black Kidney Grill and Light Surrounds

Eyelids

Tints

Angel eyes

Smoked Fogs

Smoked crystal indicators

Aftermarket Rear lights (Half red half Clear, smoked)

Replacing Front and rear window chrome

Alarm:

5 Star Respected Brand

ICE:

Sony MP3 CD 52x4 Head unit

Sony 5.5" Components, Tweeters, Crossovers

Alpine V12 650rms Monoblock

Rockford Fosgate P3 15" Subwoofer in custom enclosure

Interior:

Racepro Arrow 2 Bucket Seats

Customised Rear Seat with Cup holders and Subwoofer porting.

New Dash

Speakerless Parcel Tray

Carpet Dyed Black

Door card and rear seat retrim

Heater control replaced with Vaccum, Voltage and Oil Pressure Gauges

Suspension:

Whiteline shortened Shocks

Whiteline super low lowering springs

Brakes:

Rear Disc Brake Upgrade

Intake/Exhaust:

K&N High flow POD filter

Custom Cold air intake

2 1/4 inch exhaust from first flange 2 resonators

Rolled Steel Oval Chrome tip

Heres a few pics to show how things are going up till it went in for painting on wednesday

November '05

http://www.jascoautomotive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=730

You obviosly havnt seen the 2 seater X5 that some big car audio company in the states made, turned it into a audio monster. Its pretty crazy....

while mastubating his

Arent those side panels just glued on with the same stuff they hold the '325i' badge on with? And they are hooked onto the same clips that the normal door trims are hooked onto?

They do it for me everytime....

This thread is a milestone for two people, a 21st bday, HB by the way,

And Grant didnt say 'Cheers Grant.'

Surprised me, im sure its like the first time.... :confused:

IPLEZA: on this site

ONBAGS: Rice colour e36 on Airbags and chomies

Theres a few around... I saw a white 535m e28? like brents one, the spoken car was white and basically sitting on the ground with chromes, looked okay but too low bouncing around like a mofo yo... cant remember the plate...

the stock viscous van cools the water the correct amount.

I notice on some long journeys when the engine is under hard out use my temp guage slips up a little, like when passing cars and annoying trucks the whole way up the Brenderwyns...

Thought it might me good for that kinda thing?

Edit: spelling

3 reasons,

It blew up and i had disconnected the a/c anyway, the heater didnt 'work,' it just blew warmish air depending on the outside temp.

I needed more room behind the dash as i want to relocate the fuse box and igniter behind the firewall to reduce clutter in te engine bay.

I need room for a power inverter for a fridge or xbox

and one other thing, if a GSR is the only turbs jappa you have driven, dont buy one....

Go to car yards and take a few other cars for a boost...

Thrash them, give them sh*t and then decide what you wanna do...

:pimp:

B4 Legacy's are a mean car, pretty nice upholstry/luxuries so you wont feel to far away from home and with a turbo back exhaust and worked intake they go pretty hard.

If i was gunna buy an affordable jap sedan that would be my choice......

Having drivin most of the nissans mentioned so far in this post, plus some other (S13, S14, and S15 turbs, evo 1,3,4, Evo Libero, various GSR's and the odd subys) I would have to say that the Subaru sedans are alot more fun to drive than GSR's, if you are going to get a GSR may as well get an EVO, anything before evo 4 has probably had the sh!t thrashed out of it so EVO 4 or 5 would be the go, also if looking at a GSR or older EVO make sure you look for rust in the roof and under the headliner, and A pillars. This is a very common problem with these cars.

All in all I cant say a whole lot of good stuff about Japanese cars, they just feel so 'plastic,' ive always referred to them as a 'coffin on wheels,' they are hella light with motors that just want to go faster and faster, id rather drive a BMW but as said before, anything would have to feel faster than a 318i

Accepting less than $500??

only for the AC condensor - and it may or may not work.

Is this the black one in front of the radiator? I have disconnected and removed my heater and aircon, i guess i dont need this and could replace it with an aftermarket electric fan?? Better cooling?

Don't forget that you have to make the box small enough to get it into your boot, or assemble it in there - if you make it as big as the space available in the boot, you wont be able to get it in.

I made mine a fraction too large even after checking this - to get my sub out I have to remove my amp tray, slide the box over to that side of the car, slide the carpet out from under it, lots of swearing to squeeze the spare out, then push the box into the spare well (I had to cut down the thread that secures the spare) and then it just gets enough angle to come out. Pretty theif proof, but a bitch if I ever need to get it out.

Google winisd you lazy bum - it's the first 6 results.

If your too lazy to search, your probably too lazy to put the effort into designing it properly too.

Haha i did search, just posted before i searched just incase i couldnt find it

Yea i have made the measurments of the box so that it will drop straight down into the boot opening and I will have to screw the sub into the box while it is in the boot as the casket will be facing out.

It will be theif proof, and i have no intention of taking it out as i am designing it so that the false floor can be easily removed so that you can get to the spare wheel in an emergency.

Getting the wood, glue and screws today...

Measure twice, cut once :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

Okay ill have a look for that programme, post a link to it if possible...

Im using 3/4 inch HDF Custom Wood so it should be faily strong/ and freaking heavy,

Also I will probably make the front of the box angled so that i can have a bigger face area to mount the sub on, otherwise i will only have 1/2 and inch either side at the top and bottom of the sub whearas on an angle i can get between 1" and 2" making it slightly stronger.

Okay, i have gone directly to Rockford Fosgate Tech and emailed them this same query, yes i can go wider with less height etc as long as any of the dimensions arn't anymore than 72% bigger/smaller than each other. I can have the casket/magnet facing out of the box as long as the box is 2.25 cubic feet. I also have to allow for port and structurral displacement.

They have pretty much put me on the right track and im gunna start drawing up a plan on Vector Works so i can get all the measurment exact allowing for wood thickness ect.

So Basically as long as my box is a total of 2.25 cu feet and not too drastically proportioned i will be fine.....

Ill post pics along with the rest of my project

Okay thats awesome, just good to know for future referance, still weighing up options as far as a 2.7 build, a 2.5 fully worked or turbo the 2.0, one day i will decide......

Hi guys,

Ive done some research and have purchased a Rockford Fosgate P3 15" DVC (550 rms)

Subwoofer as an upgrade to my 2 Sony Xplod 12" pentagon subs.

The amp i have purchased to mate to this sub is an Alpine V12 Monoblock with 650 watts rms.

I have calculated my boot space that i can use and i was just wondering if anyone knows how big i should make the box, i prefer ported enclosures and the casket of the sub looks f'ing cool so id like to have it facing out. Also a problem is that the specs that they give for the reccomended size box are alot different to my availible space so can i make up in width what i sacrifice in length, or will this screw up the performance of the sub.

I have looked on the Rockford Fosgate website at their ported box reccomendations but they only give box sizes with the sub in the box the right way.

I am looking at going along the 'Custom boot install,' as i have just 'Customised' my back seat with ports for the sub box and the elusive 'cup holders,' that BMW somehow failed to put into the E30. I will also be sound deadening the whole boot.

I will post my availble boot space when i get home but if anyone has any opinions on places that make good custom boxes it would be good.

These are the specs on the sub:

Size

15"

Impedance

2-Ohm x 2

Power Handling

550 RMS

1000 Peak

Motor Size

102 oz. double stacked

Voice Coil Diameter

2.5" aluminum

Speaker Connector

Dual 8 AWG compression

Mounting Depth

7.625"

Rec. Sealed Enclosure

2.0 cu. ft.

56.64 liters

Rec. Vented Enclosure

2.25 cu. ft.

63.72 liters

Tuning Frequency (vented)

33 Hz

Any how any help would be great

I have three Nipples and a monobrow!!!!!

Its not my fault my Dad took drugs while he was pregnant :drunk:

Hmmmm not the look i'd go for, you say they are off trademe, do you remember the sellers name? I am getting some for the e dirty and i dont want blue ones Are these angel eyes a substitute for the hole light unit or just the L.E.D Circles?

Does that mean you can cook on it without it sticking?!

At least its a garantee, If the paint gets Fu<ked you can get it fixed for free