My new toy GT2 :-)

[PeeBee]

My mates dad has a private Beemer garage and he has raced them for years. Here is a photo of his 36 M3 that he raced till he sold it earlier this year.

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[mboon]

Got a week off work so decided to get the old girl fired up. Forget how good the old girl drives.

Local car cleaning people gave it a clean for me. Wash mitts, easy on the pressure washer. They do a nice job. I must admit, it wasn't exactly dirty.

[avalaugh]

Dream car, love these in the red [emoji7]

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[mboon]

When washing the car I was noticing a bit of damp getting into the boot of the car, I checked all the boot seals and they all looked good, however the rear light seals looked in poor condition[DIV]
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[/DIV][DIV]I ordered the replacements from BMW and got on with fitting them[/DIV][DIV]
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[/DIV][DIV]Removed the rear lights and was confronted by lots of grim :([/DIV][DIV]
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[/DIV][DIV]and the culprit[/DIV][DIV]
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[/DIV][DIV]So a nice clean behind the lights[/DIV][DIV]
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[/DIV][DIV]And gave the lights a quick clean off[/DIV][DIV]
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[/DIV][DIV]I had to remove the old gasket which is stuck on, careful work with a blade and some solvent to clean the glue off got them back nice again[/DIV][DIV]
[/DIV][DIV]New gasket fitted[/DIV][DIV]
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[/DIV][DIV]And fitted back to the car[/DIV][DIV]
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[/DIV][DIV]While I was in this area I checked a common rust spot on the E36, around the boot seals[/DIV][DIV]
[/DIV][DIV]Lucky for me, mine is rust free[/DIV][DIV]
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[/DIV][DIV]I am also in the process of getting the engine bay up to scratch, only two things need doing now, one is the engine cover which needs painting, I need advice on the correct paint for this please if anyone knows?[/DIV][DIV]
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[/DIV][DIV]The plastic cover which goes over the windscreen wiper motors[/DIV][DIV]
[/DIV][DIV]This is mine before[/DIV][DIV]
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[/DIV][DIV]As you can see, it was in poor state. It came up on with some plastic treatment but needed replacing, its all in the detail[/DIV][DIV]
[/DIV][DIV]The amount of crap under this cover surprised me[/DIV][DIV]
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[/DIV][DIV]And the new one in place[/DIV][DIV]
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[/DIV][DIV]And the old[/DIV][DIV]
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[/DIV][DIV]Another couple jobs ticked off the list.[/DIV][DIV]
[/DIV][DIV]Thanks[/DIV]

[TriggerFish]

Good result on the lack of rust!

Regarding the paint - this stuff might be of interest? I used it on my e30 with very good results.

http://www.vhtpaint.com/high-heat/vht-wrinkle-plus-coatings

Edited March 23, 2016 by TriggerFish

[avalaugh]

It's all in the detail [emoji108] did the same with my Clubsport rear lenses, was shocked at the dirt behind them .

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[mboon]

Cheers trigger fish, that looks a nice finish. I will look into that stuff. Did you completely blast that cover and spray from the metal/prima or did you go over the top of the crackle paint?

[TriggerFish]

That's not mine

This is mine: 

 

I just sanded it down and sprayed over that. No lacquer or anything, but I've hit it with sockets/spanners a few times and there's no damage - it seems very hard wearing.

 

[mboon]

My coil cover was a mess and letting the engine bay down so I purchased these two

This was the cover before

Painted

First sanding

Completed

Fitted

Gave her a clean

Then went to the PH Breakfast Club meet at Haynes

Thanks

[Akiragost]

Looks stunning mate

[RedDevil]

Looks great just read your thread 👍 Soooo much better than a gt1 and condition is credit to you . Also have to agree with you love e36 s defently drivers cars Iv had 3 of them not m3 yet but will be next car touch wood but has to be Dakar yellow 

[mboon]

It's been a long time since I updated these, I have been working on the car and taking photos as I went a long but lost interest in updating these. So I will go through and try to put all the information up since my last update.

So first things first, I had to change my garage. I ended up realy lucky with this as the new garage is right next door to my house, its huge and has a pit. It was however full of crap so moved it all about and got the car in

First job in her new home was to replace the new fog light which was broken (Its hardly been on the car)

Got her out and cleaned her down, a couple shots in her new home

The windscreen has been replaced with a green sunstrip due to chips

While cleaning I noticed a scratch on the bonnet whih was annoying, so a friend helped me polish this back and remove

This then ended in me machine polishing the car. I spent weeks doing this on and off. Not perfect but certainly 80% improvement

WARNING PHOTO OVERLOAD

Before

During

After

I did the whole car but not going to bore you with that. Next up was to remove the tape etc

And then the task of removing all the white residue

Gently

Long day finished

After unwrapping I could start the old girl, been a few weeks at this point

I keep hearing good stuff about APC so bought some of this

Started with the rubbers etc

Next up was the fuel cap etc

And I found this, so back to the paintshop for the 9th time

Gave her a good clean and nice layer of wax after all of that

And out for the first time in a while

I will have a break now and continue later

Thanks

[mboon]

Next up was the expensive part.

The car was nearly due a service and it was the Inspection 2. I had a few other bits I wanted sorting at the same time to booked her in to my local BMW Specialist. This guy is known locally and is very very good.

So dropped the car off

And then got the bill a week later.

List of work I had completed

Inspection 2
Valve Clearance checked and adjusted
New BMW thermostat
New seals/gaskets and bolts on the vanos including new filter etc

Ready to collect

And then back in her cave

While the car was there, he was bored waiting for someone on Saturday and decided to re-gass the aircon and investigate why that was not working and then removed the door car and freed up the window motor so that now works all free of charge.

I have taken it for a couple runs recently and given her the beans, picks up and pulls really well and no more oil leaks from the vanos.

I am sure there was more but I do not have that much time anymore to update these so will do it in one big hit every now and then.

Thanks

[Daz 330 Cs]

Wow that was a big bill. The paintwork is looking great, might be best not put any more cardboard boxes on it  

[avalaugh]

Great to see a rare car getting the treatment it deserves [emoji108]

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[daljitgroup]

I like your first post.