Alive Again

After some time off the BMW project starts up again. My dad is going to get the car up and running, it is sitting at his house in Arkansas. I look forward to bringing the 1967 BMW 1600 back to life.

BMW vehicle Wrap

Here is the design and wrap of my project BMW. I designed this in photoshop and wrapped it at work http://360wraps.com

Deciding on color scheme for my project

Well I think I have decided to use orange as my primary color for my wrap on the project. I set up the template the other day and am getting some loose ideas down to start the flow for my design. I will post the proofs up soon.

BMW e30 drifting

This is what I am talking about... this looks so fun.

Making a list....

Ok so now I have the car what should I do with it?

I could keep it stock and just add A/C... boring

I could turn pimp it out .... no thanks
I know I will put a turbo on it and go drifting!!

So now to make a list of all the parts I need to complete this project.

1986 BMW 325es

Ok I got my new project car it is a 1986 325es. I found it on Craiglist and it has been chipped and has H&R sport springs. The guy I bought it from blew up the motor last year and put in a new/old motor with 60K miles. It also has a a new steering rack. It was a good find for $1,500 I have many plans for this it will start out with a Wrap.

 
 
 
 

Wheel Time

You can see the Diffrence with the sanding I started with 100 to get rid of the curb grind then whent to 250 wet sand.

Here you can see the diffrence sanded with 250 then 500 then 1000. Then I used Mothers Wheel polish and a power drill with a buffing wheel.


I got over the idea of having the car driving by Monterey Historics last weekend. I do not have the crew of Overhaulin at my disposial so I had realize that It will just take a little more time. I took the set of wheels down and had the tires dismounted then started to polish them.

painting turns to real work

I have a complete set of these aluminum wheels anyone reconize them? I think they are american racing they have an A in the center cap. I think I am going to polish them up after a lot of sanding and smoothing on them that is...








after spending some time on the painting of my car, I started to think of the things I wanted to and needed to do to my car. So I made a list of everything I could think of and started to work on a few of the things I could do with just my effort. So I swaped the passenger seat from the 2002 to my little red 1600. I then cleaned out the trunk and removed the gas tank flushed it and put it back in. I took the electric fuel pump and the fuel gage float from my 2002 and installed them on my 1600. I found the trunk in very good shape no rust in there to worry about so I am happy. The rear bumper was loose, I removed it tightend up the bolts and saw that one of the brackets is bent and the bumper is a little tweeked, it will do for now. I am visualizing myself driving over to Monterey for the Historics Aug 18th. I have a lot more work to do but it is going to be fun.