Here's my big update for the month.....

I ran the California Car Duster over it in the garage. It looks less dusty now.
I also ordered a pile of new parts for it. Shifter mounts, subframe mounts, hood release cable, pedal pads, swaybar bushings, and a few other bits. Basically, I was bored at 3am last night and ordered everything that Worldpac has in stock for it, under $25. Total order was $150, and it all showed up at my shop by 9am. I love Worldpac.

Anyway, PLEASE help me get motivated to work on the damn thing. It sits in my garage, looking pretty as all hell, but unloved. I just can't get the energy to work on it at night after a day in the shop. I might tow it back to the shop, and get the boys working on it. It doesn't need much now, just everything. Next up I'm going to pull the brake lines, and ship them to Classic Tube to be replicated in stainless steel. Should be nice.

Al

Wow. It seems like this damn car is never gonna get finished. Here's your motivation. Get it the FUCK finished already!!!

It IS turning out damn good though. Kudos.

i sent mine off to the body guys this week to have the front end put up on the jig and straightened. Ive been working so much i really dont have time to do the work on it once it gets back, dont know what im going to do but i want to rebuild the box and the m30 has to go back in. Thinking of paying my local mechanic just to come out and do it for me one day when im at work.

Here's my big update for the month.....

I ran the California Car Duster over it in the garage. It looks less dusty now.
I also ordered a pile of new parts for it. Shifter mounts, subframe mounts, hood release cable, pedal pads, swaybar bushings, and a few other bits. Basically, I was bored at 3am last night and ordered everything that Worldpac has in stock for it, under $25. Total order was $150, and it all showed up at my shop by 9am. I love Worldpac.

Anyway, PLEASE help me get motivated to work on the damn thing. It sits in my garage, looking pretty as all hell, but unloved. I just can't get the energy to work on it at night after a day in the shop. I might tow it back to the shop, and get the boys working on it. It doesn't need much now, just everything. Next up I'm going to pull the brake lines, and ship them to Classic Tube to be replicated in stainless steel. Should be nice.

Al

Hi Al.

Get fired up about your car please, since you have the skills to finish it
and are not being held hostage by a noob boody shop guy like i was.

I know you can do it. So Finish her

Also, why recreate the wheel? BMP and Bav auto offer
stainless steel lines for the 323i so unless your car which is RHD is different you can get these from them.

My car also sits in my dad's garage.
I have the euro turn signal housings that took almost two months to get here from germany, and various pieces of chrome. Inside the garage, my 2.8 block is wrapped up next to the car. I am waiting for my condo to sell, and its very quiet here in boston, with prices taking a nose drive.

I washed my 323i, and to make sure there where no water marks after, I even dried her with a towel. My hood still does not line up right. Its off on the passenger side. It is a brand new hood, and the frame is straight on, we even measured it when it was on a frame machine. But it will not line up. The previous owner (on the old hood) filed a little off the underside of the hood where it meets up by the windshield on the passenger side, and I may have to do this.

I still have to get the headliner in, and this requires the removal of the front and rear windsheilds. Also. I am back to work at last from my trip, and my dad, went by the old 10 plus year home the body shop of my 323i. He collected a lot of parts like wipers and a JEGs battery relocation kit, that where "found" by the body guy. Quess what is still MIA? The vin for the windshield. So I will have to get this remade with the same numbers as before. Any ideas who can do this?

I have taken out the old battery tray and need to put in the new relocation kit. Also I have a new fuel pump and fuel filter for it. Then she may start.

later,
J

Sounds more like you just have a lot going on rather than not being motivated. Your going to end up with one of the cleanest 323i RHD on the planet. You know this, and if this isnt motavation enough then so be it. It might take you a few more months, but theres no rush to perfection. If I were you I'd bring it to the shop and eventualy you will get sick of staring at the unfinished product.

Get errrrrr done.

Any luck with an apprentace? Might be a good idea to have him/her start to piece it back together. Oh and any word on the brake boot?

Here's my big update for the month.....

I ran the California Car Duster over it in the garage. It looks less dusty now.
I also ordered a pile of new parts for it. Shifter mounts, subframe mounts, hood release cable, pedal pads, swaybar bushings, and a few other bits. Basically, I was bored at 3am last night and ordered everything that Worldpac has in stock for it, under $25. Total order was $150, and it all showed up at my shop by 9am. I love Worldpac.

Anyway, PLEASE help me get motivated to work on the damn thing. It sits in my garage, looking pretty as all hell, but unloved. I just can't get the energy to work on it at night after a day in the shop. I might tow it back to the shop, and get the boys working on it. It doesn't need much now, just everything. Next up I'm going to pull the brake lines, and ship them to Classic Tube to be replicated in stainless steel. Should be nice.

Al

Whats worldpac? Im in need of a lot of stock parts and Im having a horrible time with Maximillion. I have stuff on order since March and everytime I call the owner he barks at me like I should be more patient?? Its fricking September almost!!!

Woldpac is a parts supplier for shops....I have a friend that that works for a shop order me new tie rod ends through world pac for less than $20.00....

I don't know if they will sell to us non shop people or not...

Thanks guys, I will get it to the shop in the next weeks, and force myself, or the guys to finish it up. Guaranteed it won't see the road until next summer though.

Joe, I've already got stainless flex hoses, but I'm having all new steel hard lines fabricated for it. Complete new brake lines, and hoses, new master cyliner, new calipers, new pads, new rotors, even a new brake fluid bottle, and new clips to keep all the lines in place.

Guys, I have a Worldpac account, and will ship parts, no problem. Drop me a note if you need OEM parts.

Al

Thanks guys, I will get it to the shop in the next weeks, and force myself, or the guys to finish it up. Guaranteed it won't see the road until next summer though.

Joe, I've already got stainless flex hoses, but I'm having all new steel hard lines fabricated for it. Complete new brake lines, and hoses, new master cyliner, new calipers, new pads, new rotors, even a new brake fluid bottle, and new clips to keep all the lines in place.

Guys, I have a Worldpac account, and will ship parts, no problem. Drop me a note if you need OEM parts.

Al

Al, if there is no real difference between the left and right hand sided 323i,
I would be interested in a set of steel hardlines for my 323i as well.

There is. Master cylinder is in a totally different place for starters.

Madhatter is right, Joe. Master cylinder is on the wrong side, and up front behind the headlight in our RHD cars. You can always pull yours off, and send them to Classic Tube. We buy their 2002 sets for client's cars. $199 in mild steel, and $225 in stainless.

Al

no, the master cylinder is on the correct side, its just these LHD cars are totally backwards :stickoutt