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Thank you for your consern...

First of all: I have tried to buy a complete shell earlier, but there is none left. Neither from BMW nor Walloth und Nesch.

Second, sandblasting has already been done - but the places you can see now that is not blasted - they are very thin. So after blasting, little metall will remain. Therefore - new parts will do good!

Third, I do know of the possibillity of the car sinking together. Relax... I have done some chassis-works before... There are several pieces to be mounted, but the plan is to put the remaining parts in a Carroliner gigg, so that all measurements will be fine. I am building a show-car (I hope... ), not a randomly mounted car. Too much money has been spent, so I will not risk anything here....

Since I am a picture-lover , I'll post what the USPS came with to me yesterday:

Eaton M90, just for some extra breathing...

And here is something nice as well

What are both?

ac/dennis wrote:What are both?

I am sorry, but I do mot understand what you mean. Please explain your question....

Pedi wrote: I am sorry, but I do mot understand what you mean. Please explain your question....

He wants to know what those 2 things are on your pictures

Robert wrote: He wants to know what those 2 things are on your pictures

Ehh.. ok.

Top picture shows the Eaton M90 Supercharger, and the picture of the red box shows a Haltech E6X box. This is motor-manangement. It takes control of ignitiontiming and fuel, fully adjustable and controllable via PC...

aha! ok, I get it.tnx

I love it

After a long break, I have finally used a night on my own car for a change.. This is how it looks like now, almost done dismantling... Only inner sidemembers (sills) and inner A-pillars to go now...





Have just recieved my brand new Z3M-roadster parts...



Fuel rail from PPF (from Sweden):



And custom/modyfied cam-sprockets and Racing cam-chains from PPF:



Crankshaft finally arrived as well, after several weeks waiting..



And some OT: I finally have my exhaust going out the right way now... Its nice to have some friends helping me, as I am afraid of the heights



And a another one..



There it is on the wall! Motor, piping and silencer will be mounted tomorrow...



Thats all folks. More updates will come more often now I assume...

Thanks for looking...

hi pedi, you have dismantled your car too much now, you realise that you will never line in all up again properly as you have taken too much of it, you should have done a bit at a time, you should take a bit of and put a new bit back on whre you can, this way you always have things to align to, if you remove them inner sills you car will move and twist, them braces arnt enough, this car is never going to be right.

why are you replacinf the inner a posts, you cant replace a panle becasue it has a bit of rust on it, you sandblast it, whatever you do there will alsways be rust in the seams of the car because its to old, all old cars have rust in the seams. you only need to give them a quick sand blast and the rust will never come back, you are doing things you dont need to do and things that there are a simple fix too.

phillbriggs wrote:hi pedi, you have dismantled your car too much now, you realise that you will never line in all up again properly as you have taken too much of it, you should have done a bit at a time, you should take a bit of and put a new bit back on whre you can, this way you always have things to align to, if you remove them inner sills you car will move and twist, them braces arnt enough, this car is never going to be right.

The car is not dismantled too much. I want my car as a "new" car, and to have all dents etc gone, old steel must be replaced. If you ever have done bodywork on a car, you ought to know that that is impossible to change only one piece at a time (as long as you are changing the same parts as I am). Most chassis-parts are "twisted" around each other to improve strenght. So to get the inner plates off, the outer must go away first. Simple as that. The braces are mostly there to stiffen up (and locate) the upper a-pillars while rebuilding.

phillbriggs wrote:why are you replacinf the inner a posts, you cant replace a panle becasue it has a bit of rust on it, you sandblast it, whatever you do there will alsways be rust in the seams of the car because its to old, all old cars have rust in the seams. you only need to give them a quick sand blast and the rust will never come back, you are doing things you dont need to do and things that there are a simple fix too.

Sandblasting does weaken the plates in many occations, therefore new plates. They are better looking as well. I know that some of the plates I am changing are not that important, but since I am doing so much out of it - I am going all the way...

phillbriggs wrote:hi pedi, you have dismantled your car too much now, you realise that you will never line in all up again properly as you have taken too much of it.

You just wait and see...

Very courageous... I don't question your abilities, but I share Phill's concern. As far as I know it is usually advised to maintain the end-to-end dimensions of the body as much as possible while restoring, just to be sure you keep the right measurements and margins. But if you manage to build it up from here, I'm sure everybody will be impressed big time (question remains: if you strip a car down this far, why not go all the way and start with a new floorpan..? Those are still available.)

Carlo wrote:(question remains: if you strip a car down this far, why not go all the way and start with a new floorpan..? Those are still available.)

Oh yeah??

I have searched all over, and I have not found any.

BMW Original does not (and have never, as I am told) deliver original floorpan.

I have bought all the floor-parts Walloth und Nesch can supply, but the quality and finnish is horrible. It does not cover the whole floor either...

So if you can tell me where to find new floorpan, please let me know - and I will order at once !!!!