Very nice. What do you plan on doing to it? Good luck!
Merek
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merek22 wrote:

Very nice. What do you plan on doing to it?

Well it's my daily driver so nothing too drastic at the moment. Right now I'm just planning on refurbishing things as I go. I restored my tail lights, following keith's method on my2002tii.com. Here are some pics.




Pulling off the tail light lens uncovered tired old reflectors.



Drowning the gasket in armour all to make it soft and usable



Removal of tail lights.







Masked off electrical terminals, and painted.



The key ingrediants



Restored tail light goes in



My spaghetti seals were shot, so I ordered new ones from Bav. Auto. $12 each for just a little strip. Yikes!



New seal goes in nicely



All finished, and ready for the tail light to be replaced.


Next step is probrably to finish my center console. I bought some vinyl for it, and hopefully will have it done in a week or so. Also am going to pick up a set of E30 14'' bbs basket weaves for it later this week.

-Andrew Poon
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Very nice, now I'm going to have to do that to my lights. Too bad those seals are so much.
-Merek
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Yeah, I'm sure there is a cheaper alternative with some generic piece of rubber/foam type material. The paint is pretty cheap as well. Definitely worth the upgrade, it's way better. I forgot to take before and after pics, which was kind of stupid of me, but I can assure you, it makes a big difference.

-Andrew Poon
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Just picked up some E30 14'' BBS wheels.

Not 100% sure what size tire I need, but pretty sure it's 195/60/14? Can anyone confirm this?

Anyways, I'm pretty pleased with them, minor curbage on only 2 of the wheels. If I get new rubber, I might have them refurbished.





-Andrew Poon
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195/60 14 is correct.....
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Car looks great as is but those wheels will be a nice upgrade. Keep up the good work!
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Well I havn't really done much to the car lately, but one of the headlights burnt out, so since I was going to be replacing at least one I figured I might as well replace both with some Hella H4's.


I ordered the lights through Bav. Auto.


Taking out the old lights was pretty simple, but some of the screws were a little siezed.


Putting it back together, all the screws got a little grease to prevent them from seizing in the future.


I just did one side at a time, just to make things simple. *Note, when you remove the grills DO NOT put them on the floor, put them on a table,bench something off the ground. I almost stepped on one of mine, and it's very easy to forget about them, when they're on the ground!*


All done! Pretty nice upgrade over the stock lights. I tried to take before and after photo's, but it was really hard to tell the difference from the pictures.(I think because of how bright it was outside). The lights are definitely bright than stock.



I also scored a set of rear 6 series seats, and some thrashed recaro's. The back seats are red, but I'm probably going to dye them black. Still not sure what to do with the recaro's, especially in the condition they're in.







On the list of things to do are:

-Install new high amp alternator
-Finish wrapping center console it vinyl
-Install sound deadening (waiting on carpet)
-Install speakers, amp and deck

-Andrew Poon
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Hmm I'm gonna start a blog soon when I get my welder next month. So there will be two Surrey blogs here :)
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Right on!

The more blogs the better:).
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Well I had some spare time today, so after a quick wash I thought I'd make a new parcel tray.

Since I'm changing my interior to black, I still wanted to keep all my original interior in case I ever wanted to change back. Rather than try and dye my parcel tray I thought I would make a new one.

I used 1/4inch wood, some vinyl from a local fabric store, and a million staples. It was pretty easy, but time consuming.







I used my old tray as a guide to trace out a new one, as well as to follow the method for doing the corners.


My lazy helper


All done but a little dusty.


I also picked up some Euro turn signals (thanks blunt!) And my carpet from only02 arrived. The carpet isn't as bad as some people think it is, but it's definitely no 700 dollar set. I figured if I'm not going to buy an expensive carpet, I'll at least get a really nice set of coco mats. That's what you'll see mostly anyways.

Before the carpet and dynomat goes in, the front windshield + gasket needs to be replaced. I just need to pick a good time to do it to repair a bit of rust along the top where the gasket has cracked. It's my daily driver, so this will be kind of difficult.I have a new windshield as well.






-Andrew Poon
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did you use any glue on your rear tray, or just the staples?

My dog does pretty much the same thing when I work on my projects.
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On the first panel I made for my '72, I used some 3m spray adhesive. On the second panel, I used no adhesive. I'm happier either way, it looks the same, as long as you pull the vinyl tight while stapling.

The only thing I'd be worried about with the adhesive is how it would hold up to heat. My parcel tray sits in the sun for a few hours, because it's parked outside at work and at home and it gets DAMN hot. Not really sure how the adhesive would act.

I'll probably end up making another panel, after I get my rear speakers fitted, but I'm not looking forward to cutting into the metal to do that.

-Andrew
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