What did you do to your 2002 today !

[AceAndrew]

22 minutes ago, zinz said:

 

Andrew... that is going to be gorgeous.  Long project finally getting close to the end.  Good luck with the finish out.

Ed

 

Thanks Ed.... there's a sense of impending relief, can't wait to join @charginand @FunElan for long overdue drives.

[Lorin]

3 hours ago, AceAndrew said:

Really thinking the pale gold stacks/cover is the ticket with Taiga.  Thanks to Andrew at IE for throwing this 323i valve cover in with his last batch of powdercoating.

 

Getting close to engine+subframe install (around Halloween time?!).

 

Will try to take some fancy pics, but quickies for now.

The rocker cover looks great, is that one of my old ones ? I know you think about things like this but wanted to make sure that you removed all the sand from inside the breather baffle post powder coating. 

[bmw_e30]

5 hours ago, chargin said:

 

Truly one of the Best CA drives 

 

 

 

agree

 

the hartge e30 in the 2nd pic is @danco_

 

 

[mccusername]

New shoes in preparation for driving up to Brisbane.

[jp5Touring]

Had some right front clunking ended up being the inside brake pad moving up and down.

Tweaked the retaining metal piece that is held in by the pins to apply more pressure on the pads.

Amazing how loud the pads can be.

[Shiparino]

Added a set of non-adjustable camber/caster plates.  Easy enough, until I cross threaded the control arm to anti-sway bar connecting bolt on reassembly... Woo hoo!  More work for me.

[rdeeble]

Finished my upholstery! 

Thanks to Esty and Steve (Conserv) for all the tips and advice this summer.

 

I refurbished the seat frames over the summer grinding down all the rust, repainting and replacing most of the hardware. 

 

For seats and color I wanted to keep it original to a 76 (Steve was a wealth of information on that) but wanted to use an earlier color (60's era saddle brown). I used World Upholstery (worlduph.com) for 76 seat covers and Esty introduced me to vinyl dye (which we used a sample of an early model car to get a dye match). Once dyed I took everything to Darian at Burien Upholstery to install  covers and replace some of the foam  then I redyed a second time now that the seat covers were stretched out a bit.

 

Finishing touches are tracking down some period correct  plastic hardware covers and spraying some 303 over the dyed covers for protection and giving the dye a bit of a satin finish.

 

I am refurbishing a second set of seat frames (shorter sunroof style) to sell. If anyone is interested please let me know.

 

 

 

Edited September 30, 2021 by rdeeble

[esty]

1 hour ago, rdeeble said:

Finished my upholstery! 

Thanks to Esty and Steve (Conserv) for all the tips and advice this summer.

 

I refurbished the seat frames over the summer grinding down all the rust, repainting and replacing most of the hardware. 

 

For seats and color I wanted to keep it original to a 76 (Steve was a wealth of information on that) but wanted to use an earlier color (60's era saddle brown). I used UPH for 76 seat covers and Esty introduced me to vinyl dye (which we used a sample of an early model car to get a dye match). Once dyed I took everything to Darian at Burien Upholstery to install  covers and replace some of the foam  then I redyed a second time now that the seat covers were stretched out a bit.

 

Finishing touches are tracking down some period correct  plastic hardware covers and spraying some 303 over the dyed covers for protection and giving the dye a bit of a satin finish.

 

I am refurbishing a second set of seat frames (shorter sunroof style) to sell. If anyone is interested please let me know.

 

 

 

Robert, those are beautiful...it could be the lighting but that is the nicest saddle color i've ever seen, i love them...you did a great job...

 

very very classy

[John_in_VA]

2 hours ago, rdeeble said:

 I used UPH for 76 seat covers and Esty introduced me to vinyl dye (which we used a sample of an early model car to get a dye match).

 

Do you have contact info for UHP?  Thanks!

[rdeeble]

3 minutes ago, John_in_VA said:

 

Do you have contact info for UHP?  Thanks!

sorry meant to say world upholstery worlduph.com

[rdeeble]

2 hours ago, esty said:

Robert, those are beautiful...it could be the lighting but that is the nicest saddle color i've ever seen, i love them...you did a great job...

 

very very classy

Thanks Esty - I am really pleased with color as well! I though they pop really nicely against the grey.

[ray_]

2 hours ago, esty said:

Robert, those are beautiful...it could be the lighting but that is the nicest saddle color i've ever seen, i love them...you did a great job...

 

very very classy

I think the word is... luscious!

 

Cheers,

[esty]

19 minutes ago, ray_ said:

I think the word is... luscious!

 

Cheers,

that too

 

 

 

 

Robert shows us that black or blue are not the only colors interior for a grey car

[Lorin]

1 hour ago, rdeeble said:

Thanks Esty - I am really pleased with color as well! I though they pop really nicely against the grey.

That does look nice, what color grey is that ?

[rdeeble]

36 minutes ago, Lorin said:

That does look nice, what color grey is that ?

That is anthracite grey and in this case it was the original color of the car. 
As far as upholstery color I believe there were only four stock  colors by 76 but one could still special order some additional colors (Steve would know for sure on this).