Friday, April 10, 2009

Got me some new seats

Life long friend of mine shipped these all the way up from Florida for my birthday. They are a nice set of original recaros out of a BMW 325is that he had bought for the Grassroots Motorsports 2007 and 2008 Challenge. They fit perfectly and are pretty comfortable and supportive. I've removed the originial seat mounts and will be making new mounts for these.








New glove box

Made myself a new glove box. The original one and OEM replacements are made of a heavy pressboard. I made a template from the old box and bent up some 18ga sheet metal. Turned out pretty well.












Shaved the drip rails

I shaved the drip rails off. Don't plan many drives int the rain anyways.

























More patching and body work
















Monday, December 22, 2008

Rust repair/shaving
















Dash... again

Found a great remedy for my cracked dash using SEM bumper filler, trim black, and some expanding insulating foam. It worked really well, and if it had been executed properly it would have held up. This method called for cutting out and leveling the cracked areas, filling with expanding foam, covering with the SEM bumper epoxy, sanding, wiping with a plastic cleaner, and finally painting with a trim black. My mistake occurred in the sanding part. i sanded the bumper filler all the way to the edge of the cut out cracked area where I should have left plenty of overlap and blended the filler. looked great initially but after a couple hours in the sun it began to separate.... so i pulled averything out and will redo it correctly. Otherwise this is a great fix!!