LilRedBM
Wrench Pro
Well,now i can post pics i can tell you of the ongoing saga that is my bmw, i bought her back in 2001 after having my escort van rammed one sunday morning at 2o'clock by a drunk driver in a mondeo, he hit it so hard he ripped his front wheel clean off ! i picked her up from a middle aged couple in dundee for £1600 with a years ticket and no tax, she had a few small issues but nothing major so i was well pleased, especially since she had a relatively rare black leather interior, this is how she looked back then
i couldnt afford to run 2 vehicles at the time and was having my 2 kids over from Germany to stay with me so i thought the estate was the best option.
After abusing her as a tool carrier to and from building sites for a couple of years i bought another van and decided to do her up and wanted to put a wide arch bodykit on and to cut a long story short i couldn't find one that i liked, i'd already had a small amount of success with a stereo install that i had built so i thought f@*!K it i'll have a stab at building my own and this is what happened:-
Firstly i put the spacers and wheels onto the car,20mm spacers with 8x16 wheels on the front and 65mmspacers with 9x16 wheels on the rear.
Then cut, welded,seamsealed and waxoyled the arches, got my hands on some polystyrene( i later used kingspan) and did this
Then using an assortment of rasps,files,surforms and various blocks of wood,metal etc and some sandpaper i started shaping, with the help of a couple of beers a box full of tuning mags and various comments from mates querying my sanity she started taking on in my eyes a pleasing shape
I ended up having to cover the whole kit i was building in tinfoil and pva woodglue as polystyrene melts if you touch it with resin whereas kingspan or celotex doesnt, anyway i fibreglassed the whole lot and to keep the kit rigid i made it in one piece(apart from the front bumper and the two bits of the rear arch that open with the back doors) then ripped the whole lot back off,removed the foam from the inside,tidied the edge up round the kit and tigersealed and riveted it back onto the car,
i couldnt afford to run 2 vehicles at the time and was having my 2 kids over from Germany to stay with me so i thought the estate was the best option.
After abusing her as a tool carrier to and from building sites for a couple of years i bought another van and decided to do her up and wanted to put a wide arch bodykit on and to cut a long story short i couldn't find one that i liked, i'd already had a small amount of success with a stereo install that i had built so i thought f@*!K it i'll have a stab at building my own and this is what happened:-
Firstly i put the spacers and wheels onto the car,20mm spacers with 8x16 wheels on the front and 65mmspacers with 9x16 wheels on the rear.
Then cut, welded,seamsealed and waxoyled the arches, got my hands on some polystyrene( i later used kingspan) and did this
Then using an assortment of rasps,files,surforms and various blocks of wood,metal etc and some sandpaper i started shaping, with the help of a couple of beers a box full of tuning mags and various comments from mates querying my sanity she started taking on in my eyes a pleasing shape
I ended up having to cover the whole kit i was building in tinfoil and pva woodglue as polystyrene melts if you touch it with resin whereas kingspan or celotex doesnt, anyway i fibreglassed the whole lot and to keep the kit rigid i made it in one piece(apart from the front bumper and the two bits of the rear arch that open with the back doors) then ripped the whole lot back off,removed the foam from the inside,tidied the edge up round the kit and tigersealed and riveted it back onto the car,
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