Uwbuurman: 1978 323i polaris: almost done

[uwbuurman]

Fast forward to May 8th 2011
I took out the complete interior exept for the dash. So out with the seats, rooflining, carpet and doorcards. As far as I can see right now:
- Solid wheelhouses at the rear
- Solid floor, except for one spot in the front
- Two cover sills, just welded over the rust
- Lots of bad repairs, some still just zinc sprayed
- Bad paintjob and restoration, I even found some masking tape painted Polaris
- Even the vinyl A style covers have been painted
- Insolation carpet is wet due to the hole in the floor
- Massive loads of glue is used to put the insolation in
- The carpet has decolored
- I will cut off a perfectly good roof!

E21 without windows or interior:



Rear at the right



Radio, wit hall kinds of aftermarket alarm wiring and some wood?!?



Screwed up wiring harnass



Fainted carpet



Left rear panel, insolation made to hot…



Rear left, rust on the corner.





Repaired rustdamage, just in the zincspray, not even repaired correct.



Cutting edge behind the coversill rusts like hell. Thinking of just cutting it all out.



Beautifull roof: anyone?



Front left side. I’m afraid of what underneath the insulation.



Upperside of the jacksupport, all rotten!



Very bad paint job. If you are a car painter and you work like this, then you have no honor in your job…



Loads of parts:





Planning:
Take out Dashboard
Remove rear bumper
Remove boot
Remove lights
Stripdown boot
Remove wiring harnass
Clear engine bay
Take off exhaust and gearbox

And then we’ll see.

[QuiqueUy]

Very nice build , and i like the story! i really get into when i have to read stories well described. About the 2.7 conversion , what do u need exactly to take the engine to 2.7? if u can tell me would be nice because i might plan on doing it! thank you and keep updates coming

[uwbuurman]

Thanks! Lots more to come!

There are more ways to get an 2.7 conversieon, depending on what base you use. Mine is an b25, and I use the crank, rods and pistons from a B27 6K B block, so the 129bhp ETA enigne. Just put those parts in the B25 and you habe a 2.7i. Much more detailed explained here

[Lars-Nord]

I follow this post.

[uwbuurman]

Thanks Lars for your reaction, I don't get a lot ,

I'll try to get this topic all the way updatet in a couple of weeks.

[raymondw]

Hoi Koos,

Ik zie dit draadje net voor het eerst; maar mooi leesvoer voor het weekend.

[uwbuurman]

Hi Raymond, it's a copy of my Dutch threath.

[uwbuurman]

Took off the gearbox with driveshaft still attached



The disc is all worn out and needs to be replaced.



After taking of the driveshaft, the exhaust could be removed. And thet the fueltanks. I’ve just cutoff the lines.

Conclusions for the day:
- Rear wheelarches are repaired and already rotten again
- Nice old dent in the right sill
- supportbeam left is severly damaged and probably needs replacing.
- hardydisc is shot
- supportbearing on driveshaft makes a lot of noise
- fuellines ar done for.
- dents in de the floor.

Work that needs tob e done soon: Take out the dash, powersteering, wiringharnass, wipers. And then the subframes and after that… hopefully she’ll be on the frame, so I can start on “rustoring” the bitch.

Some pic’s:

Fuel tanks



Dented outr sill ):



Two fuellines, one brake line, one dent



Stuff from the boot



BMW getrag M60 gearbox, in this case a doglegbox.



Labeling in progress



And for now the last pic.

[uwbuurman]

June 17th 2011, today I took out the das hand the complete wiringharnass. And other exploring trip back into 33 years of just f*** up an e21.
Dash was easy to remove. This one is full of cracks, but a “new” one is waiting.

Lots of wires



Dash removed, As it turns out, half of the wires dont belong in this wiring harnas. I see some wrong attached spreakerwires, some old alarm wires and a bunch of what ever the are wires. Some justed taped in, some with cable connetors and some soldered in. It’s a freakin’ mess!



And what do you get if you don’t kow electrics and just start fiddling aroud? You almost torch the damn car! Look and see whats underneed the fusebox.



Wiring out, heater out.



Tomorrow, the breaksystem and steeringcolumn will be taken out.



And here are the results from the floorpanel jury. RUSTED AND ROTTEN! Zero points.

[uwbuurman]

June 29th 2011: We started on doing a roof!:shake



All pillars shortend



Made a litthe hatch for the inside



At the B-pillar the side panel covers it all, so here on the outside the little hatch



C-pillar prepped



And the roof is ready. Tomorrow he car.

[uwbuurman]

And my bimmer is a cabriolet!!!!

In search of rust we find lots of filler



Pillars cut to size



This is how we take the measures



And how we transfer them on to the car





And it’s a cabrio











Roof for sale!!



Saturday we’ll continue

Readers who pay real good attention, have seen that more than only the roof will be changed…

[Jeroen]

[pattam2009]

Oh Yes, we know

[Duracel79]

Roof for sale!!



Saturday we’ll continue

Readers who pay real good attention, have seen that more than only the roof will be changed…

I'd be interested in the roof, but you are soooo far away.
Any ideas on european delivery on a roof like that?

Some nice thorough work going on here

Regards

Ben

[nas80]

wow you have a lot of work to do man. got to hand it to you though you are keen.