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Awesome work so far, getting close to that respray. Really good quality repairs, look forward to more progress.

Thanks, Arshad! Due tot a new job and some other time consuming things it will take much long er than I want tot het it painted... Can't wait!

After the sandblasting there were som little things that needed tob e sorted. From under the filler came a welded in plate, very ugly, so it had to go. Besides that some little holes surfaced, duet o rust. So I sorted those problems.

Welded in plate.



Cut out and prepared a donor.



Welded in.



And back in the epoxy



While fitting the other roof, one of the welds did not came out great. It wasn’t nice and even, had some holes and was just ugly to se. Ofcourse fille can do lot, but I like a little filler on my car as possible, so I bought a tinplating kit.



Sanded and sandblasted the epoxy off and tinplated it.



Sande dit and it came out very nice (for doing this for the first time…)





And in the epoxy



Also the corners in the sidewindow, at the B pillar and Cpillar I’ve tinned. Here all E21 will rust in the end, I hope this will prevent that!









In the floor section, left, a lot of rust left a unflat and very thin piece, also with some holes in it. So I tinplated it, making it thicker and stronger and above all, seal the holes







To finish the work on the “sandbasting suprises” I welded up somes little holes.



And some pics from the underside of the car.









And this is how she sits in the garage for now.

Getting ready for paint!

Fantastic work, bith on the car and with the thread! Really appreciate you take the time and share all this - its a great resource!

Thanks!

And I started on sealing all the seams. Did the front, maybe later this week the engine bay. After glueing up all the seams, it's getting closer to paintworks!

Great read! I am very impressed that you stuck it out and made sure it was done right. Mad cudos!

Thanks!

Awesome rebuild! Your Pictures are my instruction guide to restore my 323i. Thanks a lot and i hope we see more pics soon!

Thanks, Bert. Great that my topic will help people to find out about their own e21. More pics will come soon.

After you finish this project you have to change the production year in the registration papers from 1978 to 2015. . More pictures please.

whahaha, it'll be more like 2018 or so...

Welll, lots of dust on this topic… I was very busy lately, so no time form y 323i. Last Thursday, however, I had a day off and I’d spent the whole day working on my e21.

Arnold D’s 323i is sitting in my garage since last December for winterrepairs. Very usefull for compairing the two, so I can build mine the right way. I discovered 2 holes that mine doesn’t have. I quickly found out that thats because I fitted a donorpiece frome 318A without powersteering. That’s what those holes are for, for mounting the filterunit.



So a quick measure and marking and I drilled the holes. Better now than after the paint.



After that I went on with the sealant. Sealed the caps in the bootfloor.









And the big cap.





Inside the car aswell.



And some seams and edges.

Better then new!