BERYLLIUM BMW 323ci.

[robola 46]

To do my personal translator a favour, I went to the TWA Ground zero meeting here in Belgium.

Especially for that I mounted some pieces of the install in the trunk, so I could put the trunk a little bit open there.

Despite of the bad weather they forecasted, the turn out there was big (about 350 cars)

On the meeting, I place myself next to my car, so I could hear the comments about the install.

What suprised me, and made my laugh a bit, was that many people had followed my project on the internet, and they started to explain to their buddies how I made this, and how I did that…

As for the rest, I also noticed that more elderly people came to my check out my car/install.

Although I had a very nice day, with some nice chats. Lets hope I can show all the ICE next year

Who knows…

Some pic's.

THE VIDEO from TW.

[Spitfire2k6]

Great pix mate,

Some of the cars at that show looked brilliant ;O i love euro style so damn much haha

[robola 46]

Cause I still got some pain in the elbow, I’m trying to spare it a bit by doing some other minor things to the car.

That’s the biggest problem that I have, I can’t keep sitting still. So I changed some other things that were on my list.

I bought me a set of white angel eyes.

I mounted them, and made it so that they are always on, but I build in a switch so I can put them off when necessary.

I did some work on the headlights, cause they had some damage from stone-chippings ….after 11 years that’s pretty normal.

So I abraded them firmly and polished them. They look like new again, and otherwise they cost 185€ a piece here.

You can also see I put another side marker in there.

These are now transparent, and have the same black background as the original headlights.

BMW makes it easy to change the side markers, it takes about 5 minutes. But with these side makers, it was something else.

Tried for hours to make them fit properly. I used the paint stripper, heated it all up, and bent it all till it fit.

Years ago, when I visited AC Shnitzer in Aken, I saw a strut brace. And I knew back then, that when I bought me an E46, I had to have it.

Here you see the result of a package I received the other day.

It’s not an original Schnitzer, but it’s exactly the same model, and was much cheaper.

If I will leave it this way, I’m not sure. It could be I’ll polish it in the near future.

[white4d96]

I love this build.

Keep up the work!

[robola 46]

I love this build.

Keep up the work!

THX MATE

[Loudintha509]

Your work is amazing. I am going to try and build my own cone any advice. :drinks:

[robola 46]

Thanks dudes for the positive comments. In the meanwhile, the car is at the body-shop. Then front bumper had so much Stone-rash, I couldn’t look at it anymore.

So it’s getting resprayed. The same problem with the splitters, I dismounted them, and gave them a new layer of carbon fibre.

These are the aluminium laths who were under the splitters. You can see that they kissed mother earth a couple of times…

They’re going in the bin now, so I can make some new ones, with a slithly different model.

The rear bumper is getting a total respray as well. The little sloth was filled up with a special product, but after a month I saw a little endorsement in the paint….

As for the rest, I’m adding a surprise on the exterior of the car. This was also the reason why I bought the car in silver. You’ll see when the car gets back from the shop, I’ll post some pics.

As for the rest I just wanted to tell you that I’m very proud about having over 1.500.000 visitors on my topic on a US-forum!!!!:

http://www.audiogroupforum.com/csforum/forumdisplay.php?f=57

[Mtnbikecrazy55]

AMAZING meticulious and just flat out drive for perfection and the skills to back it up. Pure respect man.

Dumb question.

why is there a hole in the front bumper only on the driver side?

Thanks, and cant wait for updates!!

congrats on the 150,000,000 visitors, WOW!!!

:-D

[robola 46]

Your work is amazing. I am going to try and build my own cone any advice. :drinks:

I think that if you read and try all the steps that I do, you could make this. Don’t forget, that even I had to try some things 2 or more times to get it done.

It can also help by making a drawing first, take measurements and start.

Let us see some pictures when it’s done.

[robola 46]

AMAZING meticulious and just flat out drive for perfection and the skills to back it up. Pure respect man.

Dumb question.

why is there a hole in the front bumper only on the driver side?

Thanks, and cant wait for updates!!

congrats on the 150,000,000 visitors, WOW!!!

:-D

BMW designed this bumper especially for their M3 CSL model. The CSL is a couple of pounds lighter then the normal M3, and has an airbox. This hole get the air into the airbox.