BERYLLIUM BMW 323ci.

[robola 46]

The left and right covers who lean against the windshield, are ready for base-coat.

Now they well be sprayed, and ready to take a mold

Right;

Left;

[sphinxbccp]

Keep the progress coming!!! I love your car dude!!

[ptcary]

I can't watch this build no more.....it's just to damn nice!

[robola 46]

I'm getting a lot of questions about the cooling of the engine. When I had the idea, I did some good thinking first. I worked out my plans, and asked the advice of some people.

A friend of mine, who worked at a BMW Dealership for over 14 years, told me (without hesitating) I shouldn't be worried about that.

Another friend who audits and revises engines for over 35 years also said it won't causes any problems.

As long as I don't cover up the radiator, and I mount the plastic cap for the airsupply towards the airfilter, there won't be any problem. These are the things that still original, only that I covered the airbox and supply.

About the left and right cover, they will get a better flow now it's all closed. There won't be any turbulence between parts who are underneath. Also these aren't any parts who get warm or so.

What I will do is mount a flexibel pipe onto the whole that's in my front bumper. I'll mount this so, that the air will blow towards the manifold.

If this will help a lot, I'm not sure, but all the bits help...And so there's a use for the whole in the bumper too

I also removed the big rubbers on top of my headlights. These were there to create a nice closing between the lights and the hood once it was closed.

I now took a much smaller rubber so there's room for air to pass there too, something that was not possible before.

Do not underestimate this, at BMW Performance you can buy an extra airfilterhousing witch end up there. So I'm guessing that BMW did some thinking and testing before producing that.

Here's a picture, the extra piece is marking with red.

And if it's does get to hot under the hood, the I'll take my disc, and put a hole in the hood...I'll invent something in carbon fibre to finish it off.

I wasn't serious at the last sentence ... or was I ?

[robola 46]

I made another grill for the BMW, with a lore modern touch.

Here a little spypicture of the things to follow...

What I meant of working on a couple of weeks, turned out in a few months

I'm in a fase now that every idea I get, gets better every day. The bar is raised every day, and with few inches at a time, and it gets cooler and especially more difficult every time...But for me that's a good thing, that's how I know I'm getting towards my limits. I LOVE IT.

In the meanwhile I went driving with the car (with a capital D ), and made some pitstops to see if there are some problems...

There is one place where it gets pretty hot, and that the place where the front manifold is placed.

Underneath the polyester it gets pretty hot.

In the meanwhile I found a solution for that problem, and it'll look cool too

I'll give an update on that shortly.

[TheBetterMethod]

Awesome Awesome Awesome!!!

[robola 46]

After the many mill-work lately, it felt good to get started with the upper-mill again. Did some drawing first, and made me a mold in MDF. This should be the molding.

I taped on a piece of aluminium from 6mm thick, and held it against the copy-mill...with this as result.

The reason why I took 6mm thick alu, is that now, my screws are sunken in.

The screws are from FOCAL, and you can see that clearly.

You can even see their name is carved in

OOOOO yeah !

[TorK102]

Dude, looking at your build instantly makes me feel like a failure. Lol. It looks amazing!

[Mtnbikecrazy55]

moreeeeeeeeeeee!!!

also, why are some of the pics swirled?

[robola 46]

I had to do something about the little lever to open the bonnet. This thing cost me about 4 hours till I liked it.

This was a little stupid thing that disturbed the global sight, damn it

but i'm statisfied I could fix it like this now