Robola 46's BERYLLIUM BMW 323ci.

[andym85]

As said before, i made 3 carbon dustcovers to mount inbetween the brakedisk and the rim. I also finished the 4th. Otherwise it would have ended up in the trashcan.

I've spaypainted the carbokevlarn boomerangs red. The red i've use is rather dark, because i didn't want it to be to bright.

Here i picture of the rings i've let someone make me. as you can see, they fit much better than the previous ones.

Here you can see the combination of the red boomerangs with the carbon, discs. It realy shows that there is not much contrast with the black wheels and the dark carbon. But i must say, in real life they look much better than on this picture.

Here you can see that it's not too flashy on the beemer.

Concerning the dustcovers: i now have the possibility to combine all the different sizes and colors i've already made.

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Started to make the side-panels.

Do not underestimate these things. We've seen many many great installs, but on the sidepanels mostly they get a 5/10

So I got work to do.

My biggest problem still, was the fueltank.

And on the left-side I hd the problem, I didn't have the same depth, cause there must come an extra amp behind it.. This amp will not be showed when its' finished

First, startin' to make a plexi plate. The meaning of this is that he can see where he's coming with the panel.

The wood on top is just for extra support

Then he made a model in MDF. You can see he's holding on to the same shapes as the cf ventholders

This is the frontplate of the side. Here also comes the model of the (rain)drop

This is the mdf frame where the glass is getting into. Fits exactly into the front panel. This will come in CF, so there will be a great contrast with the frontpanel that'll come in silver.

I worked many hours milding, glad I still got all fingers.

Here you can see he didn't exactly copy the (rain)-drops. Doing silly , why not?

Now I has to stretch the stretchfoil en combine the two parts with fiberglas/polyester

little stuff like making another mdf plate against the back seat, and some other stuff

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On this picture, you see i glued the front and back together with some wooden sticks

I got it all out of the car, and placed it on the table.

Here you see I did the same but on the back.

Glued VERY TIGHT on each other, so the stretchsheet will be tight when fastened

This is how it looks.

I was making a wooden fruitscale

Then I took some stretchsheet, and stretched nicely, not so easy as it looks

now work with some polyester, and that's it

Life can be simple, isn't it?

[andym85]

The green golf course isn't seeable any more

Everything filled with filler, and this piece will be covered in CF-Kevlar:-)

I wants to get the same effect as the subkist. The back also will be covered in CF.

The carbonkevlar won't go withour a 'snitch'. That's why I going to try putting on top, cause to see this, you gotta be a real gymnast in a trunk

You see, every piece can get out of each other

If you look as this pic, it doesn't look like much, but in real life, we think it's awesum !

with the frame in front

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the left panel is also finished. The little box where the eqt will stand.

the 2 cf frames with a layer of epoxy. now rubb it good and hard, so we can put another layer,...

Here I turned of the back panel. Now you can see how the amp will come (amp=dummy)

space between plate and amp. on top it's about 1cm

This amp, will get enough coolin with the 2 vents

I got lucky that underneath the amp, there's a vent-shaft thats comes out behind the bumpers.

I also did the preperations to cover the side of the boxes in CFkevlar.

hope I will get this to a good end...cause that won't be easy.

if it fails, they will be sprayed in car colour

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Here you can see, what happens if you try with CF Kevlar and it doens't go wel...

for 150dollars in the bin, a well.

I tried to cover the sides, for 3 times, but it just didn't go.

... **** it

CF will be the same, so, I decided to spray it in silver. Maybe good, to don't have an CF overkill.

Started to fasten the panels.

Here you see 3 blockes with some wholes in it.

On the panel you see 3 pins. They will fit in the wholes so it 'll fit nicely and hold it together

The whole panel will be fastened with 2 screws.

Then I saw, the boxes who come next to it, where a bit slanted cause of the polyester.

So I made big RUB BLOCK to equally rubb it.

Simple to make. A big MDF plate of 5 cm and put some big sheets of rubbingpaper on it. This rubbing paper they use to rubb of wooden flores with a machine.

Put the piece on it, and started rubbin'

You can see what was wrong, look at the black paint in the middle.

This was how the piece looked like when I stopted. The black is gone, so my piece is 100% flat.

here you see it again.

don't need expensive machines, or have to make it complicated to get good result.

The sides of the MDF had to fit the rubber of the trunk nicely.

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I've cut some glas to mount in the sidepanels.

Then i've sanded the carbon frames and prepared them to get painted.

The inner rail is mounted a bit lower than the rest. I'm going to fix everything with TEC7.

The carbon on the frontside is sanded and ready to get clearcoated.

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I've made some changes to the sidepanels.

The straight part looked rathed ugly, so i've changed its shape.

Here you can see that i've made the changes so that everything fits perfectly.

Clearcoated.

After I made the MDF boards, i was afraid that it wouldn't look nice and that they would oversize.

Here is the result, and at least I am satisfied with it.......

[andym85]

When i bought the beemer , i decided to clean it verry intencively.

Remember this.:bawling::bawling:

In the past i did polisch my other cars but not every time with good results.

I decided to buy and use the riwax products after some conversations with some people.

These are the products i have bought.

At first i started to clean the engine,with good results as you can see.

[andym85]

Everything i could take off did go off to clean it . A few weeks ago i decided to take the car for a second cleaning tour an give it an nice polisch because it is 9 years old.