Robola 46's BERYLLIUM BMW 323ci.

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As you may know, I was working on the front bumper.

Meanwhile the bumper has been painted and I’m really satisfied with the paintjob. I also took the opportunity to paint the sub-box.

So I had something to do while the paint on the bumper was drying.

First of all, I made all the copper shine, and put a layer of varnish over it.

Soldered the cables and put some shrinking tubes over them.

The alu plate where the copper gets through got chromed. So keeping it clean, won’t be an issue any more

This is the result of lots of thinking.

Here the carbonkevlar and the plexy cupola is on.

Almost like fishes in a goblet

I’m really satisfied with this in particular. Trying to get the copper right where it had to be, was a really big challenge.

Still a lot better then some ordinary cables, don’t you think?

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I fastened he plexi copula in the meanwhile. In the plate where the screws rest, I milled a groove of 1 centimeter and filled it up with polyester.

After that I wormed some screw-thread in, to turn the screws in.

I had some pictures of that, but can’t seem to find them anymore. You can also see I pasted a selfsticking strip on there, so the copula stretched itself up, and makes it airtight.

On the bottomside, I mounted a led-strip.

It’s a strip where the leds are poured into some kind of silicone. I bought this specially because I didn’t want it to snap from the pressure of the speakers

These are some pictures I took in daylight

Here you can see the blue light, shining through the speakers, find it kinda cool

Pictures in the dark.

Look what a reflection I get with all that varnish

These are some pictures where I put on some more light from above.

It will look like this when everything is mounted in the trunk.

This is about it for the sub-box, yep, eventually, there has come and end to it

For myself, I’m really satisfied with the result, it even looks better then I imagined.

All the hours of work it absorbed …well, I already forgot.

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The carbon piece that comes in the middle of the bumper is ready

The grille that’s in now, is one with big holes, and I sprayed it dark grey.

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The f**ing front bumper is ready and mounted.

I took some good pics immediately.

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How it looks from up above.

The license plate-holder

The alu-frame of 5mm that comes under de carbon splitters. These go up till the end of the bumper.

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I’m pretty proud about the middle piece in general, for once, I think I may say that

Connection with the fender. It’s a “little bit” better then the first time I mounted that piece of sh*t

The chapter “front bumper” is finished!

Normally, when I finished something, questions like “is the finish good, is the model any good, … shouldn’t I make something else of this, ….”, pop up to my mind.

Nope, this time I’m satisfied with everything. And yet, I have a front bumper that no one else has.

The one thing I’m planning of doing is to take the window moldings (now in chrome), and let it painted black (like the song J), the kidneys in front are also going in black.

I think It’ll look more aggressive then.

First I’m going to enjoy looking at the front as it sits right now and give the car a nice clean-up. Then… it’s back to the ICE.

Some more work to do there…and I’m feeling good baby

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To let the carbon pieces harden better, I made myself a little oven.

Should have done this 10 years ago.

I made this thing 80x50x50 centimeter

Here you see the heating element.

This is the feeler of the thermostat .

Thiss the thermostat itself.

I can go to 90 degrees, but I’m not going to use that much.

If I’m ever cold in the winter, I’m getting in here

I’m still experimenting with the oven. Trying out some temperatures, trying different sorts of epoxy’s, …

These are the first carbon cakes I baked.

The bottom box is a Ferrero Rocher box I covered in CF.

So my mom has a special box for here candy.

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The kidneys and the windowsmoldings are painted deep gloss black and mounted back on.

It won’t be everybody’s taste, but it works for me.

I don’t find the front that busy anymore

The windowmoldings on the side please me also more that I tought.

Some buddy’s asked me if I had darkened my windows…lol

They just show more dark then before, cause of the dark moldings.

The car will stay like this , this season, it lookes fine for me.

Next winter I’m getting another rear bumper, with quad exhausts (like the M)

But now, I’m focusing on the ICE again.

Got some idea’s in my head, that’ll involve lots of work.

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i'm working on the brakes. These will stay original, but they will look a lot better once i'll be ready.

The caliper claws will get a silver paint finish.

I also want to make the protection plates behind the discs a little larger (2cm smaller than the inside of the rims)

The idea is to make these plates in carbon kevlar.

The major part of the work on these modifications will be the supports that have to attach the carbon kevlar plates.

One spypic...........:excited::excited:

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The most difficult part of the work on the protection plates is done. Because the ones that were originally mounted weren't stong enough, i needed to make the supports myself. These are the ones for the front .

Was a lot of work to give them a perfect finish. You should come and have a look under my car to see what a hard job it was :-)

Here you can see the shape of the protection plates i made.

This is not the final product, just the mould I made to have the job done.

Where the ring stops is where the original brake calipers should fit.

Next I will made some kind of boomerang, that will be the coolest part of this modification.

This one comes 3cm more to the outside (compared to the protection plate)

Now I'm going to make the protection plate in carbon Kevlar,

and then 2 sets of boomerangs, one set in carbon and one set in bright red.

Then i can compare the results when they are mounted and decide which set I'll keep.

I'll also have the lettering "BERYLLIUM" in white paint on the boomerangs.