Its been a little over a month since the 2009 Grassroots Motorsports Challenge. We have had time to relax and do everything we didn't have time to do in the months leading up to the event. Needless to say we are still motivated, and have big plans for 2010. The first step of our plan includes finding a good parts car where we can source some good metal panels for our new widebody. We recieved really good feedback on our fiberglass fenders, but I was never happy with the undercoating treatment that we had to resort to because of time constraints. I really would have liked to finish them correctly by smoothing them out with fiberglass filler and a light coat of bondo. Rather than strip them down and finish them, and still not be 100% happy with the shape, we are planning on creating a steel widebody similar to the e30 M3 widebody, only much more extreme.
Some friends of ours purchased this non running automatic 325is for $250. They want it for the LSD, wheels, headlights, spoiler and complete interior. Once they are done with it they offered it to us for next to nothing. Its got quite a bit of rust, and the paint is pretty far gone.
At this point the stripping has just begun, We have only pulled the front fenders and trunk lid for our challenge car.
A few days later we were back at it with a cutting wheel and a sawzall. We cut out both Quarterpanels and the inner wheel wells in one piece.
We also cut out the rear section of the roof panel for our sunroof delete mod that we will be performing in the near future.
I also took the headliner and quarterpanel windows for my 318is project which can be seen here, www.rede30.blogspot.com.
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