A random purchase, and never destined for the outside of the car. It's covering a big dent and some rusty bolt holes (Hammerited)

Well a few hours later and with no finger prints left i got to this stage.

Still not happy with the rocker, still a few black spots everywhere, when there sorted it will get the unpolished parts painted black :)

2000 grit and some autosol got the TB shining again

Edited 26 April, 201214 yr by mattpolo5491

Looks good! I should really do my boost return at some point!

it will do for now, need the car as its my daily, so had to bosh everything back on at silly o'clock last night

What did you use on the rocker cover?

Looks like it could come up a bit better than that :)

And for all it takes to pull it off again, may aswell have it shining!

Its no where near done mike, used 180 grit, then gave 2 minutes with 2000 grit and polished it as it was getting late :)

loving this mate, keeping a close eye on it!

thanks nick

Replaced the right hand side boost pipe with a new samco hose, little big diameter wise but it holds boost fine

And a random pic

Next up, fit that dam door trim without going mental, and get the bay cleaned when we get some good weather :)

Edited 27 April, 201214 yr by mattpolo5491

Done a little today:

Gave her a good clean, comes up well with a bit of elbow grease

Since i took the car to have to exhuast done (when the cat shit its self) the mani-downpipe joints been blowing, turns out they had snapped a bolt, and later today a bolt just disapeared, so as you would suspect she sounds like a tractor, new manifolds in the pipeline already (legend aka saf).

Treated her to some new number plates today aswell

No pictures though

Edited 28 April, 201214 yr by mattpolo5491

well today didnt go well

without going into to much detail, I changed the manifold and its still blowing like a biatch.

If anyones had to change a exhuast mani on a g40 before they know how much of a ball ache it is!

Big thanks to saf for; letting me use the unit, the manifold, and giving me a hand , and pidge for the advice

Edited 29 April, 201214 yr by mattpolo5491

Well tryed agian with the mani-downpipe leak today:

purchaces include:

lifting set

Gasketos

getting started

Shes all quite agian, bar the cat having an echo inside it due to there being nothing it there , threw some new charger belts on and gianed a little boost

Happy days....

New number plate mate?

Not gonna lie I'm pretty jealous :(

yeah new plates, makes her look a little cleaner

Tbh i hate 6n's after owning one, but yours is just beast

Extra boost was short lived, belts slackened off and are slipping. "Wanted: Huge beefcake to come tension my charger"

Yes mate. Matt your a hero you don't fuck about! Glad she's quiet again! Adam is a beefcake and I've always used him for charger tensionings!

Haha plates make a HUGE difference to a car!

I need g

Was proper doing my head mate, still got a small blowing noise, but its inside the cat, Need a full stright through pipe to standard back box me thinks. Be nice and quite when i want it to be

Il try and get some belt dressing and give it another tension, if its still the same I will need some pigeon power

Oh yeah, had no breaker bar either

those manifold bolts, hate them with a passion. Threads always fuck up on them tooo.

Loving this man, its progressing so fast, fair play :)

Thanks man, means alot

Stanford hall sunday, time to scrap the BMW to get some spare dollar

Tommorow, depending if the weathers good and i finish work at a resonable time, il be going to town on the bay.

Will probably remove everything bar the block and manifolds to get in every corner :)

BMW, scrap, whaaa?

What BM?

Extreme bro, but fair play! Be clean as a whistle.

I'll have a good nosy at Stanford :)

Wahey maintenance! Nice. As Saf said, get Ad to come round with his huge breaker bar. That bar has tightened my engine mount till it snapped clean off haha. Should sort it out.

I feel like I'm missing out on all the mk3 fun stuck down here at uni. I want to come play! Miss you guys.

what made you think i wouldnt maintian her jay , glad I've got car that i want to look after, but miss giving GTs no end of abuse untill i got bored or broke them

Always look down your road when passing to see if the GT's on the drive, hows the beast going anyway?

toby: its a e34 520i, good runner and all just short T+T and no one wants to buy a 6cly bm anymore

No updates, because I've been bed bound for the past 2 days trying to get over this mental flu I've got, actualy feel dead!

Hopefully it will F"*k off for stanford hall this sunday

You slackers! I'll be grafting on my engine bay

Mk3 love