Shantybeater's S54 - BMWCar Mag+Xenon\Cruise Retrofit

shantybeater said:
HornelZ3M said:
Oh and nice vaccuam cleaner :o) Seriously though the seat bushes are a bit of a fiddle arent they. All looking good now mate. Cant wait to see it at Silverstone. By the way got some projectors, i know you dont like them but the angel eyes look good ;)
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Paul - Looking forward to it too :) maybe you can persuade me otherwise with the headlights!

And Mark, i assume you have the same washing machine?
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Yep, I have the top spec miele and I'm proud of it

:D
 
Ok so 12 days till zedfest and i've decided to try and DIY refurb my BBS LM's. Not leaving an awful lot of time to do it so if worst comes to worst i'll be turning up with wheels in a semi refurbed state! (But lets hope not!). Car is up on Axle stands in the garage, polished, clayed and waxed ready for the show, front wheels are off and much to my girlfriends dislike i've given them a clean in the bath tub!

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I will be taking the wheels to my local tyre place next week and am waiting for all my polishing stuff to arrive in the post!
 
Oh lord my life would not be worth living if I tried that. :))

They have come up well though haven't they. :ymapplause:
 
iv just shown that pick to the other half..........you could see the veins in there forehead :))
 
May i ask, as you only purchased the bbs wheels in December why do they need a refurb ;) :-\
 
shantybeater said:
Ok so 12 days till zedfest and i've decided to try and DIY refurb my BBS LM's. Not leaving an awful lot of time to do it so if worst comes to worst i'll be turning up with wheels in a semi refurbed state! (But lets hope not!). Car is up on Axle stands in the garage, polished, clayed and waxed ready for the show, front wheels are off and much to my girlfriends dislike i've given them a clean in the bath tub!

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I will be taking the wheels to my local tyre place next week and am waiting for all my polishing stuff to arrive in the post!
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magnificent effort sir,, hope you put a rubber duck in there too!
 
:)) I think the misses has become so used to having car parts draped around the house she didnt even raise an eyebrow, as long as i cleaned the bath after

Daz - The rears are polished lips but with a layer of laquer from the BBS factory, the fronts have been recently refurbed and again have laquer which dulls down the finish, i'll be stripping this off for a proper shine :)

Hornel - As above the rears are in original condition so when I bought them they were looking a bit tired, the laquer on the rears is starting to spider underneath and one has very minor kerbing to the lip (not me!). the fronts are much in a better state but they need the clearcoat removing

mark - the rubber duck would have come out black :p
 
Well its been rush rush rush to get the wheels ready and i'm far from finished. Tyres were taken off, the wheels were then split and all the nuts are soaking in coke to remove grime/rust.

The rear lips and bolts have been dropped off to a local metal polishing company, I should be picking them up thursday. Unfortunately unlike the rears (which had the original laquer) the fronts have had a very thick layer of powdercoat sprayed onto the lip. The polishing shop wouldn't accept them in this state and after a bit of research it turns out anything short of a large fire won't remove powdercoat easily, no chemicals etc.. Fortunately for me I work for an aerospace company who have a bead blasting machine (tiny plastic beads shot out via compressed air). The blaster removes normal paint with ease without causing any damage/pitting to the metal underneath. The powdercoat was painstakingly difficult to remove, tonight I finished a 5 hour stint removing it from one lip:

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Ready to begin the sanding/polishing

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I have also bead blasted a center and had it sprayed in one of the professional spray booths with aerospace grade corrosion protection, primer, paint and laquer. The paint is not as shiny as OEM but it will suit the color of the car well

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Tomorrow i'll be blasting the second lip! wish me luck!
 
another 4 hours in the blasting tank and the second lip is ready for polishing, will be dropping both off to the polishers tomorrow

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this is fantastic reading shanty.

look forward to seeing it again,

im interested to see the improvements to your car since santapod last year sir.

:)
 
Cheers Mark,

Looking forward to getting the silver z's together again (unfortunately my brother is still in thailand though so won't be attending)
 
shantybeater said:
Cheers Mark,

Looking forward to getting the silver z's together again (unfortunately my brother is still in thailand though so won't be attending)
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:-bd
 
Another 3 hours and all three centers are sandblasted ready for paint.

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I also decided to clean up the nuts (even though they will be out of sight!), soaked in coke for several days followed by a polishing with autosol

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Ok so the centers are all painted up and ready. I have noticed there is about 3mm difference between the front & rear centers so i'm thinking about switching fronts and backs to push the fronts in slightly and bring the rears out.

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I will also be reverse mounting the rear centers but i'm not sure whether to do the same with the fronts? it would bring the offsets to around ET21 FR :shock: and ET15 RR

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Looking good James, your nuts are nice and polished :D

Id love you to park next to me.

Two great silver monsters together!!

Excellent work as always mate.

Mark
 
badman gee said:
Looking good James, your nuts are nice and polished :D

Id love you to park next to me.

Two great silver monsters together!!

Excellent work as always mate.

Mark
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Cheers mate,

It would be a pleasure! hopefully i'll get there in time! :))
 
shantybeater said:
badman gee said:
Looking good James, your nuts are nice and polished :D

Id love you to park next to me.

Two great silver monsters together!!

Excellent work as always mate.

Mark
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Cheers mate,

It would be a pleasure! hopefully i'll get there in time! :))
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I will keep you a space mate :D
 
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