Monday, December 25, 2006

Photo shoot and video shoot - MERRY X-Mas!

Gotta love LA weather!

beautiful day for the first drive in 1 year!!!

I taped on the lisc. plate with masking tape and we drove to a nearby spot. Praying the whole time that no cops would spot me!

Great light, beautiful day.....and a brand new $7000 Pansonic HVX200 HD camera!

My stepdad has just finished his Avid (editing software) schooling and bought himself a broadcast quality camera.

Our first video project will be making a DVD of my first vintage race event which should be the British Extravaganza in May. We'll be documenting the event and shooting some awsome footage of my '02 in action.

Let me just say the few mins of footage we got today was AWESOME!!!!!!!!

WOW!!!!! I had so much fun!!!!! I was smoking my azenis tires for the sake of "art."

I did some fun drifting and luckily we didn't get hassled by the cops.

I can't wait to compress the video from today and post it so everybody can see!! Soo COOOL!!!!

The car is so bad ass I had almost forgotten. I have Never gotten so much attention at stoplights like I did today!!!!!!!

here are some pics of the first day of shooting!!! Can't wait to post the video(maybe tomorrow)

Merry Christmas to all!!!!!!!!! I so glad I'm done with painting!

shooting begins....




I dedicate my car to the memory and life of Aryton Senna....RIP

Here is the a frame taken from the video we shot this weekend....

we shot some awesome,amazing stuff at 60FPS.....just looks too cool....can't wait to get some track/racing footage at speed.

Actual video clip to come sometime soon when we have a chance to do some color correcting and proper compression down from the HD1080i we shot it at to a more "web" size file size and quality.......

We are going to make a short documentary/dvd of my first event this year at the british extravaganza.....should have some great action from plenty of 2002's and a 3.0cs that run at that event.

Sunday, December 17, 2006

It's Alive!!!

IT"S ALIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I finally have a sweet looking BMW! All one color! no primer spots anymore!

I just sat back and stared at it for awhile in silence.....

after installing 29.95 door trim from pep boys that worked perfectly and putting in the last rivets on the door panels......


enjoy it in all it's glory!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

now back to the funs stuff..........tunning ...... suspension.....motorwork...etc...

I'm also very happy with my choice in mirrors! what do you all think?





Friday, November 24, 2006

Found a trailer!

I found a great deal on the VARA message boards!

nice open single axle with electric brakes, brand new rims and tires and a emergency a breakaway thingie....all for $700 !!

I'm one happy camper!!!

now I'm ready to hit the track!

armed with my welder trailer modifications are on the way!



Saturday, November 11, 2006

Valve cover and catach tank

Some new pics of the installed valve cover. Looks good huh?
...and no ACS. parts in my car except for the oil cap!


Wednesday, November 1, 2006

Seats in!

I had to do some modifications to the seat mount to mount the passenger seat in....... it's starting to look like a race car!!!!

driver seat is in !
now both seats are done......

Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Accusump valve mount

Made a better accusump valve mount this weekend. Well better than the zip ties that I was using before....

took me 30 mins to fab up........and it shows!

not very pretty but functional..... Handmande....can you tell?

Monday, October 30, 2006

Rivets 'r' us

Made templates out of poster board cut them with the pneumatic shears and riveted them in place......
See all the pictures HERE

Monday, October 23, 2006

Dash install

A little bit every weekend.....

I wired up the dash and all the gauges back

and made myself a dead pedal !



Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Door Panels

I hung the the doors this weekend and installed the fenders and started unmasking everything.

later in the day I used my new tool! Air snips! made a poster board template and cut some door panels....

Fun stuff......anything is better than sanding...

Monday, October 9, 2006

Clear Coat ...

On the seventh day god created urethane clear coat and we applied it !!

soo nice! I am so excited !! I simply cannot believe that this is the same car !


this is THE magic moment of the painting process.... you spray the clear and the paint comes alive!

so white it was blinding me !





3 quarts of etching primer, 1 gallon of high build primer, 2 gallons of Gran Prix white (could of used more!) and 1 gallon of Omni clear coat.

$3000 paint job? nah...... not in my life

(mix 1:1)
Etching primer 1 qt $22.28
activator $14.56

(mix 1:1)
Nason speed highbuild primer 1 gal. $60.56
Acetone 1gal. $15.90

(mix 1:1)
Nason Base coat Grand Prix white 1.5 gal. $133.56
Reducer 1.5 gal $32.80

(mix 4:1)
OmniSV Clear 1 gal. $61.70
Hardner 1 qt. $46

Nason gun cleaner 1 gal. $14.72

Misc. sandpaper, bondo, spreaders, fiberglass&resin(for hood) $100

labor 2 people 7 days maybe 200 hours plus of time spent....$$$$$ I currently unemployed so .....

one happy bmw owner!!


Grand TOTAL $502.08

not bad for what came out to be quite a nice paint job. First time for me and my friend!

now it's time to put everything back together and make that engine scream!!!!!!!
After the Clear cured..... we color sanded and buffed the paint....

Sunday, October 8, 2006

Base Coat...

Sprayed the white NASON base coat today!

link to all the pics .... HERE!




At this point I have to thank my good friend Edward for helping me out with the body work and spraying.........THanks dude!