8 months later... now it actually begins

I said I would try to keep things in order... well I sort of did! Flash forward to February 2012 and things are finally starting to happen :-)

Part of the large gap was saving spare cash to purchase the kit, some of it was wanting to keep an eye on the BMW to see if any major mechanical glitches would reveal themselves. Well, aside from having it SORNED and in the workshop, only starting it once a month and driving it around the farmyard tracks, I couldn't really find anything wrong with it! But the saving was taking forever, especially with an upcoming wedding (I'm actually quite fortunate that the soon-to-be Mrs omara04 is incredibly understanding and allow me to embark on a crazy project with less than a year to go until a huge financial commitment!!)

So I  spoke to Peter at GKD, and I decided that a good way to get the project moving was to purchase the chassis as a start, and then buy the rest of the modules in pieces along the way. That way the saving can be done in parallel with the build. Good idea I reckon!

So with that in mind I've set about stripping the E36 to get at the vital components I'll need, and trying to flog some of the bits I don't need on eBay. Fortunately there's quite a lot of blingy bits on this particular model that I think the rest of the E36 community might want. (incidentally email me on omara04@yahoo.com if there's something you need!)

So we're going from a whole car to one of many pieces:

Start:

Less some fairly major extremeties:

All the pieces after they'd been removed!

 
 Next step is to get these sold and carry on stripping!