New project - 1998 M Roadster

[Sailorbaz]

Some of you may have seen a number of my posts asking questions and looking for some parts. It's all for an M Roadster my family bought in 2001 from CoPart after the insurance had paid out due to a dashboard fire. Around 4000 miles on her, :thumbs:

I have a few photos of when we got the car home back in 2001 but can't put my finger on them at the moment. Here are some photos of more recent times, now we've bitten the bullet and started working on it.

















I got it home to Northern Ireland and started the task of pulling it apart. Needless to say, a hammer and some decent sized crowbars were needed.











And this is how she sits now after cleaning and pulling out all damaged stuff other than the look



Got all the parts I need gathered up now including blue/black dash, dials, centre consoles, carpets everything but forked out for a brand new look from BMW which come in on Monday.

Final photo for now...

[LeinsCSL]

Good luck with the project Baz! :thumbs:

[Barry C]

Nice one Baz! that should be sweet! Barely broken in at 4k miles.

I love these cars, Should be an awesome little bit of top down sideways action:thumbs:

[Loaded_csl]

That would be an amazing track toy. Congrats!

[0-60motorsports]

This is going to be awesome! Love that car.

[Clubber]

Great Project. Is it a S54 Engine ?

[0-60motorsports]

Great Project. Is it a S54 Engine ?

The S54 ones didnt come out till 01 if im not mistaken. This is defo an 3.2 Evo Engine.

[giraffe]

Good luck with the project good to see a fine motor is goin to be brought back to life 😊

[Sailorbaz]

It's a S50 (iirc) engine, the E36 M3 Evo engine. Got the last of my bits today, and Dad arrived so going to shape at installing the look tomorrow. Will take loads of photos and post as we go along.

[Andyk]

What a great project.....Will look forward to reading about progress my friend.:thumbs:

[Sailorbaz]

Dad was over last week with some more parts so we managed to get loads done, mostly successful.

Starting removing the old loom, trying to photograph as much as possible for correct tracing and routing.











The new loom waiting to go in.



Some more of the old loom waiting to come out.







Crash bar removed.


Boot wiring





Dad painting blasted and primed crash bar



Painted crash bar fitted. Sound deadening material used from another car. New one cost £80 and would take 2 weeks to come from Germany.


New roof fitted.


Carpets starting to go in




Front half of carpet is in to, along with Heater box, window wiper motor just not taken any photos yet.

I've got all lights, indicators, heater motor, window wiper motor, washer pumps and clocks going. No ABS lights now that controller has been fitted, got Airbag lights though more than likely lack of seats.

Fuel pump not working though, after draining the tank and finding a very tacky substance at the bottom of the tank and in the fine mesh filter, so now on the hunt for a fuel pump. I can get to the pump once the carpets are in though, so I'm continuing to box everything up. Will get the dash and centre console in today hopefully, and clean up the seats for fitting the PAX seat once dry. Getting close.

It won't crank at all though, get dash lights but no cranking. On reading the codes we get error 66 which after some googling is suggesting 'Anti-theft system', immobilisor? I think the key I have has lost the code, so more computer wizardry is needed soonest. Waiting to get it mostly boxed up though before getting it connected.

Right better go, sun is out over here in NI, just wish the car was done now. :squeeze:

[Yanto_csl]

Nice update Baz, keep em coming.

Big props to you and yer old man :supz:

[Heisenburg]

Nice work Baz :thumbs:

[LeinsCSL]

Good work Baz :thumbs:

[Sailorbaz]

Weathers been very good the last few days so I've got loads done.

Interior getting in






Couple of photos of the underneath while I was changing the fuel filter. Couldn't believe how clean the underneath of the gearbox is.





Old centre console beside cleaned replacement



Centre console getting there.





Quick question though. Switches on the centre console, can someone tell me the 5 switches that go under the dials?

Heated seats x 2, roof switch, AC/Recirc, what's the last one? Wee led?

Next step is new chassis number for dashboard and then window in, bonnet on ready for coding on Monday.

Cheers,
Barry