Crazy mod ideas?

[Macv]

For no certain reason, I had an idea for the front of the e34. In NO WAY am I going to attempt to do this as I do not believe it looks very good at all.

Jon K's new sig (below) ...



... gave me the idea. What if the e34's had something to completely delete the legendary kidneys? So using my poor photoshop skills, I did it to a picture of one (happens to be another pic of Jon K's).



Can anyone else imagine this? To me, the idea looked good whilst only looking at Jon K's sig pic. When the photoshop came out, I thought differently of the idea.

Anyone else had this idea? Or any other ideas at that? I'm curious...

[Alexlind123]

[angrypancake]

thats mine!

[JerseySi]

I think the biggest problem would be the front of the bonnet, where it raises over the grille..
Just done a quick photoshop of my car, not sure i like without the kidneys

Original pic:

Without kidneys:

[E34 530]

http://bimmerforums.com/forum/showth...ight=photoshop

[SharkmanBMW]

The kidneys ARE BMW, why remove them?

[Macv]

Its kinda like when people black out the kidneys on a black bimmer.

I don't know, it was just an idea.

JerseySi, I really like your door handles, how did you paint those?

[JerseySi]

JerseySi, I really like your door handles, how did you paint those?

All I did was to flat them down with some 400-grit sandpaper (wet), mask them off from the doors and get keen with rattle-cans
Currently they're still only in white primer there's a few patches on the car that have needed "touching up", and the white primer i bought was almost an exact match!
Will be getting a complete respray soon as I have the ££, as there's a few places the original paint has got so thin you can see the primer underneath

And Sharkman - I agree - BMW wouldnt be BMW without the kidney grilles!

[CharlesAFerg]

All I did was to flat them down with some 400-grit sandpaper (wet), mask them off from the doors and get keen with rattle-cans
Currently they're still only in white primer there's a few patches on the car that have needed "touching up", and the white primer i bought was almost an exact match!
Will be getting a complete respray soon as I have the ££, as there's a few places the original paint has got so thin you can see the primer underneath

And Sharkman - I agree - BMW wouldnt be BMW without the kidney grilles!

As soon as I can figure out how to get the damn whole front panel off that goes over the grill and under the lights, I'm going to sand it and paint the whole thing flat black. I figured I would also keep the kidney grills chrome. (My car is silver btw) The reason I want to repaint it is because the PO used the wrong color touch up paint on like 100 chips in the front... I can always paint it silver again if I want, but I figured I might as well just do this first to try it out :-P

While I'm doing that, I figured I would work on my headlights too, maybe tint some of them(low beams right? Which ones should I tint? I've seen it done on 3 series cars... Also, should I make my corners black? Or just get clears? I'm thinking about blacking out my rear lights, because I have an ///M5 license plate frame, i figred I would try it out.
-Charles

[JerseySi]

As soon as I can figure out how to get the damn whole front panel off that goes over the grill and under the lights, I'm going to sand it and paint the whole thing flat black. I figured I would also keep the kidney grills chrome. (My car is silver btw) The reason I want to repaint it is because the PO used the wrong color touch up paint on like 100 chips in the front... I can always paint it silver again if I want, but I figured I might as well just do this first to try it out :-P

While I'm doing that, I figured I would work on my headlights too, maybe tint some of them(low beams right? Which ones should I tint? I've seen it done on 3 series cars... Also, should I make my corners black? Or just get clears? I'm thinking about blacking out my rear lights, because I have an ///M5 license plate frame, i figred I would try it out.
-Charles

Not sure about doing the panel all black - you meaning to do under the headlights too yea? I reckon it might just look like you'd removed/lost the whole panel from a distance..
I did my front indicators black (if for no other reason - it was cheaper than buying clears!), couple of quick coats of gloss black car paint, and a quick rub over with some Autoglym rubbing compound a few days later once the paint had gone off...


Have seen tinted headlights for E30's before, nearly got some for my old 325iS, but figured they'd only cut the amount of light, and i like seeing where i'm going! It might look odd if you only did one pair of lights, i.m.o.

Definately would smoke the rears though, did my rear indicators red and it looks tons better than the faded orange - would've done them all black if I had a ///M panel though

Oh btw - ignore the scuffed up bumper rubbing strips in that pic - was like that when i bought it! (when i have the ££ I want to swap them for US style ones - with the side marker lights!)