Update: The car came back from service today with all the guts put back in the engine bay. The sheetmetal was hung and it was painted....







Im bored and thought some of you may think this is cool.


I snapped a pic from my phone at work so its not the best. Its an aluminum body 7 series that is getting 2 rails/aprons etc.. EVERYTHING from the front end to the front seats is stripped. The rails are acutally glued and riveted in.

Heres the front. Notice on the left the rail is in. On the right theres nothing.



Heres the interior. The only stuff remaining is the main harness which is as thick as my arm. And the vents.




Modified by mike9571 at 7:33 PM 3/22/2007

 

thats crazy

 

What happened? Accident?

 

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x2

 

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Yea its a accident.

 

The reason everything has to be taken out is because its riveted from the inside. From the the bottom of the firewall to the top.

 

looks like a major pain in the ***

 

man, that looks like an expensive job

 

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little more than a oil change.

 

I want to see some more pics!

 

WOW, that thick *** wire

 

damn...thats gonna be a one hell of a job


gl

 

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thats what ur mom said last nite

 

whats the bill like?

 

Do you have to use a special machine to do frame work on that car?? Like how porsches you need a "JIG" to do correct frame work on it?? I thought that machine was a little different from the standard frame machine i have seen.

 

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damn thats incredible

all that work.. still not totalled? wow whats the bill look like?

 

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all that work.. still not totalled? wow whats the bill look like?</TD></TR></TABLE>

Well you figure depending on the model a 7 series will go anywhere from 70 to 130K. Most ins companies would rather pay a 20k repair bill insted of shelling out a 100k to the owner.

 

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Its acutally a portable frame rack. But it does use totally different clamps than the ordinary pinch weld.

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Well you figure depending on the model a 7 series will go anywhere from 70 to 130K. Most ins companies would rather pay a 20k repair bill insted of shelling out a 100k to the owner.</TD></TR></TABLE>

exactly. the bill is 34,xxx pretty ****** crazy, but the car is 100K so of course it will get fixed.

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Its really not a huge pain to be honest. The only tough part is puttin in rivets where you have verry little acces

 

where do you work at?

 

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faulkner

 

i no taking the dash out was like a super b*tch all that stuff all those wires buttons and clips.. and i thought taking the dash out of a ek was hell

 

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faulkner </TD></TR></TABLE>

thats cool. I was just wondering because i have to start putting in applications for summer work soon. I'm in school for collision repair right now. We dont see anything as sweet as 7-series bmws in our shop at school though

 

where you going to school?

 

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Is that a Car-O-Liner?..we have one of those collecting dust at my shop and i always wondered how good they were....One of the body guys (i'm a painter) said they some how rigged up a Chief measuring system on it and it did allright for smaller pulls