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The rear window they have done does look good. May have to reach out to them on it.

There may be a small rivet at the 3 o'clock on the filler tube that must be drilled out. It is near the bottom of the metal filler end. Just feel around for it.

There are 2 different boot floor panels, facelift and pre-facelift, looks like Chris has sent you both types.
As Jeff has pointed out, the rear bulkhead will interfere with the seats.

Good afternoon Ace with the bulkhead in that position what provision are you making for the seat belt mountings? Geoff .

These were my seats,

As you can see they are quite slim but still sat back quite a way.

My plan is to use true to era lap buckling seatbelts with no shoulder strap.

Hey Jeff,

You are right. I may go ahead and pick up the seats I want to use to see how much interference there is and adjust accordingly. Thanks for the reference photo!


BTW gents I was finally able to get the fuel cap base off (albeit its basically destroyed). Waiting for my sealant to dry and I can finish running the filler tube.

Progress report?

I also filled the roof vent. Looks much cleaner.

I was finally able to get the fuel filler steel cap off, albeit I almost completely destroyed it in the process. I have gotten the 90 degree elbow sealed up and have ran my fuel filler line. Friday I will put the back portion of the car on to check for any clearance issues.

I agree, I like the shaved roof vent look.

Hint. Not so obvious, but when you drill the holes for your windshield washer jets, drill them on an appropriate angle.
I re-worked mine to hit the windscreen and not the wiper blades.

Liking your smiley face mod too! Good work!

I would advise strongly against filling the vent in!
We filled two for two separate customers to their requirements and they both complained that the wish they had not.
When the sun comes out the fibreglass roof acts like an oven. The air is funnelled in though the sliding side window and heats up quickly but it has nowhere to exit. It does not even have to be height of summer. Both cars had air-conditioning but still was unbearable.
One we cut back out and the other had a perspex/Lexan rear window so fitted an aluminium vent in the glass.

My intention is to use an aluminum vent in the Lexan rear window.
Good advise!

Same here! The summers are brutal where I live.

I had two of these made for my and my customers car,

They worked well and did let some hot air out.


And this is fitted.

Hey Jeff,

This is great, thank you for sharing. I may also look into putting some kind of heat shield insulation between the roof and the roof liner. Having this vent in the back window should definitely get the air flowing out of the vehicle. Especially where I live in the summer time where is easily gets 40C in August/September.

What do you guys think of this SWB that does not have an external fuel cap? My guess is Ferrari ran it in the trunk like they do with the 250 GT Lusso.

It looks really clean to me and I am considering locating my filler cap to the trunk as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3FOw0rKdVk&index=3&list=FLsKqJl9jCm_fyPcRVPal-1A&t=0s

Be very careful of ventilation if locating the filler in the trunk.

If you want to disguise it (as long as it's high enough) it may be possible to use the rear vent as a dummy which is hinged to reveal the filler cap underneath.

You read my mind. I have purchased an aftermarket vent kit for this exact thing.

Gents,

Am I completely overthinking the door skins? From the pictures I have seen, do you just adhere them to the existing Z3 doors? It looks like the front of the door skin slips over the lip of the door on the side closest to the engine bay. Or am I wrong?

Still gorgeous, the car I mean,

Just wanting to get some ideas from you guys, what have all of you done on the door locking system on the Z3? My car did not come with remote lock/unlock system. So when you insert the key and unlock the door both door locks automatically unlock. Once you cover the key hole with the door panel and install the aftermarket door handle, are you guys disabling this feature? You could easily get in a situation where the car auto locks and you cannot do anything to get into the car since the original key hole is now covered..

I am tryin to look into a way to tie to factory wiring in some way into the new door handles I have but it does not look possible..

When the central locking goes wrong it deadlocks. To open it without access to the outer door lock you have to insert the key in the ignition before you can open the door from the inside.
Casamolino wired a switch in the boot that allows you to drop the window to gain access. Only viable route.

Casomolino has sliding windows as his car is a coupe.

What door handles are you using Ace ?

Great idea Jag but Jeff is right I will not be able to do the same as my car is a coupe.


Jeff,

I have original 250 SWB door handles that I was going to use.