Monday, February 28, 2011

Headliner done

Well I decided to go ahead and try to put the headliner material on by myself. I practiced with the sunroof cover first. It was pretty easy. Made a few mistakes, such as getting a little glue on the headliner, but it went on without too much trouble. I did find it puzzling that razor blades don't last long cutting the headliner material. So on to the headliner itself. It was relatively easy. The E36 headliner has a big section behind the sunroof that is about half the headliner. It also has less contours so I started with that. Sprayed the glue on the headliner, then folded the material in half so that I could spray the glue on the bottom without getting any on the top of the material. Once sprayed it was a matter of simply laying the material over the glue and applying pressure. After that half was done, I folded it back over and did the front half. It is a little more difficult due to the contours and the big hole where the sunroof cutout is, but it was pretty straightforward. After glueing it's a matter of trimming the material and cutting out the holes.

All in all it turned out pretty well. Looks quite professional.

Thursday, February 24, 2011

M3 Track car

So I got around to taking the headliner out of the car and then tried to get the sunroof out. All of the posts on the internet said how easy it was. Well apparently they are for older cars. Ended up taking the entire sunroof cassette out and fighting with it on the bench. The older cars allow you to push the sunroof cover back, the newer ones do not
You have to put the sunroof up so the back is up. Then you can get to the screws in the front and the 17mm nuts at the back. Won't be easy with the roof in the car but it can be done.

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Groovy string concatenation

Groovy string concatenation weirdness.

String foo = "foo"
+ "blat"

Throws an error, for some reason you have to write it as

String foo = "foo" +
"blat"

So that the + sign does not start a new line.


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Wow, didn't realize how old this blog was. Time flies