E30 M3 Ute. The Last Puzzle Piece. ep.29 

That’s some beautiful and insanely satisfying metal fabbing! I was sad the episode was so short hahahaha; it just went by so fast! Lifting up rocks for them crabs: I was too comfortable with my last job. Why would I leave? I was a senior position, well-respected, it was fun… But I realized I was stagnating professionally. The position didn’t offer me new skills nor challenged my brain. My buddy for years, have been pestering me to join his massive project that was doing cutting-edge stuff with the US Navy. He and his colleagues are ULTRA smart. There’s no way they’ll hire me. I’m just a regular engineer who doesn’t know anything… He insisted I’ll be ok. I did the interviews just to appease him. After 5 grueling interviews that were like a final exam of multiple engineering classes, they apparently liked me a lot. They offered double my salary. So I left my position of 15 years to make that jump. Now I’m surrounded by insanely driven and smart people as we engineer game-changing technologies. Every day is a new challenge, and everyday I’m forced to pick up more rocks to find more crabs. I learned that no one should ever sell themselves short, and talk themselves into a corner of comfort. Getting outside of that comfort zone, realizing I’m actually an ok engineer and not a shitty one, and forcing myself to be surrounded by people better than I am is making me one step closer to be a better engineer everyday. It’s probably the reason why I was so drawn to your work. People who push themselves like this to create incredible things is amazing to me. You inspire me to continue challenging myself, and your little saying is just too cool of a story not to share. I’m so glad you shared your rocks and crabs story to us, and I hope many people view your channel. Thank you man :).

This is the greatest video project on RU-vid. I am looking forward to seeing it complete, when I will open a cold can of beer and toast your achievement. When you think about it, making an entire panel is really very impressive! Most folks can't even put oil in their engines, so puts everything in perspective....

I lifted the food tub lid and found many a crab (aka bikkie). Shame a latch got put on the cupboard door not long after 😹 You do such a good job making all this come together!!

Sleeping on peanut butter sandwiches must be an Aussy thing, whatever works... Solid work this week.

Really nice job lewis glad to see the panel fit things will start to fall into place now and move along at a decent pace cheers glenn

I now know why I woke up at 3am. In a e30 there’s a vent pipe and tank for the fuel tank in that right rear wheel arch you may need to put back in . With the rear shocks you could put a bolt through the top and weld it in so you can get to the nut from the underside to remove the shock . Rolls Royce have the same issue and you have to remove the rear seats and parcel shelf to get the bolts . Hope this helps

Love watching this series! Great to see another Aussie doing something wild and fun! Lots of great ideas - keep it up man!

3M speedglas with adflo unit would be best bet imo, very expensive but PAPR is well worth the investment to protect your lungs very comfy functional headgear with lots of adjustment, true colour and you can get them with inbuilt grinding faceshield if you're not interested in PAPR Lincoln Viking 3350 is a good call and not unreasonably priced

Your new welding helmet makes you look like masterchief or doomguy

I absolutely love this 😊

G'day from West Australia😉 No luck so far on m3 e30 drivers door. Will keep asking questions😊

I seen few ute builds not bmw though, but they can't get close to yours. Well done mate. Looking amazing

Looking forward to seeing you attach the rear panel. Loving the build. Hi from Prague.

Was it smooth peanut butter or crunchy?!! Nice update. It’s all coming together nicely. Cant wait to see it in its full crowning glory. Cruising along. Best RU-vid build by far. England totally engulfed with it. 🇬🇧❤

Hey Lewis, well done mate, it is coming along better and better each episode. Done a great job on the shape of the inner guard.

lifting rocks finding crabs🦀 Recently, I decided to swap the m57tu2 engine from my e83 X3 into my e82 1 series coupe. It's been quite the journey, involving donoring a 3rd car (e90 )even went ahead and switched gearboxes from auto to manual. Still a bit of work ahead, but I'm getting closer to the finish line. Persistence pays off, right?"

Your work is Amazing 👍🏼

Fab work is looking bang on workshop Lewis 👌🏻 next time try some marmite with the peanutbutter spread👍

Wow that’s an awesome job mate and great progress

I'm about to lift a huge rock as I cut the rust from my Infiniti and weld in some patches, never welded with gas before just my crappy little mig!

No idea what your background or experience is with metal shaping etc but that’s a pretty neat job!

After being a diesel for all my working career, i lifted the rock to become a nurse, at 50, as a bloke ! not a bad rock to lift

Brother wear spats over your Volleys 😊