E12 tidy up.

e21-Mark · Post by **e21-Mark** » Fri Jan 02, 2015 1:24 am

Looks really lovely. Makes me miss my early m10 powered one. Would have been ripe for a V8 or S54 swap.

uwbuurman · Post by **uwbuurman** » Fri Jan 02, 2015 12:09 pm

Resada rules, its a stunner!

Peter V. · Post by **Peter V.** » Fri Jan 02, 2015 3:22 pm

Very nice results.

nas80 · Post by **nas80** » Fri Jan 02, 2015 4:11 pm

very nice. for 700 quid that's actually a pretty good finish!

Thegs · Post by **Thegs** » Fri Jan 02, 2015 7:26 pm

Great color wheel combination! I thinks I would paint the centers gold or silver, but I really dig them any way! Looking forward to see it complete.

pandemonium001 · Post by **pandemonium001** » Sat Jan 10, 2015 7:58 pm

Tonights update,

Headlights;
piloshed the rings with autosol, blasted buckets and housings, then painted with high zinc primer and a can of black metallic enamel.
new headlights of ebay for £47 delivered all 4 lenses can now be either H1 with the adapters of H4, inners have side light.

sorry for crap pictures my DSLR slid of the boot of the E12 last weekend and stopped working, will prob get a Samsung Nx20 body to upgrade to as the lenses will fit my current ones.

pandemonium001 · Post by **pandemonium001** » Sat Jan 10, 2015 8:06 pm

some more pics in the garage i took last week.

boot is now aligned properly and spaced up a bit.

jimbob · Post by **jimbob** » Sat Jan 10, 2015 8:08 pm

Nice work on the lights they look mint

uwbuurman · Post by **uwbuurman** » Sat Jan 10, 2015 8:22 pm

Great pics of top work!

Jeroen · Post by **Jeroen** » Sun Jan 11, 2015 1:47 pm

Droollllll

Mihajlo · Post by **Mihajlo** » Sun Jan 11, 2015 8:27 pm

I just want to see that car burning rubber!
with both rear wheels

pandemonium001 · Post by **pandemonium001** » Sun Jan 11, 2015 11:29 pm

Thanks for the nice comments.

Mihajlo wrote:I just want to see that car burning rubber!
with both rear wheels

already thought of that:
cleaned, blasted, painted, drained, flushed and filled with new slipper oil, cant remember what oil it was i used, was what opie oils recommended.
have another set of camber plates but might not bother with them.
will be installed when i convert to the dogleg and overhaul the rear beam and bush's

sizing up the rear calipers before overhaul.

will be easy to fit, upgrade rear to 300mm, one of the old calipers needs a rebuild anyway, so might as well upgrade at the same time,

Alloy Brembo's to match the front.

Mihajlo · Post by **Mihajlo** » Mon Jan 12, 2015 3:45 pm

oh yes yes YES!!!
My next favourite E after E21 is geting even better!

BertjeConti · Post by **BertjeConti** » Wed Jan 14, 2015 11:19 pm

Discovered this topic just today, while i'm a regular visitor of this forum, bad bad for a E12 lover

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NICE JOB you're doing

That 3.5 M30 engine you've got, is it a homemade upgrade? the second batch injectors and that strange looking exhaust manifolt don't look BMW at all.

pandemonium001 · Post by **pandemonium001** » Thu Jan 15, 2015 1:14 pm

BertjeConti wrote:
That 3.5 M30 engine you've got, is it a homemade upgrade? the second batch injectors and that strange looking exhaust manifolt don't look BMW at all.

The engine is as i bought it, but yes home made and installed to a E34 535i sport by a garage in Glasgow.The e34 535i that it came from got tail happy and crashed. The car was broken up and thats when i picked it up.

probably wont flow that well but will wait and see how it performs first before spending more on manifolds.
I finally figured out a use for the second injector mountings, megasquirt staged injection for nitrous.....eventually.

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