BMW E21 323i Restoration (Hungary)

[ll323i]

Hi E21 Enthusiasts!


My name is Laszlo. I am from Hungary Budapest. Let me introduce my E21.
After 3 years of restoration, i decided to open a garage here. Trying to catch up the whole process with pictures and stories.
This pictures were taken by the seller in 2010. Looked pretty. (but later turned out that there is no free lunch after 30 years )




So the specs:
BMW E21 323i 1982/05
158k km in it
Engine and chassis numbers were matching

Special features:
-Power steering
-LSD
-Getrag 245/11 Dogleg Sport transmission

and some rust certainly

[ll323i]

So let's go: Engine and other stuff were removed



painful HIFI implementation

[ll323i]

[ll323i]

fighting with the rust




tricolor E21:

[ll323i]

Lets jump some months to a more happy session. Paintwork

[Grewham]

Hello and welcome, love that colour are you going to keep her fairly stock? Regards Gra

[Peter V.]

Hey welcome, nive work you have done already. Looks very good!

[polov8]

Great work, that's some pretty in depth resto and the results look amazing!

[lemonayd]

hi n welcome mate great work so far.............


.....ayds

[ll323i]

Thanks brothers!

Engine. Absolutely stock with the original pistons and cylinder head. We changed all the necessary moving parts. (piston rings, bearings, gaskets etc.)

[ll323i]

Hello and welcome, love that colour are you going to keep her fairly stock? Regards Gra

Hi, you used the good phrase: "fairly stock"

[ll323i]

Suspension: Sachs shocks + H&R 35mm springs + stock sway bars, stock brakes
I remember it was February 2012 pretty cold

[Mihajlo]

I just LOVE topics like this one!

[ll323i]

I have more than 400 pics from the process, so now i would like to make only a short archive story of them.

[ll323i]

Some insulation: