Re: E12 tidy up.
Posted: 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.
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Re: E12 tidy up.
Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2015 12:09 pm
Resada rules, its a stunner!
Re: E12 tidy up.
Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2015 3:22 pm
Very nice results. 
Re: E12 tidy up.
Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2015 4:11 pm
very nice. for 700 quid that's actually a pretty good finish!
Re: E12 tidy up.
Posted: 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.
Re: E12 tidy up.
Posted: 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.
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.
Re: E12 tidy up.
Posted: 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.
boot is now aligned properly and spaced up a bit.
Re: E12 tidy up.
Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2015 8:08 pm
Nice work on the lights they look mint
Re: E12 tidy up.
Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2015 8:22 pm
Great pics of top work!
Re: E12 tidy up.
Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2015 1:47 pm
Droollllll
Re: E12 tidy up.
Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2015 8:27 pm
I just want to see that car burning rubber!
with both rear wheels
with both rear wheels
Re: E12 tidy up.
Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2015 11:29 pm
Thanks for the nice comments.
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.
already thought of that:Mihajlo wrote:I just want to see that car burning rubber!
with both rear wheels
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.
Re: E12 tidy up.
Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2015 3:45 pm
oh yes yes YES!!!
My next favourite E after E21 is geting even better!
Re: E12 tidy up.
Posted: 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.
.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.
Re: E12 tidy up.
Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2015 1:14 pm
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.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.
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.