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BMW E21 323i Restoration (Hungary)

Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2014 8:57 pm
by 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 :) )
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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

Re: BMW E21 323i Restoration (Hungary)

Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2014 9:41 pm
by ll323i
So let's go: Engine and other stuff were removed
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painful HIFI implementation :wtf
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Re: BMW E21 323i Restoration (Hungary)

Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2014 9:45 pm
by ll323i
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Re: BMW E21 323i Restoration (Hungary)

Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2014 10:13 pm
by ll323i
fighting with the rust
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tricolor E21:
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Re: BMW E21 323i Restoration (Hungary)

Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2014 10:56 pm
by ll323i
Lets jump some months to a more happy session. Paintwork
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Re: BMW E21 323i Restoration (Hungary)

Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2014 10:59 pm
by Grewham
Hello and welcome, love that colour :) are you going to keep her fairly stock? Regards Gra

Re: BMW E21 323i Restoration (Hungary)

Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2014 11:09 pm
by Peter V.
Hey welcome, nive work you have done already. Looks very good!

Re: BMW E21 323i Restoration (Hungary)

Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 9:15 am
by polov8
Great work, that's some pretty in depth resto and the results look amazing!

Re: BMW E21 323i Restoration (Hungary)

Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 4:11 pm
by lemonayd
hi n welcome mate great work so far.............


.....ayds

Re: BMW E21 323i Restoration (Hungary)

Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 9:01 pm
by 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.)
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Re: BMW E21 323i Restoration (Hungary)

Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 9:25 pm
by ll323i
Grewham wrote:Hello and welcome, love that colour :) are you going to keep her fairly stock? Regards Gra

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

Re: BMW E21 323i Restoration (Hungary)

Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 9:35 pm
by ll323i
Suspension: Sachs shocks + H&R 35mm springs + stock sway bars, stock brakes
I remember it was February 2012 pretty cold :)

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Re: BMW E21 323i Restoration (Hungary)

Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 9:45 pm
by Mihajlo
I just LOVE topics like this one!
:thumbsup

Re: BMW E21 323i Restoration (Hungary)

Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 9:52 pm
by ll323i
I have more than 400 pics from the process, so now i would like to make only a short archive story of them.

Re: BMW E21 323i Restoration (Hungary)

Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 10:03 pm
by ll323i
Some insulation:

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