another damn e28

[TeckniX]

I take it you're building a museum of Es, hence the 'E Purists' license plate?

Looking good though and can't wait to see what you to with the TD

[Funtington]

I take it you're building a museum of Es, hence the 'E Purists' license plate?

Looking good though and can't wait to see what you to with the TD

[stirrettup]

score!!

hell yah score! i've seen a few for sale before and they all had cracked heads, no thanks.

super jelly of that diesel, can't wait to see some smoooookeeeee haha

smoke their is


and yes i know squeaky belt but doesnt it sound like a cummins?!

Didn't realize the rears were 11s, coming along nicely man!

thanks man, they're 11's but fit so well! i'm glad i didn't have to do a lot of cutting and flaring to get those to fit.

oh a TD
lucky bastard.

yup

I take it you're building a museum of Es, hence the 'E Purists' license plate?

Looking good though and can't wait to see what you to with the TD

the euro plate actually says "F Purists" and the reason why is pretty apparent

nice call

so after picking this 524td up, i've thought about it for many days and decided this is gonna be the e28 i'm bringing to SOWO. gonna swap all the suspension parts and possibly the wheels to it. let the building commence...

[Bronzit]

so after picking this 524td up, i've thought about it for many days and decided this is gonna be the e28 i'm bringing to SOWO. gonna swap all the suspension parts and possibly the wheels to it. let the building commence...

Yes! This makes me so happy, even though I won't be there.

[stirrettup]

Yes! This makes me so happy, even though I won't be there.

you need to be there. no excuses...

[Niterider03]

That's so awesome man. That TD sounds amazing haha. I would to have one. Hows the fuel mileage on that thing?

[stirrettup]

That's so awesome man. That TD sounds amazing haha. I would to have one. Hows the fuel mileage on that thing?

i haven't checked the mileage yet, mainly due to the odometer not working just like any 80's bmw out there. i can tell you though it's not that great since i turned the injection pump up and all i'm doing is spitting diesel out the exhaust

[stirrettup]

been awhile since i've updated this confusing build. the grey 535is has had the coilovers and white centered gotti's stripped off of it, and is gonna have all the good suspension goodies and brakes taken off to put on my turbodiesel in texas. why i say turbodiesel in texas is because i bought another turbodiesel just before h20i and after i bought Ethel the e28. if nobody knows who Ethel is, this is her:

Ethel Blaubottom by stirrettup, on Flickr

i bought her pretty much the way you see her in this picture and had only replaced the tires on these 14" tan meshies with some smaller ones so i could go lower with her, control arm dragging lower

IMG 6025 from Andrew Stirrett on Vimeo.

she had been airbagged from previous owner Khalil aka "got splits?" and i loved that he did! it gave her more attitude compared to the rest of the e28's i own. between when i bought her in August and h2oi, all i did is maintenance, replace control arms, poly bushings, and a set of gotti's that were collecting dust in texas

577087_10151063289443233_788307105_n by stirrettup, on Flickr

i made a quick trip to michigan and back with her just before h2oi to pick up a buddy of mine and she made the trip flawlessly. before we left my buddies girlfriend had to do a photoshoot with Ethel before we left

Untitled by stirrettup, on Flickr

i had on the trip and no problems what so ever and averaged 27mpg on the freeway. made it to ocean city for h2oi and got arrested on the first night and the creator of ethel, christof aka runningpanda, broke the oil pan after a HUGE burnout!

Untitled by stirrettup, on Flickr

the aftermath of busting the oil pan

Untitled by stirrettup, on Flickr

yup, he managed to rip out the oil pump sump

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the manhole that caused it the morning after

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none of those events stopped me from having a blast every day i was in ocean city. i'd go back in time to relive those moments again and again in a heartbeat. After h2oi was done i had Ethel towed back to my buddies shop in woodsboro and started planning what i was gonna do to bring Ethel back to life

Untitled by stirrettup, on Flickr

it's after i got back i knew exactly what i wanted to do... swap the m21 turbodiesel engine out of the 524td i bought from Boston and had shipped to my buddies shop, into Ethel and make her have even more character. this being the donor car

Untitled by stirrettup, on Flickr

it all started as we were gonna do a completely normal swap with the wiring harness and everything that needed to be swapped over accordingly, to getting rid of the diesel wire harness and ecu (since it's mechanically injected) and rebuilding the engine. we've already pulled the engine

Untitled by stirrettup, on Flickr

stripped it down, painted the block, and installed the raceware engineering head studs and main bearing studs

Untitled by stirrettup, on Flickr

Untitled by stirrettup, on Flickr

Untitled by stirrettup, on Flickr

Untitled by stirrettup, on Flickr

the main bearing studs are the first set that raceware engineering has ever made and eagerly awaiting to put them to the test. since we've been building i've been checking to see if any pictures of Ethel have popped up and i've seen a few. then this past week as the Scraped Crusaders announced part 1 of their footage from h2oi i noticed something familiar at the 1 minute mark... me dragging Ethel's control arms! here's the video

H2O International 2012 | Scraped Crusaders | Part 1 from DeathLens | Matt Berenz on Vimeo.

it was awesome that Matt aka Deathlens caught me dragging Ethel and i've been watching the video ever since i've even had people make gif's of it. this one from nickskater09


and a slow mo one of that one haha


and that's all that is going on for now...

[Chillest]

Great builds... Lol keep it up!

[FunfGang]

[milano_red]

I'm not really a bimmer guy, but this thread just went from awesome to way more awesome!

[Brocamdan828]

WOW, I really need to start getting serious with mine!

[stikrz]

Andrew- Do you still have the 535? What's the story on that bro?

[Wyatt Lay]

Its safe to say I am quite confused, but I like it, a lot.

[Brian.]

Stole your drag gif. <3 you stirrett.. You make me wanna attend SoWo...