Zombie apocalypse e28

[Brocamdan828]

My name is Daniel from York Pennsylvania. So here is my 1988 BMW 528e super-eta and it's an automatic! :roll: I got it for a little less than $1,000 with 167,000 miles and some problems. Car has no radio, sunroof doesn't open, no A/C or heat. Car died on me after the first 3 hours driving around, replaced the alternator in a high school parking lot and it runs fine.

Here is the car when I first purchased it in April...


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Had to do some maintenance, spark plugs, filter, new oil etc... After a month or so, I sarted to do a few little things to make it my own. I took the bumper off and ran bumperless for a while and tucked the turn signals behind the grill. Also painted the kidney grill black. The car also had no exhaust past the cat, so I had 2 2.5" straight pipes added on. Pissed off the neighbors before, pissing them off even more now! Love it!


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The front seats were torn to hell and the elctrics didn't work. So I swapped them out for some manual seats I picked up for 70 for the pair.


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Then picked up a set of wheels off of craigslist for $120 and slappped them on.


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Then I painted the front valance black and painted all the chrome trim on the car.


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Also painted the gas cap and side pillers behind the rear windows.


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Had some parts that I picked up laying around, so I painted them black to get put on! Picked up 2 m5 air dams, and is trunk spoiler and 16x8 et23 style 5's all for $150 and a 6 pack of yeungling. Good deal to me!!


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DId some more stuff, got new front rotors and pads on, and started to get bumper trim and bumper back on, also painted the chrome bumpers black.


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I got around to drilling holes into the valance to set up the mounting brackets for the airdam. Then I got the airdam mounted up and tucked the bumper in.


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Then got the is trunk spoiler mounted, drilled some holes in the trunk and used trusty skateboard hardward to keep it nice and tight! Also painted the sunroof black but I didn't get a decent picture of that.


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I got tires dismounted from the free wheels I got, and started to clean them up! They looked like freaking hell, but I think they cleaned up pretty well.


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Then the paint process, heres the finished product. Used Dupli-color wheel paint. Love the way it turned out!


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I'm just waiting to get tires and 15mm spacers to get them mounted up!

Always love the look of the euro french style high beams... So I ordered the lamin-x film for the high beams. Then I also un-tucked the bumper. US. diving boards are cool...



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Decided to get the foglights back on... Since they weren't the foglights for the m5 airdam, but the ones for the under bumper mount... I had to do some creative mounting. I'm cheap and don't want to pay for new foglights...

So I took the foglight apart, went to lowes and go 2 new bolts a half inch longer than the original ones pictures here...


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Put the bolt in the light casing and on the back side I put the washer and I used a skateboard bushing to use a spacer so it would mount flush...


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Had to drill more holes into my valance...


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Put the bolt through and tightened the nut behind the valance... and here's how it looks!


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I tried to get the other on, but after plugging the light in, it doesn't turn on. Saving that for another day!

And here is how the car sits today...


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And my favorite shot of the car to this date...


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Hope you like, would love to hear what you all think. I'll be adding more as I go along! Thanks for checking it out!

[jrcanes55]

There are soooo many e28 builds on this forum. but the car looks good.

[superturbodiesel.com]

looks good on the last picture, but needs those black rims

[B Rod]

How did you like doing the spoiler install? Nothing like drilling a bunch of holes in a perfectly good trunk, hoping they will line up.

[Brocamdan828]

How did you like doing the spoiler install? Nothing like drilling a bunch of holes in a perfectly good trunk, hoping they will line up.

I ***** that I had to do it. I didn't do it for months because I was scared I would swiss cheese it, but I lined it up pretty good. I'm happy with how it turned out.

looks good on the last picture, but needs those black rims

I'm just waiting to get tires! I want them on so bad, very very anxious.

There are soooo many e28 builds on this forum. but the car looks good.

I know, there are tons. Thank you!

[tcturbo91]

i hit you up on mye28 about that other other e28 air dam... waiting till i get home to see what i have around to trade

good progress so far, like said above so many e28s on here these days

[xBDIRTY]

Looking good! I'll be keeping an eye on this one. Super Jealous of the spoiler and valance Are you the one I was talking to on instagram about the extra one you had??

[Brocamdan828]

Looking good! I'll be keeping an eye on this one. Super Jealous of the spoiler and valance Are you the one I was talking to on instagram about the extra one you had??

Thanks! Yup, that's me!

i hit you up on mye28 about that other other e28 air dam... waiting till i get home to see what i have around to trade

good progress so far, like said above so many e28s on here these days

Awesome, thanks a lot! If you happen to have an extra set of 16" tires or rear valance I will gladly hand the airdam over to you. Definatly interested to hear what you have!

[B Rod]

I ***** that I had to do it. I didn't do it for months because I was scared I would swiss cheese it, but I lined it up pretty good. I'm happy with how it turned out.

Lol, I did the exact same thing. Had my spoiler sitting around for at least 3 months before I finally decided to tackle the job.

[tcturbo91]

Thanks! Yup, that's me!



Awesome, thanks a lot! If you happen to have an extra set of 16" tires or rear valance I will gladly hand the airdam over to you. Definatly interested to hear what you have!

rear valence like the metal bumper and plastic it sits it? like the factory us bumper pieces? if so i have it. shoot me a PM when you see this

[Brocamdan828]

rear valence like the metal bumper and plastic it sits it? like the factory us bumper pieces? if so i have it. shoot me a PM when you see this

Not the bumper itself, but where the bumper shocks mount to the car. The metal rear part right above the exhaust.

Lol, I did the exact same thing. Had my spoiler sitting around for at least 3 months before I finally decided to tackle the job.

It took me all of 10 minutes to do also. All that time put off for nothing! haha

[scweet14]

agreed with above^ alot of e28 builds, i already love the color scheme i would do something completely different and not something predictable

nice car and great buy btw!

[Brocamdan828]

agreed with above^ alot of e28 builds, i already love the color scheme i would do something completely different and not something predictable

nice car and great buy btw!

I got some special plans for further down the road. Gotta do some body work to fix rust holes and rebuild the engine a little bit.

[Brocamdan828]

Going back up for sale! $1,500 for just the car or $2,000 for the car and all extra parts that I have except for black style 5's... Pm me if interested!

[Brocamdan828]

Just picked up some tires for the style 5's yesterday! Hopefully getting them on tonight or the weekend!