Another BMW E28 - This Time From Australia

[epearce]

Thanks again

Lovely e28.

So sad to see all those smashed up.

You should send me one of the rubber pieces from the bumpers!

If you don't mind paying postage i can.

[willis]

Lovely e28.

So sad to see all those smashed up.

You should send me one of the rubber pieces from the bumpers!

[RatJack]

Sub'd mate, loving all the Aussie E28's

[epearce]

Spent the last couple of weeks trying to get it running better and cold starting properly. Swapped heaps of parts from the spare e28's and i think i have finally fixed it.

Also decided i should i check valve adjustments and correct them if they were out. And also clean up the rocker cover. They were all out a little but nothing major.




Degreased and pressure cleaned the rocker cover both inside and out. Got it back to near new condition.








I also welded up a platform so i can run bigger batterys in the stock location whilst being secure. Only reason for using bigger batterys is because i get them for nothing,


Hopefully in the next couple of weeks i'll have time to fix up the misaligned panels and lower it.

[lolwtfomgbbq]

Haha you americans love the euro style fronts! Come to australia and its the norm.

If I had the money I'd love to pick up a bunch of euro parts from the source, but ebay will have to do. Excited to see where the car goes man, it seems like a good start.

[epearce]

Start with the front door, get it sitting level and flush with the rear door, then the back of the fender flush with the front door and lastly the top of the fender to the bonnet. Shouldnt be too difficult as I doubt your A post or hinges are bent from the old damage

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The door is what i am having problems with. For some reason I cant get the front of it any higher. The fender is in the correct spot, as they can really only go in one spot. Then yes the bonnet needs pushing back closer to the firewall.

I'll have to give it a go this weekend.

I'm so jealous of the euro style fronts on every single one of those cars. They're like gold in the states.

Haha you americans love the euro style fronts! Come to australia and its the norm.

[lolwtfomgbbq]

I'm so jealous of the euro style fronts on every single one of those cars. They're like gold in the states.

[jinksy]

Start with the front door, get it sitting level and flush with the rear door, then the back of the fender flush with the front door and lastly the top of the fender to the bonnet. Shouldnt be too difficult as I doubt your A post or hinges are bent from the old damage

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[epearce]

great work so far man. keep it up
but please line up your door bonnet and guard up properly... it really annoys me

You and me both. Unfortunately i'm having trouble getting it to line up properly.

[jinksy]

great work so far man. keep it up
but please line up your door bonnet and guard up properly... it really annoys me

[epearce]

I didn't plan to spend money on aesthetics until i had everything working properly. But last week i managed to win a 1989 MOMO Indy steering wheel off an E9 CSL at a price too low to let go. It feels good to get rid of the standard "bus like" wheel.





And a photo of my three E28 parts cars:

[epearce]

nice dude. cleaned it up nicely so far

Looking good. Such a huge influx of e28's of late. Want to get my build started and thrown up on here.

so far so good! LIKE IT!

Awesome! Lookin nice and clean, can't wait to see the progress.

I love watching builds like this, makes me wanna do one of my own.. if only I had money..

Thanks a lot for the warm welcome guys!

Great to see others liking what i'm doing

putting in work. nice to see you are fixing all the small issues before actually modding. too many people start modding before addressing reliability and maintanance

Cheers mate. There has been so many issues its not funny. But luckily all they needed was time and patience to fix them and i didn't need to buy much. Also being an apprentice BMW technician came it handy. Its not easy fixing small annoying issues for months straight, but it will be worth it in the end.

Hi welcome here.

Willing to sell any of those parts? I need front and rear bumper?

Thanks

I'm willing to send anything if you don't mind paying postage.


My first BMW, a 1983 manual E28 528i. My first plan was to clean up the green one and swap straight parts from the other two onto it. It hadn't been cleaned in years, moss was growing all over the panels.

How it started:










The fun part began, pulling the front end apart:




I swapped basically the whole front end using the neatest parts out of all three cars. Also swapped the damaged drivers door with the white e28.

I then replaced engine oil and filter, coolant, bled brakes, bled clutch, replaced gearbox and diff oils, replaced air filter and replaced the fuel filter. The thermostat, a few vacuum hoses and coolant hoses were also replaced.

Fast forward a few months; i cleaned it up, polished it. Swapped the steelies for alloys off the brown e28, fitted the boot spoiler off the white e28 and got it registered. I was also stoked when i recieved the number plates, couldn't get any better.






Next i cleaned out the interior, steam cleaned all the seats and carpets and basically scrubbed everything that i could. For a thirty year old car i was pleased with the results:
3InteriorFrontside_zps11af83aa by Eden Pearce, on Flickr

3InteriorRear_zps67168186 by Eden Pearce, on Flickr

3InteriorFront_zps6c1c5ea9 by Eden Pearce, on Flickr

From hear i worked on the car nearly every weekend and spare moment i had. Some days motivation dropped off, but reading articles on SW soon fixed that.

I removed all air conditioner components from the firewall forwards, removed the charcoal canister, removed the tow bar. Everything not need or emissions related was removed. Fitted a new headunit and re-wired the speakers. In 4 months i put less than a 500 kms on the car, as things were constantly getting done.

The original plans for a cheap thasher had gone out the window, stanceworks had changed my opinions on these cars completely. I now wanted it as neat and as low as possible.

13 April 2013: I decide to buy another E28 so i can get mine all one colour. This ones a green 528i auto for $600, with a blown headgasket which seems to be the norm.

The process begins again of removing the whole front end:












The boot and rear bumper were also swapped for parts in better condition:
Before:






After:


Fixing instrument cluster:


Second hand genuine leather shift boot:


Then the annoying part came; swapping doors. I first had to swap window regulators as the donor car had electric windows and mine only has manual. Work still has to be down to line some panels up better, but for the time being it will do.









And to think all this work and i still have a standard looking car....

My backyard a few weeks ago, before purchasing the 4th e28:




Please stay tuned for more updates.
Eden

[WICKED WEISS]

Hi welcome here.

Willing to sell any of those parts? I need front and rear bumper?

[bostongrnM3]

putting in work. nice to see you are fixing all the small issues before actually modding. too many people start modding before addressing reliability and maintanance

[Itsahyundai]

Awesome! Lookin nice and clean, can't wait to see the progress.

I love watching builds like this, makes me wanna do one of my own.. if only I had money..