my fluffy 86' 535i build

[JE BMW]

Damn.. these are even better. 17s too huh?

[difeliciantonio]

yep. same specs. 17x8.5 et13

[difeliciantonio]

so i broke down the headlights to refinishing the buckets and clean up any connectors and covers. only managed to break 2 of the small cup grommets that hold the headlight to adjustor. after sandblasting of the buckets and some self etching primer, i hit it with some fresh black

started to polish up the chrome headlight rings as they were black and had over spray as well, came out looking new. old on left and polish on right




overspray and rust, a no go in my book.


headlight mess


primer


paint


i wonder what goes on those motor shafts and in between the stoppers on the chrome rings

[difeliciantonio]

no real updates.
i talked to owner eric at railroad.net and asked if he could make one of his great alcantara shift boots for the e28. after sending in my old worn leather boot for a pattern, i got this in the mail. its fits like OEM and looks awesome with the wood knob.

how does everyone like the new school in combination to the old?

[Zic]

Love the work, have you fitted the front coil overs yet?
I don't really care for the shift boot, since its a little to modern for the car.

[BrandonMcKiernan]

you are absolutely killing it. great work so far. keep it up.

[difeliciantonio]

Love the work, have you fitted the front coil overs yet?
I don't really care for the shift boot, since its a little to modern for the car.

thanks, i try to do things right the first time and also, i **** putting dirty stuff back on the car, so if i can, it get redone.

iam pretty scattered brain working on the car. since iam working on so many areas, i kinda just work on different things depending on the weather and or how i feel. lol. i love your car, you so lucky that euro e28's start out badass with bumpers and lights

you are absolutely killing it. great work so far. keep it up.

thanks man. i dig the black panther. fender flares look nasty with the rims and stretch

[LaurelSGX]

Looks good, can't wait to see it finished.

[HighwayStarKG]

It is great to see cars like this get resurrected. Good job sir.

[difeliciantonio]

thanks.. it gonna have had a pretty comprehensive transformation by the time i am done with it

[difeliciantonio]

so in my 2 plus months of leave ive been like a pack rat and gathering tons of parts

ive sold the e24 electric sport seats, mtech 1 (didnt fit, was course thread) the strut bar and some of the other stuff as its all getting replaced with nicer items like TCD intake, masion bar, e28 manula mtech sport seat, clean dash, and a bunch of other goodies

let the massive amount of work commence

[e34///M]

you are absolutely killing it. great work so far. keep it up.

Agreed

[difeliciantonio]

so when i got my car, the trunk was completely gross. i got to a point where i threw everything away (what was there, not much) except tool tray and literally hosed down everything with purple power and scrub the crap out of everything and then hosed it down with a hose and used a water shop vac and cleaned everything up. the reason for this as since the car sat for 5 years, it had developed a bug problem and there was decay and gunk, luckly no rust tho

i was missing a couple of the trunk covers, the trunk lid linear was wrapped and gross, missing the jack, wheel chuck and had no spare as well as all the bolts and hardware. so i had to change this

its soon gonna have a new trunk seal installed, thats not rust around seal. its just glue from a sloppy trunk seal replacement by PO

after some time and being gross out, and prob 20 gallons of water and a gallon of purple power i got to this point


got this m5 black tool kit, i still have my old stuff but its missing some tools and, come on, its not black


a euro first aid kit...gotta have



some other stuff i was missing


oil quart bmw bag


and cleanliness

[mrg7243]

Wish my audi had a trunk tool kit and first aid kit OEM.

[difeliciantonio]

if you look at evolution of bmw's tool kits, there are getting smaller and smaller, back in the 70's you had a massive tray of tool, and 80's, it got a tad smaller losing the allen keys and stuff, and 90's alot smaller losing a bunch of the wrenches and a screwdriver and now there not even a jack and spare in the new bmws...facepalm