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Hello everybody!
I'm new here, I'm from Belgium and I want to show you my project. But first of all I want you to meet my daily, It's an Alfa Romeo 156 Sportwagon.
It's lowered on FK Highsport coilovers and on 18" wheels.
Some pictures of the beginning, wheels are Toora's, 8J around.
Then I bought new wheels, RH ZW3 9J front, 10J back, the fenders had to be widened also in the rear.
and some quality pictures taken by H.Lorenzo Photography.
So now to the project, it's gonna be a slow project because I don't wanna to do anything rash. I'm not a car mechanic and
and try to do as much as possible just because I like to work on cars and I find it interesting.
Well, it is a BMW E12 520/6 cylinders, first registration was in january 1980, now it has about 166 xxx km.
Plans are actually simple:
- repaint in a BMW colour, first thought is Graphit Metallic
- parts cleaning/detailing
- lowering with airride
- wheels in 16", something with a lip
Some pictures of the E12 when I bought it.
These parts I received from the previous owner
Bought new parts
These are all OEM BMW
It had 2 problems:
- in the front right the brake was stuck
- if I let it idle the engine fell off
Started with the brake calipers in the front, it looked like this
Bought a revision set
Painted the calipers
Mounted the pistons and revision set
Final pictures
Brake calipers would be mounted later on the car.
Now to the second problem, started with take off the carburetor, it's a Solex 4A1
Completely dissambled and then I came out of this
The upper part was warped by to tighten the airfilter too hard
So I bought a second hand carburetor and a revision set for it
After cleaning it completely and mounted everything, it was finished
Also taked off the intake
Cleaned it
Painted
New parts for the intake
Thermostat also taked off
Bolts polished
New cover (painted) and bolt because the old bolt was stucked in the cover
Sensor cleaned
New seal
Painted and all mounted
Parts in the engine bay
Carburetor mounted, do not pay attention to the other dirty parts, these will cleaned and painted also when the engine is out
Now the engine didn't fall out I started to strip the car
I hope you appreciate and like the project!
And sorry for my not perfect english
I'm new here, I'm from Belgium and I want to show you my project. But first of all I want you to meet my daily, It's an Alfa Romeo 156 Sportwagon.
It's lowered on FK Highsport coilovers and on 18" wheels.
Some pictures of the beginning, wheels are Toora's, 8J around.
Then I bought new wheels, RH ZW3 9J front, 10J back, the fenders had to be widened also in the rear.
and some quality pictures taken by H.Lorenzo Photography.
So now to the project, it's gonna be a slow project because I don't wanna to do anything rash. I'm not a car mechanic and
and try to do as much as possible just because I like to work on cars and I find it interesting.
Well, it is a BMW E12 520/6 cylinders, first registration was in january 1980, now it has about 166 xxx km.
Plans are actually simple:
- repaint in a BMW colour, first thought is Graphit Metallic
- parts cleaning/detailing
- lowering with airride
- wheels in 16", something with a lip
Some pictures of the E12 when I bought it.
These parts I received from the previous owner
Bought new parts
These are all OEM BMW
It had 2 problems:
- in the front right the brake was stuck
- if I let it idle the engine fell off
Started with the brake calipers in the front, it looked like this
Bought a revision set
Painted the calipers
Mounted the pistons and revision set
Final pictures
Brake calipers would be mounted later on the car.
Now to the second problem, started with take off the carburetor, it's a Solex 4A1
Completely dissambled and then I came out of this
The upper part was warped by to tighten the airfilter too hard
So I bought a second hand carburetor and a revision set for it
After cleaning it completely and mounted everything, it was finished
Also taked off the intake
Cleaned it
Painted
New parts for the intake
Thermostat also taked off
Bolts polished
New cover (painted) and bolt because the old bolt was stucked in the cover
Sensor cleaned
New seal
Painted and all mounted
Parts in the engine bay
Carburetor mounted, do not pay attention to the other dirty parts, these will cleaned and painted also when the engine is out
Now the engine didn't fall out I started to strip the car
I hope you appreciate and like the project!
And sorry for my not perfect english
, I go for another colour but an original from BMW from that time.
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