Bmw e12 520

[MGW]

Can you like finish this now? Lol so amazing. Keep the original color!

[Rakkie]

Did you have the manifold sandblasted?

Love the Alfa, as for the BMW it looks like a great find, can't see a lot of rust on it for now.

No, it isn't sandblasted, I just cleaned it with water and degreaser but for the really dirty places I had to use thinner.

Yeah at first sight the car looks that it doesn't have rust, but there are some places with holes, especially in the front and wheel arches in the rear.

At the rest, thank you for the comments!

[dedo]

That Alfa is stunning. I am in love.
good luck with e12

[P78]

i usually dislike the wheels on that alfa

but you pull em off great

dope alfa!


interested to c where you gonna take that e12


we hebben hier ook een belgisch/NL gedeelte btw

[Nixxon]

Did you have the manifold sandblasted?

Love the Alfa, as for the BMW it looks like a great find, can't see a lot of rust on it for now.

[MrViicc]

i like the way you are handling this car,

maintenance, cleaning... very proper in for more!

Please keep us updated!

[Z33_Taxi]

I've never seen one of these before. looks great. Sub'd

[Steeewie]

Loving the work so far! Keep it up!

[jbginger]

YES. So happy to see an e12 build. Almost bought one but couldn't because of some stupid stuff but I guess I'm happy with my e30 haha. Stoked to see where this goes

[Rakkie]

That is not necessary because I'm also jealous of your E21, but healthy jealous !

[TheNeek]

jealous

[Rakkie]

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