1985 325e | M60b40 | Fifty Shades of Bronzit

[whitebulat22]

Beautiful car, side view gives me the picture of how I want to make my early model look. I'm sure when you make the m60 beautiful that'll motivate me too. Go all out, m60b44!

[Ide30]

👆🏼when he does it, things will be right (speaking for you Ben)


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[E30NJ]

Get those timing guides done on the M60!! Fantastic work though!

[ArtFoodBMW]

I also bought this. Paint and installation to come on tuesday. I'm extremely excited!

[ArtFoodBMW]

Little update. Not much progress on the v8 swap. Finally sold the differential and taillights but that money had to go towards school soooo.

Got this cool thing from Garagistic. Great strut bar, I did have to cut a slice in the coolant reservoir though.

And then I wanted blue. Primered


I wasn't able to stick the strut bar in the oven, so I let the paint cure for a couple days and let the engine temp cure it.



MMMM!!

Found a parts car



Cut this off with the help an awesome friend for removable core support purposes and mine is fubar.



And then my alternator thought it would be fun to slice open my coolant hose. Coolant went lots of places

[Grishnackh]

Looking great man. Keep it up.

[ArtFoodBMW]

Started cleaning the v8 some. Valley area before

and after


Also picked up some 19lb gen 3? injectors for the v8 and started cleaning those up.



I took the oil pan off to clean and see what some of the inside of the motor looked like and I was very relieved to see this! I was expecting metal or plastic pieces, but I didn't see any thankfully. There was a small layer of buildup on the bottom but the engine was sitting for a year and a half sooo



Germany FTW

[ArtFoodBMW]

OP, your a genius. That's a great idea for a front plate delete. Keep up the good work!

Thanks! I'm surprised no one else has tried it. It looks 100000000x better than just getting a replacement piece from the rear for just the license plate spot.

[KIRIEIW]

OP, your a genius. That's a great idea for a front plate delete. Keep up the good work!

[Rickyloc187@yahoo.com]

since you have a 325e too can you please tell me where these wires are for or what they connect to, on the link below

http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm200/vasquezenrique0831/IMG_17691_zpsixdshjqn.jpg?1425695675994&1425695677192

[ArtFoodBMW]

Love this thread, can't wait to clean my carpets now haha, your car has come a long way, can't wait to see more of this progress!!:D

Thanks Shark! It's about to go a lot farther than I was thinking.

Put the CCA badge on


Took my turn signals off and now I want clear markers.

Restored the signals, what a difference it made!



Started a front license plate delete.

Cutting out the slots for where the license plate tabs were



Left side tab cut, right not cut



Mock up of where to cut


Power tools are awesome


Gettin there


MMMMMM





Also,







































I found an engine.




An awesome deal came up locally. The owner thought it was an M60b30, and then he dropped it off this morning, and my brother started thinking the throttle body was too big. I looked up the difference between 3.0L and 4.0L intake manifold. Turns out, its an m60b40 and the numbers on the block confirmed it. It was sitting in the owners garage for 1 1/2 years after being removed from a "530i" that got wrecked. My guess is, the owner was confused, or the engine got replaced by BMW in it's early ages.


We don't have an engine hoist, so I had the seller drop it off at my house which was like 5 minutes away from his, and then we had to figure out how to get the engine on the engine stand. Ended up sliding lots of wood underneath and prying up in various spots to get the engine high enough to where we could slide the jack underneath.



And then we got it in the air and realized the bolts we had for our engine stand didn't fit in the m60 bell housing spots. It sat like this while I went to get bolts that fit. I was slightly terrified



Stay tuned while I rebuild the engine and continue my search for related parts.

[GnarShark]

Love this thread, can't wait to clean my carpets now haha, your car has come a long way, can't wait to see more of this progress!!:D

[ST1G]

Are they installed yet? It's been an hour since we got out of accounting, if they aren't on you're slacking.

EDIT: What a waste of a 4000th post. I was trying to save myself for Slammin's circle jerk.

[ArtFoodBMW]

ummm.. what is that mannequin in the garage for? Is it a lamp??

Hahahah, I'm surprised you caught that. It was $1, and makes for great target practice!

[gome123]

ummm.. what is that mannequin in the garage for? Is it a lamp??