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That's a million bucks. Only M3 had the soft one? Guess I'll have to find one of them.

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Pull the engine out, assemble everything, put it back in. Far easier than doing everything in there. For bonus points, pull the front subframe do a quick ratio steering rack, assemble the engine and box...

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Huge moves! Started so easily, sounds very healthy. That's awesome.
After the leaks, what's next? Interior install and that's it?

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Looks better black IMO

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Come up well, not my choice of combo but it's certainly interesting, great workmanship that's for sure. Who did them?...

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Good to see I'm not the only one with a very long running project....
Pro tip it will make it 300% nicer to work on if you pressure wash the engine bay with a degreaser attachment, just wrap the...

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Love love love those wheels

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More progress this weekend.
Finished painting the main engine components:



(Yes they are wheel bolts, they're the right thread to block the holes)


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Yeah, as much as I like the -idea- of a S38 in something, everything just costs a silly amount for them. I'd love to add a E28 M5 to the fleet but throwing that many dollars into it just to make sure...

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It was primed in some apparent bees knees primer, it'll be getting paint next to seal it in, then test assemble, then apart and final paint. I don't really see a need to coat it with anything special...

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Picked it up from blasting and it looks unbelievable. I haven't been able to get any good full car pics as its been shitty weather and its in my carport with bad lights, but hot damn its beautiful....

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Big ish update:

Made the fuel rail brackets, only primed so far




Got the rocker cover, timing covers (upper x1 and lower x2), oil housing, thermostat housing...

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New OEM brake lines comes black?

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Run it, it'll be fine

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Beautiful work. I can only hope that mine ends up even half as nice as this.
Should work something out when both cars are finished and meet up.

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God the KWs look nice. I'd totally consider them for mine if the Australian dollar wasn't so doodoo at the moment