Hey guys here's the story of my e28, I bought it in January of 2013 for $750 with 205k on the clock. the front half of the exhuast was rotted, Running on 4 cylinders, front right strut was locked up, Covered in snow when I bought it. The guy claimed he got it for free 7 years ago and could never get it running. He said the syncros were bad and changed out the transmission and provided me with the receipt of the trans. I drove it home 126 miles on 4 cylinders (yes it was awful and very very rough running) but being familiar with m20's I knew it could be brought back to life.
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The day after I bought it, I brought it in the garage and did some troubleshooting to get a parts list of what it needed. Ordered a timing belt, front strut, new guibo, oil filter and air filter, intake elbow, and found out why it was only running on 4 cylinders. cylinder 6's injector was bad and cylinder 6 and 5 had the wires going to the wrong ones (probably the previous owner trying to get it running right)
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After getting all the parts I replaced everything I ordered, put in a rebuilt injector and rebuilt all the other injectors with an O-ring and pintle cap kit. Ran perfectly after putting them all back in! Gave it a good wash inside and out, leaves were blowing out of the blower for a good 3-4 months after DD-ing it.
Paint on the trunk and passenger side is sunfaded beyond belief, it was also parked under a pine tree at that guys house for 7 years. sap spots peeled up some of the paint. I ended up painting the trunk lid with chalkboard paint.
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Untitled by foundation982, on Flickr
Self Explanatory why I painted it in chalkboard paint.
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bought some E34 style 5's and ran it bumperless for a while.
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Painted my bottlecaps black along with the bumper also took all the rubber
off the bumper because it was cracking and falling off.
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Oh yeah Hauled a weight set one time hahahahahahaha
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Untitled by foundation982, on Flickr
Untitled by foundation982, on Flickr
Got some hella foglamps for this winter.
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The day after I bought it, I brought it in the garage and did some troubleshooting to get a parts list of what it needed. Ordered a timing belt, front strut, new guibo, oil filter and air filter, intake elbow, and found out why it was only running on 4 cylinders. cylinder 6's injector was bad and cylinder 6 and 5 had the wires going to the wrong ones (probably the previous owner trying to get it running right)
Untitled by foundation982, on Flickr
After getting all the parts I replaced everything I ordered, put in a rebuilt injector and rebuilt all the other injectors with an O-ring and pintle cap kit. Ran perfectly after putting them all back in! Gave it a good wash inside and out, leaves were blowing out of the blower for a good 3-4 months after DD-ing it.
Paint on the trunk and passenger side is sunfaded beyond belief, it was also parked under a pine tree at that guys house for 7 years. sap spots peeled up some of the paint. I ended up painting the trunk lid with chalkboard paint.
Untitled by foundation982, on Flickr
Untitled by foundation982, on Flickr
Self Explanatory why I painted it in chalkboard paint.
Untitled by foundation982, on Flickr
bought some E34 style 5's and ran it bumperless for a while.
Untitled by foundation982, on Flickr
Painted my bottlecaps black along with the bumper also took all the rubber
off the bumper because it was cracking and falling off.
Untitled by foundation982, on Flickr
Untitled by foundation982, on Flickr
Oh yeah Hauled a weight set one time hahahahahahaha
Untitled by foundation982, on Flickr
Untitled by foundation982, on Flickr
Untitled by foundation982, on Flickr
Got some hella foglamps for this winter.
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