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Old Dec 17, 2017 | 04:35 PM
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Back in the summer I sold my Alfa Romeo and bought this BMW e28 520i for a good price. It was the perfect candidate for doing a rolling restoration. It was completely standard but showing its age mechanically. Since purchasing the BMW I've done the following, full service, new bilstein shocks and lowering springs, poly bushed the rear subframe, new rear diff mount, new exhaust system, new tyres, new front arms.
I've also given it a full machine polish and detail, however I still need to do the interior properly.
The jacking points on the sills have had the usual MOT welding done to them, which has also caused more corrosion issues on the sills, but that's easily sorted and apart from that there's very little bodywork issues.
However it is an automatic and hopefully sometime next year I'll convert it to manual. Unfortunately I'm not very good at taking photos whilst doing the work, usually in 'the zone' and forget, so there are some work in progress pics with no end result if you know what mean.




































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