car is a 325i sport that i bought a year ago but shell was a little bent unfortunately, so i bought a decent low milage 320i and swoped everything over, literally everything, every wire, clip, plug nut and bolt, shortly after that i fancied a challenge so decided on building a 2.7 for it.
i managed to get hold of a complete 70k 525e auto engine for £150, and kept my original 325i sport head, the head had 2.7 stamped on it, not really sure what that means.
then set about with the build, all in all it took me about 2 days to do the conversion, but i did have access to a ramp, engine crane, engine stand and air tools etc.
get a slightly thicker head gasket from bmw, with all valve stem seals, and new sump gasket and spigot bearing etc,
conversion was done for about 2 weeks then woke up to find it had been stolen from outside the house one, from the cctv footage they pulled the rear light out disconected the battery, then used some sort of bar down the side of the window to get in and rolled the car down the street, from there we dont no if it was started, towed or loaded onto a trailer,
fortunatly only yesterday almost 4 months later i had a phonecall from the police saying they had found my car.
apparently guy who has it now had bought it and applied for the logbook, and thats how they found it,
upside is i get to pick it up on tuesday, downside is its looking a little worse for wear, theres a scrape down the side on the tech2 kit, the front bumper is scratched and burnt, some1 has welded the tow eye in hence the burn, and its very faded now,but hay hoe at least i got it back,
the picks below are just after the conversion, but tuesday when its back i will get up some picks of its current state
,ps, sorry if pics are abit big
