Jozi's m52 touring - Rebuilding has started

[Jozi]

Hopefully in primer this side of Xmas, I've to go down to him before new years to have a look at some color samples and try and decide on that. Slow but it should be worth it.

[Jozi]

It's been a little quiet in here so I thought I'd put these few pics up here.












Marty's sending a panel my way this weekend with a few colours on it for me to decide on what I want to go with.

[redcar]

Nice, shell is looking good!

I seem to remember the idle was about 1000rpm with the 4 pot clocks in mine. I may be wrong though.
My engine was smoother than that running on 5 injectors Only realised the wiring to one injector had failed until I plugged it in on the computer

[Jozi]

Looking like we're getting somewhere at last!

There could be any number of reason why my idle was a bit up and/down, the tank was empty except for a few litres of fuel I topped it up with. Will see when it's all plumbed properly and running how it goes.

[DanThe]

Mmmmmmmmmm,,,,,, bare steel

[Craggy73]

A truely magnificent rebuild. I love these threads! Can't wait to see the bodywork painted

[G-Bear]

Nice to see some fresh pics, looking good..

[Coops90]

Looking forward to seeing the paint.
What wheels have you gone for? Sorry if ive missed it.

[Jozi]

For the moment 16x9 Borbet B's but I have something nicer that needs widening and painting but before that happens we could be a year further!

[Jozi]

Dropped some clips down to Marty yesterday and collected a panel with 4 colours I was looking at painted on it.

Some pics of the panel next to a Mauritius blue wing:











I darkened the area with the brand/paint colour just to give them all a fair chance, colours may or may not be a bmw shade

[Jozi]

Couple more:




Very hard to capture the colours properly. The 2nd from the bottom is nearly purple depending on lighting and the angle you look at it from.

[dirtee-herbert]

Love this thread. I remember reading it all on another forum I found from a google search.
Keep up the good work. That colours sweet!

[Jozi]

Small update... Over the last few weeks I've slowly been treating some of the heatshields and petrol tank for rust and getting them painted up. Apart from the big long heatshield and the tank everything is new.




The tank has 3x coats of paint under two coats of BMW stonechip which came out very matt looking so it got another quick coat of satin. The BMW stone chip is more of a heavy rubbery paint that stone chip though, it's not very thick but should help prevent stonechips.





I also gave these a coat of stonechip and sating paint since they are under the car and in the wheel well.

[redcar]

Very nice

[G-Bear]

Satisfying doing these little bits.. Good work..

[Jozi]

Visited the painter today and collected a pair of iX skirts and arch flares He wasn't happy with the tec2 bumper and valance and didn't paint them yet, they will be primered again.





I didn't have my camera with me and my mobile doesn't do the color justice, it's more blue than it looks in the pics.

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Couldn't resist putting the wheels and one arch on/under the old touring. 2yrs of neglect and Mauritius Blue looks a bit shit, fresh paint on the other hand looks great (not mauritius blue btw ;) )

[Jozi]

Small update, work has begun on the engine bay and it's got it's first coat of primers.




Stud for new earth, will have one on the other side also.



Battery tray trimmed back a little. Will have an M3 expansion tank fitted there along with the M3 plastic panel to hide any wires.


Front panel needs a little bit of work and one or two holes drilling around the bay.

[Jozi]

Fixed last set of pics... photobucket ran out of bandwidth...

[Jozi]

Another piece of the puzzle arrive yesterday from Holland:



I'll now be able to close the boot compartment when there's a battery in there, the difference is quite obvious (ignore the blurry cat).

[winx]

Ah didn't realise those existed, I ended up fabbing a new battery tray in my touring, this would have been much easier!

[Jozi]

I think it was someone on here who commented in a thread (possibly this one), took a bit of googling to find what they look like and got one handy enough from Holland. There was another listed if you want it drop me a pm

I also got the cable from the same touring, haven't measured or compared it to the 325 on but I think it might be slightly different. They don't match on realoem but no length listed for the one from the ix.

[Jozi]

Spent a couple hours everyday this week cleaning my interior. Pretty happy with how it all came out. There's some light staining on the boot carpet which hopefully won't be visible once I've it all dye'd, likewise with the floor mats.






Another pic for good measure, so comfy to sit in!


Carpet not cleaned yet, I just attacked some stains today, will do the rest tomorrow.

[dirtee-herbert]

I cant wait to see this finished.

Them front seats look killer.

[milescook]

What a great 40 mins this has been looking through - top work!

[Jozi]

Thanks. Seats are really comfy as well!

As for finishing it, could be waiting awhile!

[Morat]

Small update... Over the last few weeks I've slowly been treating some of the heatshields and petrol tank for rust and getting them painted up. Apart from the big long heatshield and the tank everything is new.




The tank has 3x coats of paint under two coats of BMW stonechip which came out very matt looking so it got another quick coat of satin. The BMW stone chip is more of a heavy rubbery paint that stone chip though, it's not very thick but should help prevent stonechips.





I also gave these a coat of stonechip and sating paint since they are under the car and in the wheel well.

Man alive... I thought I was being all bufty getting my tank powdercoated - you're on another level!
Great work.

[Jozi]

Haha, I'd rather have it powdercoated than painted. Lack of things to do so might as well paint the lot to keep it from rusting.

[Jozi]

This was my carpet today around lunch time, all nice and clean and stuff


And after about 90mins, quite a bit of sweat and nearly 1L of dye it all looks like this now:



The above were stitched together as a panorama and not quite in focus but you get the idea

For comparison:


I reckon it needs at least another coat maybe even 2 more. I'm out of dye though so it's going to have to wait till more arrives.

[Jozi]

I was down with Marty today, things are starting to come together. The front panel is removable and the insides of the doors have been painted blue.


Couldn't resist doing a quick pano while I was there

Some random pics of 2 doors





Front end is removable and bay is also ready


It's all bolted down with welded on nuts


The box section capped off, same done to the upper part


I forgot to take a pic with the panel of so here's a crappy phone pic


Marty hopes to paint the rest this weekend or soon after

[G-Bear]

Excellent.. Nice to see some progress pics.. Looking thorough, pleasing to see.

[Sanchez]

Paint work looks grand.

[Jozi]

Paint work looks grand.

Just grand

Hopefully progress with the painter will ramp up a bit and see paint this weekend or soon after!

[Jozi]

I just got sent a few photo's, I'll let them do the talking:



























Marty is aiming to have it back Friday, I'll prob be down with him for a look before then.

[Kos]

Looking crisp there

[polsta]

Spectacular work, what a thread, what a job

The new heat shielding there - how much was it all may I ask ?