First pics of the shed (engine bay)

[TheKoose]

Hey folks

Bought a fixer upper 325i tech 1 on sunday, non runner left on his drive for a year.

Changed all the ignition and fluids and cleaned the bay from this:





To this:






If anythings missing please let me know, im 5 days old to the world of BMW (except my old man whos had a string of them) and have no idea if this is what a stock engine bay should look like. (except the inlet manifold bracket which i removed when replacing the inlet and exhaust gaskets).

Hope its not too boring for you all,

Mark

[DJ-325I]

everything looks in the right place to me! whats the bodywork and interior like?

[mike071288]

Nice clean engine bay mate, i like that kinda of attention to detail.
What products did u use?
Mike

[TheKoose]

Hey Mike

Gunk degreaser and Apple scented back to black .(and various tools like toothbrush, paint brush etc)

DJ 325i, i wasnt gonna put em up till i'd spent a bit of time on it but this how she is now(passenger side is the worse side of the two with the little dent on the wing and rust scab on the bottom of the door, then some rust above number plate on the back):

[Pal318is]

Looks sweet Good job on the engine bay too

Pal

[gareth]

i wonder what it's like under the bodykit?
if i were you, i'd check it out before spending big money on it as the m-tech 1 kit can hids all manner of horrors, and usually does!

looks nice though!

[wullie325i]

looks pretty clean for a tech 1 mate but as gareth said get the kit off and look and see what its like under it.

[rayb]

Wow! Good job on the engine bay there mate! Looks almost new now! might have to give mine a clean too.

[TheKoose]

Thanks for the kind comments chaps. I know about the sub body kit blues, but oddly this one has nothing to hide except one 10p sized bit of scabbage.

[bss325i]

Great stuff and welcome to the zone fella. Keep the pics comming! Looks like its has a lot of potential for saving, tech 1 sports are certainly getting very thin on the ground now. One thing that would impove it would be to swap the tech 2 spoiler for an original spec tech 1 item.

[TheKoose]

Thanks


Just swapped the chipped to hell badly sprayed black grille, looked good on D6 DPH's car, it didnt on mine for some reason(maybe the difference in colour??).
Old:


New:


Now to go and adjust the valve clearences