RE: BMW 635i M: PH Carpool
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Reminds me of my old one 
http://www.pistonheads.com/doc.asp?c=162&i=245...
2 guys bought it from me and should be well on the way to making it awesome again!
http://www.pistonheads.com/doc.asp?c=162&i=245...
2 guys bought it from me and should be well on the way to making it awesome again!
Lovely car - very well done bringing it back from oblivion.
There are VERY few of these cars left in good condition these days (as I discovered when looking for one myself). Far too many of the 'great condition, no rust' offerings have been rotten to the core and badly repaired (with a lot of the remaining rust hidden behind great big gobs of black bitumen. Most are also mechanically shot with steering boxes, suspension bushes, dampers, iffy auto boxes and worn-out engine management components/injectors being the main culprits.
Fortunately, I was also lucky enough to find a car that had been dry-stored for years and has never suffered from the dreaded tin-worm (with the exception of the front bumper, strangely)! It was mechanically tired, but is now well on its way to being brought back to rude health and I can't wait to get it back on the road.
The car is currently in the bodyshop having all the old, dried, cracked underseal removed from inside the wheel arches - they're then going to be re-finished with fresh stoneguard and paint - exactly as it would have left the factory.
Some pics below:
Wings off waiting for the refinish under the wheel arches (and showing the dried-out original underseal from 1985). Ever seen a 6 this rust-free (apart from the OPs)?
BMW BBSs - Fantastic refurb thanks to Chris at Exel Wheels:
Refurbed engine bits waiting for re-installation:
Custom cylinder head bolts I designed and had manufactured for the car:
Blurred mobile phone pic of the car just before its trip to the bodyshop:
Once the car's back from the bodyshop, there's a fully-refurbished steering box (new bearings/internals, fully re-shimmed and ZERO play) ready and waiting to go on (to be followed by a full Beissbarth wheel alignment). That just leaves reassembly/re-installation of the front bumper, then she should be good to go!
Would love to meet-up with the OP and his car once mine's done too.
There are VERY few of these cars left in good condition these days (as I discovered when looking for one myself). Far too many of the 'great condition, no rust' offerings have been rotten to the core and badly repaired (with a lot of the remaining rust hidden behind great big gobs of black bitumen. Most are also mechanically shot with steering boxes, suspension bushes, dampers, iffy auto boxes and worn-out engine management components/injectors being the main culprits.
Fortunately, I was also lucky enough to find a car that had been dry-stored for years and has never suffered from the dreaded tin-worm (with the exception of the front bumper, strangely)! It was mechanically tired, but is now well on its way to being brought back to rude health and I can't wait to get it back on the road.
The car is currently in the bodyshop having all the old, dried, cracked underseal removed from inside the wheel arches - they're then going to be re-finished with fresh stoneguard and paint - exactly as it would have left the factory.
Some pics below:
Wings off waiting for the refinish under the wheel arches (and showing the dried-out original underseal from 1985). Ever seen a 6 this rust-free (apart from the OPs)?
BMW BBSs - Fantastic refurb thanks to Chris at Exel Wheels:
Refurbed engine bits waiting for re-installation:
Custom cylinder head bolts I designed and had manufactured for the car:
Blurred mobile phone pic of the car just before its trip to the bodyshop:
Once the car's back from the bodyshop, there's a fully-refurbished steering box (new bearings/internals, fully re-shimmed and ZERO play) ready and waiting to go on (to be followed by a full Beissbarth wheel alignment). That just leaves reassembly/re-installation of the front bumper, then she should be good to go!
Would love to meet-up with the OP and his car once mine's done too.
Thank you for the kind comments about the car, me and Jon are very proud of her. Unfortunetly, Jon is on holiday but i am sure he will chime in at some point as, to be honest, alot of the hard graft has been done by him. But just to answer a few questions: -
Crostonian - The wheels are BBS Mahle's which i have been told were a factory option from new. Not sure if the colour is original but we got them refurbed in the same colour just incase. We also recently found out it has an LSD fitted, which again i beleive was a factory option.
Mermaid - 100% right about the brakes, i try and leave as much braking distance as possible and where i feel you can give the accelerator 'plenty of travel', it would be foolish to take liberties with the brakes.
De pinto - Jon trailer it back from the car park, to this day i have idea how he managed to get it out but i think he would have carried it out on his back if he needed to! I will let him go through the restart sequence but i know that the brake line issue put pay to any quick starts.
ianUK1 - Great car and great colour! Would be great to compare notes when you have it back on the road, please do let us know
Crostonian - The wheels are BBS Mahle's which i have been told were a factory option from new. Not sure if the colour is original but we got them refurbed in the same colour just incase. We also recently found out it has an LSD fitted, which again i beleive was a factory option.
Mermaid - 100% right about the brakes, i try and leave as much braking distance as possible and where i feel you can give the accelerator 'plenty of travel', it would be foolish to take liberties with the brakes.
De pinto - Jon trailer it back from the car park, to this day i have idea how he managed to get it out but i think he would have carried it out on his back if he needed to! I will let him go through the restart sequence but i know that the brake line issue put pay to any quick starts.
ianUK1 - Great car and great colour! Would be great to compare notes when you have it back on the road, please do let us know
That is a fantastic story and one to 'warm the cockles' of any true petrolhead, please keep us up to date with how you both get on with the car, and thank you for saving another one, fantastic!
My Dad got one new in January 1987, I can remember the excitement as an 11 year old, we'd never had anything like it! The cream leather and those bucket rear seats were superb! It was my job to scrub the wheels! Oddly though as I've never heard other reports of a similar vein, in the two years and 60k miles he had it it had a new gearbox & two ECU's.
Incredibly given the mileage it covered in 18 months it was still taxed until recently, probably with blacked out windows and chrome arches
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My Dad got one new in January 1987, I can remember the excitement as an 11 year old, we'd never had anything like it! The cream leather and those bucket rear seats were superb! It was my job to scrub the wheels! Oddly though as I've never heard other reports of a similar vein, in the two years and 60k miles he had it it had a new gearbox & two ECU's.
Incredibly given the mileage it covered in 18 months it was still taxed until recently, probably with blacked out windows and chrome arches
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