Some before after pics of my engine bay

[rick540]

After nearly two years and hundreds of parts I had to buy, the "rescued" car is going together nicely.

This is just the engine and engine bay that took me 18 months. The car itself is actually very clean, but they had just trashed about every ancillary, cover, clip, painted part, bracket, nut and bolt in the engine bay through some very scary maintenance. (like a crowbar in the alternator to adjust the fanbelt), trashed wiring old pipes makeshift everything and lost or broken everything else.

Here are two pics of the non runner taken home on a flatbed

And some pics taken today just after the rebuild and with almost everything replaced as it came from the factory. (And I am still missing some stuff on order from Germany)

 

[Manoli]

Now that is a clean Bay! :thumbs:
So when we gonna have breakfast off it? :biglol:

 

[Twinz]

Wow Rick...you are a true petrol head. You make things beautiful :inlove:

 

[msm]

Good job :thumbs:

 

[Mo63]

Looks very nice!

Good job.

 

[Philip Foglar]

This really is marvellous work and attention to detail - love for a car etc!! It still really kills me to think that the previous owners had treated such a gem of a car so so badly - but she is now looking so much better and has been improving from day one since Rick got the car!

Fantastic work!! raise:

 

[Peter@AEW]

Grand Old Lady looking excellent.

 

[bmw325i]

raise: wow great job bud.

 

[MikeR]

:thumbs::thumbs: :bravo:

 

[DeoJor]

Fantastic workmanship, Edd China move over... raise:

 

[beezo003]

:thumbs: raise: well done, good to see this, i wish i had the finances to do that to my car, but will get there what an inspiration :bravo:

 

[ClassicB]

Awesome restoration :thumbs:

 

[Rayzor]

Thats just awesome :thumbs::thumbs::thumbs:

 

[Prev]

raise:raise:raise:

 

[Cole]

that is some serious commitment, car is looking good!!!

 

[tcal69]

man looks brand new, NICE:thumbs:

 

[moranor@axis]

wow awesome :rollsmile:

 

[Jandre]

I remember the day we stood there, looking at that sad bucket of bolts, standing there with her ass scraping on the ground. Now look at her. What a transformation.

 

[boost3d]

raise: nicely done Rick. You can see how passionate you are about your car :thumbs:

 

[Thunder]

Looks good man.

Worth all the time your spending on her. :thumbs: