1990 BMW E32 750i - Stealthbomber

[HARDCORE]

So I've gone & bought this:



;D

I love big luxury saloons with lots of silly toys - fancied a V12 for ages - it wasn't a huge amount of money and the seller offered to put it through an MoT, so why not





It drives a dream & everything appears to work, but it's been a bit unloved of late (hadn't moved for a while & was parked in some woods..)







It's dirty, & the paintwork is BAD




Next up, making with the cleans..

[Robinxr4i]

You already know my feelings on this purchase

[mattfletcher]

Oh WOW!!!!!!! Hard as nails, needs tinted windows and slamming tho

[HARDCORE]

Making of cleans..


VIP enjoys a bit of detailing and kindly spent a weekend at The Auto Bahn making the 750 more presentable

Mucho jet washing to remove the heavy soil:



Gets us to this stage:



The tools of the trade:







Then a G4 / machine polish..



..gets us to here:


(ignore the denty wing - more on that later)




Then some wax.. (it rained before I got a pic but the improvement is massive)





Inside given a quick spruce too:





Then this is how she stood at the end of my 1st weekend of ownership (June 10th) - big thanks to Dan




Next up, wheeeeels..

[bstardchild]

Jun 27, 2012 17:31:21 GMT HARDCORE said:

Next up, wheeeeels..

With tyres that hold air

Nice job cleanning that 750 up

[HARDCORE]

Jun 27, 2012 17:19:26 GMT Robinxr4i said:

You already know my feelings on this purchase

Yeah dude

Jun 27, 2012 17:26:27 GMT mattfletcher said:

Oh WOW!!!!!!! Hard as nails, needs tinted windows and slamming tho

Thanks - I think we're on the same wavelength - here's my 'to do list' - glovebox full of crack look FTW!

Jun 27, 2012 17:53:41 GMT bstardchild said:

Jun 27, 2012 17:31:21 GMT HARDCORE said:

Next up, wheeeeels..

With tyres that hold air

Nice job cleanning that 750 up

Yeah, fresh MoT does not guarantee 4 tyres that hold air
Thanks tho - I take no credit for the clean-up job

[rysz]

<Runs off, get's popcorn>

Looking forward to this one very much!

Rysz.

[HARDCORE]

Wheeeeels...


So the car came fitted with BMW Style 32's in 18" flavour. I rather like them so they'll be staying. Unfortunately they looked like this:









Painted (not brilliantly) in matt black - which to my eyes doesn't look right against the Shadowline trim on the car, and with knackered centre caps.



Note I've removed the bonnet / boot badges too - the plan now is to remove pretty much all the colour from the car. It's Dolphin Grey Metallic & satin black all the way..


When Dan jetwashed the car the paint fell off the wheels in great sheets!



They were also fitted with ENORMOUS tyres! 235/40's on the front and 255/40's on the rear!



So I had the 235's moved from front to back and got some 225's fitted on the front. I think I'd actually prefer 215's on the fronts but you can't be that picky with 18" partworns on a Saturday.

Looks better anyway..



Mk2 Astra 'verts have their uses



So, with the tools of the trade..





..the loose paint was first removed, then a quick rub down all over







Then etch-primed..





..and painted satin back


(sorry for the crappy phone-pics)

And fitted with new (black & white ) centre caps - not perfect by any means, but loads better




Next up, lowness & coooool stuff...

[HARDCORE]

Jun 27, 2012 18:11:44 GMT HARDCORE said:

Next up, lowness & coooool stuff...

Actually, a brief interlude to acknowledge Lady HC has helped a bit

Dirty floormats:



Tatty floormat:



Fixing floormat:



Cleaned, fixed & refitted floormat:





The interior really doesn't need much else. The central locking didn't work on the passenger front door but MantaPhil has since taken that apart & fixed it, and the rear blind is broken so I'm keeping my eye out for one of them.. I might change the headunit too cos multichangers in the boot annoy me.

Jun 27, 2012 18:11:44 GMT HARDCORE said:

Next up, lowness & coooool stuff...

(really this time)

[EmDee]

many many epics

*shoots off to buy shares in BP*

[GT4ME]

Thats fabulous, love a 750! Great work there too,real transformation in double quick time!

[HARDCORE]

Lowering & coooool stuff (round 1)...


So we're up to June 20th now, I've owned the car about 12 days, driven it a mile tops (it was delivered to TAB for me) - about time I lowered it dontcha think?

The tools of the trade (& associated spring-carnage)..



..means it now sits a bit more like this (that's 2 coils out the front only)



Not exactly spectacular, but the smaller tyres aren't helping, and you'll recall it used to look like this:



So it's definitely better. Far from enough tho..





I also got some eBay goodies in the post



Before:



During: (ColonElk is assistance)



After:



Nice. Aforementioned removal of colour in effect..


Next up, mwoar lowering & mwoar coooool stuff...

[hamps]

Bookmarked this beast

[danburger28]

This is good!Really fancy a V12 myself!Can I please request a gratuitous burnout shot/vid please! ;D

[mclellanmac]

I need a V12, that is very inspiring detailing work, bookmarked

[hairnet]

alfred hitchcock throwing shapes??

glad the badges are on the list ;D

[bigperm]

Nice purchase HC !!....also nice 190 in the astra pic

[Llewelyn_]

Looking forward to more updates! Well done so far

Love an e32. And I love a v12. So it's win win for me.

[BenzBoy]

Been keeping an eye on this on your Facebook.

Nice Luxobarge! Makes me want something big and stupid! ;D

[HARDCORE]

Thanks gents I'm enjoying it very much - it's nice to have something I can improve / mod to my tastes in a relatively short time period for little money - need to keep reminding myself NO MORE PROJECTS..! It's a dream to drive too, even on cut springs it rides lovely and for a 1.7ton car the performance is ballistic ;D

I'll get this right up to date today - few more bits & bobs done..