First of all I'd like to say thank you to Steve Armstrong for reaching out to moderators to finally approve my registry on the forum 
I have owned countless BMWs all my life most of them being modern ones or at least e30s and up. A few years ago I have purchased a falling apart '72 Bavaria simply because it was finally time to man up get my hands dirty and take on a big project. The car ran but didn't move and I was told it needed a clutch slave cylinder. Luckily I found a new one and installed it and voila, it drove like a dream. This was great because I could move the car around while getting the body restored. The car seemed to have been "restored" before but it was the worst restoration job I had ever seen. It still had rust and ROT everywhere and worst of all, it was smeared with 1/2" thick bondo on most areas. We removed all the bondo and brought it down to bare metal (whatever metal was left) then cut and replaced the rust/rot with new metal. Most areas needed to be hand crafted simply because it was impossible to get new panels. Finally we were done and it was time to paint it. Now I'm not really a purists so I didn't feel like painting it the original color which was Polaris silver so I decided I should go with a type of black cherry knowing that it looks great with chrome. I chose the color out of a catalogue (never knew there was hundreds of shades of black cherry) and got the paint mixed and painted the car. Later I Googled the color code and it turns out it was called Barolo Black and available on the 2015 Range Rover Evoque, I was happy because it could have been a Honda Civic color too Anyway right out the restoration now she decides to overheat. So I sourced all the parts needed to do a complete cooling overhaul and performed the job but it still overheated. There wasn't really a clear giveaway that it could be headgasket but I tore it apart anyway and sent the cylinder head to machine shop, got it resurfaced and hot tanked and reassembled everything brandnew with new headgasket. And nope... still overheated. Long story short, for the past year I had been trying to figure out why it overheated and performed many repairs hoping it would not overheat but I failed at it. So I decided to rip everything apart and sell whatever is good and junk the rest and get her ready for an engine swap. I will probably buy a whole donor car which will either be a B34 or B35 and hope everything goes well. The engine swap will be on a budget simply because the actual plan is to put in an M88 down the road.
Ps: Too late but I now think I know why she probably still overheated after the decked cylinder head. Timing went way off? Never checked timing so I'm just assuming. Probably should have but anyway..
On another note; We run a FB group for strictly E3s if you guys would like to join. It's called "BMW E3 New Six Bavaria Enthusiasts". You can also follow my build on instagram and see what type of food I like @Seniorsix
Here are some pictures. Enjoy.
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I have owned countless BMWs all my life most of them being modern ones or at least e30s and up. A few years ago I have purchased a falling apart '72 Bavaria simply because it was finally time to man up get my hands dirty and take on a big project. The car ran but didn't move and I was told it needed a clutch slave cylinder. Luckily I found a new one and installed it and voila, it drove like a dream. This was great because I could move the car around while getting the body restored. The car seemed to have been "restored" before but it was the worst restoration job I had ever seen. It still had rust and ROT everywhere and worst of all, it was smeared with 1/2" thick bondo on most areas. We removed all the bondo and brought it down to bare metal (whatever metal was left) then cut and replaced the rust/rot with new metal. Most areas needed to be hand crafted simply because it was impossible to get new panels. Finally we were done and it was time to paint it. Now I'm not really a purists so I didn't feel like painting it the original color which was Polaris silver so I decided I should go with a type of black cherry knowing that it looks great with chrome. I chose the color out of a catalogue (never knew there was hundreds of shades of black cherry) and got the paint mixed and painted the car. Later I Googled the color code and it turns out it was called Barolo Black and available on the 2015 Range Rover Evoque, I was happy because it could have been a Honda Civic color too
Anyway right out the restoration now she decides to overheat. So I sourced all the parts needed to do a complete cooling overhaul and performed the job but it still overheated. There wasn't really a clear giveaway that it could be headgasket but I tore it apart anyway and sent the cylinder head to machine shop, got it resurfaced and hot tanked and reassembled everything brandnew with new headgasket. And nope... still overheated. Long story short, for the past year I had been trying to figure out why it overheated and performed many repairs hoping it would not overheat but I failed at it. So I decided to rip everything apart and sell whatever is good and junk the rest and get her ready for an engine swap. I will probably buy a whole donor car which will either be a B34 or B35 and hope everything goes well. The engine swap will be on a budget simply because the actual plan is to put in an M88 down the road. Ps: Too late but I now think I know why she probably still overheated after the decked cylinder head. Timing went way off? Never checked timing so I'm just assuming. Probably should have but anyway..
On another note; We run a FB group for strictly E3s if you guys would like to join. It's called "BMW E3 New Six Bavaria Enthusiasts". You can also follow my build on instagram and see what type of food I like
@Seniorsix Here are some pictures. Enjoy.
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