About a year and a half ago, me and a good friend took the Beemer down to Insane Creations workshop to strip it's guts completely and scrap the shell...
The Insane Creations shop is epic and there is always something louder and faster than your car there.. Just a little 3000BHP Pro Street Willis Coupe being put together in the corner... My build is pretty mild compared to that!
The car was stripped over a day and a half, not too bad going for a couple of blokes and lots of tea and coffee breaks. Was a great laugh and was almost worth buying the car just to do that to it!
This was the moment we realised how bloody big this engine was despite having a very small displacement!
Finally she was free...
Somehow it came out of this hole?! Who knows how!
After having a poke round the engine bay to see what else we wanted, we notice that dropping the front subframe was the correct(easier) way to get the motor out... Ah well. Every day is a school day!
A quick offer up of the 32' grille shell shows that the motor is going to be hanging out the sides of the car.. Epic!
The morning of day two sees us pull the rear end out which we do remove as a complete unit/sub frame.
And somewhere in the middle of all of the big bits coming out, the entire wiring loom was removed. Better to be safe than sorry with this stuff so we have everything if we need it... So much wiring in this car, it was optioned up to the eyeballs, I can't see us using the heated headlamp washer system, but we have the loom for it!
One final effort to drag the old girl on to the trailer and wave goodbye to her at the scrappy!
The Insane Creations shop is epic and there is always something louder and faster than your car there.. Just a little 3000BHP Pro Street Willis Coupe being put together in the corner... My build is pretty mild compared to that!
The car was stripped over a day and a half, not too bad going for a couple of blokes and lots of tea and coffee breaks. Was a great laugh and was almost worth buying the car just to do that to it!
This was the moment we realised how bloody big this engine was despite having a very small displacement!
Finally she was free...
Somehow it came out of this hole?! Who knows how!
After having a poke round the engine bay to see what else we wanted, we notice that dropping the front subframe was the correct(easier) way to get the motor out... Ah well. Every day is a school day!
A quick offer up of the 32' grille shell shows that the motor is going to be hanging out the sides of the car.. Epic!
The morning of day two sees us pull the rear end out which we do remove as a complete unit/sub frame.
And somewhere in the middle of all of the big bits coming out, the entire wiring loom was removed. Better to be safe than sorry with this stuff so we have everything if we need it... So much wiring in this car, it was optioned up to the eyeballs, I can't see us using the heated headlamp washer system, but we have the loom for it!
One final effort to drag the old girl on to the trailer and wave goodbye to her at the scrappy!