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I have this thing an awful long time. It was my first car when I was 17. At 15 or 16 I used to read performance BMW and I saw a (thinking back now it was fairly horrible) murdered out e34 on AC Schnitzers. It was around then I decided I was going to save up and make an e34 my first car.
I unfortunately cant source pictures of when I got it. Maybe on an old computer if I come across them Ill post them later. My parents were over and back to the UK a bit with work so one trip I equipped them with all my savings and politely asked them to return home with a black e34 with a sunroof. It was a lovely standard car on 15 bbs with what I can only describe as the squidgy-est suspension ever fitted to a car.
Heres some pics from when the car last turned a wheel circa 2010.
I had just finished transplanting an m52 engine from a new shape 523i. It subsequently boiled its brains out and my interest diminished and the car lay around for a few years. This was maybe 2009 or 2010.
Roll forward to last year. I had been gather odds and ends for about 12 years for the car and last year I swapped some stuff for an M54B30 engine. Which is the 3.0 from a 2003ish E39.
I trailered it to the shed, put it on the ramp and begun to prep it for the new to me engine. Unfortunately as I raised the ramp the car didnt travel up at the same speed. On closer inspection the jacking points were all found to be completely
ed. Bugger.
Luckily Im friends with a panel beater who isnt afraid of some rust. The jacking points all had to be cut out. It turns out the sunroof drain terminates within the sill as standard. The jacking points were an old design also where 3 skins meet and are joined facing vertically down. Its a terrible design and prone to damage when being jacked up. Thats another way of saying I was very careless with the jack when I was 17. Because of this flaw I asked him to put in jacking points from a modern BMW. He used e46 jacking points welded to some sturdy box iron. This really is strong as, I took the hammer to it to test it out and all I did was chip some paint.
When it was all buttoned up it looked like this.
I asked him to just make it strong and functional. I will be covering the sills with skirts anyway so no point wasting time on the appearance. The jacking pad from the newer car was fitted here also. Much better job.
While it was in with him and he was painting the sport kit I asked him to paint the engine bay. It was fairly tatty looking so this freshened it up.
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I unfortunately cant source pictures of when I got it. Maybe on an old computer if I come across them Ill post them later. My parents were over and back to the UK a bit with work so one trip I equipped them with all my savings and politely asked them to return home with a black e34 with a sunroof. It was a lovely standard car on 15 bbs with what I can only describe as the squidgy-est suspension ever fitted to a car.
Heres some pics from when the car last turned a wheel circa 2010.
I had just finished transplanting an m52 engine from a new shape 523i. It subsequently boiled its brains out and my interest diminished and the car lay around for a few years. This was maybe 2009 or 2010.
Roll forward to last year. I had been gather odds and ends for about 12 years for the car and last year I swapped some stuff for an M54B30 engine. Which is the 3.0 from a 2003ish E39.
I trailered it to the shed, put it on the ramp and begun to prep it for the new to me engine. Unfortunately as I raised the ramp the car didnt travel up at the same speed. On closer inspection the jacking points were all found to be completely
ed. Bugger.Luckily Im friends with a panel beater who isnt afraid of some rust. The jacking points all had to be cut out. It turns out the sunroof drain terminates within the sill as standard. The jacking points were an old design also where 3 skins meet and are joined facing vertically down. Its a terrible design and prone to damage when being jacked up. Thats another way of saying I was very careless with the jack when I was 17. Because of this flaw I asked him to put in jacking points from a modern BMW. He used e46 jacking points welded to some sturdy box iron. This really is strong as
, I took the hammer to it to test it out and all I did was chip some paint.When it was all buttoned up it looked like this.
I asked him to just make it strong and functional. I will be covering the sills with skirts anyway so no point wasting time on the appearance. The jacking pad from the newer car was fitted here also. Much better job.
While it was in with him and he was painting the sport kit I asked him to paint the engine bay. It was fairly tatty looking so this freshened it up.
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