Project e34 525i touring

[e34croak]

Looking good man! Saw both of these cars for sale. I had a touring way back, they're solid cars. Keep the updates coming.

[FireFight]

Project e34 525i touring

more parts for this weekend.
Rear rotors (already replaced the rear pads and front rotors and pads, but got the wrong rotors)
Valve cover gasket with bolt seals and spark plug tube seals
new oil cap
spark plugs
oil filter housing gasket
brake light switch (trying to fight that brake light circuit error)

[FireFight]

Thanks man, I love reading your wagon build thread so much I had to go find my self an alpine wagon haha


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[E30NJ]

Awesome touring! Subbed!!

[FireFight]

First old roundels wont do for my child's main source of transportation, all the other babies would make fun of him/her
front

after

hatch

after

now that was taken care of, the inner high beams looked a bit funny...

after


and of course a good wash.

now some interior work.
the steering wheel offered nothing in grip

good bye, hello a wheel from Austin! 540i


next the wood wast just to 1992, time to bring it to the 2015

trash

next the headliner needed some band-aid work until i redo the whole thing
Before: choking hazard

after

i also tossed new rotors and pads all the way around.
no pics, i wasn't in the mood

[FireFight]

Recently I found one of my sneaky little sperms decided to change my life forever. Im gonna be a father.
With that exciting new brought dispare when i realized my e21 would not be a proper family car and it was time to get something new.

At the time Sarah (my girlfriend of 7 years) was driving a 84 318i sedan and decided to blow the motor in that so after doing a m20 swap, It became my car




i wanted to get her something that was a bit safer and had more creature comforts.
so with my e21 sold, i went on the hunt and found a 92 525i touring.
I meet the owner at his old shop in Portland and fell in love with the car right away.
after a test drive we went to his "storage" to get the extra wheels the car came with.
When we got there is was a really rad shop when him and a couple other guys had rented to build classic BMW motorcycles.
he offered me and my buddy Katfish a beer and he hung out and talked cars and bikes for about 3 hours. Great guy, turns out he had the car for many years where he took great car and drove his pregnant wife to the hospital with it and brought back his baby daughter in it.

when i got the car home i started to make a mental list of things the car needed.
i also decided to make a actual list of thing i WANTED to do to the wagon.
-5 speed swap, i don't need the slush-box taking a shit on the way back to the hospital
-Remove all the SLS components, install H&R coils. SLS is to rough for a baby
-fix the sunroof
-bigger wheels
-shadow-line
-big kydney front end
-like almost all 90s BMWs the interior was pretty bad, headliner and door cars sagging those needed addressing as well

With some extra cash after selling my e21, I started to invest in some things that car needed off the bat.