Project e34 525i touring

[FireFight]

i'm doing a 5-speed swap on my touring next weekend. looks like your list is pretty good.

i'd consider re-sealing the trans and diff while you have them out, so you don't get a leak soon after. and maybe being picky and trying to get and LSD while you are at it. the fun of a 5 speed will increase even more with being able to control it!

you may also want to grab the exhaust bracket that is attached to the 5 speed on the donor car. for the m60 cars, it's different. not sure about m50 cars, but it wouldn't hurt to have it.

thanks for the suggestions, depending on where im at with my auto and if i have time to reseal it while i still drive it as an auto.bu t if im up shit creek i will have to toss it in and slowly fix what i can after

Badass. I've been really wanting to build an E34T with a manual trans. Nice work!

thanks, I have always wanted a touring. i also enjoy your thread so far on the diesel

[FireFight]

well this was being daily driven by my old lady, but on her way back home on i-5, it wouldn't shift in to 4th, so she had to drive at 55mph. needless to say she doesn't want to drive it anymore. so we traded and i gave her my e30 because i only drive 5 miles a day.
which means things are gonna get done alot sooner.
I have been restoring a VW bug convertible for my boss, that should be done soon, so ill have a decent pile of side cash to buy all my 5 speed parts.
but while i wait for that...
Im not a fan of chrome. so we took a nice sunny day off from work and did some work.

i masked off all the chrome, which there is a lot less then e30s so that was nice


had a couple "godamit" spots, nothing a bit of thinner wont take out

and bam! good bye chrome
i also got a replacement stereo because my lady got a MP# cassette stuck in the factory one, but while putting it on i think i blew the amp fuse.

more to come.

[straight6pwr]

i'm doing a 5-speed swap on my touring next weekend. looks like your list is pretty good.

i'd consider re-sealing the trans and diff while you have them out, so you don't get a leak soon after. and maybe being picky and trying to get and LSD while you are at it. the fun of a 5 speed will increase even more with being able to control it!

you may also want to grab the exhaust bracket that is attached to the 5 speed on the donor car. for the m60 cars, it's different. not sure about m50 cars, but it wouldnt hurt to have it.

[LuckyHenriksen]

Badass. I've been really wanting to build an E34T with a manual trans. Nice work!

[FireFight]

first chunk of 5 speed parts came in.
still waiting on a couple more deliveries and a 5 speed car to go to the junk yard

[FireFight]

here is list of thing i need for the 5 speed swap. note that i work at a parts store so alot of these prices may seem cheap
if you think of somthing im missing let me know

[FireFight]

Awesome! Gotta love e34 tourings.

As for the 7-series parts, a popular upgrade is to use the 750iL thrust arm bushings as they are heavier duty. Apparently your PO didn't get that memo and put on the entire 750iL thrust arm.

Yeah he missed that part haha. it wont be as sporty feeling as a e30 so my plan to keep it just a nice lowered stock, send the upgrades to my sedan

[CorvallisBMW]

Awesome! Gotta love e34 tourings.

As for the 7-series parts, a popular upgrade is to use the 750iL thrust arm bushings as they are heavier duty. Apparently your PO didn't get that memo and put on the entire 750iL thrust arm.

[FireFight]

It's a white out!! Nice updates. 5 speed swaps on the E34 are MUCH easier than my E39 :giggle:

oh i bet, i couldn't imagine what all goes in to swapping in a e39. at the junk yard this weekend I saw like 5 nice e39s, i think i need to get in to one soon haha.

[E30NJ]

It's a white out!! Nice updates. 5 speed swaps on the E34 are MUCH easier than my E39 :giggle:

[FireFight]

Update:
I fixed all the oil leaks (valve cover and oil filter housing gasket) as well as the spark plugs.
she is running great.
not to take care of the 4WD look in the front.
i meet a guy locally (Chris with a 535i) that hooked me up with front 45mm low tech spring for the touring. the rear has a good about of sag, so until i get around to deleting the SLS in the rear, the height is fine with me.
he also gave me a front plate delete

before

during

after

not slammed, but better then before. andmy lady is driving it daily so it cant be to low if i value the oil pan
alpine gang

I can feel the trans not wanting to shift in to the next gear randomly, so i have started to stock pile 5 speed swap.
more on that soon enough

[bmwstudent]

Looking good, nice detective work on those radius rods. It can be difficult figuring out what po's have done to our cars in the past.

[tak7]

You're doing it right, nice work.
Only thing i don't like is the plan for kidney change, but who cares

[kensol20]

Looking good I love the ride

[FireFight]

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

thanks man! i really dig this car alot.

So when i bought the it came with a bunch of sets of wheels, my favorite set was 17" style 18s.
the cars ad had a pic of them on the wagon, but when i got the car it had the 15" style 5s.
when i went to go change them out i found that the 17"s wouldn't fit because the wheels where way to far forward.

i wasn't to upset thinking the car just needed the front end adjusted, the PO said he put all new suspension in the front.
i took it to the alignment shop and the guy said the wheels where totally off but as for the caster issue, there wasn't any adjustment for the car, it must have something else wrong.

i taught back to when i got the car and the guy said something about putting 7 serise parts on, and with the help of the boys over on BF i found my problem

he it was

with them being longer they pushed the wheels way to far forward.


so i put the correct ones back in and got alignment done again for the second time that day.

with the car now driving straight and handling properly, i put some new directional rubber on the front wheels and away it rolls




now i need to fix that stance...
among other things