Hello Fellows !
I have been a member here for quite some time , but did not post about my car yet ! I´m ready to correct this now :)
The passion for bmws began when my father bought a 530 e34 1994, back in 95, from my uncle and it became the garage queen here in my house... i was 17 then... we still have this car ...
in 2007 i reserved some money to get a e34 manual transmission that i always wanted since young... it was then that i found out about the e34 M5 and i got one from a collector in Sao Paulo , a late model 1995 3.8 , great car ! i fell in love with /m cars and their history... too bad we have a few of those early m cars...
in the end of 2008 i heard about an IRS auction that was going to sell an m3 e30 !! well... we got lucky and bought the car ! cosmetically it was in really good shape , but mechanically it was really needing a good owner...
we had to change all suspension , brakes , etc... AND rebuild the engine...
I have a friend that is an /m engine specialist here in brazil , a real entusiast that i got to know because of the m5 e34 ...
We ended up going the 2.5 route and now recently we just went alpha-n with motec management and we are sorting things out right now...
let me tell you... if in the usa it is hard to do stuff with these cars , here in brazil it is 10x harder... but at the end, worth it !
enough with the words... images tell the story better :)
car at auction and messy engine bay:
parts galore:
the cat had something to say also:
the beauty of new parts from the mother land...
it is a shame to hide this inside the engine...
the suspension is HR race springs and bilstein sport shocks and ireland eng. sway bars ... old recipe from the foruns
brakes are all new OEM with braided lines , pfb pads..
this is how it looks like today :)
suited for some fun days:
last week.. new wheels and without all stickers and such:
that´s it for now !
I have been a member here for quite some time , but did not post about my car yet ! I´m ready to correct this now :)
The passion for bmws began when my father bought a 530 e34 1994, back in 95, from my uncle and it became the garage queen here in my house... i was 17 then... we still have this car ...
in 2007 i reserved some money to get a e34 manual transmission that i always wanted since young... it was then that i found out about the e34 M5 and i got one from a collector in Sao Paulo , a late model 1995 3.8 , great car ! i fell in love with /m cars and their history... too bad we have a few of those early m cars...
in the end of 2008 i heard about an IRS auction that was going to sell an m3 e30 !! well... we got lucky and bought the car ! cosmetically it was in really good shape , but mechanically it was really needing a good owner...
we had to change all suspension , brakes , etc... AND rebuild the engine...
I have a friend that is an /m engine specialist here in brazil , a real entusiast that i got to know because of the m5 e34 ...
We ended up going the 2.5 route and now recently we just went alpha-n with motec management and we are sorting things out right now...
let me tell you... if in the usa it is hard to do stuff with these cars , here in brazil it is 10x harder... but at the end, worth it !
enough with the words... images tell the story better :)
car at auction and messy engine bay:
parts galore:
the cat had something to say also:
the beauty of new parts from the mother land...
it is a shame to hide this inside the engine...
the suspension is HR race springs and bilstein sport shocks and ireland eng. sway bars ... old recipe from the foruns
brakes are all new OEM with braided lines , pfb pads..
this is how it looks like today :)
suited for some fun days:
last week.. new wheels and without all stickers and such:
that´s it for now !
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