Definatly acceleration every time!!
You really don't want guys in 10 year old diesel fords wasting you off the
lights do you??

Don't forget ... to much speed is illegal ... to much acceleration isn't.

I have one ... not sure it counts though as its in an E28. (e to i conversion).

But then i also have a spare 2.7i , all nice n' shiny in my shed.

Cor i had worse than that when a valve seat dropped on my old 520i back in 1996. The valve was fine ... the seat just got mushed to buggery because i drove it 3 miles home with the whole car shuddering like a dumper truck!! I bunged in a new piston ... with a complete set of rings on all six, replac...

Toby_Unna wrote:cool

I wanna do that.
Trouble is my E30 has met my grinder .... and the only engines i have
are m20's.

Question ... does the gearbox align the same with an m30 engine
or do you have to mess with its rear mounting and the propshaft
length??

pacerpete wrote:I think i best get some Haagen Daaz, i hope tesco are doing a bogoff !

BLARGH!!!

That stuffs more 'orrible than a face full of used engine oil.

I don't suppose tesco's are selling zintec steel sheet ... i feel the urge to
start welding my E28 coming on.

Who has one or has had one and what do you think of them? Cheers Aha ... i know a thing or two about E28 acceleration and rust patching!! Many so called "car experts" say these 525e's are slow. If they opened their f***ing eyes and looked at the stupidly high gearing they would see why. Give these ...

Arnt you the guy from the 5 series forums, who says his 525e will beat a 540i. Yes it is you. :) And one of the seven series forums as well ... all i need is a 1,6 and 8 series to complete the collection! As for slush box ... more like crash box!! The early (non-electronic) 4hp22 boxes don't tell t...

So why is my modified E28 525e (now 527i) badged as a 516i ?? Actually, its because i want it to "look" awfully slow. winkeye (You know the score ... a guy pulls up beside me in his 1 year old 1.4 litre vauxhall vectra and thinks "hey finally theres a car i can actually race off the lights and beat"...

Heres a quick video of my current "modified bmw" although i should be drifting over to E30 ownership in the near future. This is a standard E28 525eta auto which i bashed into mondeo tdci ass kicking shape 2 years ago. :twisted: In this video the eta autobox changes at 5000 rpm, although if i use th...

Hi all. I've been meaning to get stuck into this forum for ages ... in fact i registered long ago, then "lost" the forum when i changed pc. :( My bmw history started back in 1994 with a 1982 e28 520i, which i thrashed/blew up/fixed for 5 years, then after i sold it in 1999 i moved onto a 1985 e28 52...