E34 525i Sport

Post Wed Jul 27, 2011 7:51 pm

Result! Proper Executive! Manual/Auto? Spec?

Post Wed Jul 27, 2011 7:58 pm

M5 splitter?

Post Wed Jul 27, 2011 8:00 pm

Arctic Silver 525i sport Manual, A/C (Not working yet), Intensive wipers (Not working yet), Half leather. LSD works.

A bit tatty but its honest and cheap.

Post Wed Jul 27, 2011 8:12 pm

Nice one Mo

Post Wed Jul 27, 2011 8:14 pm

Blitz wrote:Arctic Silver 525i sport Manual, A/C (Not working yet), Intensive wipers (Not working yet), Half leather. LSD works.

A bit tatty but its honest and cheap.

Looks nice Mo. No metric wheel wrongness either.

Post Wed Jul 27, 2011 8:14 pm

Nice chariot - you've been after a 525i Sport for a while havent you

Post Wed Jul 27, 2011 8:21 pm

Superb - these are a great old bus.

There was a Daytona violet one on Egay but it was up in Cumbria and he'd set his buyer preferences to eliminate non Paypal losers like me.

Sold for £338.

Post Wed Jul 27, 2011 8:55 pm

Also listed as a press car on the Build sheet, whether that means much or dont know.

Post Thu Jul 28, 2011 6:17 pm

been a long time coming one of these! cab being sold on then?

Post Thu Jul 28, 2011 6:53 pm

Simon13 wrote:been a long time coming one of these! cab being sold on then?

The cabs been put away in the garage.

E34 is going to need some welding.

Post Thu Jul 28, 2011 7:02 pm

Blitz wrote:
Simon13 wrote:been a long time coming one of these! cab being sold on then?
The cabs been put away in the garage.

E34 is going to need some welding.

THey all do.. bloody sills!

nice one, enjoy!

Post Fri Jul 29, 2011 11:30 am

tbh I have found the e34's to be rust free or only very minor, top build quality on those lumps imho

Post Fri Jul 29, 2011 7:33 pm

love it, i was so close to getting a 525 before I got the e36, still dont know if I made the right choice.

Post Mon Oct 10, 2011 5:38 pm

Side skirts going back on tomorrow finally. Sills and inner, outer wings coated in wax. E34's rust badly where they fitted with side skirts and never cleaned out. Luckily mine only required minor localized welding, but I've seen E34's where massive sections of the sill and bottom of the inner wing crumble away.

Post Mon Oct 10, 2011 6:39 pm

I take it the brown stuff is wax not rust?

I have also found more to be rust free and ive weighed in plenty of E34 breakers.
I took the skirts off my touring a year or two ago and its all mint, loads of mud but solid, same as the rest of the floor/front end.
Best way to keep them rust free is to keep them oily/waxed up underneath.

Hows the bootlid? Common rust area

Post Mon Oct 10, 2011 8:03 pm

Yeah theres some around lip/number plate area. Not a big deal as its mostly hidden. I'll sort that out some other time.

Post Mon Oct 10, 2011 8:12 pm

Its usually in the seam under the lip, just chip the scabs off and soak in some waxoil, it wont get any worse that way

Post Mon Oct 10, 2011 8:16 pm

Are those wheels OEM ?

Looks better on the BBS in the first pics

Post Mon Oct 10, 2011 8:25 pm

There style 14's. OEM made by BBS.

Post Mon Oct 10, 2011 10:02 pm

You talk about rot under body kits, barry pulled the skirts off the 92 535 sport breaker on sat

I'd say the best part of the rear 6 inches of the offside sill would need cutting out. I hope he has photos. Yet the sills on my old 93 525 se are still mint. I still see a lot of the car despite having sold it in 2003. No kit see!

Post Mon Oct 10, 2011 10:10 pm

My B10 needed welding to the sills by the jacking points and that had no kit from new.

Retarded tyre fitters firing a trolley jack under the sill is what did it.

Post Mon Oct 10, 2011 10:13 pm

Barry was yours based on a sport?

Post Mon Oct 10, 2011 10:44 pm

No mate but i since fitted a sport rear bumper and i have the sport skirts to go on.

Post Thu Oct 13, 2011 6:46 pm

Skirts back on finally. Chuck a bucket of water over it and its looking pretty tidy.

Phone pics are crap. Looked better in the flesh.

Post Thu Oct 13, 2011 9:18 pm

Very nice dude!

Enjoying it day to day?

Post Thu Oct 13, 2011 11:30 pm

I like the style 14s, I looked for a set of 17s for my e28 for a while without success. Nice motor mate

Post Fri Oct 21, 2011 4:42 pm

Finally got round to replacing the rocker cover gasket.

Coil packs off first

I dont know what that is

Oil residue

Cams look good. 167K on them.

Three of the spark plugs where in so tight it turned the job twice as long.
Left 6 to 1 right

The same cat that managed to get inside my car last time wants to have a look

New Gasket with some sealant above the vanos and bottom left of head. Also Some new NGK plugs.

All done

Theres a slight pulse on idle. Will check everything is secure tomorrow.

Post Fri Oct 21, 2011 8:17 pm

Fackin' 'ell, that looks better than that night at the ace. Scrubbed up well mo.

Is that the only pussy that you can pull?

Post Sun Oct 23, 2011 10:56 am

what sort of mpg do you get out of it blitz??

Post Sun Oct 23, 2011 12:43 pm

Not sure what its like in the city. About Late 20's. Mid 30's on the run.

M50's are economical if you drive sensibly.

Post Sat Oct 29, 2011 8:48 am

Looks tidy! Amazing how cheap these can be had these days

Post Sat Oct 29, 2011 4:54 pm

On the way back from Gatwick, Feathering the throttle 60-70.