You slaaag !

[Splondike]

I finally got round to taking the bucket and harness out from the recent track outing so it's driveable on the road again ! and gave her a clean up.




Inside, here you can see my newly fitted pedals before the trackday to carry on making the interior a little more grown up again... fitting the new accelerator pedal was more challenging than I expected !

[steve_k]

looking good dude,

what wheels are they??

[Splondike]

They are MIMs of some kind in 17 x 8.5, they used to be on a mates 528i. I just had them blasted and painted bronze for track duties, they are not in the best of nick but make it look a little menacing.

[steve_k]

looks a lot better with the borbet B's on

[Splondike]

Yes I know The Mims are track only, I will swap to these for the rest of the winter.



The Borbets will re-appear in the spring.

[mani]

This looks great on any set of wheels

[B7]

^^^^^THIS. it would look good even sat on bricks. Lovely car.

[lyricalnut02]

beauty

[Rosc0PColtrane]

Very cool! More pics and details plox

[Splondike]

What do you want to know Nathan ?

It's a 1985 M535i. Has a Fritz six branch manifold and Powerflow system.

Brakes are E32 302mm vented fronts with E34 540 300mm rears and yellowstuff pads it has braided hoses and runs ATE superblue fluid and thus far has seemed to be a decent enough setup on road and track.

Suspension wise, I put brand new Bilstein B6 dampers and Faulkner springs which are Hartge spring rates. The anti roll bars are Whiteline Heavy duty ones and make a big difference to the amount of roll. I replaced all the bushings and top mounts etc at the time and fitted front and rear strut braces. It also has K-Mac stage 2 adjustable top mounts up front, which I put on to try and combat the understeer tendancy on track, they help and it handles very predictably and is great fun. I know it's never going to be the fastest thing round a circuit but it certainly provides plenty of smiles.

When I replaced the rears and associated bits...


Mods:
Taurus red leather trim
Full stainless steel Powerflow exhaust
Fritz’s Bits Six branch manifold
K&N panel filter
E32 (302mm vented) front brake conversion
EBC 3G discs and Yellowstuff pads
E34 M5 (300mm vented) rear brakes
Braided brake hoses
ATE super blue racing brake fluid
D Faulkner custom made Hartge spec springs
Bilstein B6 Dampers
K-MAC stage 2 adjustable top mounts
BMW Z3 2.8 Short shift
Whiteline heavy duty uprated ARBs
Sony gigapanel head unit / Infinity basslink
Storm Motorwerks 500g Gear Knob and Handbrake handle - Now BMW E34 and original gear knob.
Tinted rear indicators
Tinted cross hair head and driving lights
Black and Chrome Kidney grilles
Clear front indicators (rare Hella examples)
Clear side repeaters
Sparco (Alpina) front strut brace
BMW rear strut brace
8.5x17 and 10x17 Borbet B Wheels or 8x17 Throwing stars or 8.5 x 17 Mims
Rear headrests
Leather handbrake gaiter
Rear blind
M5 Map light mirror
Audi Quattro Oil pressure / Oil Temp / Volts gauges
Interior light delay
Aero wipers
Alpina three spoke steering wheel
Lamin-x tinted fog lights

[e30topless]

I'm not a fritz fan but their E28 system is just sweet the M30 sounds lovely with one

I also enjoyed reading your rescue thread over on 5, very happy that it turned out well in the end

[Splondike]

Yeah it does sound great and yes thankfully it had a happy ending !

[spook]

Awesome car