Well feast your eyes on this lunacy! 6-1-19 tinker

simon13 · Post by **simon13** » Sat Jul 29, 2017 1:15 pm

bigger T28 turbos aswell then!

All in the thought process at the moment, not sure when i'm getting up there to pick car and parts up yet

E24man · Post by **E24man** » Sat Jul 29, 2017 2:43 pm

robmarrs · Post by **robmarrs** » Sat Jul 29, 2017 6:35 pm

Saw that this morning too.

BC Racing do a very nice kit (IMHO) for the E34 as well, fitted a set to my E34 Racing Dynamics K38 Track Day toy a couple of years ago. Top adjustable with spherical bearing adjustable camber plates as well.

The only down side with all these kits you have to cut up your original front strut cases and weld the new tubes to the stub axle, I think GAZ will do this for you for a fee, so might be worth buying a S/H set to do that to as I did.

Set on ebay at the moment here

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BMW-E34-E32-S ... Sw4dxZdSFO

simon13 · Post by **simon13** » Sat Jul 29, 2017 10:36 pm

One of the front struts was smashed up in the accident

simon13 · Post by **simon13** » Wed Aug 09, 2017 11:00 pm

So today i picked up all the history for this

Its pretty exhaustive for its UK history and there is a little german stuff. All the import papers etc Martin Pearse of MCP originally imported the car over in 1999 it seems

The first UK owner after that was super anal, from the last MOT, the Bi turbo engine has covered about 125,000 KMS which is about 77,000 miles so google says. Thats mega low milege for the 13! Receipts in there for a clutch on 93k (phew) and two new turbos on about 100k. So upon inspection of both i might be onto a stronger start with this one!

I've been busy collecting parts also

This box came from Holland from a very nice man who has sent me a LHD M5 steering box, its less turns lock to lock and i noticed this as a big difference compared between driving my old bi turdo and the M5

The inner pervert in me LOVES door blinds! So i was lucky a guy in latvia sold this kit to me with all the little NLA bits and i had these door cards in stock and its all in matching black!! Result so this rear door blind retro fit should be much easier than i did on the M5.

Also some Racing dynamic anti roll bars, they're thicker than the M5 stuff and adjustable so never a bad thing. I've also got a retro fit heated rear seat kit! ideal for this car as the front seats are heated

I need to arrange pick up but Phil Crouch is on holiday where the car is stored. I'm in no real hurry as i'm on a good roll with the E30 and this will be a distraction! I'm trying to sell off a load of stuff i'm not going to use. I've a fair amount i didn't realise just quite how much spares i'd got for the old M5 and E36 i just sold

simon13 · Post by **simon13** » Sat Aug 12, 2017 11:35 am

I've been digging on pistonheads and found the original build thread for this car

Here are some interesting shots of the original car post accident

Interesting

Metrics · Post by **Metrics** » Sat Aug 12, 2017 12:32 pm

Interesting indeed.

Imagine how difficult it will be in the future finding information like this in the archives thanks to photobucket ruining all old threads with hosted photos

simon13 · Post by **simon13** » Mon Sep 04, 2017 12:12 am

The Eagle has landed

This is the mountain of parts not fitted that could be found/seen/remembered at Phils back passage.

all loaded up, these are fat old things to push around!

This is going to make me go very grey haired! Its hard to know where to start tbh, as eveything is so muddled up and bits missing. Bulk of it seems to be there....i'm not quite worried its quite a mistake that i sold 2 uptogether old cars for this

I could get buried in it though. I've just the van to drive at the moment so missing having a car i can drive! First world problems

thanks to my mate Henry for towing it home a V6 toureg is quicker than my T5 towing an E34!

ChrisLux · Post by **ChrisLux** » Mon Sep 04, 2017 1:32 pm

Good luck Simon, looking forward to following the build

Post by **Charles** » Mon Sep 04, 2017 9:32 pm

Looking forward to the thread

You won't be surprised to know that the vacated space at CPC has already been filled

hap · Post by **hap** » Mon Sep 04, 2017 10:35 pm

Looked a nice motor on white before the prang suits the e34 shape

simon13 · Post by **simon13** » Mon Sep 04, 2017 10:56 pm

I think it was Hap from what i've been told. Phil looked after it long before it was crashed. It did have smoked hella headlamps and tail lamps which are a bit marmite

No surprise there Charles, mans a loon with some of the work/cars there. There a whole row of stuff on left all need shifting on.

darren_mk · Post by **darren_mk** » Wed Sep 06, 2017 10:00 am

It looks epic in white, i would re-shell it back to the way it was but i know you love your tourings.
Best of luck with it!

simon13 · Post by **simon13** » Thu Sep 07, 2017 10:23 pm

darren_mk wrote:It looks epic in white, i would re-shell it back to the way it was but i know you love your tourings.
Best of luck with it!

True, a nice e34 in white looks great. Part of me thinks this will be worth more in a touring shell though?

More so than if it was re done into another white saloon. It wouldn't be complete as the alpina recaro leather seats were stolen by a nice aussie!