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Well I ended up putting in a offer on the 93 M5 @Jdesign had found last year and yesterday after class I went to pick it up

the drive was about 2 1/2 hours from Eau Claire, I rented a U-Haul pickup and trailer and it was a perfect day for the drive down. It was my first time towing anything ever and it was super easy, even with a 4000lb car on the back. Everything felt very planted. It was a great deal I thought at $220 for the 24 hours and 300 miles I had it.

Everywhere south of Arcadia, WI had some pretty impressive roads, hills and bluffs, especially closer to the Mississippi River. I’m definitely driving down that way this summer.

The seller was a great dude and was a huge help getting the car on the trailer

Its a 93, Schwartz II with a less desirable dove type interior. The only option it has is power seats, everything else is standard. The car is dead, but has around 190k miles on it

The full rig

I got back to Eau Claire around 9pm and unloaded the car, it then took my roommate and I two hours to push it 8 feet into my garage because the entire parking lot was ice. It was horrible, zero traction to push

secured in the garage

I haven’t even had the chance to look at it yet, this afternoon after class I’m going to dig in. A few things I’ve noticed so far, the car has no severe rust except for a area up front by the driver fender in the floor pan, a hole about the size of a ping pong ball. It’s surprisingly clean, rust wise. Honestly tho the car is beat to shit. It’s been sitting for 11 years, it last ran in 2008. The coolant reservoir is empty, and the oil almost seems sticky... maybe it’s just 20w50 in 19° weather? Just about every rubber line and hose in the engine bay is dried out.

This car/thread could go a few different ways

1. The motor hasn’t suffered some kind of catastrophic failure and I get it to run and drive and enjoy it 

2. The motor has suffered catastrophic failure and a s50 gets swapped in or something  (eh)

3. I part the car out, keep the wheels, mirrors, bumpers, skirts and rear trunk panel to put on a 530i/540i that I’ll daily (this is probably going to be the winning option)

Im pretty much looking to replace my Passat as my daily driver. Either way I want it to be a e34. For now I’ll post me messing around with the m5 and all my findings

Decided to sit in my car and go through the original 1998 BMW accessory catalog that came with it 

This is a actual BMW catalog, and in the bike rack section there is a e38 catching air over a hill and smashing into the ground lmao

Must be okay to jump e38's over railroad tracks, we all know what happens when you jump a e36 over one

Exactly how I picture every z3 roadster owner

patsbimmer1 said:

Unless its a WIbimmers member then figure a 2-5 year swap... 

At the rate of how slow I do things on my car, building something like this would probably take me 25 years

also, I worked out a deal on that e34 M5 and will be picking it up sometime next week!

YoungCR said:

All good suggestions. I’d over prepare for the first start being a high tolerance motor.  If you want to pull the tank, they are fairly simple on e34’s, just two tank straps to undo. The front strap bolts can be tricky if things are rusty though. 

Really cool that this car still has its dealer tags on the keys. The keyless entry system is easy to reprogram too if everything is working. 

The car has a new fuel pump and fuel lines, the previous owner just put the tank back in in the last two years

jc43089 said:

It sounds as though you have already cranked it, did the oil pressure light turn off?  If not I typically remove the spark plugs before cranking a dormant engine so that there is no load on the bearings.  Also adding a squirt of oil to the cylinders wouldn't hurt.  A bore scope would be handy to look in the cylinders for rust but if you already cranked it over then you already are past that.

I havent personally cranked it, but in the last two years the previous owner tried to get it to run on multiple occasions

I really appreciate the advice from everyone, I'm definitely going to put some oil down into the cylinders before I try to start it and put a quart through the motor. I'm probably going to pull the valve cover gasket to take a look at the sludge and make sure I see no obvious damage

For now, there isn't a chance I could have gotten it to run today. I went over the engine bay very thoroughly and found several different issues that would prevent the car from running.

The cam pulse sensor that surrounds a spark plug wire is destroyed. Unfortunately this is a $170 sensor, and is s38b36 specific and only available as a genuine BMW part.  @straight6pwr you were right, it's already expensive

Next pretty much every vacuum line is bad. The one off the fuel pressure regulator is completely split in half

The intake boot post-maf is torn wideee open

The maf plug was half plugged in 

So I need to order that cam sensor and a intake boot, and redo the vacuum lines. All pretty simple things, I'm going to pull the plenum off and redo all the vacuum lines while I wait for the sensor.

I did put power to the car today though, just to see if everything worked. All headlights, tail lights, turn signals all work. Blower motor works, windows work, all seat functions work. Radio turns on but nothing comes out of the speakers, assuming It's thanks to the hellish wiring and amp/sub set up in the trunk.

It was a good feeling to see the car come to life with power

Just under 192k miles

A lot for having sat the last 11 years, would probably be over 250k if it never stopped running

I spent most of the day just degreasing and cleaning inside the engine bay, it was really bad and now I have a pretty clean motor to work with

 

The itb throttle linkage was pretty gummed up, I really focused on that and it's much better now

Gave the car a wash on the outside the best I could without running water, I just wanted to make it look less like a abandoned car in the parking lot of my apartment haha

But yeah, no wonder the car wouldn't start... More to come

Hey it's 17 year old me.

I couldn't have been more lucky to have a M3 at 16 years old, weird to think I took it to high school everyday for 3 years, moved out and went to college with it and took it everywhere. Enjoyed every mile of the 30,000 I put on it.

I should be studying for finance but instead I'm in my feels 

Day 1, March 2013, the car looked like an abomination. I remember wanting to return the car to oem, and scrubbing the turn signals with acetone that night to de-tint them.

2014

early 2015 ft. @Rekpoint current wheels

fall 2016

Fall 2017

Spring 2018

Summer 2018 ft. @SteelBlue

Fall 2018

Summer 2019 coming out hot

RIP

$5 PayPal to any mod that deletes my drunken shenanigans

Ryan... said:

I can only imagine what they're asking for that...

I mean, I could message them to find out but I'm actually pretty lazy.

I'll let you guys know

@snap saw this at a thrift store 

Did a few things this past week, hopefully I can offer more technical updates soon haha

I'm a huge fan of vinyl windshield banners, DTM or Supertouring style

I went to the craft store looking for vinyl that was the length of a windshield, it just so happens that Joanne Fabric sell 4ft by 12in strips of vinyl in every color for those Cricket cake and vinyl machines, $9.99

Wide enough to have up to 8in of reduced visibility 

 

After my exhaust gaskets came, I threw on my Billy Boat catback that I picked up from @Rekpoint

It was actually pretty hard getting that right pipe to slide off of the midpipe, I didn't know they slide into eachother.

yea, thats a jack and 4 jackstands to support just the rear of the car. ️

I want to not cut corners with this car, but here I am cutting corners. Instead of buying fog light deletes, I just prepped and painted my fog lights because I had some color matched paint laying around. I did this because my fog lights aren't OEM, and it was free basically. If I wanna go back I'll buy nice ones. I also removed the bulbs so I don't accidentally turn the lights on.

No hanging plugs too

   

After wet sanding and installed, they need to be adjusted along with the bumper still.

Idk y, I thought this was funny

So today this came:

My brother thought that it was garbage when he saw it on the porch because the box was so badly beaten. You couldn't even pick it up without it folding in half, so it's a miracle it's all mostly here.

It's a UUC branded SSBC BBK kit. It's probably pretty old, but the seals and pistons all look nice, and the brake lines are in good condition.

I'm pretty sure stock M brakes up front would have been sufficient for anything I ever do, but I always wanted a BBK and it was $200 for everything so I really couldn't pass them up!

The pads still have compound on them, but they are cracking it looks like, so new pads will be probably $100

All of the crush washers are stuck crushed so I need new ones. I don't really know where all the washers and stuff go so that'll be interesting. I figured out that the pins hold the pads in and the little cotter pins retain them

The seller said the rotors were junk but I said send them anyway, and sure enough they have plenty of material left to be put on a rotor lathe. + for slotted!

I cleaned them up the best I could, they are pretty stained but I think it looks kinda cool. Might try harder later.

Learned what a Lancia 037 is today

Pretty damn attractive

Real promising start here, took me 3 seconds to see the crank position sensor wires are cut clean in half, not sure how or why that happened. Also I've noticed inside of the oil cap, the head has a nice creamy sludge pooled at the bottom off the head bellow the cams in those pockets. It's pretty thick gunk... I know moisture can cause stuff like this but it's pretty thick. PO told me he changed the oil last year when he tried to get it to run, and the oil in the pan looks perfect (although very thick). One observation I made is the oil is way overfilled. I wonder if the motor was filled with sludge that wouldn't drain completely when he added 8 quarts of fresh oil?

Under no circumstances does it seem normal to me, but I might be mistaken? the car did sit with the same oil in it for 10 years... I can't run most of the blown headgasket tests thanks to the car being a no start, and the cooling system being completely dry/ probably not holding pressure due to old hoses. I can do a leak down and compression test. Opinions? When I have more time I'm going to pull the valve cover gasket to better get a look at the inside of the head. 

also I discovered some subs and a amp under all the garbage in the trunk 

Looks like it has some kind of custom box for e34's, if anyone wants it all for super cheap let me know haha

Here’s just a few more pics of the car and some interesting things 

PO gave me a bucket of stuff from the car and these diagnostic tools were in it, along with a custom ground down spark plug socket (s38’s have very narrow spark plug holes)

also in the bucket was a 12v adapter that plugs into where the glovebox flashlight goes 

Car has all the keys it came with from the factory, I think. Also has full documentation from the dealer 

Break in period sticker from when the car was new, assuming this is pretty damn rare to see

full size m system spare and a almost complete tool kit

Few interior shots 

Rekpoint said:

When are we getting a 10 month update?

Heres my year and a half update lmao

This past summer I basically did nothing to the car, my Passat sat dead in the street and I just daily drove the M3 in near stock form.

In early November I got the Passat going and the M3 went into hibernation, I've slowly been doing random things here and there and put in a big order recently

My goals for the spring are to have the suspension completely sorted, lose a ton of weight and do some engine upgrades to try and make a little more power, I really want to get into doing some autocross and make a all around nice street car for the weekends that feels a little bit more raw to drive

The first thing I did was a deep clean, the interior and engine bay got pretty dirty driving the car every day last summer

 

The LTW seats are going to be washed and extracted soon. For a while I really wanted bucket seats but I decided the best thing to do for the car is to just keep the full factory airbags and restraints in place.

Pulled out my broken SAP and got the delete plates

The harness for my HK amp was cut when I got the car, and the radio was missing. All of the speakers were replaced with cheap Infinity ones so I just pulled them all out. I dont really ever listen to music when I drive the car, and believe it or not I probably saved about 40lbs between all of the speakers, the amp and the cassette player

Factory LTW radio delete panel

Next I wanted to pull some more weight, so I moved to the rear of the car to pull out all of the trunk carpet, sound deadening and rear seats. I want to keep this clean, so the factory wires will all be loomed and I'm thinking the rear seat area and trunk will be sprayed and glossed in the factory color by a friend of mine at a body shop in the spring

everything forward interior wise I'm keeping, all of the carpet and interior panels

I've been looking into light weight batteries so I can shed another 25lbs from the rear

I'm going back to plastic headlights because they weigh a lot less then my glass ones, and they also look gross missing all of the inside covers

Brand new floormats

New flex disc, center support bearing, fuel filter, all the bolts and exhaust hangers etc.

For power upgrades I picked up a bimmerworld 3.5" intake elbow and got rid of the asc throttle body.

I also picked up a AFE intake used, but unfortunately the head shield weighs like 20lbs, is rusty af and it doesn't fit quite right with the 3.5" maf even with trimming the bimmerworld elbow a ton. The intake is for a 3" setup, but the inside diameter of the pipe is close to 3.5", it bottle necks right before it to probably around 3.25", but I don't think it'll make a noticeable difference? As long as I can prevent heat soak

Picked up a M50 manifold kit from bimmerworld, and Gibsons came through with a absolutely perfect M50 manifold for like $10

Soon I'll be looking into getting some headers and a tune of some sort

I also picked up a UUC clutch stop, poly trans mounts, shifter rebuild parts and the bimmerworld pedal cover set in black (that I forgot to take pictures of installed)

I'd couldn't recommend the covers more, they are super grippy, not flashy and improve the pedal feel so much

After 2 months, my custom race height RTD V2 shifter and DSSR came in the mail, so I'm really excited with how it's gonna feel

Another thing that I had to wait for and got lucky with, a factory BMW motorsport shift knob to go with the RTD shifter.

 @Rekpoint sold me some kind of GT style low rise wing, probably gonna try and get risers for it

Also tracked down a pacific BMW plate frame, from the dealership that my car was sold new at

Andddd on Saturday I'll be picking up a first gen Max Velocity Evo splitter from the Plymouth area!

Sorry this update is all over and I'm a incompetent writer

Hey boys.

Some of you remember a while back I purchased a barn find e34 M5, I parted it out to the point where nothing of value is really left exterior and interior wise. The car has rust, and lots of it. I wanted to sell my M3 and rebuild the car, but the shell is just too rusty. I live in an apartment and was a little in over my head about pulling the drivetrain, so I'm gonna try to sell the shell with the drivetrain in it in classic ChrisO fashion. Every body panel is rusted or dented except the hood.

Cluster said 190k but the engine history is unknown if it's had work at any point.

Here's whats left

• 99.9% e34 M5 engine bay, has basically everything in it that it came with from the factory
• S38B36 Engine
• Full Wiring harness
• S38B36 ECU
• S38B36 5-speed transmission
• e34 M5 driveshaft
• 92/93 Large case 3.73 LSD 
• e34 M5 steering box
• Full front and rear suspension and subframes (SLS deleted)
• e34 M5 sway bars
• e34 M5 brake calipers
• Full all original exhaust

The engine needs work, the two outer cylinders were 130psi, and the 4 inner cylinders were about 60-70psi completely dry and cold, thats really all I know, I didn't do any further testing. Engine turns over fine. No oil/coolant mix in the rad hoses. Borescope showed no chunks missing out of the pistons or anything.  When I pulled the valve cover gasket it had a nice creamy oil mix in the head. PO put new oil in it, so the oil on the dipstick is normal. A few things I've noticed, the cam pulse sensor is broken, intake boot is ripped, and every vacuum line is dry rotted.

Hydraulic system is holding pressure and the clutch engages/ disengages, and the brakes work. 

Comes with keys and the car will still crank if a battery is in it

Would be everything you'd need to do a full M5 drivetrain and suspension swap. Will roll onto a trailer. Comes on DS2 wheels.

$2800 firm! 

Actually $2500 someone come get it, The trans and diff are worth that alone, make money off me!!

If anyone wants additional info or pics just shoot me a message, and of course anyone is free to come check it out!

 

I know there are some other photography gear heads on here, check out what I got at a ghetto pawn store in Appleton

I’m not sure if what I did was morally right, pretty sure they forgot a 1 infront of 349. I didn’t question it, just said I’d take it.

Took another trip down to Milwaukee today, the same guy I bought the LTW seats from offered to sell me a set of his rather rare wheels so I bought em

3 piece 17x8.5/17x9 +37 Fikse Mach V with 245/40r17 Bridgestone G-Force tires

Rear needs to come up a bit

The front wheels require spacers to not rub on my coilovers, and all I had laying around was a 20mm set. I'm thinking 5-8mm will be perfect up front when I'm actually going to drive the car.

The car already looks way different and is about 2 1/2 inches higher in the front! I'm starting to like this look way more then being slammed on stretched tires... Might drop down to a 235/40 because these tires are really beefy

Lmao

@GunMetalGrey