the rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated, also i own a e34 again

[Dave M]

Welcome back, nice find on the touring. I'm sure there is still crap on my e34 that came from you.....

[genphreak]

Too right, a warm welcome home Winfred, from downunder!

That touring looks low at the back- is it a sad LAD still? I imagine with a 535 rear end (3.65 or 3.91?) it could have had all that addressed but if at that height it may have stock sedan shocks, or something who knows what. I was close to putting an M60 in mine alogn with M60 Sport front swaybar with some adjustable links on a stiffer rear one too, though finding one would be a challenge.

Love the touring. Nothing better than a 95 with an M30/5 other than perhaps an S38, or my fave combo would be an M54 with a 5 or 6 speed, sport seats and an LSD. Have you got any LSD in yours?

[winfred]

sneaux and lots of it, well for loserana

[632 Regal]

sneaux and lots of it, well for loserana

Im in yeaster TN now, snow that heavy and they shut the state down.

[winfred]

yea they usually do that here as everybody looses their minds when the crystal meth starts falling, they did close 3 of the 4 closest mississippi river bridges but the main btr i12 bridge remained open, probably if it was 2 degrees colder it would've closed and the city would be paralyzed as you can't do squat around here without crossing a bridge

[winfred]

it finally stopped raining after a month so i had the motivation to leave the house, final stage torqued the head and adjusted the valves, welded in the coil and air box mounts then took it for a 9 mile drive and tank of fuel, don't think anything fell off and the 2nd tranny works nice, my short shifter is a success with e36 m3 lever, delren rail mounts and turner urethane rear body mount, just about perfect feel. i think the o2 sensor from the 525 exhaust is crap and i bought a new one but can find it, tach comes up when started but drops back to zero and the brake fluid light is on, but not in the message bar, thats annoying

[winfred]

[winfred]

for whatever almost certainly unrelated to the content of the thread reason this is about to crest 2 mil views, figured id load up something fun from the show https://youtu.be/9nALL_bQm9Q

[winfred]

engines in, wired up and its running, the 260/6 a buddy scored for me is ****, won't stay in 1st running on jackstands much less on the ground, bought another tranny and my hatred for fedex is renewed, was supposed to be delivered friday (wednesday now) and it keeps getting pushed back another day, tracking put it in town friday........maybe it'll show up tomorrow, and not be destroyed, but i'm not holding my breath on either count as cluster**** begets cluster****.
the pretty 3mm schidemann stainless equal length headers actually do not fit a e34 despite the site saying lhd e34, so that was more fun cutting and welding em into something that's not hard into the floor, headers are plumbed to the cats but i haven't modified my knock off BB triflo to work yet, chinesium polished stainless, looks pretty good but only offered for 525, 540 and 750il, i got the 750 (i had a stock shortened 750il catback welded into my old 90 535, the fat pipes have a nice deep sound) and have a set of resonators from a 535 bb triflo i'm going to weld to the front of the 750 muffler pipes, that way it'll bolt up to the cat with minimal drama, before and after pics of the 456 header, had to knock 3.25" off and change directions twice, the included adapter turned backwards and shortened for the 123 header mirrored my 456, one more elbow got em both down where band clamps connect it to the cats.
the wiring was a hoot as the chassis is a 95 but the engine came from i'm guessing a 89 so the body plug was the wrong gender, and has 1/3 less wires, not my first rodeo, i think i have all the relevant stuff locked down and working (tach did stop working so something is up i need to bug chase).
e30 oil cooler upside down is nearly perfect, early e32 735 OF housing, ebay AN adapter kit plugged into that, shortened and swedged the AN hoses onto the e30 pipes

[winfred]

got 2k miles now, obc is dialed to with in a mpg over the last 2 tanks with .820 correction factor. finally got the tach working, couldn't find anything obvious on the tach wire with my scope but when i bypassed the harness it worked so something is obviously shorted, so the bypass was routed and is permanent.
got a bluetooth adapter for the cd43 part# LPBMRBWW (for when the link dies) https://www.ebay.com/itm/Bluetooth-M...53.m1438.l2649 good sound, phone works hands free but its a little quirky in that you need to jack up the volume for phone but it immediately switches to music and blows your eardrums when the call ends, i may play with the dipswitches and see if i can get the respective levels closer.
headliner recover will likely be next then or paint touch up, got a few yards of material and adhesive so its down to when i wanna get my dick stuck in my zipper i can start that little slice of fun