Has anyone done a 5-speed swap in a E34 Touring?

[bahnstormer]

check out robb levinson's site

[DrewZ]

Oh yeah, that was some fun alright. Nothing like scrambling to find someone to volunteer for a 900-mile day trip on Memorial Day, and oh, by the way, we'll need to load up a 3.0l V8 into your vehicle for the return trip. It was actually a pretty smooth trip until traffic stopped stone cold dead on Rt. 80 in the middle of PA. Caravanning down twisty back roads was great fun in the newly-converted Touring. It was considerably less fun for my buddy in the Expedition with the 3.0l. :-|

I still have some parts from the donor car in my garage in addition to all the bits that are living on in a whole lot of cars in a whole lot of places. Just last week (4 years after the donor car arrived in my garage) I just got rid of the bashed up hood.

Bottom line is, in retrospect it was all worth it. Short of importing one, it's the only way you'll get a manual-trans E34 Touring in the US.

...I'm like 99.9% sure that Drew had your shop do it. I recall him trying to bribe someone to drive with him from NJ back to Cleveland with the 530 and a rig full of parts.

Not that it matters really...but it was a good story then and it's a good story now.

That...and the Imelda stories.

Maybe I remember this because part of the 540i/sport lives today on my 535i - the M5 front brakes!

Jeff