Hello all! Here is my E34 M3!!

[Jobi]

Hi guys! I live in France and I'm building the E34 I dreamed of.

At the moment I could say I own a very unique E34 M3!!

Basically the car is a E34 '92 525i. The engine has been swapped for a Euro M3 3L engine (with proper gearbox, engine harness and ECUs).

The engine is fully rebuilt, with overbore BMW pistons, balanced crank, rod and pistons matched together, raised comp ratio, M3 3.2L headers, full ss custom made exhaust (with decat and with only small silencers in the middle), induction kit (couldn't fit the MAF from the M3 on my std airfilter box and couldn't fit the M3 airfilter box on my car), chipped and delimited ECU and non recirculated crankcase vapor. Oh,of course the engine is blueprinted.

Front axle is new and is M5 like (aluminium arms) and I'm currently rebuilding a spare rear axle from a 535i to have a 3.43 LSD rear diff, which involves M5 shafts.

I run on E39 M5 lookalike wheels (18') and I have fitted a E34 M5 seats (full leather and heated). The chassis is modified too: Bilstein/Eibach suspension, Zimmermann discs all round, EBC Redstuff pads at the front and braided hoses all round.

Equipment of the car is rather correct too: 4 electrical windows (fitted the rear electrical windows last month), climate control (non automatic, only the reguar one with two separate zones), sunroof, big OBC, check control, M3 leather gearknob,aluminium M badged pedals,etc. I hope to fit a tempomat and a M Tech II steering wheel soon.

I also have red/white rear lights, clear front indicators and eyes front lights.

here are some pics. Will try to post extra pics asap because an original M5 bodykit is due to be fitted very soon.










At the moment, and with the 3.25 rear diff, I have same performance as a std Euro 3L M3. (I just can't describe the face of the owner of the M3 when he saw I had the same block he has!! " WTF!?! How can you push harder than I do with the same block in a heavier car!?!? " me: )

I also matched the performance of a 3.8L M5. After the new rear diff is fitted I'll remap the car on the dyno to get all the last bhp from my engine.

Hope to have fun here!


Jobi


(just in case: all job done by myself)