Another new member and a pic of my E34

[jrobbo]

Hi all,

I was talking to BigKris over at Eurocca a couple of days ago and he told me about this place, so i've wandered over to say hi.

I'm the proud owner of an E34 M5, it's one of the original OZ delivered cars. I've had it for nearly 8 years now, it had 92,000 kms on it when I bought it, and today I clocked over 199,000kms. The car had an engine rebuild at 107,000kms.

The car has a few mods to it, including:

• EAT (Mark D'Sylva) Chip
• SLS rear suspension replaced with Eibach springs and Bilstein shocks
• Front shocks are Koni Adjustables, stock springs, but with E30 spring isolators
• 18" M Parallel wheels
• UUC Short shift kit with new gear linkages
• Racing Dyamics strut brace

I've just bought clear corners and Xenon lights for it as well, which I will fit in the next few days.

I've been pretty keen on detailing lately, and spend far too much time on it. At the moment, it's looking better than it ever has, I've removed just about all of the microscratches in the paintwork, and it's really shining, I love it!

Here's a couple of pics:




i've had a look around this forum, and there's some great looking E34's here, so i'm looking forward to hanging out and chatting about our favorite cars!.

Regards

John

[Rob]

Welcome to the board, John.

Very nice E34 there, love the wheels. Clear corner wil also improve the look.

I'm Robert, by the way.

Enjoy the stay.

[kev535i]

nice car welcome the more aussies the better

[31Hertz]

Howdy, John! That is a fine looking M5, especially with the wheels. ME LIKEY! An engine rebuild at 107k km's? Whew!

I have only been a member for a short while, but if i may: Welcome, sir...

[BigKriss]

Welcome aboard John, what are E30 "spring isolators"?

[ILoveMPower]

I can't express in words the beauty of your car! Perfection!

EDIT: Is it Daytona violet?

[angrypancake]

EDIT: Is it Daytona violet?

I think it's just so clean it can almost appear purple?

Post more pics! That's an amazing beast, sir.

[genphreak]

Hey John, thanks for posting a set of damn-near showroom pics to shame us! That looks like a fine piece of work- a labour of love from factory to 2006, I bet that car has it better than most, though I've no doubt that most of us e34 owners love their car as much... but she is a tribute to a great amount of effort, well done. Puts my paint to shame for sure, but one day I'll get to that. I always needed an M car too but I make do with Freida, she is my babe... but she's a tad older and she's a little cranky with me this year, I think she's telling me I've still got a lot of work to do....

Can you let us know how much a set of those M-Parallels would cost in Oz, are they hard to get? Since we don't ahve M5s we can live with replicas of course. YOu should come up to Terrigal with us, we're all going to be driving up- meeting at Thornleigh I believe... do come along, you'd be very welcome. But yes no racing en Convoy, I think I know who'd win Nick

[Anthony (M5 in Calgary)]

Welcome John. Your car looks great.

You should know that I partially blame your M5 Springboard website for my purchase and subsequent 5+ years of ear-to ear grin motoring in my M5.

My SLS is going under the knife shortly to get some new bombs. Shocks are OK but the back suspension is very jiggly and now that I've got the blown Koni (lasted 2 months) replaced the rear ride is bugging me.

This site is still the best E34 reference on the web.

[dacoyote]

Nice Car...