Kamil, I think we're pretty sure who most of the 540i Sport owners are...and this one doesn't sound like a board member.

The thing that makes the shocks so expensive is that they are special, active Electroni Damping Control units...quite sophisticated...more so than standard 1995 E34 running gear. The other suspension components (thrust arms, links, etc...) would need refreshing as well, but that would be true of any E34 in the 90k-120k mi range.

Re: the Nikasil engine...Jeff (632 Regal) and I will tell you that if the engine's tight now (leakdown check, not compression test, all cyls must be less than 15% - which is a fair bit...mine tested at 7%'s) that you are probably OK at this point so long as you feed it KNOWN low-sulphur gas...don't just trust the pimply-faced pump jockey, "Oh it's OK Mister...all our gas is low sulphur!" -- as Dr. Evil says....."R i i i i i i ght!" Make sure the vendor is a known produced that either posts, or makes available the refinery and supply standards for sulphur in the gas.

Other than that, 540i Sports and Canadian M540i's are pretty nice cars.

You might ask David Chen on the board here, what some of the 540i Sport/M540i gotcha's are, he has a nice blue M540i last time I checked.

Cheers,
Duey