Brian's 1988 Bmw 535I E28

[e30saam]

^My thoughts exactly. M535i here in the states was M30 powered.
An that's sad to hear about E28's over there. mine is mint. Only a rusty fender and spot on the door. other then that my E28 is super clean!

BMW never brought M535i's over to the States. the only ones that are over here are gray market imported ones. The U.S. got 535is instead of the M535is. Cool e28 btw. I want a manual 535is so bad.

[Brian.]

Very true they did.

[Wurst_e30]

The Hartge air dam is sick for sure, wish I could picture it on the e28.

And scrolling through this now has me kicking myself for selling my e30 and wanting another old bimm. :/

[Brian.]

The Hartge air dam is sick for sure, wish I could picture it on the e28.

And scrolling through this now has me kicking myself for selling my e30 and wanting another old bimm. :/

Thanks man. going to, "test fit" it today.. See how much I like it.

And get another!

[Wurst_e30]

Few and far between around Birmingham, I could always check Atlanta or Nashville but it'd be hard to find someone wanting to trade a z32 for one.

[Brian.]

Few and far between around Birmingham, I could always check Atlanta or Nashville but it'd be hard to find someone wanting to trade a z32 for one.

picture? I'd totally trade for a Z32!

[Brian.]

On a different stroke. I went out into the brutal Wisconsin winter weather, like a traditional wisconsinite!
Actually not that bad. it's like 40 out. so it's not terrible.

This is what the air dam looks like half ass mounted on for a test fit.




As you can tell, the lower rear valence will require some modifiying to full fit/look good. But I think it looks decent.

Opinions?

[BrandonMcKiernan]

really like the valence. a little cuttin willget her all nice and in

[Brian.]

it seems everyone loves it. I don't know how I feel about it just yet.. I guess time will tell!

[Brian.]

Also, I did an E28 taillight mod, because the factory running lights on these are about the size of a playing card and not very bright. I decided to make it bigger, and alot brighter.

Pics will come later tonight when it's actually dark out!

[Brian.]

Front valence mounted! Took a little fender pulling (Alot actually) to get it to mount up correctly. But I will say, I'm pleased as to how it turned out. Just needs to be painted, and have the under valence modified+ mount them together for extra support, anyways. PICTURES!


Shitty gas station shot in the ghetto. You can see how the under valence shows through, all goofy like.


This thing needs to be color matched....

[Brian.]

So, previously I mentioned doing a tail light mod. This is what it looks like, and how I did it. (Stole this from my super non-updated build log on the Wibimmers website.

So, if you've ever seen Chris or me driving at night from the back, our cars aren't easily seen. The running lights in the rear, aren't very bright, or a very big lit up area. So I took action. And did a little tail light mod that was actually pretty simple.

This is what most E28's look like from the back at night (not my photo, mye28.com):


And this is what mine look like:


These are significantly brighter, and more of a light up area.

This is what I did to help the situation. (hope you like my mad awesome paint skills.



Any questions, comments, concerns. Feel free to lemme know!

Later down the road, I've got some expensive LED lights I wanna throw in there, so it can aid in the brightness/being seen further away.

[milano_red]

In for more pics of your girlfriend haha

But seriously, the car is sweet, what wheels are you planning on?

[Brian.]

In for more pics of your girlfriend haha

But seriously, the car is sweet, what wheels are you planning on?

I'll uploaded another tomorrow

And these:


Saleen replica wheels 17x10

[Brian.]

If not saleen rep's. I want another fat 5 spoke design with a lip. I love the look of fat five rims on my E28. It pulls it off really well. And it's a different look considering alot of people are running mesh style rims