E28 M535i from Finland - The project that got out of hand!

[e30polak]

WOW! Amazing work! Can't wait to see the final result! Keep up the good work!

[anto125]

Insane.

[cossie]

Have been working under the car for past couple days, further cleaning and masking parts that i dont want to get stone chip coat on.

Today was time for seam sealer. Tomorrow ill paint parts of the floor pan with epoxy primer and apply some more seam sealer.
Hopefully i can spray new stone chip coat on sunday. ..and surface paint on monday or tuesday.

Ill post pics when i have some progress that i can take picture of..

-Timo

[Zacne_4]

First of all:
Well done for actually saving it as most of people would just leave to rot!

Secondly:
Very well done for everything you have done to it!

Thirdly:
More updates, pronto! Please I'm subbed!

[Miroteknik]

Awesome work man, very impressive.

[iSplits]

C3po?

Awesome work on this build so far, i also had to say that that piece looks like C3PO?

[Tony.S]

Just Awesome!

[cossie]

It's great to see someone do a ground-up restoration of an E28. Great work! Are those 850 T5 turbos?

Yep, with bigger compressor wheels.

EDIT: BMW a true art car: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_scream




-Timo

[D.E]

It's great to see someone do a ground-up restoration of an E28. Great work! Are those 850 T5 turbos?

Also:

[E90freak]

now thats a build thread loved reading that but now want more!

[piescauww]

Aaahhh man, I love it!! Now I wanna see the results

[cossie]

You have some crazy skills and unbelievable patience.
I've seen e28's with less rust go to scrap yard , so it's nice to see you bringing one back on the road.
Good luck with the rest of your build, and keep up the good work!

NOO! No E28 should go to scrap yard, especially if its not rusted bad..
Im thinking of building another e28 (or e23) to be my next winter/daily driver (possibly with M52B28 or M57D29. If you have good candidates there, i could come over and pick one up..

I'm impressed.

I thing is I think about: why didn't You put Your engine for donor car if that had body without rust?

There was two reasons. Firstly i wanted to keep the cars identity, original M-car. Also the donor car had rust, just in other places than this. By combining two i got one!

This is awesome work!!!! Not sure if I missed it but are you going to rebuild the engine and lower the 10:1 compression ratio?!

Yes, im going to rebuild the engine and no, im not going to lower the compression ratio.
I have one friend who has M30B35 with similar twin turbo setup running 430bhp, other friend has single turbo M30B35 running ~660bhp. Both with stock pistons and connection rods!!
Actually the 430hp one has completely stock engine internals apart from ARP head bolts and Cometic head casget.

this is fucking awesome! seems like fun too. crazy going with twins and fabbing everything on your own. mad props. i love it. are you going to run a standalone management? and upgraded fuel set-up? I wanna see more!!

I have a Haltech E6X, 660cc injectors, bosch -044 fuel pump and adjustable fuel pressure regulator waiting to be installed.

-Timo

[dubs&boost]

this is fucking awesome! seems like fun too. crazy going with twins and fabbing everything on your own. mad props. i love it. are you going to run a standalone management? and upgraded fuel set-up? I wanna see more!!

[rmehrIV]

This is awesome work!!!! Not sure if I missed it but are you going to rebuild the engine and lower the 10:1 compression ratio?!

[chris7]

That is some amazing work your doing , I am so impressed !!! I cannot wait to see the rest of it. Keep up the awesome work