BMW e28 535i Touring

[fackinsteve]

This is going to be amazing

[Okoye]

I saw one for sale in the united states once. I'd love to have one of these.

[Leksii]

So, i guess would be rude not to do a buildthread here seeing as a picture of the car has been circling arond the social media.

This all started when i spotted a topic on a local bme forum and i brought up the quite rare touring up and someone posted an 6 year old comment from some random forum and contacted the guy and he had this car still and had started working on it in the past month so i was just in time, i wisited the guy and a month later went to pick it up, after selling parts of my old e28 v8 project.






Histoy of the car

BMW never made a touring from the factory but ordered at least this one to be shown in the frankfurt autoshow since they wanted to find out if there was a market for an estate model and in the e34 it was offered then. This is to my knowing the first ones to be built and i´m told this was at displayed at the 1987 frankfurt autoshow.

This left the factory as an 525 and was made an 535i with m30b35 + Hartge headers and painted diamondswartch. Now it has been painted cosmoswartch, wich in my mind is a lot better color.

(some of this is hearsay and things the last owner told me so i´m not 100% everything is correct)

There are two kinds of touring

Oldenhof (prefacelift touring)



Schluz (facelift malli)




Progress

Moar pictures here

F30 M Performance brakes, bolt on, didn´t fit with a 16" wheel, lets see if they fit with a 17" wheel.



16" OZ Futuras, with stainless steel lips, will be made an 9.5" and 10.5" set, will probably sell them though and get a set of 17"



The rear seat has been changed and an e30 seat wich can be folded has been put allready by the last owner, i need to just tweak it a litlebit and finish off the mounts.






And the fawourite part, putting the wiring back in...

[img]http://leksi.kuvat.fi/kuvat/e28%20Touring/IMG_9702.JPG?img=1280/img]

This was cut for some reason



Does somoena have good pictures as how the wires go inside the car??







Some tinting on the lights







Some bits and pieces need to be acuired, AC compressor, black glowe box





New exhaust with one silencer wil be fitted



Some sandblasting for the parts





Thingking of getting rid of the shadowline parts and putting on chrome parts



rear windows need to be custom made, since they were glued on and broke when the car was prepped for paint


And to finish of with the picture that some of you may have seen





To be continued... *8)