Good afternoon everyone. I recently picked up a 95 e34 a few weeks ago. Im currently driving a mk6 jetta that ive done some basic mods to. It didn't take long before I got to the point where I was pretty much satisfied with how it looked and drove. Its pretty basic, only thing else I plan to do is a stage 1 tune, bbk, and a few other odds and ends but that's about it.
Ive always thought e34s and e28s looked pretty dope, they seem simple enough to work on, parts seems cheap, and I see a ton of them in the junkyard so I kept an eye out on craigslist and eventually this gold e34 5 speed popped up. It looked pretty rough from the pictures so I told myself if it was still for sale in a month or so and nothing better got listed I would go check it out. I call the guy up and we go back a forth over a few days trying to set up a day for me to come look at it. He seems to be busy just about every day I want to come, and I have to work every day he suggest so I have my brother go check it out for me. I tell him if it doesn't look like it has any damage and it starts and drives just go ahead and buy it. Fast forward two days and this is what I find sitting in my driveway when I get back from work .
I told myself I wanted a project car but this thing is pretty rough. Its got about 240k on the odo so im not to sure how much longer this motor is going to last. Other than that ive got no history on the car but I can tell it hasn't had any maintenance done to in a long time. Pretty much every fluid in the car is low, oil was black as shit, belts are cracked, leaks down the side of the valve cover. Its got a full tank of windshield washer fluid though .
So the plan is basically to bring this car back up to stage one. Going to be replacing just about everything. New paint, im thinking BCs for coilovers, and dropped on some 18s. Also going to pick up a spare m50 and prep it for boost when this one blows. This is just going to be a weekend car, going to try and keep the budget pretty low but we shall see how that goes. Thanks for reading!
Ive always thought e34s and e28s looked pretty dope, they seem simple enough to work on, parts seems cheap, and I see a ton of them in the junkyard so I kept an eye out on craigslist and eventually this gold e34 5 speed popped up. It looked pretty rough from the pictures so I told myself if it was still for sale in a month or so and nothing better got listed I would go check it out. I call the guy up and we go back a forth over a few days trying to set up a day for me to come look at it. He seems to be busy just about every day I want to come, and I have to work every day he suggest so I have my brother go check it out for me. I tell him if it doesn't look like it has any damage and it starts and drives just go ahead and buy it. Fast forward two days and this is what I find sitting in my driveway when I get back from work .
I told myself I wanted a project car but this thing is pretty rough. Its got about 240k on the odo so im not to sure how much longer this motor is going to last. Other than that ive got no history on the car but I can tell it hasn't had any maintenance done to in a long time. Pretty much every fluid in the car is low, oil was black as shit, belts are cracked, leaks down the side of the valve cover. Its got a full tank of windshield washer fluid though .
So the plan is basically to bring this car back up to stage one. Going to be replacing just about everything. New paint, im thinking BCs for coilovers, and dropped on some 18s. Also going to pick up a spare m50 and prep it for boost when this one blows. This is just going to be a weekend car, going to try and keep the budget pretty low but we shall see how that goes. Thanks for reading!
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