BreakMyWindow

Mine is timing. Wash the car in the afternoon or when the suns out and lovely water spots all over the car. First thing in the morning or as sunset approaches I'm not motivated to go through the ordeal.

The juggernaut with an amazing engine.

seems odd to take the engine out of what looks like a nice car? Could be it suffers from really nasty cracking/spot weld failure in the rear floor like a lot of these do. Would definitely want to thoroughly check that. E46 M3 with a worked v12 would be tits though!

my guess is a gorilla at some stage in the cars life re-installed the door card after a regulator repair and the airbag wire got damaged.

Not throwing them somewhere within the waitakere ranges.

Not necessarily the bottom end - That implies a complete dissasembly of the moving parts in the block.

Any engine derived from a race design should consider rod bearings as a service item, among other things.

Great idea.

You’d hope not, the basket filters should be catching any crud the fuel line filter doesn’t.

The Mk1 Evolve headers, which are equal length 4-2-1 and have shown on dyno's to increase mid - high rpm range vs the Medusa's which mainly increase the high rpm range can be bought in the link below, for much less than the Meusa's.. http://www.russfellowsfabrications.co.uk/m5e39.html I look in to these Russ Fellow headers about a year ago and it was around 3.5k nzd landed.

Good chat. Happy motoring!

Any progress?

Can bullet proof it for a decent price on ebay.

Maybe the M stands for Munted undertrays..

Looks like it had rear subframe mounting area cracking repairs.

E39 interiors age much better than e34.

Annual Clay bar and wax job done!

Wet the rear window with the door card removed and then open the door. You’ll see exactly where the water comes through between the foam and the metal of the door. Removing old butyl is such a c&nt of a job, I completely removed all of it from the foam and metal on the drivers back door. Sika mastic and a caulking gun made it easy to apply a new bead on the foam. I got lazy with the passenger back door. I tried just heating up the old butyl and sticking the foam back down. Still leaked. So i just applied some sika mastic along the bottom of where the foam joins to the metal. This seems to have done the trick because i spent about 4 hours cleaning old butyl off the other door and there was no way i cbf’d doing that again in this humidity. The sika mastic is white coloured but you can’t see it once the door card goes back on.

Spending my only week off dealing with leaking rear door foam moisture barriers and a door card that’s separated. Old car fun.

I think ecstuning still do an interior sun visor for the front windscreen that’s for the e39.

Nanna’d it from Auckland to Gisborne. 3/4 tank of fuel used which worked out to be 10.4l/100km according to the obc.

Ignition Switch.

referring to muscle cars before they discovered independent rear suspension.

Like a modern day muscle car. Only good in a straight line.

Better, as in more expensive?