Azmontana

Just need to finish of the sills and have a full respray. Finding time seems to be the difficulty at the moment.

I typically find the part number and search on google or eBay for the best deal.

True if you buy direct from BMW but you can get OEM parts for a fraction of the price. I just checked my parts by for the M5 and I bought a valeo pump for £165. Massive saving!

If its been sat for a while it will need a refresh. But get it up to temp and look for any leaks. I had two leaks one from the radiator and one from the heater matrix which I only discovered when I'd replaced the radiator. Good luck depending if you are local to the Manchester area then happy to help more if needed. To answer your other question unfortunately not I ended spending time rebuilding all the callipers and bearings on my H26. Anyone whose done wheel bearing replacements on these cars knows its a pig of a job. For some reason I can't post on taptalk says I don't have permission to reply?

I’ve been doing my sills all round too. Fronts were bad. Rear weren’t as bad.

Bump! Been a while since I've updated this. With a new baby in the family not had a chance to work on this for well over a year. Hoping to get back on this over my Christmas holidays Cant wait to have her back on the road!

Dave, what's the suspension setup on this? Looking to replace the suspension on mine in the near future but seem to be struggling to find options which fit the M5? Hope you are well, been a while since we spoke. I have 3 weeks off over Christmas so hopefully get time to finish the jacking points by then. Been over a year since I've worked on it.

Nice pal posted this in Ringside original build thread.

This is the way i went. Takes a long time to fabricate the actual jacking points but it can be done. Just need time which I seem to have very little of these days.

I know e21 is better in every way.

Haha this whole thread is blasphemous!

Never said I don’t like old fords but my preference will always be a beemer then and now. Although now I do prefer mercs and Audis to beemers.

The fact that you’d prefer an old ford to an old beemer tells me you’re definitely old enough to now be driving mercs.

E21 over a cortina all day long. I think you lot are on the wrong forum.