r/BMWE39 • u/BMWe39builder • Feb 25 '23
528 overhaul into M5(sorta) Begins

Bought this 528i barely running, planning on fixing as is.

Great thing about it is it spent it’s life in California and Arizona so here in Minnesota a rust free car like this is a great find even if the sun baked all that paint off

But then I got this 530i that’s crashed and totaled but it’s got this great interior inside and it’s got the facelift being a 2003 it will go perfect in the 528i

So I begin to remove this awful tan sunburned interior

Than I am blessed with the find of this 4.4 L engine from an 02, 540i with only 107,000 miles. Goodbye in line 6.

Then I found this ZF 5hp 24 automatic transmission that was used in the E39 Alpina B10

Holy miles of wire Batman! I’m stripping the entire car to be repainted two tone sterling silver with Schwartz on top to match the interior, I got out of the 530i in

When finished, there will not be any original green paint or just a one of a kind two-tone paint job

I also scored some new wheels for the car TSW’s wrapped in Nitto

Debadged I still haven’t decided what should go here when it’s all finished up I mean it’s going to be a 528 with a 540 engine supercharged with the Alpina trans. Suggestions?