E39 530iA Touring flood damage restoration

[E55AMG2]

Originally Posted by EC

Impressive work!

Did you already toss out the MKIV navi? I'd love to try playing with it if you still have it.

Nope, I already called dibs good sir.

[KevinM]

Just stumbled across this post - fantastic stuff!

Looking forward to seeing the finished product!

[vantaam5]

I will play with the MK IV myself,gentlemen.

No progress last week,too busy with other stuff and piston rings did not arrive,yet...

[EC]

Originally Posted by vantaam5

I will play with the MK IV myself,gentlemen.

It's definitely worth a try. I don't know much about electronics but sometimes it just takes cleaning or re-soldering something.

[vantaam5]

Originally Posted by EC

It's definitely worth a try. I don't know much about electronics but sometimes it just takes cleaning or re-soldering something.

It gets a new drive and should be fine,then.

[andriuspreila]

Hi there,registered here only after finding this thred in google saerch funny but i have exact same project at the moment ) e39 2003 touring,topasblau 520 and its m-sport! Bought car as it is now,straight after flood,good thing is that sank in fresh water so just need a good dry! did exact same job just after drying my beige carpet when saw your pictures took it out again and fitt black carpet...looks realy nice! just my car had bussines radio only so gonna try fit tv/sat/nav,have all wiring just all bits is from saloon so dont know how will do gps antenna and the rest... but all bout this i think i compose my own thred some day...Read all your thred and find all same problems in my car,door acctuators,throttle,engine full of water etc... but i did changed everything and start car and che did it after haft turn no problems,all alectrics were fine! but unfortunetly there was two more problems after i did test drive that what you shoud do before drive it because as i understand you didnt checked yet! GEARBOX and DIFF FULL OF WATER!!!!! yes some water get here through breathers which has both ontop,and after i tryed to drive all water mixed with oil and when i checked it was cream allready!!! not much problems to clean diff but auto gearbox pain in a... Have to take oil rad all piping and stripp gearbox cause after changing three times oil in box still bit of cream dirt in oil!!! and also after some drive there was comming gearbox light on and computer said that foult in gearbox swich after i change it it was resolved!!!!) Good job man,all best in this project!!!

[vantaam5]

Hi mate,

thanks for the kind words!
I am really looking forward to see the thread about your flooded car!

Would you buy a flooded one again and go through the hassle?


I did flush diff and automatic tranny a few times right after I bought it,mine had no water in either of them.

Did you disassemble the engine?

Cheers,

Raikku

[Tiauguinho]

Raikku, what made you go for the normal 530i and not the Alpina 3.3 engine? Wouldn't that be better for more power?

[andriuspreila]

Originally Posted by vantaam5

Hi mate,

thanks for the kind words!
I am really looking forward to see the thread about your flooded car!

Would you buy a flooded one again and go through the hassle?


I did flush diff and automatic tranny a few times right after I bought it,mine had no water in either of them.

Did you disassemble the engine?

Cheers,

Raikku

No didnt disassembled engine,there was bout 7l water in it so crank wasn't in water,just drained everything filled up engine with 15l of diesel,leftfor a week then drained again filled oil and sterted!! see there was no water in air manifold and all head just in piping till throttle body which was stucked after!!! Good that i got mine very cheap and got donor car with it so wasnt so bad,all parts came of donor but dont think that would go again for flooded yoke))) unless its a touring! )))

[vantaam5]

Having a donor car is cheating

Tiago,it cost about he same to boost the M54 as doing a 3.3 conversion.

As much as I love building custom engines,the 3.3 would not even come close to 400whp the turbo setup offers...

This is also why I did not slap in an S62,as the turbo M54 will spank a stock S62