[kalevera]

If the car legitimately needs a sway bar (!!!) go for the 26mm E32 Mtech part, look in the euro catalog and do the 20mm M5T nurburgring rear at the same time. Also, not sure why the steering box pitman -467 is on the list, they tend not to wear out.

Call BMA on some of these parts, have Patrick hook you up, bmaparts.com

nice to see the dealer ditched the junk aftermarket wheels that were on this when it was first on ebay

 

[Emeffeye Vee Eee]

Hey, thanks for the reply. The car may not legitimately NEED all of these parts (sway bar, pitman arm) but I've always had bad luck installing new steering/suspension components and an older part failing shortly thereafter. I'd rather just refresh everything in one go...

Actually, the dealership had two '91 M5s, the one I got and another one with aftermarket wheels. The other one was BEAT, faded interior/exterior and motor ran rough. Here's it is in its sad state:

BMW : 5-Series - eBay (item 360332842300 end time Jan-05-11 08:12:18 PST)

 

[OhneKompromiss]

Nice looking car! If you're trying to go all original, I have a set of turbines just collecting dust at the moment, if you're interested.

 

[Emeffeye Vee Eee]

Nice looking car! If you're trying to go all original, I have a set of turbines just collecting dust at the moment, if you're interested.

Thanks! I'm interested in the turbines, but can't send PMs as I'm new with a low post count. PM me your email address.

 

[TurboXpress]

congrats on the pickup...it's my twin (i have the turbine covers tho)!!

 

[OhneKompromiss]

Funny you should say that... I'm still low on the post-count and unable to send PM's as well.

You can email me at mnwinter01 at hotmail dot com.

I'll dig them out and take some pictures if you like. They aren't perfect, but they are in really good shape. They were on the car for a while, so they're covered in brake dust on the backs, but they haven't been on the car for probably 10 years.

 

[bubba966]

Yeah, unless it's heavily damaged there should be no reason to replace the stock sway bar w/another stock sway bar. The end links do wear out (need to replace mine right now), and the bushings & hardware are cheap so you can replace those while you're in there. I have a habit of doing that as well.

Pelican is one of the places where I buy a good amount of stuff. As well as Tischer BMW (getBMWparts.com). Run all of those numbers into their site as well, might be surprised that some things are cheaper from them than from Pelican or the like.

BMA is supposedly good. Not tried them myself. But I've heard many times from many people to call up Patrick @ BMA...

AutohausAZ is pretty good as well. Between Pelican, Tischer, BMA & AutohausAZ you should be able to get the best pricing & service on any part you could ever need for your car.

Any reason you're not keeping the suspension mostly original? They're nice on original suspension. Though a friend eventually went w/a Dinan Bilstein/SLS maintain kit on his '93 M5 & I quite liked that as well. That felt rather close to medium-firm setting on my factory suspension on my M-Sport. I'd imagine the Dinan Koni/SLS maintain kit would be a bit better.

 

[1day]

welcome and :thumbsup: to another M5 coming back to proper maintained use!

Jamie