not allot going on in here

[Shadow]

Did you guys sorta put all e28 turbo activities on hold or whats the deal. come on talk to me.

i know e28s are super rare and all anyway. i can't remember when i've seen one driving around
forget about a modded one even driving around.

sick e28 picture added

[George]

Work + Marriage + Dog + New House have all gotten in the way of doing any modding recently...I'm also generally happy with how my car is running.

I wanted to move to a bigger turbo this past winter but getting my M3 back on the road took priority.

I had back and forth conversations with Burns Stainless on primary header size and length for building a twin scroll out of 321 SS for a GTX4088R. I mounted a mock up motor on a stand and had headers flanges water jetted but that's about as I made it before other projects got in the way.

Maybe this summer.

[Nebraska_e28]

I've been thinking the same. Damn quiet up in here on the boost front. There's a little m106 brewing here in SoCal. First start is almost in sight.

[tschultz]

Forums are dying in general, replaced by content on social media that isn't easily found. Still a wealth of knowledge here available for search.

All I know is that after having a boosted M30 at altitude and stock S38B35, the M30 is more livable as a DD, cheaper for spare parts, and better performing in general. Maybe that's why I have 2 spare M30 turbo manifolds and turbos sitting on my work bench

[T_C_D]

There are just trends with car's values, Owner's ages, online enthusiasm etc. Modern technology has made it cost foolish/prohibitive to choose an e28 as a turbo project. 99% of potential Owner's buy some modern turbo variant and do a tune or bolt ons and still have a modern car to drive. It's just reality.

[Spen]

I am not pleased with new vehicles. A lot of looks to never last junk to me. Sure, some stuff is just simply better but the car as a whole isn't better. The E28 doesn't track you when you're driving it like new black box savvy vehicles. E28 I suspect will continue being interesting for people. I'd love to turbo my E28 someday!

[Shadow]

i literally can not remember when i saw a running and driving e28

[T_C_D]

i literally can not remember when i saw a running and driving e28

It’s been at least 18 months for me.

[Slideshow]

I’ve been refining this 535is/M106 all winter. She’s scheduled to go on a dyno May 2, so we’ll see how healthy she is.

[T_C_D]

Where in Wisconsin? Looks nice.

[Slideshow]

Ha! That was last summer, a bit north of Milwaukee. Not so nice here at the moment. But that means there’s time for projects!

[T_C_D]

I meant the car looks nice. I live in Mequon.

[Slideshow]

Oh, thanks!

[George]

Here's a wierd fact: I see more skyline GTRs every day on my commute (3 R32s) than I've seen e28/e24s (other than my own) in the past 3 months. I barely see e30s anymore either. Kind of sucks but also makes me appreciate my own more so as there seem be fewer of these cars around, let alone boosted ones.

[tcturbo91]

I agree with a lot of what has been said above. I see a lot of people around just going the route of buying something newer or factory turbocharged. The M30 is a great boost motor, but with the M5X based motors doing what they are doing now, with the newer technology and better flow its hard to beat.

I still have my car but life does get in the way. hoping to go megasquirt this year and i need to do something other than my stock head gasket. its tough to pull apart a good running and fast car though....

[tschultz]

I agree with a lot of what has been said above. I see a lot of people around just going the route of buying something newer or factory turbocharged. The M30 is a great boost motor, but with the M5X based motors doing what they are doing now, with the newer technology and better flow its hard to beat.

I still have my car but life does get in the way. hoping to go megasquirt this year and i need to do something other than my stock head gasket. its tough to pull apart a good running and fast car though....

I'd be interested to read an update. If it's running good, yeah why not just keep driving it as is??

[marc79euro645]

I've really enjoyed not working on my car lately. I plan to redo the paint next, but thats a couple grand, so i'll probably hold off for a bit longer. I took it out last weekend and it's all working good, so I just want to savor this moment. I fixed an oil leak on the front cover that had I chased for a year! Man that leak just made me feel so defeated for so long, until I finally realized where it was coming from.

I have learned so much from this forum. Thanks to everybody here.

[M. Holtmeier]

I'm still constantly playing with mine. All new turbo setup 2 years ago. Just finishing up a twin pump FST for e85. Still have a lot of tuning and eventually take it all back apart to complete the rough draft build after I tune the setup that I have going on now. It's been a drive able car for the most part for years now. But as others have said, life gets in the way. I've got two little girls now, 2&4, so I'm lucky to have spurts of time to knock out projects and upgrades on the car.
IG is @grsmonkey

[TurboE28]

, 2&4, so I'm lucky

Blessed right there.. daughter is 5 today and boy is 7mons. Turbos can wait.

[M. Holtmeier]

daughter is 5 today and boy is 7mons. Turbos can wait.

Well happy birthday to your daughter!

[Nebraska_e28]

daughter is 5 today and boy is 7mons. Turbos can wait.

Well happy birthday to your daughter!

x2!!!