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Update #20 So the car went back in again yesterday - Alignment on the rear closer to spec, so will let the car settle over the next couple of thousand k and do another alignment then. The car also now has it's WOF We've got to put a couple of the plastic undertray components back on, and replace the temporary zip ties on the steering boots with proper clamps, and then this round of work on the car is officially complete. Have done about 100km on the car in the last couple of days - all in Auckland traffic but good to be back in the car and running in the bearings. So stoked with how everything has gone, and now that the major maintenance work is done I can start thinking about what comes next

Been a while since I posted, but thought I'd do a little update on the E90. In the last 12 months I've had a Bilstein B12 kit fitted, TRW M3 front arms installed, uprated engine mounts, new AG M359 wheels (having sold an old set I had), and new Michelin Pilot Sport 4S in 265/30R19 and 235/35R19, as well as loaded the MHD Stage 1 93 tune. I'll be looking at a VRSF 7" intercooler shortly, and will move to Stage 1+, and will cross my fingers that the clutch holds out! Yet to break the tyres in, but so far so good.

Cheers dude, they worked pretty damn well, i think version two will have a little less castor in them, aim around 10-11 degrees and i think the car will be even better. I have to admitt i did bend one of them on the friday in taupo. Took them both to a friends dads place and straightend it to match the other and put gussests on.. bet you cant pick where it bent tho!!. Some sweet pictures coming through now tho, had a bit of time on the track with jery in his e30 which is 1jz powered so now im on the hunt for more power. Stay tuned!

Took my recently acquired 2004 530d for a trip from Hamilton to Wellington today. Travelled 505.8 kms, and used not quite half a tank of diesel. Had cruise on as much as possible. Open road speed was set at 100 km/ph. The trip computer ended up sitting on 6.4 ltrs per 100 kms. Was a very comfortable trip too, and the 'comfort spec' seats certainly proved their worth. I particularly like the extendable thigh support squab. I am very happy with my car. Graeme

I want this on a YouTube video, with multiple GoPro shots cut together. Awesome.

Hey Guys, Finally the old girl got out of the shed and had a fresh walk round the driveway and house. Got a few problems with the accelerator cable and in search of a new air filter for the Holley carburetor apart from that she is running well and got the finishing touches before she is off for a WoF and Rego Pretty close to the end of this build and looking forward to driving the BM around once the accelerator cable is fixed. Need some rear lowering springs too. Doesn't look quite right with the massive rake. A few photos below that turned out nicely.

Here's the pic! Graeme

Could be the grounding nut on the back of your cluster. Pull out cluster, you'll see a Cooper nut on the back of the gauge. Tighten that up.

Hi all Have just purchased/ been gifted my first BMW its a 1981 E21 320a automatic, it was my grandparents for years until it put oil into the water and blew a radiator hose, took my grandad 3 years to find a motor he thought was a "reasonable" price and sat in a shed ever since, I'm wanting to do an engine swap of some sort but have little knowledge about BMW's so hopefully I'll find what I need on here

Sounds well sorted, you'll have fun with that! How much of a difference you feel from those M3 arms?

Hahaha! Or nipping past a 911 when he finally moves over, so you can get past before the passing lane finishes without clipping his front bumper... with your trailer. I can confirm its a workhorse. I don't even KNOW how much of MY crap has been hauled in that thing! Most of it will never be able to go that fast again though! I even saw a table saw in there not too long ago.

Wicked car, did you used to come into spruce goose a bit? I worked there and a guy with a white M3 came in every now and then. There can't be many around welly. Anyway, if it was you, you may remember a kid with a mustache telling you what he thought of your car, and that it was his dream to own one! Welcome

So I guess I haven't really posted up much about what has happened in the past few months! A lot of the small annoying things have been fixed up (Passengers door car clips.... 4 weekends in a row trying to get it perfect, now the drivers door is starting to come off slightly.........) I decided I wanted to actually use some of the audio gear I had lying about from when I was in high school and thought better than gathering dust why not install it into my car again, however this time in a much more professional and clean way. I had already put in a JVC Bluetooth head-unit and 6" speakers up front long ago, and I had 6" round speakers in the parcel tray. I thought I can do better than that.... So I had a Blaupunkt 500w amp, a sony 350w amp, Carbon cone Kenwood 1400w Shallow mount sub-woofer and a pair of sony 6x9's. I decided to go full out and install some pioneer 4" speakers into the rear factory mounts so I can still have 4 speakers should I ever take my parcel tray out! I wanted to still have usable space in the boot so a standard sub box wasn't going to cut it for me, so I decided to make a custom sub box that would mount into the side where the wheel arch was. I started by making up a MDF front and top to mount the sub into and amps onto, this was then wrapped in some carpet that was lying around. Next up was the ugly task of molding the back to sit in with the car. I removed the carpet from the side of the boot (Luckily it holds its shape extremely well and is quite rigid. I then used a sheet of plastic to cover it in and then proceeded to fiberglass the shape of the carpet, using the plastic as a mold release. As you can see from the photos it fits in well and means that the usable space within the boot isnt compromised as much as a normal sub box! I also used molex connectors for the 6x9's so that I can quickly unplug them if I want to remove the parcel tray for any reason! This week a special shipment also arrived from Europe! My high rise LTW wing! I am extremly impressed with the quality of the wing and cant wait to finally fit it to the car! I test fitted it as a high rise and as a low rise, I think I prefer the high rise look over the low rise option at the moment! The wing does need a little trimming down to fit around the rear window but it isnt a huge amount of work. Fitting the bolts and finding where they will pop through when drilling through the boot might be a little more problematic however. From the pic below you can see how it will need trimmed down. The back of the wing however fits perfectly with the curve in the boot. Also while running with the spacers the wing will clear the rear wiper so no need to delete it! I actually like having it because its handy when reversing if there is water all over the rear window (that is if I will be able to see out the rear window much now )! This weekend I have a track day on Saturday so that should be good fun, first time out with the new engine, suspension, gearbox and diff since the last track day! While away boat racing last weekend I thought the LTW didnt quite add enough downforce to the rear of the Ti so decided to add the boat on the back too! Who said adding a tow bar was a bad idea! My daily driver also got a fresh coat of paint so its no longer multi coloured! It will also be getting some new wheels in a weeks time when the semi slick tires get taken off the Style 97's. I should have my LTW back from being painted in about a weeks time so I will try to post a small update with some pictures of the fitment and how I bolted it all down when I get it all on!

also your temperature gauge doesn't work, you will need to come up with a solution for that.

I got mine from http://www.speed.co.nz/

Possibly - If I was to do an 8 series project . Been watching this one for a while - its been listed at $18.5k, $25k, $17.5k and now $11.5k. I don't think this one is worth any of these prices. $7.5k maybe? For me it has: Wrong wheels. Wrong exhaust. Wrong badges. Wrong colour. And wrong price . But hey, it is an 8 Series!

I actually found it quite good

I can't take this guy seriously, his delivery is a bit too arrogant / condescending

The big elephant in the room (for me) is why do they make EV's so UGLY?

I just think that someone needs to stand up for coal, oil and gas. It might as well be me, a mediocre white man. I'll fit right in with the rest of the dinosaurs.

considering it was 25k at the start of last month ...

I have a black one and with DCT, this is nice though.

After a buisy weekend cutting and shutting i got my e30 on the ground. Pretty damn happy with how it worked out, slightly more castor then stock, wider track width but with the camber braket in the 0 position the car looks to have no more camber then i originaly ran. The spindle has got a pretty decent amount of angle in it which pitches the steering arm up rather high but not high enough to cause any bind or clashing issues. But yeah pretty damn happy, working on what steering to use now (rack ends tie rods ect) as the wider track has set me with a large amount of toe in naturaly. Few people have said to clear coat the arms but will probly just paint them!. Will add more photos as i go, drifting in a weeks time so straight into testing. Cheers

Ive got a few spare minutes up my sleeve, so I will continue will my jibberish to try get my little rant up to date. now this will be where people will hate or rate my car, being one to like cars that stand out a little ive gone down a route that not many would choose. There is method to my madness so dont jump on the hate too quickly. As said before the stock m20 was utterly sh*t, id always liled the look of m50s in e30s so i jumped right into getting all the gear together. Trying to keep the costs right down the hunt began for a parts list and some sort of plan to put the engine in. I found myself down at Mosen's yarning to kerry and aquired the best part of a e34 520. As the car was always destined to be a drift car i wasnt worried about the engine being a 2.0, the idea of putting a turbo on it was natural coming from a range of nissan engines (sr, rb, fj20 and a cupple more.) cutting through the sh*t i had basicly the whole drive train sitting on a workshop floor and i started spinning numbers on how to get the old girl boosted.. having been down this road a few times i scribbled down a list on a pad. And there was the straw that broke it for me. the 10 grand list of parts to add to the engine, computer, turbo, manifold, wastegate, cooler, pipework, fuel, tune the list goes on!. And yes you can cut that cost down by shopping around, getting used parts ect but after 3 or 4 set ups its just sometimes simpler to buy what you need and not spend time trying to make things work. so that was it, parted out the m50 swap.. onto something with more cubes. now this engine will seem rather random to most but ive had a fair bit to do with them for various reasons.. and to be honnest the cost was what got me in the end!. a quick trademe search and i had myself a 3800 ecotec v6 manual conversion for a lazy $350. Now while these are known here as a holden v6, they are actualy a buick engine, and buick being american they have aftermarket parts for next to no cost, plus they are tough when it comes to hard use so for a drift engine it ticked the right boxes for me. I sorced a series 1 computer, it uses a map sensor instead of the air flow the series two stock computer uses and one weekend we had the thing hung and bolted onto my poor e30. The fit was pretty good right from the get go, gear stick fits through the stock hole in the tunnel and the sump clears the rack and sump perfectly. It was ment to be!. I even got to weigh the m20 and the ecotec before they swapped places the ecotec coming in at a solid 40kgs lighter then the stock engine and the manual trans (t5) almost the same weight savings compared to the auto. Anyways thats my time spent for tonight.. next update will be on changes im actualy doing instead of have done. Cheers

S62 conversion with E39 M5 front susp.brakes and servotronic steering box. The best of both combined to make something special.

Freshly painted feet for the M5. Posing with 8M3.

didn't know integrated kids seats were an option in the E39! standard equipment on Volvos of the same age.

If theyre that cheap over there, it'd make a good donor for a manual swap. Love that Alpina one above. I'd love an 8 series but the maintenance costs scare me (even doing all the work myself, still aint cheap!).