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    In my books the ultimate BMW. https://www.racecarsdirect.com/Advert/Details/78041/bmw-m3-e46-gtr-gt2
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    Certainly crossed my mind Tom.And here`s the brace we are looking at replicating.
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    Had a couple of hours to kill between jobs, managed to make it to Whanga and back. Its been a few years since i did this road, didn't recall it being so bumpy. Great test of the car and highlighted how much i don't like the M3 steering, its improved a lot with the new coupler but its simply too slack, need a quicker ratio rack, more on that later.
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    Hi all, I've been on this forum for about two months, which is when I first purchased a bone stock 135i. Modifications currently on the car are mainly visual. Visual Mods: Started off with the Front bumper Gloss black Wrap, Plasti-dip Grille, Carbon diffuser, Carbon Boot-lip and finally Black-line Taillights thanks @BM WORLD Recently got a set of Nkb Elite 7X with NITTOs, Engine modification: Not too much , will be FBO shortly though. Currently running MHD Stage 1+ Look forward to meeting members at meets -Nathan
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    Pretty new to all of this so i figure i will dive right in, do my best to make this half interesting to read! I brought this e30 from a work mate about 5 years ago, was tidy enough for a project base and id always had a soft spot for a e30 coupe. In its factory form its a 320 auto full of all the good faults from a poor service history and plenty of abuse. I daily drove it for about a year before I signed up for a summer in the usa working at a camp, a job that i did for another 2 years ( saw plenty of the usa while there) Getting on with the car, as is the case more often then not the poor old m20 was tired and noisey, the trans fluid was black with sparkles so i started shopping around for engine swaps. A friend of mine had purchased a 4 door e30 by this time with pure track use in mind so we ordered bc gold ajustibles at the same time knocking some $ off the list plus i got in and tig welded his cage so he chipped in a bit more towards my set of suspention. Thats about all I did to the old girl for a while, I will post up more soon (have to find some photos i have somewhere) cheers
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    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.
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    @Mada You can probably get a brand new set for about $550 Landed, send me a PM if you want me to link you. @TermiPeteNZ Cheers man, Aesthetics of the car will most likely change in the future to 1M front and rear. But performance mods first
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    Going into a rusty old E36 sedan and not far off running im paying a few good mates to finish off wiring etc as my business is growing at a rate i cant keep up so time is spent on that. Mine uses the stock 10x ITB's with stakes and no filters, as for the power ? It is what it is as when done is my tow vehicle for the other toy im building, no its not another BMW wasted time on the last one i built as certain people running a certain series seem to look after their own agendas rather than increase participants.
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    Would love to know more about the engine build.
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    um its super tight. I have done a lot of the mods myself but was a bit tough for me. Think you need to drop the steering rack
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    and costs more and more.
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    In road cars people hardwire relays to fuel pumps so they are switched on and off manually, so when the engine stalls or is just set to 'on' the fuel pump is still flowing. Potentially dangerous if a crash occurs and fuel is leaking pumping all over the place. Simple solution is an oil pressure sensing relay setup or tacho signal relay. But oh no, apparently it's a cool mod to bypass any factory fuel pump control for a dangerous constant 12v setup.
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    You're pretty much ruining the car doing that, nobody will want to buy an LPG X5... If you want more economy you should get a different car. X5 is not the right choice at all for an economical town car....
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    sell it and buy a diesel one , lpg tank will tank up heaps of room . I don't think any one really bothers with lpg on these modern engines etc
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    When I was applying for a Special Interest Vehicle Permit to bring an E39 M5 in from the UK BMWNZ kindly provided sales figures for cars sold new here. 1999 unknown for unexplained reason. A friend that is in BMW sales remembers about 18-19 were sold 2000 11 2001 6 2002 2 2003 3 As this was nearly 5 years ago I have taken note of cars I saw for sale and jotted down the rego/serial numbers and with help from Martin and Glenn have 35 listed. 1999 x 12 of which 11 were NZ new 2000 x 10 of which 8 were NZ new 2001 x 4 of which 3 were NZ new 2002 x 6 of which 3 were NZ new 2003 x 3 of which 2 were NZ new 1999 x 1 from Singapore 2000 x 1 from Singapore, 1 from South Africa 2001 x 1 from UK 2002 x 3 from UK 2003 x 1 from UK Colours: 12 black, 12 blue, 4 silver, 3 green, 3 red, 1 anthracite 1 x 1999 silver W/O and 1x 2000 red W/O (HellBM) Year of manufacture from information at M5portal.com This is worth a read... http://www.m5board.com/vbulletin/e39-m5-e52-z8-discussion/203127-write-up-e39-m5-extensive-production-statistics.html n.b. The above register is not complete as more cars will no doubt appear Dave
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    Spent a little time in the shed tonight, will spend the whole long weekend in it getting everything sorted hopefully!. before my last track day (summer matsuri) i decided to put a e36 ti rear sub frame in my e30, all my rear bushes were pretty well shot and id stumbled across a bunch of e34 alloy 15 inch rims. The e34 having a 20 offset they fit the e30 pretty nicely, little closer to the guard and while not the best looking wheel they are tidy enough (type 2 i think?). I freshened up the subframe, delrin bushes and ajustible bushes in the rear arms. Fitted it all up and was happy with the car, other then the bc golds which were far to soft in spring rate for my liking but i have swapped them now. Anyway my work in on the car for the last week has been around putting e36 front hubs into my e30. Ive hunted high and low for different blogs and videos even parts lists but none of them seem to give me the answer to the castor issues around the e36 conversion. Now i know the propper way is to use m3 parts and lists say m3 arms and z3 this evo that. The only true measured answer I can find is wisefab or slr. Lets be honnest if i was going to spend that much on the car in one purchase it would be on a bent 8 but thats for a later date. I took a measurement of the stock e30 spindle centre (wheel bearing, stub call it what you want) then i loosely assembled the e36 hub on a coil over so its at the same full extention height and took another measurement. On the stock e30 arms with the e36 hubs the centre worked out roughly 35mm further back in the car. Alot of caster lost!. I took my tape into work and measured up the e30 which has e30 evo arms, slr c.a.b's and lock blocks. It still measures up 15mm back from stock e30 hubs.. which may explain the excessive fire wall rub. So tube arms it is. I sorced some 3/4 by 5/8 rod ends and 3/4 by 3/4 rod ends from cardwells, at around $21 each they are worth getting. I sorced some high misalignment bushes from waikato bearings for the outer rod ends, the angles a hub goes through with camber castor and high amounts of lock i figured better safe then sorry. Jimmy from my old work spun up some weld in spuds for me, hes machining a few spacers and doublers for me which will come into play later in my story. Now the tube im using is 38mm roll cage tube, easy to work with and a roll cage is next on my list (being bent up currently) I took some measurements from the old arms and changed them to suit the e30 factory castor measurement. My biggest concern now is the spindle has alot of angle in it which wont afect the lower arm but the steering end being factory for the moment but i will work on that this weekend. Amyway if anyone has gone down a simmilar route with their e30s or other bmw chassis drop a message with what you have done, i hope to make a great amount of progress this weekend so will update as i go!. cheers
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    Epic Build thread! Looking forward to more!
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