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Fellow superior car lovers, thank you for having be a part of your family. I own an e23 and recently purchased an e30 so will be keen to go through the many threads to find the answers I need. Also I'm looking for any e23 body kits/ valances and boot spoilers Cheers. No pics of the e30 yet I wont be picking it up till next weekend. 20190727_172013.heic 20190716_124828.heic 20190720_153634.heic 20190713_214554.heic 20190713_214559.heic

anyone here keen on a Proper stage 2 super charger kit active autowerkes type 400+ hp for a 330i can also fit 328i 325i 323i e39 530i 528i etc M54 or m52tu etc or could be adapted to fit older e34 e36 z3 models etc basically brand new only test fitted and run a few hours etc , 021433600 details on there website https://store.activeautowerke.com/collections/e46-330/products/active-autowerke-e46-330-supercharger-kit-level-1 , this is stage 2 kit so has all the extra plumbing ,intercooler and smaller pulley on the charger so makes more boost retails over $6000us dollars plus freight gst etc https://www.urotuning.com/products/active-autowerke-level-2-supercharger-kit-bmw-e46-330i-12-020 these cost around $6000us dollars new plus freight and GST etc looking at $5500nzd also have the software for the tune 021433600

Thanks again. Didn't get pinged for import duty or GST. I've noticed some places seem to fly under the radar. ECS Tuning is not one of them, been charged every time.

I could be persuaded that a W204 C63 is a good idea... Unreal exhaust note. ?

it'd be my favourite bmw , one I'd mortgage the house for, favourite.

Hi Andrew, can't believe I just saw this thread - I was talking to someone about the car and looking for my sell thread photos and stumbled across this! I had been keeping an eye on TradeMe to see if it would ever have been relisted. The car is looking great and loving the stuff you have done to it. I was a fan of the blacked out trim as I thought it looked more aggressive and the white and black interior was something special. I miss the noise this car would make and now considering to get back into another one! I'm sure you would agree now the facelift model was indefinitely much nicer than the 08-10 cars ;) I still look back at the photos.

@gjm You could maybe score a E46 Purple tag rack for $200.

Have run three m57 x5s for work and personal, all three ran fairly cool on the open road. All three had the smoke on first start up, nothing to worry about, likely failing glow plugs but I've never had a starting issue with all 6 dead The diesel small is most likely a cracked manifold The aux heater only works under 5 degrees ambient Do the PCV/CCV in the rocker cover, its extremely important on these Do the fuel filter every 50km it's easy enough and cheap 1/3 to 1/2 on the gauge is 70-80 degrees, allnthree I've used run that low unless under load, my tuned one runs just under 70 on the open road

Replace all suspension/bushing components/diff rebuild - Completed Apr-May 2019, 198,000km Since I purchased the E30, Previous owners had fitted Vogtland springs and Boge fronts with standard rears... impractically low, soft, paired with with the wrong shocks. Add to that almost 200,000km on the clock and most things were getting soft/perished, the rear beam bushings were particularly shot adding some exciting rear wheel steering to the mix when avoiding pot holes. After countless hours of research and sleepless nights pondering what I'd do, I purchased Bilstein B8 shocks & H&R Sport springs a few years ago, but they sat in the garage (shocks stored upright), being too busy with work to devote the time to completing the job. It's never going to be a track car being a convertible, and I'm not an overly 'spirited' driver, but I didn't want to return to the lofty heights of factory suspension & wanted something firm but controlled. I picked up the strut bar & cross brace from Garagistic on sale in the hope to keep everything nice and tight up front and make the most of the sport shocks & springs (I'm sure I could find stiffer/higher performance versions of these, however I liked their understated design). This year after quitting my job it was finally time to get them fitted. Crippled with an acute case of 'while you're in there' I had brought all other bushings for front & rear, all new wheel bearings (front left had failed a warrant). Diff was whining rumbling like there was no tomorrow so off to Kayne Barrie for a rebuild. Parts: -Bilstein B8 sports shocks -H&R Sports springs -Garagistic front strut brace -Garagistic front lower x-brace -Original 3.73 diff rebuilt with Z3 torsen -Rear beam bushings -Rear trailing arm bushings -Rear sway bar bushings & end links -Diff carrier mount -Front control arms -Front rose-jointed sway bar end links (Ford Mondeo 'upgrade' from E30 wiki) -Front strut mounts -Front tie-rod ends -Spring pads -Front disks, pads & caliper rebuild kits (rears replaced 2 years ago) -Parking brake pads & hardware -New brake lines (x6) -Wheel bearings (x4 - FAG, original supplier as noted on the old ones) -Exhaust hangers & gaskets -Engine & transmission mounts -Various new bolts, nuts for drive shaft, rear beam, etc. All bushings/mounts/end links/control arms Lemforder. Brake rebuild kits & lines ATE, standard Bosch pads. I removed the exhaust directly from the headers & removed as one piece. Then dropped the rear subframe as a complete unit and disassembled (loosening the half shaft retaining nuts before removal). The subframe came away easily as the rear beam bushings were completely separated You can see a 3-axis puller attached to the half shaft & hub... this was useless requires a press or back of an axe with spacer! Once this was all apart, I took these round to Nathan's (zero) house and with his help & the right tools we got all the old bushings and bearings out in an afternoon! This would have been a properly horrible job without his help! There were only a few very minor corrosion spots on these parts due to the copious amounts of factory protectant wax that was still clinging on, nonetheless while it was all out, I sent it off to be sand blasted, primed & painted: While this was all out, gave the under body a good scrub & check for corrosion... again the factory wax and face-lift galvanizing process had held up well. Once all the parts were back from the paint shop, I pushed all the bushings & bearings back in with a press Received the diff back from Kayne and set about re-assembling everything! (assembled on the car) The old front sway bar end-links vs the rose jointed ones Front strut bar fitted (required repositioning the clutch fluid reservoir). Unfortunately I've only taken it for a short run up the road (needs a wheel alignment) as I was down to the wire getting it reassembled (read 2 days) before I headed off to South America for 6 months (in Peru writing this!)... For now it's up on stands in my parents garage... Looking forward to getting it back on the road and will post re the improvement after I've had some time on the setup (back in December)! A few quick photos for ride height reference before it went into storage: Special thanks to my father for many hours of assistance, sweat and muscle. Nathan for his time, knowledge and good conversation. Kayne for getting the diff turned around before I headed to South America, during what was a really busy time for him!

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And a correction

Busy 10 minutes. I converted it to RHD..

Since the E30 boyz have been using them, asking prices for those have often jumped to $350+++, too!