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@Matth5 ah ok, I think I did see that somewhere. Was it quite bad? I.E. bad enough to look elsewhere?  Another option I was looking at was Zimmerman from FCP for approximately $650NZD

I'd imagine it's about $5-10k over priced, though it's more a case of you can't find them for sale, so the dealer can charge whatever. Values have steadily been increasing and being leather and manual is a good start. In hindsight @Contrails car for $16k was potentially cheap at the time and is most certainly worth a lot more now.

I almost feel like (puts on flame suit) e28s are underappreciated and provide a lot more value than a lot of e30s.

Hey team, my rotors need replacing on my 2006 E91 335i (manual). Is the current suggestion as per the below thread still the way to go? Which I think was these RDA rotors and some stoptech (Sport Brake?) pads?

A pair of front rotors is $461.13NZD which is cheaper than FCP Euro and demon tweeks. Micks garage was cheaper again but just bog standard uncoated rotors.

What did you have to do to make the e36 seats fit again? 
I still have your original e28 seats if you get stuck. 
Obviously any other e28 seat will work, but sports seats are very hard to find and liable to be expensive and need work. Otherwise e24 seats I think fit, e34 can be modded to fit and I’m unsure about e30 seats.

Bought another one, updated my signature, realised I have problem 😅

Currently rocking a GTX 1070 and I7 4770, will definitely be looking at an AMD Zen3 CPU for my next build and probably Big Navi.

@Olaf I’ve dealt with enough Macs in my time to know that’s not the case, unless of course, you apply more money to the affected area... which fixes any and all issues

@Autoglym @Aaron Muir and Ronnie (forgot your username sorry). As well as me, but my M30 isn’t in the car yet hah

Interesting how an R32 is now more expensive than a 130i, though on par with a 135i

Any idea if this is going to be the standard price going forward or an introductory special?

On 8/29/2020 at 11:20 PM, KwS said:

Im sure thats been on here before

I think it's a current or ex members car

I fail to see how this is worth more than the sum of its parts? A handful of alpina bolt ons, custom exhaust and an engine rebuild...? 
Where’s the alpina steering wheel and interior, body kit, other fruit and of course one of their signature colours and pin striping?

Have shipped plenty of things Personally depot to depot with mainfreight, normally quite straightforward. Have also had lots of pallets delivered around Wellington by them for work.
 

If you can get it onto a pallet, mainfreight should have no issues delivering it to your mechanic.

It should be, though I’ll wait for smarter people than me to comment, I’ve not looked at this swap in a long time so am little rusty. 
Have a read of this, should help you with 99% of what you need to know:

https://www.e30zone.net/e30wiki/index.php/Engine_Swap_-_M5x

Any particular reason you’re after a 260? The bellhousing on the M20 is different to an M50 and will be rotated by about 10 degrees, meaning your shifter and crossmember will need modification to work. 
Plus e30 tax applies to a 260 whereas an e36/46 gearbox should in theory be easier and cheaper to find. (E.g. a 220, 250, various ZF gearboxes and a 240 from an e30 with M40)

@Autoglym

Looks great!

@BMTHUG?

Could quite feasibly create an ISO/Zip of sone portable virtualisation software With a preconfigured VM on. E.g. burn this ISO to a disk or extract this zip to a USB stick, then run XYZ. 
Though sharing a VM with windows installed in it could be questionable legality wise (even if it’s unlicensed). The advantage of a VM rather some instructions and installers for you host OS is you could have a 32bit OS (assuming that’s better for what we’re trying to achieve given that was the standard in 2000...) with all the multitude of tweaks completed to get the software working. Though again, pass through could be interesting.

As @M3AN pointed out a VM will take significantly more hard drive space than just installing it normally.

@wrs a cloud based VM sounds like absolute hell in terms of getting USB to talk to it and would potentially require more configuration than it’s worth at the client end.

Suspect finding a way to make it run on Windows 10 might be simpler for the general audience? As the pass through settings will likely be different depending on what your virtualisation software is. Didn’t someone recently post a link to an installer on here?

Which guest OS were you thinking anyway? XP, 7 or 10?

Good call. It’s pretty nice gear, and I would use more of it if I didn’t have an excess of cisco gear to get through

I use ubiquity (W)APs at home, and have found them pretty good. Though a word of caution, be careful buying older models... I purchased a 2nd hand AC pro off trademe and assumed it would be fine. I had to downgrade my controller to get it to play ball, and then it wouldn’t see my router (USG). 
 

I’ve since upgraded my router to a Cisco Meraki unit and put the USG away, solving the controller issue. NB: the dashboard is kinda cool but I never used it

Steel framing was the desired route, wood framing isn't really suitable in this scenario. Hadn't thought of prefab slabs though, will see if anyone does them down this way

Thanks for all the suggestions team, have contracted total span and will check out Skyline. Will also see if I know any good builders. 
 

And yes 300m2 is a little excessive, but no point doing it otherwise. $200-$250 per square meter is in line with what I thought.

@Olaf my uncle has gone down the second hand shed route before. The shed cost him $1000 but by the time he was done getting it back up to code and earthquake regs it had cost him more than buying new for an inferior product.

Looking at building at shed in the Wellington region, approximately 300m2. Does anyone have any suggestions on who to use or avoid? 
Doesn’t need to be fancy, something kitset will be fine (though ideally they’ll have to o build it)

Cost aside for the moment, there's also the availability aspect, in that they're not nearly as common as say an e30, so whilst they may not be that expensive, you still have to find one.

As per the title, looking on behalf. Wellington, Manawatu or Picton preferred but will consider other options. Thanks.

EDIT: and if it's cheap/free enough would consider complete engines.