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Yeah have seen that guy, one of his cars has been brought into Nz, a blue s65 swapped one. Met both owners of the s65 clones the other week, the cars look fantastic in person.
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Yeah i want to see that one. There is a finnish(?) guy i follow on Instagram who builds them all the time with V8 swaps. He V10 swapped a TVR but sadly binned it shortly after
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Some more progress over the last week or so. Stripped all the suspension out, arms, struts, steering rack, front and rear subframe a, diff handbrake cables etc have all been removed. Masked up the engine bay and have begun painting the underside. Just using black Epoxy paint, any spots where there was minor surface rust wire wheeled back to clean metal. Will go over any seams with seam sealer and then do another coat of black epoxy. Very time consuming and messy process but will be worthwhile. Have done the first coat on the front wheel arches and underside of engine bay so far, lots more painting to do. also made up a new Clevis pin to adapt the e30 brake booster bracket thing that the pedal pull rod actuates to the e90 booster.
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Would also be interested to know this, but in Auckland, need to get my m52 injectors cleaned and tested.
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Beautiful example that one, and cheaper than some of the others I’ve seen listed. The owner also built a 1m clone out of a 135i, with an s65 swapped into it, which I’d imagine he prefers driving hence selling the 1m.
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One of my regrets was not buying one new. Three cheers to the guys who purchased new, and drove for free for 10 years. Heck, seeming to continuing to do so. https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/bmw/listing/5329879033?utm_source=tmm-savedsearch&utm_medium=email&bof=8Har5zGj Very nice
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The most random mesage I've seen so far on this forum...
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I also recommend this approach, worked well to get some tyres down to ChCh from N.I.
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St Pats Stream rugby head coach!
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Give the car a weekend run and go pick them up
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Anyone have fuel injector cleaning recommendations? Closer to Wellington the better. Specifically M54B30 petrol ones. thanks! A.
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Looking for a passenger side headlight for an '08 1 series. Car is actually an e81 (3door) but I assume exactly the same unit as the more common e87 (5door). Car is black, and the interior of the headlight is a quite dark shade of grey. Local wrecker here in PalmNth has just one headlight, but the shade of grey inside that one is much lighter. My headlight has condensation in it that does not want to go away...... Any help gratefully received!
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Hi Ash, Have a FL 325i manual sedan, NZ new, burgundrot, Alpina themed. Canterbury based. PM me. Thanks, Alan
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Oh didn't even see that. App didn't notify me.
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I had a set sent down on a pallet for $180 using 4d Freight. Might be cheaper to Auckland.
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Fabio Braghini joined the community
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Can't wait for you to answer the ohh so hopeful Izaac on the Tarde Me listing hehe
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I like Wisemove. You can check ratings and pick best price from the quotes that come through.
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As some of you may recall I bought a slightly more practical daily, a VW Polo GTI. The car unfortunately is on MK4 Golf GTI BBS rims that are not my cup of tea, to fix this I have found a set of factory rims in Upper Hutt. How do I get the rims to Auckland without making this a massive drama, the rims are $200 which fits the cheap and cheerful requirement but I feel that the shipping and collection etc could blow that well out of the water. Does anyone have any actual experience here? Anyone planning a little drive to Auckland anytime soon? I'm almost willing to pay more for the convenience of not losing what remains of my hair trying to make this happen. PS. It's rims only (no rubber) and they are already boxed.
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Tomorrow I make the collection trip to Eurotech. 5 weeks, which may seem like ages but I was in no rush and Easter/Anzac was in there as well. Here are some of the progress images that they sent through a few weeks back. Insurance paid for a bunch of extras including genuine guard vents and kidney grills, I paid to have the rear bumper refurbished. Having driven the M5 nearly daily for almost 4 years to not having it for 5 weeks I wonder what that first angry stab is going to feel like.
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yes absolutlely same here! early 6hp19s are really crap. They improved a lot with the 6hp21/19z.
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Funnily enough I've had just as much trouble with 6hp19's as I have with the GMs. I've seen info for the 21 swap somewhere. Probably bimmerforums .
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Welcome Zawiyar, those e61 wagons are just so practical, nice choice!
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Welcome. What box does it have in it at the moment. 6hp19? Or were the E6* unlucky enough to get the GM box like the 130's? Edit: ignore. Just saw your other post haha.
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Okay, perhaps as expected no specific interest on Trademe. I'll now consider offers from Bimmersporters (+friends and family, as long as they quote your user name here), I'll adjust the Trademe classified to entertain offers in a week or so, those that see it here get a head start. Contact me here or by cell (first post). 👍 Edit: I mean offers based on my original listing price here, if you can't remember that, send me a message.
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Hi all, I Have a 06 pre lci e61 530i, I am swapping the transmission from 6hp19 (which has sh*t the bed) to a 6hp21 from an lci 530i. Unfortunately 6hp21 isn't a straight swap for pre lci cars with Msv70 and 6hp19, I already have the transmission with a n52 engine, full harness, msv80 ecu cas and keys from the same donor car and lci throttle body, plan to get lci MAF, what else am I missing ?, have read up a lot of e9x transmission swaps on forums and I imagine it should be similar for e61 but still would like to hear any recommendations of things I might need. so far I have: - 6hp21 - MSV80 ecu , cas and keys - Lci Throttle body Also the plan is to swap in the cas and msv80 which i will have to swap some pins around once i go through the wiring diagrams for both lci and pre lci e60s and bolt in the new transmission then go from there i will also have to code some other modules like DSC using bmw standard tools later on, would love to hear from somone who attempted this before or experince with a similar swap to guide me on what else i need to complete this swap.
