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Couple of nice Bimmers out at the beach yesterday (shameless plug I know)..

I fully agree. On a motorway with multiple lanes, good weather and visibility, late at night with no traffic on the road it has been tempting to test out the top speed of my car. I drive at 200kph on public roads all the time though, some as wide as your driveway, 200kph on a motorway is nothing, its like a big wide smooth race track. Time and a place. The thought of you driving near 70kph through a residential where my family are scares me more than you giving your car a boot on the motorway.

yes, also E36 and E34 M50 hoses are different because of different locations of air box etc, and M50B20 ones different again. I will have all the E34 parts you have asked for as well as the boot available in 2 weeks, also got the thermostat housing for your E36 as well. That said, not sure if the control arms are any good or not, but considering E34 just eat these bushes, you are really best to buy new 540i or maybe even 750iL bushes and fit them into your existing arms, unless the balljoints are also had it in which case you can buy new complete arms, but they aren't cheap. let me know when you do this, i will give you a few tips to help you if you are going to do it yourself.

All turbos have some level of whistle. Listen to the next CAT or Cummins powered truck you see....

Installed the new radiator this weekend ... Before: 0.45volts hot with tap water and standard quality coolant After: New radiator, demineralised water and BMW coolant on 2:1 mix actually increased the voltage hot to nearly 1volt!. Measured from the coolant and the radiator. When I looked inside the old radiator I had noticed that the inside was anodised black .. and therefor not conducting as well and the brand new radiator.. This explained the voltage increase. I wanted to data log it but the current was playing havoc with other sensors so just rigged up a multimeter to the radiator instead and drove around and took readings. Solution: First I tested what happened if I used a small wires and grounded it to the chassis .. boom, down came the voltage to 0.002v perfect .. So now have run an earth strap onto the radiator to eliminate the voltage build up in the radiator. This has been a very enlightening experience and while loosing a chunk of cash down the toilet I have learnt a lot. Just got off the phone with the old man who's an industrial electrical engineer and done some pretty far out stuff in his time confirmed everything I found and even said that he found it strange that I had isolated the radiator in the first place!

So much happier with having a LSD installed, hampton downs was a lot of fun - you know its been a good day when you use a full tank of gas on the racetrack Will need to look at getting another oil cooler for track days - in the afternoon had 2 sessions where it was running about 135 degrees

The presentation of speeds here still makes me smile. Several times I have seen the shock and outrage headlines citing speeds of "up to 130km/h". In the UK, on a clear dual carriageway, you'll probaby not even raise the eyelids of PC Traffic Cop at anything under 85mph, and on a clear motorway it would be entirely dependent on their mood as to whether they came looking for you at 90mph. (130km/h is around 80mph, a very normal cruising speed on UK motorways despite the limit being 70mph.) OK, so this event involves a higher speed (but doesn't mention how that speed was recorded). Spped doesn't kill, provided it is safely and appropriately applied. Whether the 7-series driver in question was driving in a situation that meant he was being unsafe, I can't say - I don't know the road, or the area. He cites in defence that there was no other traffic around, yet the prosecution continues to say he was a danger to the public. Judge Venning seems to contradict himself: "According to the appeal decision released by Justice Geoffrey Venning, he accepted that while there was no other traffic near Fleming's car..." Then: "Justice Venning found that if Fleming had at any point lost control of his car, it would have been dangerous to the public." OK. In the event of an accident, the damage caused and the eventual positioning of the vehicle may have presented a danger to other traffic coming along behind. But if I crash at 75km/h on SH1 around J427, it's more than likely to cause a similar problem. Sure, the driver was breaking the law. But it seems rhetoric and drama have been used to justify the fine and licence suspension, rather than law.

mine is a 328. The valve I meant is part 21 here http://www.realoem.com/bmw/showparts.do?model=BG12&mospid=47431&btnr=21_0059&hg=21&fg=10 Which headers are you using? I'll probably go with one of those flywheels if there is a next time

If fuel efficiency is an issue, Tristan, buy a Daihatsu Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Here is the custom "sacrificial rod" setup I have on my radiator. What it looked like when I pulled it out... Glad I checked it, it's BUGGERED! That's nearly 2 years of corrosion... It was so bad, when I came to sand off the corrosion the whole rod snapped! Much better that than my bloody expensive radiator Popped into A1 Radiators, the guys who set this up for me and got a replacement. Interestingly enough, they were stoked to see the old sacrificial rod and wanted to keep it to show future customers... They are now using this technique frequently so it's nice to see that my project contributed to something "new" in the industry.