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Good work, love kit sets. Have built many dust collectors over the years, was good at it when I was younger and had a larger attention span and time to do it, my last attempt was a basic GTR a five years ago. Have a mega Tamija 1/10th scale Datsun 240z to do one day when I have a few weeks spare.

It's so much quicker to do that in the microwave though

If you want to drive fast do it on the track, where there are no cars coming in the other direction and safety measures for your protection. A controlled environment takes a lot of the variable factors out of the equation and allows you to go as fast as you want (or can) without risks to others.. or your licence. The countries that are increasing speed limits probably have proper motorway systems, not NZs idea of rutted cart tracks called State Highways which are dangerous in their own right. I agree that the focus on speed is a bit one-eyed, the number of downright poor drivers and vehicles on the road should be taken out before such stringent speed measures. Maybe a bit more emphasis on driver education rather than punishment - explain to people what a "stopping distance" is meant to be, I can't get over how many nose-to-tail accident there are! Unfortunately this news will just mean more people wombling along straight open roads at 80-90km/h as they are worried about getting pinged for 104, does nothing for safety as pretty soon there is a long tail of frustrated drivers trying to overtake with some desperate manoevers.

It does seem a little excessive. Does this mean 54km/h in city areas? Most people do 55-60km/h so it's pretty annoying in that regard. I just wish more attention was place on poorly serviced cars, with bad shocks, tires and suspension that venture out loaded up with people and luggage onto the open road.

I wish there were more European kits available, because most of the good kits come from Japan its 80% Japanese cars. Must have spent tens of thousands on them over the years, paints and tools alone were not cheap. Not a kit, but this RC car come in a million pieces and was fully mechanical, was even 4WD, built it when I was a kid, still have it somewhere, unfortunately it will most likely be the only E30 M3 I own in my life.

I do notice over this last few years the lowered speed tolerance has been in place the Police marketing machine goes quite when they have the worse weekends then just before they wave the flag for lower speed tolerance and go all quite when they have they have a bad one. I think if some body challenged them on it their argument of voodoo and witch craft statistics will fall to pieces pretty quick. In the short term, road toll statistics have a lot to do with a lack of luck ... and that's about it. About the only three things that are sure in the argument are vehicle capability and safety has increased and we have had a larger number of people on the roads + drink driving campaign has worked. And yeah, i'm actually one of those people who sticks to the speed limit when doing open road so this whole thing doesn't really effect me. Holiday traffic is always sh*t so all good.

This I one of my fav pics

yea they need more money for dounuts

I have the exact same car but with BBS RS003 wheels and a stock rebuilt motor insured through the AA. Agreed value of $8000. Costs me $400 per year for full cover. My cars only worth around 8 at a max if it was mint. Which it is not (stuffed paint). Any higher than 8K and they wanted me to get the car valued. What was the full respray worth BTW?

Got the wheel alignment done today, and then went for the WOF, which passed.

Don't you mean "scratchies" pretty sure most people wouldn't want scratches on their BMW??

Been making more stuff for the kid (at least that's my excuse!)... This one from a kit. Was pleased to find my dry brushing skills are still passable:

Is that the same one as before? I don't remember the other one being a 318i, and I thought it ended up with some kind of weird E92 Front End on it. Dear God there can't be two of the monsters can there???

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!