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Some pics form targa south island

f**k yeah it runs woot.

Lololol

Or people could stop moaning and get on with it... Seriously, All it takes is a bit of willing intent to mod a car. The biggest problem I see (and I have done it many times before myself) is peoples eyes are bigger than their stomach so to speak. Bite off only what you can chew, be very happy with what you have, even if its not the fastest, best looking vehicle around.. who cares ? just enjoy getting into it. When I joined bimmersport I was pretty much the biggest noob when it came to modding cars, but I learnt by doing things and making mistakes. Most of my success in modding came from careful research into what I wanted to do. Am I some guru, no ... just a dude who likes to approach things practically. This weekend, Westy decided that hes gonna try and give it a crack at the wiring thing for his e30 / v8. He got the whole thing started, despite some pretty interesting hurdles to get over. A bit of determination is all that was needed and some research. One thing cars have taught me is how to understand engineering and problem solving from a pratical point of view. Instead of problem solving in a computer. This is why I love it.

The good old days aye bro. I used to spend every Friday and Saturday at the "drags" was fun. I think technology is a huge distraction, we didn't even have cell phones back then, nothing was organised and the excitement was finding the pack and getting amongst it... you couldn't simply keep track online or txt your mates. Was exciting. The modern technology the Police have makes it harder, CCTV etch, your always being watched. I think general congestion and population / couture growth muddy's things a bit to. And cars are generally faster these days, back when I was a boy racer (still am really) cars with 300bhp were monsters, now days your mums mini van is packing that. Oh, and fuel was 80c a liter, that helped. 90% of modern BMW's are hardly inspiring, as someone said above, this doesn't help things.

Yeah, still great fun though but grip was definitely in issue. I definitely had a few traction issues in corner one and the long sweeper to keep me on my toes. This muppet did not do so well... After spinning twice in the warm up laps behind the pace car he opted to head out with the race cars instead of the other 8s (lucky for us 8ers, I reckon!) and promptly crashed into the tire wall. Classic example of underestimating the car and overestimating his ability. New parts car likely to be for sale soon with full csi kit!!

I'm glad you bought this car! Coming together so well.

Looks like the perfect old school cruise around keeping it dope mobile, glws, wish I could afford it, would love to give it a home!

Will cost more than the car cost us! Jatcos are cheep haha

The bulbs werent in backwards?

some more pics and a video https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=tQMpV1335no#t=10

I'll second that. Despite some of the heaviest rain I've seen in at least a week it was fun, even though I was only watching. Saw some cool machinery (that Alpina is hawt!) put some faces to names and got drenched. Great day out, hopefully my junker will be ready for the next one

Cleaned it! Then drove it Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I'd say modern cars have put a brake on the modding community. You can't really do much to a modern car that makes a difference without putting yourself back at least $500 Back in the day so to speak there were a lot of things you could really tinker with to coax a bit more street power out of the car. That and cars were cheaper and easier to work on. I'd go to a car meet but my car is 98% stock, so really not worth showing to be honest. I just go with my mate in his Mazda ute.

dropped the 544iT a little new (2nd hand ) lowering springs and shocks ditched the self levelling rear suspension .

had some wheels cleaned up today 18" M-pars staggerd set of 5 also worked on the convertible yesterday in a hail storm while removing a part for a customer

Waved good bye to an old friend :'( she started as an ugly ducking and turned into the beauty she is today. Luckily I sold her to my workmate so will still see her around lots.

you just need to post something controversial.... Post this: Mercedes Benz.... just how much better are they than BMW really?