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Put on some tyre silicone, car looks 10x cleaner without actually cleaning anything

Completed all the wiring and everything is working as it should. No error messages, all lights working. Also got the deck floor 90% complete, need to pop rivet the right side in and then fabricate the inner trays. Will be using the Hibbo Deck Liner stuff to line the deck this weekend.

I can do that ill bring the turbo work hack

I think the focus of next years Bimmerfest event should be the E36, that will be quite a big deal as there are plenty of them out there and race cars and all. Be good to see some of the M3's battle it out and we will have to pray for fine weather...2015 is the 25th Anniversary of this model, the successor to the E30...what do others think ?

"No thought past the end of their own bonnets" - very well put! It is these kinds of inconsiderate driving that annoy people, contribute to traffic jams and cause accidents. If drivers in NZ were more thoughtful (I mean how hard is it to not block a junction when the lights change??) traffic would be so much better. Peace man.

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At the moment one of my rages (that hasn't already been mentioned) are the rotten swine that scoot past the traffic queue in a turning lane, then merge back into the traffic down the road. Mostly happens in Wellington heading towards the terrace tunnel, they'll take the Willis st lane and cut across at the lights. Dangerous, annoying and only holds up the traffic more. For some reason it usually happens in moderate traffic, so there's still good flow. They maybe only save 20 secs at best, beats me why they do it. Sheer arrogance in my opinion. Yesterday a white Lexus did it and I'll be damned if I didn't consider putting 1.6 tonnes of German bumper against the side of their car. That's one thing I like about the e32, bumpers that bump. Those meaty plastic shields have had a few scrapes by dullards with no concept of spatial awareness over the years. Mostly car parks or someone attempting to cut across a few lanes in traffic. Grab $2-50 cash off the offending driver, light sand, plastic paint and she's as good as new Modern bumpers are sleek but if you use them they crumple and scratch.

Thanks man. If I had the rear window, I might have driven it to the meet on Sunday haha but hopefully it will be on the street within the next month depending if I go wide body or not

My old donk might be ready for a proper thrashing, with a little luck.

They're everywhere... Laguna Blue lol

To add to the already miserable experience of using the motorways (ie complete and utter dribbling morons who sit in the right hand lane for no reason, usually doing 85 - 90 kph), 2nd on my list of pet peeves are people who either move in to the left most lane, or are already in it, just as an on ramp joins the motorway. And these total dildos carry on as if there are no cars trying to merge on to the motorway and are seemingly surprised to see said bunch of cars trying to merge quite normally. A lot of drivers seem to have no thought past the end of their own bonnets and this is a prime example.

probably just broken tierod end , pretty common, no big deal . yes matt I have some seats and steering wheels for your car:)

yup

Complete off-topic, but I for one enjoy reading Ron's posts and hope he'll keep posting despite not being appreciated by everyone...

Plus it can be transferred quite well to my business branding (the Zombie logos are round, conveniently similar to the Clean & Capture logo..!)

Thanks Will, will get in contact with him. In other news, it left the garage for the first time in a while today. Seems so far to be fine. Still a bit to do before a proper drive but it made it to the letter box and back yay. Bit of a different look too.

I think it was me who told you that Jules. The banana was a couple of cars in front of me. He got caught up in that little stream of water across the exit of the sweeper. Tried to hold the drift but the car kept rotating past the point of no return and he did (what looked like) a very slow and graceful slide off the right hand side of the track. It kicked a little to the left again and he put his front right quarter into the tyres. I think if he'd turned into the skid instead of trying to drift it, he would've been okay. Most cars (without traction control!) were barely doing 90 km/hr around the sweeper, and he wasn't any faster than the rest. All in all, an excellent event and I'm looking forward to the next one! Don't care if it's raining like that again... you learn a lot about your driving in those conditions. James :-)

I am very capable of driving on the track and then having a beer Ill be there next year, unlikely to have anything more important on! Might just need some extra drivers to get my fleet there!

Darn, Julian don't spoil it think of the fun haha!. On a serious note well done to one and all in the back ground that organized this event.

I realise the dust (or mud) is barely starting to settle after the weekend, but are there any thoughts on doing this again next year? For the Upper North Island folks Hampton Downs would be the perfect place to do it again. Skid pan for those that want to give it some hell, miles of space for a show n' shine / hardpark / whatever the kids call it these days, oh and the track Only suggestion I'd make would be to hold the event more around March. Late October through mid December is notoriously changeable as far as the weather goes. Might be easier to schedule around the race series too? Would be freakin awesome to get the official car club involved too, I'm betting there are some gorgeous machines tucked away that would be well appreciated by the general public.

Did anyone manage any non 8 series photos? Lol. 'Twas my first track day with my bmw, so hoped there would be some photos of the others

The M10 block is legendary, becoming the F1 engine of the 80s Brabham team. In my opinion, slappin a turbo on it is perfect!