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Pulled the top half off for reconditioning. Thanks to Martin for help and a garage! Took a few hours but nothing too difficult, just a few tricky bolts securing the manifolds and a fair bit of mucking around to prise the valve covers off. Cleaning and powdercoating next week plus a few other jobs while everything's out: Clean and replace injector seals Clean inlet and injector ports Paint any red still showing in the bay that I can get to Wrinkle black the strut bar Paint the washer tanks Lock the banjo bolts (one was loose, though that's not too bad in 23 years)

DOHC would be awesome. Alan says one of his mate's is close to completing a DOHC S70 though there are quite a few attempted and failed DOHC M70 and S70 projects online... An no completed.

It does appear to be missing an extra cam shaft though?

Cars that are 20yrs+ don't have to comply with the new frontal impact laws or emissions etc. Makes these pretty easy to import. But still. Japanese import with unknown history, repainted cheaply, US spec engine and somewhat impractical LHD. I'd rather pay a few grand more and get a New Zealand new full spec version with service history and actually be able to see what's coming when I'm trying to overtake.

When? Always liked them.

So today i started filling the roof hole in with pouring foam. Needs filling and sanding etc after the general shape is made and then i will fibreglass over the top. The theory is that when the fibreglass is set i can pull away the foam and be left with a roof skin. final picture is a roll of kevlar im going to use just to give it more strength and hopefully stop fg splinters coming through in the event of a roll over. Will post more pics as i make more progress.

What a brave man Jooles. Looks pretty reasonable under the cam covers... no nasty build up

the steering wheel is the biggest eyesore, followed closely by the extra guage then the headunit. wheels are okay and easily sold and replaced so not a dealbreaker. all in all a nice e30 m3.

Electric is just a phase. He3 is going to be the sustainable fuel of the long term future.

Alex - I can't comment on the price or value. I simply don't know. But I'd really like to see a pic or two with the hardtop on if you have any?

As a motorcyclist I have to be well aware of what's going on around me. And I get to see a hell of a lot more nonsense than if I was in a car. So these are the things I would like to see people start using whilst driving. 1: Their indicators 2: Their mirrors 3: Their brains! I would also like to see people stop using these things. 1: Their phones. 2: Their god damned phones!!!

I followed a similar kind of person driving a similar kind of vehicle through the burbs towards Milford one morning. For about 2 kilometers they achieved a maximum speed of 25kph, and slowed at every intesection joining the main road we were on and all but stopped at one of them for no reason. Then when we arrive at a traffic light controlled main intesection severe indecision reigned surpeme. Finally a lane was selected and we progressed through. Heading out of this busy intersection and into the busy main street of Milford she starts veering to the right, so I assumed (wrongly) that she was going to turn right into a side road. How silly of me! She then drives up the wrong side of the road until she gets to the pedestrian crossing outside (with safety islands in the middle of the road) the New World. I'm now along side her giving it loads on the horn. She is now on the crossing and decides that maybe she hasn't quite got it right so then turns right angles to the road and drives across the crossing! Now she's behind me at the red lights. So I jumped out, ran up to her door, wrenched it open (much to her surprise) and give her a serious ear bashing. To which she replies "Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry". My parting shot was "You need to pull your car over and stop driving right now, because you're sh*t!" I should have grabbed the keys and thrown them away.

She's a living night mare on New Zealand road's mate how many of these issues do you want? Sits in middle of right lane double carriage then turns left missed his turn off Truck and trailer pulls out of drive way turns right cutting off on coming traffic and 3 other vehicles in the lane he wants. When straightened up uses half of medium section to travel 80 odd mtrs to turn right into another drive way. Push bikers riding four abreast The old favorite travel at 88kph until you come to a passing lane and then speed up too 100 odd so no one can pass when lane finishes slow down to 88 again.