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some boring old e36 just became cool with a set of adjusties

Hi guys! Last year i was down in Queenstown for a week on the snow having a blast, sweeping powder, hitting jumps, sliding rails... Awesome! In the midst of this I met the owner of a recruitment company on a chair lift and he told me about the growing software development sector in Auckland. I took his details and said if i ever decided to move to NZ i would look him up! Well, 2 weeks after getting back i had made up my mind, Sydney had done me well but it was time to cross the water and move Auckland! I applied for a interesting job here taking a PHP and Flash development shop into a Microsoft stack shop after a total of 8 interviews the deal was signed and i was moving to Auckland! The next couple of month were frantic! I had two cars and a apartment and garage load of stuff to pack / sell / give away, In the end the 2 cars sold in the last week of being in the country! We moved over on the 15th of January and have been living on queen st since having a awesome time exploring Auckland and have a generally awesome time, next week we will be moving to a great townhouse in Avondale! On to the car! Last weekend i had the realisation that with us moving to Avondale, me working in the city and my partner working near the airport we would need two cars (her car was on its way through compliance, a '12 a3 1.8T) so i decided to spend Saturday trawling K Road dealerships for something to catch my eye. One of my previous cars being a lexus i decided that that would be the first port of call, i laid my eyes on the new RC 350 for the first time.. beautiful car, took it for a drive and it was stunning, BUT the price tag was over $110,000! Way out of my price range. Next up i moved on to VW, to try out a Golf R... $70,000, it was quick, ok inside but ultimately ugly as a toad and not RWD. Meh. Then there was the Porsche dealership, the 03' 911 caught my eye, nice shape, great performance, $99,000 price tag, just not worth it. Audi was next, RS4... amazing, RS6s even more so, but again was not able to justify any of the price tags. I even went to Toyota, $50,000+ORC for a FT86, you have to be kidding me! I had heard there were some dealerships on Great North road, so of we went up the road. The first used car dealership i dropped into finally sparked my interest! They had a E55 and a E46 M3 both for under $30k! Now were talking i spent some time taking to the sales person, mainly about cars in general and not so much the two he had. They were of to Hampton downs the next day to race their Toyota (didnt ask the model). I decided to keep walking along to see what else was around, i found another dealership and started wandering around, i was quickly approached by a salesman who after a couple of questions showed me a '08 E90 335i in Montego blue! Stunning outside, luxurious inside, i was feeling good! Time for a test drive we jumped in and off we went for a spin up the highway, needless to say, i was thinking this is the car for me. The car was very smooth (i had come from a daily car with circuit coilovers) had great acceleration and was very well planted on the road. We pulled back into the dealership and i started looking through the car. everything looked great but then i got to the back seats, uhoh... i cant see a button to fold them down! This was one of my requirements so i could take snowboard in the back and i started feeling quite disappointed. The salesman was telling me its easy to unbolt the seats The price started plummeting as the general manager was trying to buy the car regardless, i looked in the boot and saw the 2/1 split in the seat.. AHAH! I jumped on my phone and went to google, as you all probably know, there is a latch in the boot that releases the back seats! And that was it, i was now 100% sold. I put down a deposit started transferring funds from Aus for the remaining. Whist i was waiting for the deposit to come through i started swooning for hours over the car on e90post, reading about maintenance and modifications. I then thought i would check out trademe and see what parts were up for sale locally. Just my luck! There was a brand new VRSF 7" intercooler for sale! I then read a bit more and it turned out the owner was selling his 335i and had some more kit that he was also selling off. He also had a BMS OCC and DCI! So off i went, 1 day after putting down the deposit on the car to get the first 3 mods . I picked up the car on Wednesday and for the past 3 nights i have just been driving. I am so happy with the car and cannot wait to spend some time working on it. So far i have also ordered: - JB4 G5 ISO + USB + SLD - Bavarian Technic Enthusiast Cable - Thin wall sparkplug socket + 6 new plugs - BMW INPA / Ediabas K+DCAN USB Interface Fun times ahead From what i can tell about the car so far, it seems to have - Comfort access package - Supersprint full exhaust Pics: And my previous cars back in Aus A '03 IS300, heavily modified suspension, 3" full exhaust, quite a few TRD parts, work wheels And a 1994 Nissan Cedric Gran Turismo, way way way to much work to list:

after owning my e30 for around 6 months, i wanted to make the car my own so i have decide to do a m20b25 turbo build on my 1990 320i, i bought the m20b25 and have gotten it completely striped and ready for a full rebuild, this will be a slow process but at the end it will be worth it

So it's been a while. I've just been driving the car as much as I can, smashing holes in the ratty old exhaust and doing little maintenance bits and pieces. I've slowly been chipping away at a set of wheels, they should be done in the next month or two. Here's a couple photos of the fronts.

17s will be okay but race tyres will be more expensive than 15s or 16s I'd imagine.

some of us do still roll around...

Why is this a good idea exactly? Is it "more" of a crime for a high earner to be doing 120 than someone without an income doing exactly the same thing? Answer is clearly no. It's just seen as a good idea by those who are jealous of those that have more than them.

Got the adjustables in today. Too low for my liking, so will need to play around to get the right hight. Took the car for a quick spin around the block, suspension seems stiff. But will see how it goes later down the track. Rear shocks have seen better days and there is still around 40mm drop left in the adjusties (for stance)

As at the last update I was rushing to get the car ready for the Race Series track day. At about 10.30pm the night before the car was finally all together and fired up, went for a short spin round the block and all seemed good. Come the day of the track session, the plan was to take it easy and gradually run the engine in. First session, I did about 3 laps at slow speed, only using part throttle and low revs. Came in to check the steering as it was a bit "vague", checked and tightened the bolts in the linkage. Three or four gentle laps of the second session and the car lost power then cut out going into the infield hairpin - not good. After a bit of poking around under the bonnet I noticed the dizzy cap was broken into pieces, so guessed that was the problem. Not having a spare that was the end of the day, but not a biggie, or so I thought. When I got the car home and started pulling the dizzy apart, I noticed the problem was the rotor was moving all over the place, which had smashed the cover. Unfortunately the rotor is bolted to the cam, the reason it was loose was the sprocket had come completely unbolted. sh*t, time to pull the head off and find out how much damage was done!

Some of the best drivers I know are women man. Real talk they will put some of us men to shame. Anyhoo. Did inspection 2 on my car today. Due for a service at 150 k but is now at 145. So got me some magic castrol for her and oem filters. Fuel,oil and cabin filters. The air filter is a KNN item that i put in so its sweet. Oiled and serviced that too. Wheel repairs booked in for Tuesday next week. Just noticed some light scoring on left rear wheel. That could of been from suspension flex when I had that near miss with the courier driver. (Still not accepting responsibility.) Will have to get the third wheel sorted too so more money yay not. That oil is filthy. Shes bone dry underneth though so bonus. Rear diff mount gone This one here

just put it up for dollar res on trademe. you'll get a decent price for them for sure

I got some 17 by 8 if u want

What the actual eff. Why just why???!!!!!

Eliongater was good enough to make some more shots of the livery, pretty good motivation.