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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.

Old wheels are 100% betterer.

Picked up some wheels today. Will go well with the color scheme for the car.

Waiting for some friends in Kingsland. Saw maybe 7 or 8 modded BMW's. I was sitting in my white evo 5. One nice e30 two e36 one blue sedan and one red coupe low. Two e91s both msport and one with still 335i badges. A few e34s too. Was like a car show haha

Great ... a beneficiary driving a $1000 car gets a $5 income adjusted fine for being 5klm hr over the limit Wealthy business man driving a $400,000 car gets a $5 income adjusted fine for being 5 klm hr over the speed limit because all his assets are in trust, business earning are zeroed out to avoid all tax and the loss attributing company that owns the car will see his $5 fine re-credited back to him. The rest of us are screwed (as usual) and will pay a $100 fine. QED...

You dont need to do too much to the motor but also depends on what you idea of a rebuild is? You can get away with stock compression and pistons depending on the power leave your after 200ho isnt hard to do, a good mls head gasket and caps screws for head bolts pull them down to 65 ft/ib you can use the stock cam without an isssue. As for the exhaust manifold "j" pipes work well and cheap to do the chinese manifolds work ok also Scarles carry them, keep with the stock intake for ease of the throttle etc change the vacuum valve for the booster their a pain in the butt and leak use one off a late model japper doesnt need to be turbo. Change pump to a evo 1-3 or any aftermarket also change to a larger fuel filter easy job repco carry a good selection, as for injectors if you use the ones from a m42b18 they are lucas high imp 240cc and x6 will support 300hp and will drop straight in. You can keep the stock ecu/dme and afm to which you can suck through or blow thru the easiest would be suck thru they will also voltage cut at 4.8 volts you can put a bolt stop inside then and set it to 4.7, no need to touch the ignition they dont run a lot of advance so need to retard it for up to 10psi which is over a 50% gain in power. to control the injectors use an apexi AFC works great easy to use oil feed tee's off the oil sender switch oil return can run around the front of the motor to the high side of the sump use a -3an line and 19mm return. If you chose to intercool its whatever you can fit into the front doesnt need to be massive anything at this power level is better than nothing keep the piping to 2-2 1/4 inch's for response sake, its easier to use a turbo with a built in waste gate like a evo 2-3 or GTST RB25/20 due to the room issue and external makes things hard. This a brief over view of ones ive done on a budget if you intend to spend more then aftermarket ecu etc adds to the cost but you should be able to do the whole turbo setup under 2k. You dont need a bunch of power in the car to wake it up my m42b18 e36 admittedly has good stuff inside the motor but still runs a stock ecu with a mapecu3 piggy back and makes a lazy 270hp and makes fools out of m3 e46 ( well it did the other day the owner got a bit p.i.s.s.e.d was bloody funny) i can add much much more but most like the basic stuff hope thats some sort of help.

Old NZV8 tyres are still pretty common and easily had... if you wanted to run full slicks...

As a one time boy racer who thrashed a few people with a stock looking Mitsi Libero, I appreciate this on many levels.

Last October I decided the uncertain future of this car had gone on long enough. So exactly one year after purchasing it I took a knife to the roof lining to find out the extent of the damage. And cut out the back half of the sunroof tray. Then I stripped the roof skin back to bare metal. Luckily it was not too far gone. Had the roof skin been beyond saving I do not know what I would of done. Luckily as the sunroof tray had disintegrated it had dropped away from it. I considered replacing the sunroof assembly, it sure is nice driving with it open on a hot day and they certainly make for good photos in that tilted position. However they are such a common rust trap and I did not want to give history a chance to repeat itself. So... I decided to convert it to a slick top.

2 b red

Why now when I already have four sets

Glad they are going to good use.

'05 M3 GEP451 - beautiful spotted in Brooklyn. ...as I make my way to the looser cruiser as my car is still @ ToyShop Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yes!

Yeah I saw that one on trademe, I'll try to find a 4.45 crown-wheel and pinion. I've got a lsd. That ratio should be perfect. Also picked this up yesterday, M52b28, problem is that it's attached to a whole car, so will have to flick some parts on and scrap it.

dont think hiding is the right word. sheild maybe. haha yea did you see top gear last night? they had a little scetch thing about that. Its a case of equalising the impact, $200 fine for someone with $150 disposble income that week, is a lot more than someone with $1500 or $15000 disposable income. Hence why i support the lowering of fines and increase of demerit points, not for myself of course, but as a country, its a better policy.

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.

Sold.

Orange 3.0 CSL in the city on my way back from the art gallery. An absolute credit to its owner. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Looks Awesome man! You'll be stoked!

So after 3 long weeks of patiently waiting Speedfactor have finished my custom coilovers. They are built specifically for this car out of a collection of parts. Providing the ride,adjust-ability and height that i'm after. The car will sit higher in the front than in this picture but the back is pretty well bang on. The white dot on the tire is where an 18 inch rim will sit. New engine mounts next week and that'll be it for ages until I muster up some more cash for wheels (or my E30 sells!!!!!) Let the arguments begin.......