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Had a weak moment and ordered a pair of Eisenmann race back boxes. End result should be something like this :

that "Dove" Paper soap 'test' advert, who says its bad the paper dissolves???? perhaps its just their 'soap' doesn't work....

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Well, another 6 months passed! Apart from take it for a WOF (passed straight through as usual), only thing I have done to it is buy a new battery for it. Original BMW one buggered out about 18 months ago, so had an old temp one i had sitting here, but was already at the end of its life. New Yuasa battery and shes golden. Would love to have an OEM BMW one in there, but the price... and what is probably new old stock on a battery, i didnt want to take the gamble. Oh and also fitted new brake light switch, so thats probably a good thing! Picked up two very nice Clarion units as well over my time and need to fit one of them into this car too, the sony that is in there is quite in the eye sore in the dash! John and I just recieved some pics from a shoot we did in January, he has posted more in his thread, here are a couple of mine. Big thanksto Jessy Penelon for the photos!! also heaps more on this link: https://imageshack.com/a/dck4/1

Only thing worse is the Ssangyong Ute racing series. My eyes and ears bleed everytime I accidently come across them on the TV.

actually Suzuki Swifts are a pretty fun drive in manual.

A Mallowpuff and a Kitkat, is that what the fuss is all about?!?

Picked up from Team McMillan in Auckland.

Hi all, I'm thinking of selling my beloved E46 and replacing with an E28 as a bit of a project. I've always liked the idea f owning an older "simpler" car, for that classic feel and style. Drove one in USA a few years back and loved it. To those out there who do or have owned an E28 how are they to maintain and get parts for? What are common issues found or pit falls to look out for with these older models? there is a semi regular flow of them on Trademe most in good looking condition. It would mostly be a weekend car for cruising, something the E46 seems wasted on sitting in the garage.

Who the heck is going to even notice them. Just fit them and cary on with your life. I would only ever bother certifying something obvious, like Coil Overs, and even then I would try and get a WOF without one, as my race car does.. the LVVC has so many holes in it its more a joke than anything else.

Bloody legend!

Pukekohe Rally sprint this Sunday at the race track. Driver doc from 9am. Come for a hoon if your around, this event was awesome last year. You need to be a car club member and have minimum a club sport licence... Think car will need a cage, authority card, logbook etc. Check out my incur from last year.

I used Penrite on one of my cars a few years back and the car crashed, that stuff is nothing but bad luck. Never again.

yeah, or the fine yellow E30 BMW Races series car (top right) that won a stage, 2nd in 2 stages, came 3rd beating BDA Escorts..

Penrite hpr5 nuff said

I have some very bad cellphone pics of when I painted my interior trim. I had the poo wood too and I sanded it back to bare wood, primed it and painted it. I painted it in the same colour as the car (black sapphire metallic) so it is unique. It looks much better than the pics show

Just adding things to my list for when we head over there... And real beer. NZ does have some nice beer, but it is different to the British stuff.

realistically, ANY E39 you buy needs suspension - they're either poked, or have just been done! Most Kiwis (who we know SUCK at looking after cars) will have just replaced the odd part here and there, and left the other part owrn bits to wear the new bits faster. A complete rebuild really tightens them up. The suspension eats itself faster that the cooling system melts!

had you moved over to the inside lane , odds are it would have sped up .

Not really an update as such, though i do need to do one at some stage... However took the car down to the Z station, filled it to the top, and then took it to the scrap yard today 100m down the road and put it over the scales, came in at 1440kg (increments of 10kg) with me (75kg) and a full tank of petrol, assume 60L = 45kg according to a calculator online Gives a kerb weight using standard definition online of 1340kg

Mushy peas and pork pies. A crime against nature. Those chocolate and orange balls though (terrys or some such?) now we're talking.

I pull up next to them and slowly creep forward, then I'll rev the engine like I'm taking off and then watch them take off into the intersection thinking the light is green.

To be fair... there are a lot more basic ingredients in a 750i vs a Cherry.... Mellow Puff = Puff and Biscuits base covered in Chocolate. How much better could it get? And we are judging English food here, I mean, what have the English given the culinary world? I think your average Kiwi food is basically the same.. not a strong point of our nations.

I fix mine own. You just need a few grades of sand paper and a cutting compound with a machine. Easy.

Yes to both issues... fit the one way valve

This was what I wrote 4 years ago when taking toms one for a thrash ... And I guess why I roll my eyes at people when CSLs come up for sale and they dont think theyre all that. Wait till you drive one ... Then comment.

Just keep well away from the Tony Pepperoni

Driving my 740i home from work this morning and pulling into the drive to see a 750i parked there and thinking to myself they're both mine. Wooop wooop

There's a red E30 M3 on what looks like Schnitzer Type 2 wheels that gets daily driven along the waterfront in Auckland. Awesome.

Sod the Marmite, bring back some manual E39's!

I've done 170kph backwards at Puke, unfortunately it wasn't intentional.

Spotted in Stellenbosch yesterday. Absolutely mint, LHD, manual. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Epic!!!!

Got some sneak peaks from the visit to the painters. Looking good all stripped down

I've used rain-x for years. Great stuff. Started using it in the visor of my helmet. It stopped fogging on the inside and the rain just peeled off the outside. Started using it on my cars and like Graham said, you barely have to use the wipers. Used it to daw a <==B on my work mates windscreen at work so he'd come out every morning and there would be condensation all over the car except for right in the drivers view where there was a huge penis and balls. He thought someone was drawing it on every morning till he started night shifts and there it was in the work car park as well. It lasted for months.. Even frost wouldn't settle on it. Really funny thing was he recently traded that car in so I confessed to him that it was me. His wife thought it was hilarious cause he had ranted and raved at home about the as-hole who was drawing it on every morning.. THen we had a good chuckle about the poor car yard owner who'd be greeted at work every morning by the sight of a huge penis on the windscreen of one of the car in his lot..

Try Glass Science cleaners, you can get them at Repco. The Spray is great. I love the stuff, don't even need wipers a lot of the time. I hate dirty widescreen... To the extent I refuse to drive some peoples cars, especially at night when the inside of their screen is filthy.

It's not a triangle, it's a shark's fin - makes it way cooler!

Quick rant eh? I dislike that little triangular bit between the two wiper blades that can't get to. I bought longer blades so the triangle is smaller but couldn't get rid of it completely. Why can't they make those mad looking single blade mechanism on the 90's Merc? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Haven't heard from ol rustynuts in a while....

Bruce has a crack in his block now due to a couple of nuts falling off....

I fully agree with no kit and a mtec1 rear spoiler, much cleaner lines imo. This is my M52'd one..

Well an update well due! a fair amount of developments on this car over the last wee while! And a big help from a few important people to thank! Sam @ Attention to Detail Brent @ BM World Hans @ Chemcouriers/Mainfreight Those of you that have been following me here and on other media are well aware of me wanting a set of Borbet Type As for more than 6 years, since I got my very first E30. During the first few years i searched high and low, then in the breif interlude where I was more focused on my E34, i started looking intensely again about 18 months ago when I brought this car. I finally found a set via the Facebook page a few of us on here manage, and Ryan was happy to pick them up from Tauranga and bring them up to Auckland for me. Well, wheels aquired, time for another trip up! and time to decide which tyres I want to run So about a month a go I drove my E30 to Auckland, drove the whole way without a complaint, proud of my little car! After staying at a very questionable backpackers, I then continued north to pick up my new wheels from Ryan (thanks again!) and then went to a tyre outfit to pick out some tyres, and ended up going with Continental Premium Contact 2s, OEM for lots of brand new Euro cars of the same weight. test fitted the wheels and yep as expected, fronts hit the calipers and needed some spacers. Plenty of time for that decided to sort next time Im up, left the car in Auckland for two weeks, in the care of Sam @ Attention to Detail, sot that it could recieve the love and care that the car deserves! Euro Car Club meet was two weeks later How do I get myself, and my puppy back to Auckland? Hans, happy to help as always, gave me a ride to Auckland in his Iveco Stralis, what a cool truck, and being in a vehicle more literally 20x the size I am used to was very cool, yet different to what I was expecting! Slow, bumpy etc, no way. All the comforts of a car, and 2400Nm or so kept everything moving just fine! Took a couple of cool photos at the changeover in Turangi Once back to Auckland after driving through the night, first job was to find some spacers Brent at BM World only too happy to help, as always. Cannot recommend enough. Couldn't wait any longer, and fitted the wheels in his yard, to finally see what the car was going to look like! (while I was there for an hour or so, 3 of his customers asking me if the car had been repainted, this just after Sam had cut the car, and hadnt even finished cleaning it yet!!) Then off to the ECC meet the following day. Phenominal turnout, such a range of vehicles! well worth every KM of coming up, and encourage you all no matter where you are to attend the next one! Some photos of my E30 from the meet, you can see photos of other cars etc on the ECC club page ^^ Love that last photo of my boy and the car, have got a high res of it I want to get blown up After all that, drive back home and get to test out the Continental Tyres Initially, thought they were pretty rubbish, especially in the wet, but after a few hundred km and they were scrubbed in, started to be pleased with them. Done more than 1000kms on them now, and they are okay, but not worth the price premium. Potenza RE001s are better (what i have on the weaves for this car) so RE002 should be better again, ance cheaper. after all that driving, put it in the garage back home to have a rest for a few weeks! Then pulled it out this weekend just passed, and did a few mods, and fixed some stuff, as below (copied from other thread) took out the stock bulb light bar from the OBC, bit of a mission to get out. opened it up had a look, the two bulbs are 6V bulbs in series, so if one pops (as is the case with this one), the other doesnt go thier. So i soldered in some 3mm LEDs in there and a 330ohm resistor, had to trim the curcuit board holder a bit to accomodate the resistor, and then put it all back together, now I have light! and yes it is 19 degrees here at 6.15pm here, I love summer! was 22.5 earlier today, my thermometer in the conservatory said it was 34 inside and 24 outside. Then while the radio was out anyways (you need to to get access to the light bar), i made a little mod to the radio wiring loom that has been annoying me from day one of having the car. When the roof is down, and the radio is on, the aerial is deployed at full extension, so i have put a push button in above the stereo that interupts the deploy curcuit, and leaves the antenna down even when the radio is on, and when reception is bad, i can just hit the press button and it will deploy. Would like to get a little picture of the symbol for an aerial somehow printed on it but not sure how to tackle that I thought about tapping into the rear demister curcuit wiring and picking up a feed from there if the roof is up or down, the rear demistor automatically turns off if the roof is down, so would do the inverse and sence when the roof is up, the aerial can be deployed regardless of switch position, but Ill save that for another day, as i needed to put center console back together to take the car to the Wellington meet tomorrow! Then on the day of the Wellington meet on Sunday just passed, I gave it a clean in the morning, to reveal Sam @ Attention to Details work once more, then off to the meet! pretty overcast day, so photos not great, so i wont post here, but was a great afternoon