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When boredom sets in waiting in the car for the missus and counting how many BS members in phone book of phone [ 46 ]

Come off the forum for a couple of days, mention the forum has turned a new leaf while staying with and seeing some ex-members, and this garbage to back it up.

Hey guys! Met some of you at the meet at the sushi shop. Was nice to finally take the old girl out to a meet. Been spending many.. many hours tidying this car up and bringing it up to scratch. Its a 1994 US Spec LHD M3

Ok so i was at the meet today which inspired me to make a thread for my new car So yesterday the 4/07/2015 i bought a new bmw after selling my vw golf mk3 gti the night before, so i upgraded to a 328i motorsport nz new e36 wagon thats done 210ks and been well looked after. its automatic which im fine with for now allways being in traffic on my way to work but i do for see a manual conversion coming in the future! the only defaults i can find are a few scratches few shopping trolley dents and a thin layer of clear coat which i can fix being a spraypainting apprentice, other than this the car is great condition for its age same year i was born! so without further adue i bring to you my wagon

I came close to selling mine but now I thinking it might be a keeper and it's time for a bit of restoration.......

my e38 is a season veteran

Since ahmedsinc don't want to buy my junk, I better start an new project post. Took the motor out and stripped it down, will take the head's to the engineer shop tomorrow for crack testing. it wont be a fast project but we will c how it goes.

The best E38 review I've seen

Im looking for e36 adjustable suspension and am wondering if anyone in nz are selling some north island would be great but not really bothered

This is Tony Ramlose's car- he had a business at the back of Turners Car Auctions in Mt Wellington around 2004. (Is it still there?). Around that time he was importing a decent amount of left hand drive 80's exotics from Japan. E30 M3's, E24 M6's, E34 M5's Lancia Integrale's, some Porsche's etc. some were in fairly good nick, some were rather suss. Due to the left hand drive thing, many ended up being purchased as track weapons - with some having their engines /running gear transplanted into lesser powered right hand drive machines. This M6 was one of a few brought in back then. To me they all kind of looked tired - as if they were owned by people who might have lost their love for them. Saying that though, there was quite a tidy E34 M5. I reckon if someone bought this cheap it could be a good track car or alternatively could maybe worth restoring. A mint, restored LHD M635csi could command some big $$$ in Europe!

24,600kms ? Not even run in ;-)

I'm not too far behind you with the 750i. But the 740i's still a baby at only 140k

left to undo thread but use a big air impact gun. if this turns to rubbish I have a good 4.4L sitting here

OOO another e38 nut LOL!!.. haven't been back in the forums for a while and look what i missed

as far as I'm concerned you only buying the right to contact them ie their email address (think bout that for a tic) that goes for aaanything on the site the $$$ are fairly inconsequential but do hold some 'value' in the fact that you 'agree' to the price or 'offer' more than anyone else who has seen the listing then have the sellers contact to go with it My names jared & thats my story but yea, good luck with that but now you at least have their contact (impossible to reneg on the contact details been sent to each other imagine a list of all the BimmerNZers names & trademe accounts allowing the bypassing of all tm 'fee's ( or a larger scale whole cities etc

Haha glad you didn't then! I kinda needed a running car haha. Now just need to get a new motor for the other one so I can put the other manual box in it

I will admit i did think about it lol

Yup, I put a bid in the weekend my head gasket blew, and nobody beat it in the 1.5 weeks since. $1201 316ti with stuffed paint haha.

Looks like you done a great job cleaning her up! Nice example, is it a wierd experience driving LHD manual on NZ roads?

Nice car and good to meet u today

Hey, finally got sick of my Audi A3 3.2 so went out and found a black '08 manual 135i import. This was 2.5 months ago. Stock. Hasnt taken long to tune it up, Accesstune stage 2+ FMIC, semi slicks etc. Needs a LSD!! Just chucked a CSL carbon boot on it today, still looks stealthy though.

Your absolutely right Glen. Mud flaps have to go. Though I will be replacing them with these. Towbar's going too. Since I've decided to keep the 740i as my daily that'll stay the tow car.

Manual BMWs. Forgot how much I love them. Even if it is just a baby 1.6 haha

and we talking road cars not somethig that does not remotley resemebleand e34 road car.This forum has reached its best before date

Very cool. Would get rid of the stickers though. Seems well priced to me?

Suresh, just took a quick look at the Vargas Stg2+ Turbos .. Looks like they're using MHI tech - Mitsubishi TD04 frames and various Mitsubishi compressor and turbine wheels (which is awesome because imo, they are one of the best) here is a link to a compressor flow map for the 19T wheel .. theyre pretty large and flow a lot of air!!! http://www.stealth316.com/images/td04h-19t-cfm.gif the 20t is usually estimated at 10% more flow than the 19t but I can't find a compressor map. mostly used on the 3L Mitsi GTO as an aftermarket option. opinions are that the 19t does have some issues. suggest going for a 20t and perhaps clipping the turbine if youre going for all out power

Rescued one ($300 e36 blew it's headgasket, so has now been trailered home) and picked up another. 95 316ti manual

98 e38 735i, one lady owner, 2 months rego, 1 month wof, panel damage, blown head gasket, $900.00 No just joking lol

i def agree but just sayin a 1 series manual will be a fantastic fun car.

Flash the auto with the Alpina firmware, makes the auto a hell of a lot better i hear.

Work now begins on the tailend. Lovely plastic joining/moulding by Mark @ Plastic Repairs in Glenfield. Combination or a M3 bumper and a touring bumper. Pics of mockup and trial fitment.

You can never have too many tourings.