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I'm not racist but.........

Keep an eye out for the dude wearing your shoes.. find out if he lives at the house up the street. If not follow him and find out where he lives.. Then have some fun with him, pizza deliveries, plumber call outs, turn the power off, turn the water off, etc..

I have a wee story that says YES report it he got 9 months (12 with 1/4 off peading guilty)

just fit two sixes in there

Get a rottweiler puppy also. Future insurance.

Kyu, you need friends in low places

Oh no, not this again. Has been proven to release a couple extra hp at the very top end of the rev range but at the expense of midrange torque, as Micheal said earlier. Power gains are fairly minimal, not really enough to be noticeable to the butt-dyno. Lightened flywheel would mask the effect of the lost torque in a manual, but will be very counter productive with a slushbox. Look for a set of S50 headers, will net you 12-15hp plus a few extra torques. Best $1000 you'll spend on the car, bang for buck wise. Decat the exhaust and maybe an aftermarket muffler and thats really about all you can do with the engine unless you go down the FI route.

is you r cat a manual ?? or auto . do a manual conversion 1st if it is not

Do the world a favour and run the c**t over and say it was self defence.

Nope, no problem there.

X4. I spewed.

Well here is a few pics from a few months ago now, with the leather restoration. Give them a clean as you do, do your carpets etc whilst you are in there. Its not too bad to do holes as I was swapping seats I had a lot of sacrificial leather hanging around, with the filler and glue, it's a breeze, if you can do basic panel beating you can do this, pays to have some natural artistry to you too I guess. Its pretty bad, another way would be to totally replace these I guess, but I like old s%$t and oh well. Normal clean, then of course there is the cleaner in the kit So once you have cleaned it too death, fill in the bits you really think needs it, you could spend a lifetime at this stage and if you want it looking new, this would be the hard way, I still wanted an old patina of sorts. With the filler and laborious sanding it's very rewarding. The turps takes off the glean and really is the etching stage. You can use a more specialized primer at this stage but I think Turps...S%$t could be meths, cant remember is vastly cheaper. Now its starting to blend in with the old leather, I used a brush too at this stage as the leather was pretty brutal...hence the brutal approach. Rubbing between is good, you don't have to be too fussy at this stage, not if you are spraying later, but you don't want large brush marks either. So in general you concentrate on the worst of the leather, no point layering in areas that are still good. Mind it's relative, these were pretty bad, so lots of elbow grease on these. The back seats of our cars will be a breeze. I wont even use filler, no need for glue and might go straight to spray for example. This is looking good now but keep in mind there could be 5-6 coats in some of the more worn areas. This is pretty much it. You don't need the last clear coat, but I wanted the better wear value included. Obviously you need loads of sandpaper of various grades just use your head. Pliers for all of those pesky bullnose clips in my case. You need plenty of rags, you need to buy your own Meths, yeah meths. You can make a fair mess with just two front seats and you need room to lay everything out methodically (theory of course, my garage was an abomination). So I bought a 3x4m Marque cheap s^%t one off trademe. Got a reel of number 8 and cut it in 12 inch lots to tie various pieces to the under carriage of the Marque. The instructions are comprehensive. But in general, use a very low pressure, high volume? Cant remember, but I just go by instinct. If you can paint, you can paint. Be patient, drying times a relatively quick too. This was an enjoyable mini project within the bigger project. Much more enjoyable than finding vacuum leaks that's for sure... I don't have pics in the car or fully assembled as I had to do that part real quick. But its been 8 months in the car, there has been some stickiness between the leather initially but then they settle. I think they look great, and so I have myself a full seat of front seats in black leather, not dark blue, that are fully manual and s*&t loads lighter than the originals. Im happy. Enjoy

Dog = Great Pyrenees: If that face appeared at the house window, You'd have nothing stolen, but a small mess to clean up outside

Got two dogs, not a problem , they bark at any strangers that even look at the property, then crazy neighbor calls noise control and they are on site within 15 min. Meanwhile she yells at my dogs and chucks rocks and canned food over the fence which makes even more noise and commotion. Best security system ever and I don't even pay for the addons so am getting really good value from my rates bill. I know it's been said already so I will give my experience. I reported it once when someone tried to break into my house (unlucky for them April works so for a lock company so every entrance has double security locks) and ended up marking the window frame with a flat head, community cop thanked me for the details and tied it to a case against two youths that were targeting the area, both known to the cops. If no one reported anything there wouldn't have been a case at all.

Forgot: If I were a rich man, I'd have an X4 parked here right now. November 5th isn't THAT far away.

+1, manual cats are the shiz

yup some guys too much time on there hands , I notice on a lot of auctions a lot of questions by people but they never bid Charlie maybe do a v8 manual swap on the 635csi , have seen a few done , including a e39 m5 v8 swap into one

If you do nothing then you become part of the problem. Now that you let him get away with it he is much more likely to rob you or other people again.

You'll probably get grilled for posting this as its been covered many times in old posts. It's also been shown to spoil the low-mid range torque of the M52B28, so you end up making less torque. Leave it as is and do a nice header for the exhaust then get it remaped

lol my 2002ti is on or off, deal with it lol

drive-by paintball gunning in an unknown car, with balaclavas

As much as it sucks I would let them have them. It just isn't worth the future aggravation should they choose to be dicks about you calling the cops on them. And you can guarantee they would.

That turned out mint. This is exactly what I need to do on my seats. Time to get off my Ar$se and get it sorted. Well done!!!!

Oh, cant remember the cost, but if I bought it, it must've been cheaper than any other alternative because I hate spending money.

If only this wasnt in christchurch.. damn Im tempted!

Maybe they should ban all Euro vehicles because they recycle all there oils, coolants and hydraulic fluids all over our highways

The "people" are idiots.

Home from the paint shop with Work wheels now fitting. Fitted the modified OEM M3 mirrors. Gave the interior an individual look with brushed aluminium trim with leather arm rests.

Even those willing to do the job are quoting $4,000 - $5,000 + why would you spend over half the value of a car and then a couple of weeks or months after the transmission shits it,s self. Buy some parts, Google, buy some tools and give it a go. You can always buy another car if you f**k it up

In the paint booth today.

Stick it in raewyns car, and buy one of those supercharger covers that Hyde was making out of Perspex. No one will know.

Whistler Blackcomb, and its as far away as possible from my current life I can imagine.

snow, maple syrup and canadians.

Not much to update, still slowly collecting parts and sorting a plan for the year, hopefully it will take off in the next few months. I managed to fit a new rust free sunroof panel cheers to Kerry from Mosen Euro Parts in Hamilton, still need to get a new seal for the sunroof, i also got a passenger front guard and an e36 steering rack to install, but would ideally like a z3 rack.