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Here is a complete set of very rare Esche Grau/Ash Grey wood set for a E38. There are no cracks or scratches in this wood trim and and every piece is in excellent condition. If you want something different for your E38 this is it. $400 firm. I could sell it for more than that in England or Australia but thought I'd offer it here first. A quick google search will reveal just how rare this wood trim is.

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Thanks man! Looking forward to meeting you tomorrow bro. I don't think so? Haha it's been living in my girlfriends garage the past few months. Hahaha, just have to convert her to the dark side mate Thanks man, appreciate all the help along the way Hey Glen thanks! Long time indeed, will have to pop by the workshop and say hi when I next get the chance! Cheers man, she's been a joy to own since the day I took her from ya Dahahaha, plenty more fish out there for you mate But thanks, will update when I can! Haha yeah man, down for a shoot when it's all done. Hehe, never parting with my style 5's Thank you! I thought it'd be nice to share something back to the community. The girlfriend is definitely a keeper, her project is far more ambitious than mine! You can find bits and bobs of her 280zx project on my photography page

I have some spare harnesses I can donate if you want them, think they are expired but I think for track car they're ok

Other than the logging trucks (there is significant logging in Sweden) everything you say is road user attitude which is, imo, one of the biggest failings in NZ. I don't know what the average 'size' of a person is in NZ, but there are stereotypes which aren't helped by squeezing four of the larger members of NZ society into a Mazda Familia, possibly with luggage in the boot. Now, the car I saw this morning may have been air-bagged and riding low, or it may have been massively overloaded which is why virtually the entire top of the tyres were in the wheel arch and hidden from view. It was wallowing all over the place and the driver was trying to maintain 100km/h or better. I've driven in many countries around the world, but it seems NZ has a significantly higher proportion of road users with a blasé attitude to what they are doing, be that unroadworthy vehicles, overloading, riding motorcycles without protection, using phones while driving, just generally not paying attention, or being unaware of anything going on around them. This approach is the result of long-term negligence on the part of authorities; it doesn't happen overnight, and (at present) nothing appears to be happening to turn this around.

mmmm, windyfires. I guess they'd be good for the skidpan. Ooops, wrong forum! #; )

Wish my girl helped me on my cars. She just yells at me when I bring another home. Looking forward to the finished project

After having done a few track days in my E34 V12 Touring, i have decided that its about time that i start to build a proper racecar for events around the place Things i have learnt using the V12 car - RWD is fun - Auto is not - Suspension setup is important on the track - V12s cost WAY too much when you abuse them - and fuel to tow said 1880kg E34 + Trailer is too much. So in the month or so that followed, I decided that it was time to build a little race car on a budget and get into some more events, before i decide to get more serious still. so i set some goals during the build, 1/ Must be as close to 1000kg as possible - so i dont need another tow wagon, and can use my V12 E34 2/ Must be 5 stud, and capable of running low offset wheels, so i can share wheels with other BMWs 3/ Budget is $2k starting from absolutely nothing, read, that includes purchase of car and any mods. Sales of useless parts can reinstall budget $$ 4/ Preferably Calypsot Red to match the rest of my cars, and that its my favourite colour At the time i had a little white E30 316i Manual sitting here, which was tempting (and i brought it for very little), but then decided that it was going to take a good chunk of the budget to convert it to 5 stud, albiet cheaper than buying a second set of wheels and tyres. and i would still have a 1600cc in the front of it. a good wee engine in its own right, but if im going to get a bit more serious about racing that will never do and im sure i would loose interest. about a week or so later, the company i work for moved to a new premesis. On the day we moved there and I had a look around and out the back, my eyes lit up. out in the yard at the back sitting against a wall was a E36 318ti in calypsot red, and a single axle car trailer, amoungst some other stuff Seeing as we needed the yard, it needed to be cleared. most of it just scrap crap, but anyways, made a deal with the owner, and ended up taking the Compact and the Trailer home for $100. yes. $100, not $1000. Yes, both trailer and the car were deregistered due to age, and the E36 wouldnt start. But its still a deal by anyones standards. $100 down, $1900 to go That photo is back at home, but to get the compact home I loaded it onto the trailer, and quickly discovered that single axle trailer on little biscuit 13" 155 tyres just wasnt going to work. I live about 2 minutes from work, so a slow drive of about 5 with one very sketchy loaded trailer. Thought briefly about converting the trailer to dual axle and puttine bigger tyres on it etc, but then i sold it for $850 so i walked away happy. $850 up, $2750 to go So there it sat for a wee while. deciding what i wanted to do with it and make a plan. Decided that for a start, I had better get the car running again for a start, whatever was going to happen to it. Spent an afternoon on it, and traced it to water in the DME, a fairly common issue on the E36, they are put in a very vulnerable place on this model, on the firewall, access from the engine bay. Water gets inside from the windscreen and its all over. That was most likely why the car was parked up i guess. Pulled that out along with the other bits that make up the EWS system, and put a new set in that i had lying around from a 318iS i wrecked years ago, put the freshly charged battery back in, and away it went on the 5 year old petrol, so took it for a little drive. Seemed to run pretty well for a car been sitting that long. getting it running may have been a bad thing though.... i very quickly realised the M42 wasnt going to cut the mustard. I then thought back to a E36 318i manual i had at one point, and yep decided it was going to have to have something in the engine department too. Realistically.... there was only one thing to do... lol and a few days later it was sold (I then found out from a friend on here that you can remove the nose off an E36 just like E32 and E34. That will save some time next time, and make it on a lot less sketchy angel!!) $350 up, $3100 to go.. and had a chassis! Time to start looking for an engine. With a reasonable bit of money in the bank, its tempting to then use that good luck and go and get a really good engine. I decided however that engines are easier to swap out and sell later down the line than suspension is, so i want to spend the extra on the suspension later. So i brought this M50TUB25, it is from an E34. usually buy whole cars for the price, but i did a guy a favour buying it, he just needed it gone, and the saved time having to pull one out, i can get on with other things. My little boy Ty also approves as you can see! $500 down, $2600 to go The hunt started to find all the E36 bits to convert this engine to fit an E36. Got a few offers to swap my E34 bits for E36 bits. But im not stupid, i know what E34 M50 bits are worth. Ended up deciding it was easier to do what i should have done in the first place, and buy an E36 engine and then shortly after sold the E34 engine off. $500 down, $850 up $2950 to go... and i now have an engine and a car, and three transmissions to sell, anyone for a Jatco LOL. the $2k budget is looking very good at the moment! And then, last night, decided it was time to start prepping this engine to go in the hole, because i have heaps of brand new parts here from when i last did a Pelican order (i basically just fill the box, why wouldnt you when shipping is the same and its so cheap!!) Replaced water pump, thermostat, and changed the thermostat housing to a metal type one that I have sitting here, will also do the sump gasket, check the oil pump nut is nice and snug, and change rear main seal before the engine goes into the hole, so i dont have to do it later, can be a bit of a pain doing it with engine in place, so might as well do them all now. Hold me to it if i dont say i did it!!! I then pushed the 750iL out of the garage that I am currently wrecking as that is pretty much stripped now, and the compact came back inside. Still to find a suitable manual swap for this, have a few leads, prices all too high, people think thier stuff is worth too much, most are asking same or more than i can buy a whole donor E36 for. Maybe i need to start spending money instead of making it though lol. More updates to come!

Another little tip for bmw and mercedes interbreeding. E36 struts will mount up to w201 knuckles. An m50 throttle body will mount up to a m111k inlet manifold with very little modification. And because every merc fan should know black smoke racing. Here's a bmw zf 5 speed in a merc. And on a side note a r200 diff can be made to fit the w201 by just adding a front mounting point. Resplining is another expense though There are a couple of guys that are into giving mercs a bit more power in NZ. I only found this out when I started selling off my project

Just an update on what I've been up to over the past couple of weeks. Ordered replacement ODO gears from garagistic and replaced those. While I had the cluster out, I noticed that the break wear sensor light was removed. So I put that back in, and what do you know, it was permanently on. Had a quick look around the car, and someone had obviously had a go trying to sort this previously, as both front and rears had been cut, and re-joined. Checked the resistances and was still reading a little bit of resistance, even when bypassing the sensors. Out of curiosity, I swapped a spare cluster in. Break wear sensor worked perfectly fine. I know that the resistor for break wear sensor comes loose causing it flicker on and off, but it was firmly attached to the main board. So I just swapped the boards around. Super happy that all my dash lights now work, and all my check panel lights work too. (Brake wear only lights up when starting the car) Swapped the sports seats in, and also put in some black leather door cards that I had floating around. Looks a bit mismatched, with blue fronts, grey rears, and black doorcards, but plan to re-upholster the front seats in black leather much later on. Found a few things when doing all this work Bit of rust in passenger's B column And also the factory running in instructions. Then since she was all back together, took her in for a wof. She failed on fog lights not working (bulbs both gone), split windscreen wipers, and one of the front shocks was leaking. So ordered a pair of Koni sports for the front from George Stock, and they showed up the next day. Date on the box is 07-07-2014, so they've been sitting around for a while, but should be fine. So that's a job for Sunday.

This is a great example of a statistic that means diddly-squat, by itself. Just like how the mortality rate in NZ has continually climbed since the introduction of margarine. What can we conclude from it?

this is probably one of my favorite trim options

Allan has some good points. I know you're emotionally attached to the N46 (though I and a lot of other folk don't fathom why ) but this to me looks like the death knell. On the basis of economic sense it seem to me you're better to cut your losses with this one and either outright replace it or use it as a parts source to get the B25 running again. Is the 325i still registered or has it lapsed / dereged?

Deadmau5, Pendulum, The Offspring, Savant and other electronicy and rock stuff. I was thinking of just one sub under the rear seat. I've already test fitted a 10" (I think that's how big it was) and it would be fine with a custom box. Here's an example of what I'm going for:

oooo thats very nice wood. GLWS, wish i had an E38.

Sounding like a ground strap behind the dash. On the off chance check the engine to chassis ground cable as well. I had a series of electrical issues with an e21 323 which sorted after cleaning the contact points at both ends. This included rev counter, lights , temp gauge, charging etc. Nice car btw.

Sounds like a fuse... Perhaps your PO fitted some somewhere they shouldn't have? Had a very similar thing happen on my Mercedes - dash out, headlights out, and more. One fuse fixed the lot, but it wasn't one in the fuse box. There's another couple of fuses mounted in their own little box on the inner wing.

Blue right? Seen and liked :-)

Haha that's my old one, but I sold it for 100, not 300! Seems to be getting around

I looked it up on carjam straight away too, and I thought the same thing. sh*t if I had had an E34 M5 I'd drive the balls off it too.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

"Windyfire". That just screams quality.

according to carjam, NZDM 3.8 and high KM, so obviously someone uses it a lot (which is good, its what it was made for)

Very well done ... been waiting for one of these sort of builds for a long time. Your girlfriend is defanitely a keeper man ... totally impressed what youre both doing. Keep it up.

Ok maybe i have been proved wrong then.....may have to start looking at M62, and come up and see you and have a chat about it

Wait till she's gone for a weekend, pack all your worldly possessions into a shipping container and stick it on a ship to Sweden. Get flight to Sweden. Done.

www.trademe.co.nz/motors/used-cars/bmw/auction-1016479030.htm

Nice work bro! My E36 is like the pre-wide body version of yours atm. Should do a shoot together once yours is done - "before vs after" lol p.s. give me those 5's

Is your girlfriend single? Awesome work so far, excited to see the finished result.

Every car I sell to BS members seems to then go on to get the full treatment! Looks good mate.

Great work Jeff & Co.... LTNS

Good work bro, you've come a long way man! :thumb:

4.4 with rowdy cams would be the go I reckon.always going to be easier to make more power with more displacement

ditch her. you dont need that sort of negativity in your life.

For the same power figure? M60 breathes better than the m62 and more solid chain system. Only be worth doing if going to a tu motor and I don't want to head down that path

to be fair, i do tell people dont judge a BMW on the 318i you drive, maybe i am a bit harsh on the 190E when i am doing the same thing the other way round. oh yeah now you mention the system thats right, my one conked out at the far end of the VTNZ inspection lane, it got its sticker but couldnt get home. Helpful guy in the diesel trucks lane came over he was a Merc guy back home in Ukraine or Russia or something, just happened to have a spare fuel electro whachamadoodle in his car plugged it in got home and ordered one off a croud called Startech who were very helpfull.

Good stuff Jeff.

I'm also led to believe Swedish girls are much better looking. They also have many crazy turbo bmws.

I'm in Ohakune so almost local

I have a phone : free calling An 0800 number A fax Email address A web site A door which is open from 7.00 am till 4.30 pm You choose... making contact is FREE

Sounds similar to something Garagistic offers: http://store.garagistic.com/e30-performance-parts/e30-secondary-diff-mount

Just a problem if it gets into the cylinders, even more so if it sits. It's only water I used a long fleet straw and sucked it out spit it out

Have done so Ripped a diff bushing Sick.

Do a skid

all tourings are 320i it seems!! Very cool, this one was Ians one right?

So, was full steam head with this project, progress has slipped a bit in last month, cash was diverted to pick up a set of wheels and tyres for my E30 Cab, those wheels just dont come up so i had to jump! Anyways, back on track now, and ended up picking up that E34 on throwing stars that was posted on here in another thread, decided i was a bit ahead of budget, so could splash out on some nice wheels for it. I'm not sure what they cost me yet because i havent sold the E34 they were attached to, but will update cost tracking later! Obviously suspension is still a bit mucked up till my new stuff from Dave is ordered, but gives an idea of what it will look like. Hoping to get away with the E34 tyres on there for now, and chew them out before putting some better tyres on later. For those trainspotters amoung you, yes I know that is the left hand side wheels on the right hand side of the car.... realised when 3 were already on, just left it like that, will need to come off when i do suspension anyways so will change around then I then started to make a drivers side floor pan, the E36 floor is not level and has molded carpet. there are also some wires running in this area that need to be protected. I dont have any progress pictures, but i started out with a rectangle piece of aluminium reinforced perspex that is usually used for heavy duty signage on the side of buildings and whatnot, and then trimmed that down to fit. It is bolted down using the front seat bolts and the factory accelerator clip. Will see how this goes for a start, but im thinking it might get a bit slippery if raining at the track etc, so i may put down some sort of non slip coating on it yet, but being ally perspex it weighs next to nothing! Also sold the headlights off it, someone wanted a set urgent so they took the ones of this, then i decided i dont really need them any way, and made some mesh blanks for them. Decided while i was working on the front to first remove the rest of the aircon system that resides in the engine bay, and then weighed it down at work, that was 7kg, not including the weight of the AUX fan as that will be reinstalled or at least one in its place, that would be cheating!! No pic of that of course, but does have a picture of the mesh blanks i made, i think it looks pretty cool. This side probably serves no real purpose, but the other side should give better airflow to the airbox. Will be keeping the indicators, i think they are reasonably essential, especially if i do need to drive it on the road to re gas or whatever. Will have to come up with a way to mount them, as they rely on the headlights being there for mounting usually. You can also see my tow hook mod, just drilled a hole in the trim so i can keep both on and still look reasonably tidy. Things still to buy Suspension - Dave at wheelspacers.co.nz will be hooking me up with a set of coilovers for it Manual gearbox conversion and a new radiator and then there should be plenty of room in the budget still to have all bushes replaced front and rear, and possibly a new diff if this one turns out to be inappropriate Hoping to have it all completed to a state I can race it by the end of next month.... pressure is on.