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Don't be mean guys. His situation is shitty enough. He's heard the advice and told us all he has limited options. Some times you just need to throw money at a short term solution based on circumstances.

Zimbabwe88 - There have been two main pieces of advice in this thread; (A) chuck in a cheap used auto trans. or (B)do an engine and trans swap with the m54 I have in my parts car. I cant afford the money or time to do the m54 swap, much though I would prefer it. So I will be buying a cheap used auto to swap in, and while I try and scrape some money together to buy one I am flushing the one I have to get a month or two's usage out of it. I already had bought a bunch of parts (the day before the trans crapped out ironically) to do some planned maintenance on my car, so am doing them at the same time where it makes sense to do so. I really DO value the advice from the community. I even had one member (who I had never met in person) offer to come and look at the car the very next day. I've had offers of free or discounted parts, and another forum member has spent several days helping, including driving to Albany to pick up parts while I'm at work. This community has really blown me away

Got a repeating dtc for the bank 2 exhaust cam sensor. Swapped it out for a spare I had from my other M5. Never had any errors on the spare sensors but it's probably on borrowed time. Car was running like a bag of d1cks when the dtc showed up. Hopefully a quick fix. Next up is front discs and pads, the twilight track day didn't help but they were already nearing the end of their life. Will post up some pics when I do the job.

I'm so proud to be her Dad. Kerrins first aerobatic solo. She only got her PPL about six months ago, has 2 seater and 4 seater ratings and now she's into the extreme stuff. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2J1mZnCQj2GRlFZMmlyN3gyVHM/view?usp=sharing_eid&ts=569b3d23&pref=2&pli=1

Agreed, one size does not fit all.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Call into your local Farm Source/ RD1 store or online, join up and rock 18c a litre off gas at Mobil. Plus Repco, Bunnings and lots of other specials - life is good and doesn't need to be exclusive :)

Roll-on the world-wide diesel glut! Filled up with diesel at 78.9c per litre, bought on the company fuel card so get a further 6c a litre off that price = 72.9c a litre With my RUC also provided, that is cheap motoring!! How can I convert my race car to diesel...??

Hey guys, I possibly introduced myself previous (about 10 years ago when I bought a 318i), but here goes. Picked up a 2005 E46 M3 (Silver Grey, SMG) a few weeks ago. It's the car I've wanted since I bought my 318i in 2006 :-) First steps are ensuring that the car is solid - it's going for an Inspection II + nose to tail check next week. Anyway - hi :-) Cheers, Matt

Loaded the Alpina flash the other day and it's excellent. Never thought I would say this, but this auto, with the paddles and this flash, I think I actually prefer over a manual :-)

Come to think of it, still have bits of my old e21 system circa 87

Effective brakes in a m60/2 conversion are a bigger pain in the butt job than fitting the motor.. definitely not a little thing!

I used road bike inner tubes pulled over the first coil on each side of the spring. Previously used no pads in the E30 and had no issues at WOF time as long as the springs are captive.

If I know when you intend going, I can possibly drop over to Kerry's spot with my one for you to get an idea as to what is involved in fitting it.

Like this

when atta owned it

Fuel filters get overlooked all too often.

22nm

Thats unlike you to stick Colin Craig to the side of your car! thought you would have skipped that sheet of paper lol

Went out to the wings and wheels show in Mosgiel, spotted an isetta and a tidy e21. Then this a**hole in a commodore that decided it was a good idea to box me in my park. Had to go back in again to get the guy on the mic to call out the rego and get them to move. So after about half n hour was able to leave. Well, after waiting ten mins to get out on the street

On the way back from the meet today I had to stop and take some gratuitous shots of my car..

After some fiddly soldering with some tiny resistors, I've got bright white LED side lights with no errors. 21st century 8er!!

Haha it was a thought Josh. Heading to Waikato this weekend, just not with the right car! Not to worry though, will be doing a few longer trips in it soon. As for the exhaust, I decided against the Akrapovic with the expense of the engine looming. Maybe another time but at this stage I'm happy!