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The Touring had a quick visit to Auckland City BMW to get the Koni Sport shocks installed and a new steering coupler to remedy the dead on centre feel. These items combined have tightened up the feel and handling of the car significantly. I also managed to pick up a set of near new Style 350M wheels wrapped with Michelin Pilot Super Sports. Back to the OEM(+) look

This was my car, i restored it and i put the tyres on it and they are not $50.00 tyres. Ron, not all good tyres are the expensive items you appear to like, there are some excellent tyres out there for very reasonable money. The car was never going to be driven hard or for that matter on a race track. The new owner wanted something reasonable for sedate driving because the car was going to be a garage queen. Alas he sold it to this crowd who are just trying to make a large profit for nothing. If i had kept the car it would now be wearing Bridgestones. It's an ok car but it's not 105k, maybe $70 to $75k and i believe the current bid is BS.

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Hello all, I happened to come back to the side of car ownership after nearly a year without(the joys of company cars). Saw this gem of a 740il on a Facebook for sale page and after realising what wheels were on it, I knew I had to have it. Booked in a viewing for the Saturday and took it away that afternoon. Unfortunately the registration has lapsed so the car needed need recompliance before it was ready for summer cruising. It's now re-registered and road legal. New battery and wheels fitted. Brake fluid and coolant done. Brake rotors and pads all round. Yet to do: Oil service Cut and polish Interior clean Rear tyres Bonnet struts Centre caps for wheels A/C regas Paintless dent removal It drives so nicely for a car with over 200km's! New wheels

Was driving past Daytona when I remembered the 24hr was on. It was actually qualifying. Was great as you could just walk around the entire venue freely. The track is massive though. BMW did have a venue but it was on the other side of the track and I was too tired to walk all the way over there. Had just come off a 4 day floating rock festival on a cruise ship. Spotted the two Kiwi's. Earl and Scott. 66 is not actually Scotts Ford GT. But his was hidden away the entire time. Identical however. The noise at the track was just what I needed though. sh*t there was some amazing exhaust and intake notes.

Nothing is cheap when it is bmw motorsport. I guess that’s also why nothing remotely close is available to the market that resembles it. That one you linked to is a later version and for a different series and motorsport made them in Silver carbon in the last reiteration which made 285hp I believe from the 2 litres. For some noise porn : )

FTFY

Always use new gaskets. You dont want to do it twice

1) nice car, is an E30 but not an M3 2) nice car, not an E30 but is M3 3) nice car, not an E30 but is M3. Equation is E30 + M3 = THE Holy Grail (for me anyways)

I'd say there is a market- depending on the cost per unit. Ron is likely correct about the WTCC rules, but people spent years putting M50 intake mani's onto their M52's, so f**k logic and yay carbon intake! It won't even have to make more power, the placebo effect (and bling factor) alone will sell it.

Noooo Bruce, I didn't realise you sold it. You are being very modest in your description of the car, it was an absolute gem when you had finished the restoration. Lets not go through another massive debate about tyres, save that for the wheels and tyres section please.

So managed a few hours on Sunday. Yay. I bought a turbosmart oil pressure regulator. Why? With ball barian (as my son says) shaft supported turbos of late, there is much increased need for oil pressure control. Please google why so you don't blame me. Installed it. It requires an oil return from excess oil pressure bled off from the supply into the turbo oil drain, adding a further hose or three. Since I haven't added any further cooling capacity apart from the change in the BMS oil thermostat which Im in two minds about (operating range far too wide, from 70degC to 120degC), I'm working on a much bigger oil cooler in its factory position perhaps running a better aftermarket thermostat. This requires much bumper off bumper on action to make sure the cooler is mounted in the correct position for the 1M air feed. I've bought the parts to run another cooler on the pax side albeit a touch smaller. Start with a new replacement drivers side and see if she's works better. So says engineering, that hp and heat output are closely related, which only goes south toward heat as you throw more fuel n boost in. So says engineering... Time to strip the old wiring add ons to the existing loom and add to the fresher loom. if all else fails RTFI. read the fuggin instructions. So bought and put together the BMS short shift kit over the BMW performance version. I chaged out all the bushiongs at the gbox end for delrin (aka hard as f*ck plastic) and the rear with a stock BMW but new. Ready to go in. So looking at the PS and radiator tanks, there is plenty of room to the East, so a few lines made up and she's there. Otherwise we are getting there slowly.

Hey me and a friend are building a cheap hack car for shits using bits and pieces lying around, does anyone know if the s50b30 camshaft fit into a m50b25tu single vanos? Nevermind found my answer here https://www.bimmerforums.com/forum/showthread.php?1626914-S50B32-cams-into-an-M50 going to try make this car look somewhat like a German police car