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FIXED! So @Gabe79 scanned the ews and the key, and it turns out the key was faulty. Weirdly it had no transponder chip in it so thats a bit of a mystery. So a bit of coding later and the car fires up. Big thanks to Gabe, and everyone else who gave advice. I've learnt my lesson and am getting spare keys cut for all my cars at the locksmith today.

I try to avoid 'the tardis'.

I doubt admin will do anything. I have been trying for 2 years now asking for help and offering help to keep this forum running properly

Mine is supposed to have 42 PSI: 'specially since it has a fat-arse cast iron VR6 in the front now ? : I'm continually amazed at people who just put 30PSI in everything! ?

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I've never posted much about my builds as they never seemed interesting enough (still isn't). To help me track the progress of my build and experience behind the seat, now wouldn't be a bad time to start. The build came about when the R/R quarter of my E36 met the wall at Meremere at a drift day. Got too excited chasing some higher HP Nissan's and decided to re-initiate my drift on the straight in a cloud of smoke. This is what she looked like after the impact. After the accident, I did a few more events, one being a gymkhana style event held at Hooton Reserve hosted by Sports Car Club NZ. Below is link to one of the videos my mate took. This E36 had daily driving duties and handled abuse at the track but was no longer presentable on the exterior for the street (no that it was fancy to start with), so I decided to pull the car apart even though it drove perfecty straight and would serve its purpose on the track. I purchased a donor car which was a non-Airbag and non-ABS model; ideal donor for the next track/street hack and happened to be the same colour for dirty cheap. It wasn't long after that I came across an E30 PFL coupe rolling shell. {{And it was at this moment, I f**ked up}} Viewed the rust bucket and thought it wouldn't be too bad of a fix. Being my 5th E30 I've owned and in the worst state (to this day, @Jibs05 still gives me crap about and will forever) I wanted to build this to tick all the boxes I wanted in an E30. It took a bit to get the ball rolling for this one but within a couple of months, I sent it off to Quest Fabrication for a bad ass cage. Super stoked with the final result, bar Motorsport NZ taking so long to communicate a we issue with stitch welding that the cage is now got some surface rust...not going to be a fun time prepping for paint. Over the past couple of months, I've been cracking away at it slowly putting it back together for a drift day at Evergreen Drift Park in a couple of weeks which I've been itching to drive after seeing everyone enjoy themselves. Cheers for reading guys. Will post updates slowly as I make more progress

My 335i always had a shimmy under braking and it bugged the hell out of me. The rotors and pads looked pretty new when I bought it so I soldiered on, new wheels, tyres, balance and an alignment never quite made it go away. I bought some RDA rotors and went for some Stoptech street performance pads. So far so good. Pedal pressure is a bit higher when cold as you would expect but the feel is very linear (the old brakes were a bit grabby as well and this always lessened my confidence to really press on) but when warm they feel very good indeed. I will report back after I have some real mileage on them.

Sleeper. Nice.

I think the two-piece seal is joined on the sides, a couple of inches back from the front edge. Perhaps have the single strip join in the same location? A seal at the back could be susceptible to having water pushed towards the back of the opening panel, and possibly collecting where the seal join is. Maybe.

Well done. I admire your dedication.

perhaps it has a slow leak. or he is going drifting. or planning to store the car for 6 months. you are probably right tho ha. Ford recommend 49.7psi for my daily.

I'm not sure if it's the correct spot, but I had mine meet in the middle at the rear.

Yeah, me too. Watched a guy set the pressure on the tyre pump to 52 PSI the other day... for a 90's Corolla on 14's... suggested about 15 PSI lower might help his tyres last longer.

i have plenty of spare bodies here if you want to practice on some cars that don't matter if you stuff it up before you start on your own car. i also have an arc welder you are welcome to use any time, probably not useful for what you want to do, but i used it to build the frame and drawbar for the E30 BBQ trailer and it did just fine, need to strengthen up my car trailer too at some stage... getting a bit cold now tho ha.

another consideration, i saw on a US forum that a guy had a sump guard, was attached to the chassis rails, nice and solid right, yep saved his sump, at the expense of the body which bent. I have never run a sump guard in any of my E30s, (3 of them M52 swapped), and never busted a pan. you don't need one if you know how to drive properly and your cars suspension is road legal.

That's exactly what I was thinking.

No transponder chip in the key means it fell out...normally by someone replacing the battery. No transponder chip in the key does not take one or two days for a failure to start to occur. It is immediate. I would say wifey tried fitting new batteries or she dropped the key and it broke open loosing the chip

Looks like every photo is now lost. All of my earlier photos in other older threads have gone as well.. So much of the websites history is now lost by all the other older members as well

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