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And pics of the new seats front and rear... considering these look nearly new and my old ones looked (and felt) terrible this is a HUGE upgrade... really like the Motorsport fabric as well. ? ?

https://drivetribe.com/p/on-board-footage-of-the-919-hybrid-dn4RhzGSQLKXsRqR46MDZg?iid=WVms_2-rTh-aaD5y8pRbTQ

So after a ride in a mates championship winning drift car and a little taste of driving on the track with the M3 I decided to give drifting a shot, I sold something special from another project which hurt a great deal but I now have a budget which should cover buying, building and repairing a car and 6-7 events. The goal is cheap and cheerful drifting, but as im not what I would call a good driver this is thinly disguised as "driver training" to my wife ;-) Phase 1 - Buy a base... There was only one car to start with in my mind, na E36 coupe. I have always been a fan of them and they are cheap! Once the decision was made I had a 328 silver coupe in my quiver, amazed by how cheap it was the search continued for another as a spare, within a week I had a 318 with a blown motor. Spend - $300 total. Next up, Cant be bothered waiting...

Will be now that it's all over the internet...?

One of the roles I went for wanted 5+ years experience of the cloud (!). I think that there's a new breed of manager around that don't understand previous experience.... they want people who are similar to them ("millenials") but with 10 years more experience. It doesn't exist. I find that I can't communicate with the interviewers lately. Never had a problem before. Thank goodness I can retire....

Sometimes cooling hoses can be different. Make sure you find you part numbers via realOEM first. Enter the part numbers into the websites above and there you have it.

It depends entirely on job description/requirement. I concede OpenStack as a specific example hadn't been around very long then, but the point I was getting at is if the role is senior enough, 5 years of Cloud experience is perfectly reasonable. Even 5 years of OpenStack experience is reasonable, it's just limiting on your candidate pool, and you should consider bringing in high budgets for that, or re-assess what you really need. In fact, from the top contributor companies to OpenStack, I am fairly confident there is exactly one person in New Zealand who'd meet that description in a meaningful, and he's happily employed. Anyway, Cloud is a special topic for me, and it's a biased view, but 5 years of actual working experience (not including having drawn a diagram five years ago...) is not unreasonable. Sorry. EDIT: You're right that these are almost never hard requirements. Job descriptions are more like a wishlist. If you tick enough boxes, that's all that matters. EDIT2: My pet peeve is jobs that ask for Masters degrees, or other irrelevant higher qualification.

I reckon I could do that in the 328.

Yeah mines the same bar and all wired up. The module was sitting in the wheel when i bought it, no idea where its suppose to mount exactly but its chilling in the battery bay now.

They'll be none the wiser Is this true? Imy not going to admit anything after I measure mine and fund you're pulling my leg

im all for making my car go faster; but this actually scares the sh*t out of me ?

The 328 had no radiator, my guess is expansion tank blew or the radiator blew. Trans lines had been cut and all the oil was gone. Motor seems to run ok, compression test shows all over 200psi, but im swapping the motor out, more on that later.

Freaky, I was thinking today that an N52B30 would be really fun in a Lotus 7 50kW more power and 30kg less weight than an M52. Wiring would probably be fun however.

To be honest I am unsure as to what l6 I'd like, any is fine, there just seemed to be more available haha. The plan is to put it into an MGB GT

Love this thread, good stuff bud.

Quick update, that little bit of track time got me hooked so the M3 has spent a large part of the last 6 months parked up as I work my way towards a drift car, with the odd 6 hours drive here and there :-) , after missing the group trip over the Gentle Annie I was determined to check it out. I did treat it to a front set of Pilot Super Sports and a Sparco bucket, which made a world of difference!

I will have a 2004 black z4 2.2L up for sale soonish be less than $10k

It's fun for a while... Good luck!

If graham doesnt take it then I will. Actually need tyres for my 5th set of wheels...

I have turbo parts for sale if you decide to go ahead with it ie. Garrett turbo, injectors, MLS head gasket

Perfect! Hope you love lying in muddy paddocks undoing farmers abuse

I would have liked to see more of the Zakspeed Capri, but some nice footage of many cars. Including, of course, the BMW... Gruppe_5_at_Goodwood.mp4

Some light reading for you from Lukes project 10 years ago now. http://bimmersport.co.nz/topic/15684-boost-junky-2nd-saga-m50-t-project/

I own a BMW. I'll do the f**k what I want?

Okay, so @Palazzo's post above confused me... I'm not sure if it means that Zebra Onehunga has more broken windows than other parts places? But I went back today to pick up another passenger seat cushion to put into the driver's side (less wear) and low and behold that second car was full of broken glass! Coincidence or have you been there recently Scott? Anyway, the 328 is running again now after the fine weather on the weekend allowed me to complete the job. Lining up a subframe and steering rack by yourself on your back isn't the easiest of jobs I can assure you! It's running fine and holding oil pressure so that's good but I think there's a leak so I'll have to hoist it up again and have a look. Hopefully it's something simple like the sump plug just not being tight enough. Somewhat more dramatically, about 15 mins into my test drive and the throttle stuck open! Brakes aren't good enough to fight that and I had to shut the car down. Sorry to all those around me that had to deal with me dealing with that! Pulled over somewhere safe and checked the obvious things, throttle cable working fine... hmm. Walked home (lucky my test drive was circuits of my neighbourhood), put the tools in the M3 and headed back out. Took the intake pipes off and found a rubber gasket stuck in the throttle butterfly holding it open. It's a gasket that I did take out when I took it apart to do the sump and I put back in the same place assuming that it belongs where I took it from... problem is that the gasket doesn't belong there at all. Somebody had obviously worked on it in the past, put it all back together, had that gasket left over and just bunged it where it fit. It's actually a valve cover oil filler gasket... ? So gasket now removed from butterfly and car running fine again.

Hey Team So finally got the goodies from FCP EURO delivered . two big boxes of goodies, I didn't bother taking the stuff out as you'll get to see it all been used once i start the swap. But purchased a fair bit of things. All gaskets and bolts needed for the M60b44 swap. 2 sets of valve cover gaskets. 2 sets of the FCP 16 piece control arm kit. Will be doing a full over haul of both cars suspension. Almost there and ready for the fun part of fitting all these parts.

It looks like godzilla stood on it