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Who remembers this car? I'm sure a lot of you watched Australian Touring Car Racing back in the day, this was my favourite BMW in the Group A days. It was only a little 323i but showed the others a run for their money. BMW Australia owned the car and it was developed by Frank Gardner's JPS Team, the car being in BMW Motorsport colours because the JPS Team didn't want to sponsor a vehicle that was essentially a development car for the Group A scene Here it is in action at Amaroo Park, a track it performed extremely well around

Unlike everyone else, i actually run one of these Racingdiffs progressive LSD's on my track car and i can tell you it works. I can't compare it to a factory LSD as I've never driven one, but certainly going from an open center, to a welded diff, to the above progressive LSD, it defintely works. I'll try to do a breakaway torque test of my diff over the coming weeks and will report back with the results. For reference, I'm from Aus and drive a 93 E36 325i (almost finished my turbo build). You can check out some of my racing with the welded diff and LSD on my youtube channel too: https://www.youtube.com/user/dominator293

I had a go painting up the new bracing myself on Saturday after work Also chopped up boot floor & rubber carpet into multiple sections to fit around brace. Factory fresh. Not bad. Swapped on semi slicks and went for a track experience thing at Hampton Downs y'day, was great fun. This car handles like it's on rails now, I'm impressed..!

Not for the purists but majorly impressive engineering.

Bloody boomers. Even Tuesday night baseball got some passion out of the crowd.

Hey team New proud x5 owner here that needs a little help in diagnosing this issue. So calling out all the e53 x5 owners, so when i go to lock the car up maybe 2 secs, sometimes 2 mins after all the windows and sunroof just open fully up. Has any one had this issue before? or any suggestions to what maybe the cause? Appreciate any help Thanks Richard

Do excuse me, but I believe the word you were looking for is 'rassus'. Aint ne'er gonna bin nah racin' rarn hair. Fo shizzle. (Whatever that means.)

Porsche 911s are quite a bit more than a 3 Series when they are new though, so you would expect them to be worth more in later life especially given the scarcity factor of how many they made and or make. Although I do believe the last of the E30 M3s, the Sport Evolution, had a sale price equivalent to some 911s when it was launched in the UK but look at where they are now... if only. Love that pricing on the E30 325i Convertible, I will have to increase the value on my insurance policy by a big chunk now. Considering the buyer would have got a big discount as it had been owned by the Twat in the Hat, probably used to run some Paparazzi over as well so would have damage.

Yup - they are ridiculous. Cult following though, to the point where there are 911 owners who won't countenance any other Porsche as being worthy of the name. (They hate being reminded that the 928 was the first ground-up design by Porsche, for Porsche... )

I like the M3, I'm sucker for Ultra Violet.

Well, still not as bad as Porsche 911 pricing. But all it takes is one to sell for some absurd amount and the dreamers put their prices up. Then the ones that retail for 10k will seem like a Bargain. The only thing that's missing is a few Petrolicious docos on how great and raw the 318i auto is to drive. I bet Dutton Garage will then have one on sale for $40k with 50k on the clock.

esp when "deetz" is so much shorter than "details"

Yup. I'll just add the whole 'deetz' thing. Text speak. Abbreviated bro-speak that lacks any sort of meaning. Learn to write properly or don't bother. Deliberate poor grammar is just lazy. If you can't be bothered to make sense when writing, what chance is there that you've looked after whatever you're selling? Yes - I'm having a bad day.

People on Facebook who are selling something with the 'pm me for deetz' so you PM them as they requested but they don't reply. Why even bother putting an ad if you you're not gunna reply

Why can't I have all three? I read you can on the internet! Oh, and I want to supply my own parts.

One for each foot, duh.

Brilliant! Thanks Jon, your post provides very useful insight.

Most drivers are very reluctant to give power figures for their cars - but Sharpie's motor has certainly got some mumbo, combined with the rest of the car being very well set up and balanced it is very quick and well towards the pointy end. There are possibly some more powerful engines in other cars, including some very trick M4x twin cams from the US of A, in the series as well. The 2 Ltr Championship used to be part of the Open Class grid, and was a great way for people to share an E30 car between two drivers. It was seperated out from the Open Class grid due to the exact reasons you mention - mostly the safety aspects, as the closing speeds were phenominal between an A Class V8 / turbo car and the shared E30 series cars. It does get VERY busy at the end of a handicap race as everyone bunches up... need to have some very large cojones for some of the moves made (not by me I may add). Lots of drivers, myself included, have moved from the E30 Class into 2 Litre Champs, either developing their E30 car or into other E36, etc. The class has certainly developed in terms of numbers, and also the speed of the front guys is getting quicker all the time - many lap records were broken this year. I think once I have finished "developing" my car and get back on the track I will be further away from the front than when I started! If you like this vid, try and find the one from Kayne Barrie running in Nick Thompsons E30.. another very quick car being expertly driven. Here...