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Hey Team She is offically alive! what a long weekend from motor on the engine stand to fully in the car up and running. As always never goes as smoothly as you think, so many hurdles while putting the motor back in. started off good resetting the self adjusting pressure plate, bolted PMC flywheel, puck disc and pressure plate on, bolted 390z box on and then dropping it into the car. That was the easy part, I knew the exhaust was going to be tough to put in but man took me roughly 3-4 hours on each bank to fit. im just going to type the order out just for my own info just incase i need to redo it. Passger side: starter off, work from front to back loosely have nuts on to able to fit 2nd section, do up nuts Driver side: Undo steering shaft bolts. Cylinder 4 top nut loosely on. cylinder one in no nut. cylinder 2 fully tight bottom nut, loose top nut. cylinder 3 top nut fully tight, bottom nut loose. fit remainder nuts on loose. slip fit 2nd section and do up remainder nuts. This is why it took so long. Took me 3 goes to figure out this was the order it had to go in or it wasnt going to work. Driverside being the worst. Also fitted some adjustable lower control arms. Mounted the electric water pump in. Also converted the trans cooler to a power steering cooler. So once all done and wired back up. Gave the key a turn but nothing happened. dash lights came on radio worked but nothing starting. Called up Gee ( mechanic mate) to pop around and after a few minutes of looking around. He bridged the starter with a screw driver and it fired up. So will need to find out why the ignition is not telling the starter to kick in. But then there was more, once car was running for a bit it had 3 major water leaks. One from Radiator, one from water pump area and one at the rear watercoolant pipe area. So spent last night and abit of today swapping back to factory cooling system Got everything back in place and fired it up. no leaks other than the radiator. Both water pump and coolant pipe had little pin holes where it had been wielded when modified. Happy to see no oil leaks though. So hopefully find a new radiator setup finish off putting pedal box in and roll the guards this weekend then she should be all done. once i get it running with no leaks ill do a exhaust clip for you guys too. Thanks

Went for a drive in the Brother Inlaws 2019 Beast in the weekend. Absolutely amazing. vehicle. I've never been so thrilled and scared at the same time with the performance and superb handing. I can't say where , what and how quick. Pity it's limited to 250kph ? The technology in this vehicle is amazing

Well spent a fair bit of time on the door alignment....... Car goes back for a groom next week, if the boys dont give it a pass mark at the coffee meeting. I will get the panel beater to have a go.

Did some more on the car this weekend. Got the back corner and under the boot lid finally welded up, smoothed out and undercoated, cleaned the inside of the boot, sanded the surface rust off, and under coated that too. Made a fibreglass front because the original was all broken up. All I need now is a back bumper, if any one has a back e38 one lying around, let me know thanks.

Hi All, I have just joined as a new member. I have enclosed a pic of my M sport 330i hard top convertible. I purchased this in England a couple of years back & did a great road trip through the lakes district & up to Devon, before delivering it to the shipper in Essex, to ship back home to Christchurch. Just love this car !!! Its my third BMW. I have been giving some thought in finding interest to restarting the BMW club in Christchurch, and have had some discussions with the Peter at the Wellington branch. I would like to say hi to all, & any interest club etc ?

It even has the mirrors and fenders. What on earth?

You’re not from round these parts are you?

Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery? Lots of people want an M3, but can't afford to own or run one, so try to make their car look like "the real thing". At least this guy / girl has gone to some effort and not just chucked a badge on the boot.

The registration says it all. In my home language (Afrikaans), "KAK" means "SH*T". ?

Dude that's what I been doing but it's been raining on and off so I can't always do it. sooo handy though

Slowly been doing bits and pieces over the last year. Had a new exhaust fabbed up by a mate (JDL Engineering Timaru) with supersprint rear added later as it was just too loud as it was. made a cold air box with insulated panel that seals to the bonnet, and a big fram filter with air ducted from the brake duct, but has given a flat spot around 2.5-3k, tried to space it out from the airflow meter but no real difference, so might be going back to the factory box. Does sound good though. been putting up with a squeaky belt idler for a few years now, even though it was replaced a while back, it has finally got the better of me so replaced it with a genuine one this week which sorted that out. Hopefully lasts longer than 15-20k the last one did. also replaced the TPS since it’s in the service book to be done at inspection 1 or 2 this week so that’s done. The drivers door has always needed some extra force to shut so sorted that out too. And lastly, got some Inpro smoked tail lights on, and reminded myself to get the genuine ltw Wing sorted and on I’ve had for a few years now. So has been a busy week!

Depends how hard up you are, but you can get quite decent replicas out of Eastern Europe via ebay. It was not really distinguishable from the OEM ones, but... cost a bit less.

Oh duh ! forgot earth wire from motor to chassie lol This weekend connected all the oil lines, new fuel and oil filters, new fan belt. Connected all the coils and throttle cables, Also put the exhaust on. turned the key and she fired up for a few seconds running rough. Now i have to get a new radiator and new hoses. Getting there slowly