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Mission accomplished. The high pitch power on dentist drill whine at 100ish has gone, must have been the diff. All works good and feels tight as a tiger. Handbrake can now be adjusted properly, no more 5 click nonsense. Checked for 11s, satis.

Got it from storage and bought it home. Now to clean it up, guards rolled and a wheel alignment

The pfl ones are pretty tricky to get. You can get lenses new (or repro) relatively easy, but the housings etc are rare if your car never had them. I would have happily (well...) paid 300 a couple of years ago when I was looking. They are different between the pre-85 and later pfl e30s too, helpfully enough.

Hi all, new member to the site here. I’ve owned bmws for years. E46, f20 but just picked up a f30 335i. Long term looking to do a stage 1 or 2 remap and would appreciate any advice on the n55 engine. I’d be keen for the meet up in Auckland also!

It appears the $1100 is the total incl labour with the bearing and axle\hub from Brent. At those prices i hope they are using a quality branded bearing as generic Chinese etc ones don't last very long .

drove past this again the other day - can confirm that the logo in the top left says "Turbo"

Not sold but that Dakar is sure purdy!

Try Brent @ BMW world. He should have what you need.

Kayne is amazing. Always supported me whilst I was racing in the BMW series. If he is unable build the engine he will point you in the right direction. He has built a number of gearboxes and diffs for me over the years. As for your M30. I would recommend upgraded valve springs and some locking collars. Also convert the oil pump sprocket nut to a bolt. You won't get significant gains from the motor. It is a bit of lazy lump. Most of us go down the turbo route. There is still some good parts available from VAC Motorsports. https://store.vacmotorsports.com/categories.aspx?keyword=m30 However the only reason I have upgraded at all was because I was going down the turbo hole. Otherwise I would not have bothered. I never had any issues at all whilst racing my stock M30 with some headers, an intake and a conversion to MAP with a piggyback MAPECU2. Gearbox syncros were a nightmare though. I inherited some worn syncros when I purchased the car. Kayne can help you here though.

Thanks, was a long project with a few changes along the way (as I learned what did and didn't work). I don't have any photo's of the internal matrix (anymore) and have never seen inside the B&W speakers. I did pinch their idea though as it makes perfect sense and suspect the insides would be similar. I'll take some pics of the amps later on. They're not painted yet - just white primer. I don't think I've got any pics of the insides though - maybe the input board only. I'm thinking about changing the amps to Hypex so they can be mounted into the base of the speakers. There's room left in the base for amps to go, I just never did it. With the Hypex amps and Power Supplies it would tidy up the wiring a fair bit. Most stereo setups (2 speakers) only have one pair of speaker cables and interconnects (some maybe 2 pairs of speaker cables). For active setups you need one pair of speaker cables and interconnects per speaker - 5 pairs or each in my case. I like to show it off too so anyone who wants a listen is welcome if they're ever in Napier. The next generation will have the amps, and DSP in the speaker with wireless connections. All I have to do is figure out how to sync the two speakers. It shouldn't be too difficult... The only unknown is how sensitive the ear is to left/right timing errors - I suspect as long as the difference is under 1us you won't notice. It should be fairly easy to get the two speakers sync'd to under 100ns. Here's some amps pic's: Front: Still only undercoated... The indicators show power, protection, overtemp and clipping. These pre-date the DSP modelling the speakers and amps so clipping cannot occur. Protect can still occur if there's DC present in the output. Overtemp is in case of fan failure. There's 2 internal low speed high-pressure fans that suck air in over the 5 x 1kVA toroidal transformers , 200,000uF caps per channel and then blows up the heatshink. The fans are variable speed based on heatsink temp and you never hear them unless I've been blasting Infected Mushroom for 20 minutes+ and then only slightly between tracks. Back: Balanced XLR's and 4 Pole Speakon connectors. Balanced Input Board:

Gave it a Christmas clean and thrash.

Fitted a car bra...not sure if I’m sold on it or not

Final update - Grabbing some new parts from Brent and getting the garage to fit. $1,100 all up for a wheel bearing. Yikes. Will need to find a better local guy in the new year.