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Finally got around to giving these a clean so they are now ready for sale. Great wheels particularly if you have a powerful car that struggles for traction as the rears are enormous! 5x120 18" BBS RC Staggered Set: Fronts: (RC303) 225/40/18 Tyres Offset: ET 38 Width: 8.5 Inches Rears: (RC301) - these are concave 285/35/18 Tyres Offset: ET 25 Width: 10 Inches Matching set of Toyo Proxes with good tread on the wheels. Also included are 10 extended wheel studs for the rear wheels. Conditions: Wheels are in fair condition. I would describe them as presentable but not mint. There is some light curbing and paint chipping on all of them. Price is $2,400 ONO. Only selling as I've put the factory "Style 40" wheels back on my M Coupe as I personally prefer the stock look.

Hahah yup it sure did, has gone well beyond what it was meant to but always seems to go that way. There’s nothing I hate more than having to do something twice so may as well do it now.

Little bit more progress got more of the front end apart. Sold my getrag 220 to a mate, and will be going with a zf. Makes getting a correct driveshaft easier and is stronger, may as well do it right and use the gearbox bmw used with this engine. also pulled out the brake booster and brake master in preparation for paint. Will be getting replaced with e90 items and a 2002 reservoir. also drew up an adapter plate to mount an e36 ecu to the mounting bracket designed for the e30 ecu. will laser cutting it one night next week. plan is to remove the engine and gearbox this week. Also will remove/get some to remove the windscreen to check for rust and make sure it’s sealed properly as I believe some water has been getting past.

In terms of the ECU mounting location, I mounted mine in the passenger side as it seemed counterproductive to wire it all back across the engine. Maybe have a look into that as an option? Otherwise is looking good, you'll have yours on the road before mine!

On another note, I wonder which crack head priced the auction estimate on this...

More progress tonight. Decided I may as well do it once and do it right so got straight back into it after work tonight. Pulled the dash out, as well as the entire AC/heater core unit. Bit of a tedious job with all the wires (not actually that many of them). was stoked to find almost no rust, apart from a small amount on the lip that I showed in photos from the outside earlier, which was the main motivation for pulling it all out in order to be able to access it properly and fix it properly. most rusty part was the wiper motor mount, luckily no rust transferred from the mount bracket to the car itself so I’ve removed it and will be getting acid dipped sand blasted and repainted, before being reinstalled after the whole engine bay has been painted.

Finally got around to putting up the wall mounts. Definitely recommend them for saving space in the garage.

Unfortunately I have discovered quite a bad spot of rust in a very unfortunate place. Underneath the windscreen cowl, right in the corner and it’s bad. A significant hole. Definitely something I’ll need to get professionally fixed. Quite surprised to have found rust that bad with how relatively rust free the rest of the car is.