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My baby arrived!

https://www.facebook.com/share/19a33Rngp3/ What's not to like?

https://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/used-cars/bmw/auction-5449834133.htm I haven't viewed this car, but on paper it seems like an honest example, and ticks a lot of boxes - good kms, NZ New, factory manual, rod bearings and actuators done. Seems like exceptional value at the starting price of $32k (reserve met). Hopefully the vendor ends up with a good price, and it goes to a deserving home!

Oh FFS. It's in the TITLE.. 'rear'. Really... you spell so bad you do it in the title?

Also got the eccentric shaft sensor replaced as mine was leaking oil through the pins, it hadn't given a code or anything so be sure to check yours. As for the valve cover the one Elring one I had got off FCP had small bolts in most of the slots, upon a back and forwards with FCP they sent me a new one luckily that one was all correct so the first one must have been a manufacturing error. FCP didn't want the error one back so I decided to hammer out the 12 wrong bolts with the captive bits and I will push in 12 of my old bolts to make it all correct, giving me another new valve cover for a new car which a deal is in the works for.

Bit of an update on the past few weeks. Got the sump gasket replaced, engine mounts replacement and the front subframe back in. All is nice and tidy however I think the M3 steering rack is leaking so it will have to be sent off to be rebuilt, will wait until I get the car started to confirm the leak first though.

Hi All, Thought I’d say hi! My daily driver is a 2012 X3 35i and I have recently become the new owner of the Eisblau M3 vert, which actually brought me to the forum after looking for more information about the car! It’s currently on its way back to Auckland from Dunedin. After which I can post some more of my own photos.

Imagine trying to squeeze a modern phone into one of those cradles, no loss that it's been removed!

Loving the old school, period correct, mobile phone antenna! Is there a matching cradle in the car? I felt like a boss when I had my Nokia car kit installed (for free) when I joined Vodafone back in the day. It was so loud that anybody passing by on the street could hear the conversation (or one side of it). 😂

Yeah, it was an individual order in Eisblau (ice blue) I doubt there will be many other M3’s in this colour. Yeah generally is really good for an old car. Couple of bits and bobs I can do on the interior. Door cards etc. but I’m quite stoked with it.

This is nice. Is this and other "BMW Special Part"? 😀

Are you going to do the valve cover gaskets too? You can do the PCV in place. Fiddley but possible. Otherwise if you would prefer to have another cover to do the mod then install I would recommend doing the valve cover gasket, valvetronic motor gasket and the cam position sensor gasket. All inexpensive via spareto.com or similar. I have my old cover here (I replaced the whole thing) and a new PCV you can have for $100. I was going to do the fix and sell it. But never got around to it. I purchased one of these. https://spareto.com/products/febi-bilstein-cylinder-head-cover/103099 But I also see they have an aluminum version now. https://spareto.com/products/febi-bilstein-cylinder-head-cover/194977 Vid of the replacement.

You can replace the whole rocker cover, or there are chinese aftermarket replacements for the diaphragm and housing for cheap (amazon/aliexpress etc), which are a bit hacky to do but do work. You could do it in situ but it would likely not be too fun, need to break the original diaphragm housing off using chisels etc.

Progress... sump gasket is totally cooked. The bump stop install is novel... will add some more to the growing parts list. Now Im looking at the dirty old water pump and wondering "well, since Im here"... am never going to get money back on this thing hahahaha 😢

Well pretty pleased with this for a first prototype. The insert fits perfectly and the two pieces fit together perfectly. I'm stoked that I got the internal geometries right for the insert as they were the hardest bit. I will do some measurements of the prints to make sure they are perfectly dimensionally accurate, and provided they are I need to adjust the seat between the top of the body and the cap by about 0.5mm in diameter and height. The printed cap fits on the OE body, but the OE cap is ever so slightly too large to fit the printed body. I want to make sure I'm as close to the original as possible with this so will make that adjustment. Key thing though is I can now go ahead and design the pockets for the grip pads and include the first iteration of that in the next prototype as well.