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Yeh I've seen Sinate play before. Bullet For My Valentine is still a bit pop, but definately check out JFAC... one of my favourite bands right now. Herman Li is fairly good, He's got some unique techniques and a pretty unique sound (apparently He's influenced greatly by 80's video game music.. which you can hear) but I get sick of Dragonforce within a couple of songs.

If standard wheel size is able to be 16" he'll be sweet right? Any place that does wheel alignment should be able to change your camber. I'll let you know if I have any rubbing at all.

Dude car looks awesome! And nice skid too! (I've owned an auto 318iS for long enough that I forget what doing skids is like.. haha) What are those seats outta?

Did you notice much difference on your E36? worthwhile change?

Listen to Bullet For My Valentine, used to listen to Atreyu but they don't have enough of an original twist for my tastes really. Still quite impressed with Bring Me The Horizon.. almost can't play the solo in "Medusa" Other recommendations would be Shadow's Fall and Zao. Guitarwork? Dragonforce pretty much the win there.. shame about the other aspects of the band being less original, the drummer is pretty kickass though. You'll get sick of them after 2-3 songs as its quite repetitive. As I Lay Dying is also a pretty safe recommendation to make for fans of Atreyu/Bullet For My Valentine etc.

Good to hear she's all mint again!

After a front BMW badge in as-new condition for my E36 318iS Coupe. Some bastard's pinched mine. Let me know if you've got any around *cough* Brent *cough*

Probably even get your standard personalised plate repainted haha. Someone find something in the laws that bans having a black plate with white letters?

Looks like there's some cheap bottle-caps there though..

Job For A Cowboy =] http://www.myspace.com/jobforacowboy Try and find some live video's of the drummer too.

The kitten in the avatar?

Nice, made the right decision Andrew! will be good to see the beast in action.

Personally had a drool over that M6. VERY NICE! and heard it drive past also. It actually looks tidier in real life than the photo's

Cheers! and it's auto.. and N/A.. for now =] Downing/Atlanta supercharger kit on the cards, $3399USD and a 6 hour bolt-on job (they say 4 hours but something unexpected WILL happen) for a 7psi supercharger kit and a rising rate fuel pressure regulator of some description. should be good for ~200hp (they claim 225hp on a standard motor without any other modifications, so hopefully I'll get somewhere around that after exhaust, intake and the supercharger kit) Manual conversion first though.. And no, I don't want to sell it to buy a 328i Coupe instead of modifying this one (unless it's manual, looks and handles as well as this one and has the individuality factor of a supercharged 318iS) Yep, M-Sport suspension which was factory optioned, I think they're about a 35mm drop over the standard E36 height though.. probably drop the front another 25-30mm at some point. And cheers, general opinion is those wheels look pretty good so I'm stoked on that!

Avenged Sevenfold lean towards the pop side of things for me personally, good band though, played an awesome live gig. If you get the chance, see Auckland band "In Dread Response". I'm good friends with the vocalist (also plays guitar for Cold by Winter) and they're awesome to watch.. somewhere between doom metal and glam rock haha. Other good bands coming over soon... I Killed The Prom Queen. from Australia. http://www.myspace.com/ikilledthepromqueen And a band I saw live last December that absolutely blew me away, Parkway Drive. http://www.myspace.com/parkwaydrive Don't really have a whole lot to do with the more metal bands, I'm more of a Hardcore and Metalcore fan myself, although as a guitarist mainly the latter as Hardcore gets a bit repetitive to play. Actually thats a lie, I listen to everything from Classical to Funeral Doom and about a bazillion genre's in between. You're just as likely to find me listening to Leonard Cohen or Uriah Heep as you are to find me listening to Most Precious Blood or Job for a Cowboy.

Not sure, guess you couldn't get a custom black personalised plate made up to use (after buying the normal personalised plates).. as they seem to be pretty strict on plates these days, even though it's not in the WOF requirements as far as I'm aware.. a local WOF centre tried to fail my friends WRX for not having it on factory mounts in the factory position (kinda difficult as He had an aftermarket bumper and had to drill holes to fit the plate anyway)

If you watch after the car does a U-turn the cop car keeps up with it and gains on it in straight acceleration, Its sheerly because of its handling (and lane changing) that the E30 manages to get away.. Part of me thinks that the cop was having to back off as he should have been able to catch it on the straights. But yeh, he was still outdriven by a 15 year old.

Better than EDIRTY GET IT! buy it then sell it on trademe for 5k.

E30 SC is also available. for anyone building a supercharged M50B25 E30... someone should be.. somewhere in NZ.

They rival mine! Looks like it was an awesome meet guys, can't wait for the next one up here.

Who's got the kickass sideburns?

Yeh, get it! I was trying to find a post of yours so that I could suggest it to you.

Yeh, The more girls driving cars like that the better! down with mitsubishi mirages.

Since when have E30 M3's been 240hp, Supercharged and done 0-100 in 5.7 seconds? The police show was overdramatising it to make it less obvious that the cop in a brand new 350hp+ LT1 Camaro gotz pwned by a 15 year old in a 15 year old ~200hp car. And watch how when the car "breaks down" its the same scene as when he does a U-Turn.. just slowed down. The general story from reading the comments is that he was caught at home later after he left the car in the driveway and it was spotted by police.

Cheers. Bimmersport stickers should hopefully be here sometime this week so a few of my friends and I are going for a drive in our cars on saturday depending on weather.. probably towards Coromandel.. or maybe the other direction towards Whakatane.. to take some photo's and go for a bit of a cruise. I've got a Panasonic DMC-FZ5 Lumix with the Leica lense etc, which is alright for a non-SLR, 12x optical zoom and so on. But my friend Kyle has a digital SLR so we'll take some decent photo's with that.