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Either factory or option three somewhere stealth.

Heck, you'd barely get a 2 room shack for that in Tauranga.

TSU makes turbos for IHI I think, that turbo's going on a new series of 8000TEU container ships made by IHIMU in japan anyway. Flow rate of 55 cubic metres/second

+1

Looks like a monster of a heavy duty bypass valve

I was tempted by a 944 turbo manual not long back, and by a 5.0 928.. mmm 288hp. I don't think it would make a very good daily driver though.

That is going to sound AMAZING. hope you're getting a ride! hook us up with some video's and photo's of the finished project!

Old man had one and so did my old boss, both 79's and both 3L manuals, awesome to drive but they BOTH used a lot of oil, think its something to do with that 3L engine. This is more me.. http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Motors/C...n-149572141.htm mmmmm

I had a set of 18x8.5 mags on a 318iS with factory m-sport suspension all round, they tucked halfway down the tyre in the back and the fronts rubbed on the guards on some corners.

My old mans a bit of a porsche fiend. There's many many cars I'd rather have.. but I couldn't say no to an early 70's 911 chrome on black with some red leather..

220hp out of an n/a m42? someones chucked a lot of money at that!

Sweet, I'm living over the road from mount drury at the moment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7xvzjEEyTw

Shiit the VFR400's are an alright ride! NC30? CBR600 next!

The turbo's I've seen on even smallish container ships in Tauranga (~1800-2000TEU) are roughly that size, the bigger ships (~4000-10,000TEU) would be a few times that size.

You're over the mount right? seen your car around a bit.

Cheers for that Kerry, The E46 swap sounds pretty decent, I'll read up on it.

On the topic of Ferrari's, was anyone involved with the national meet here in Tauranga over the weekend?

Cheers Kerry, Its my "weekend" driver at the moment. The M3 brakes swap sounds like the one, I'm not fussed about pretty shiny aftermarket drilled rotors and bright red callipers (although I wouldn't exactly say no to a nice set of wilwoods) as long as they do the job, and I'd rather stick with as many BMW parts as possible Would this be for the swap to M3 gear? If I was swapping to M3 bits I'd want to do a full swap including the master cylinder and not just bolt on a set of M3 callipers and rotors.

If you really want to try and be charged with GBH.. Should of seen the bastards face when I went and apologised to him in hospital.

Cheers for that, Is there going to be much of a usable improvement (hard street driving/track day) to be had from upgrading the callipers to an aftermarket item also (big money, i know)

$1800 installed here in Tauranga at the end of January, worth every penny. I'm definately a Koni fan now. Just wondering 3pedals, what would you recommend for a fast street brakes setup? with a view for further suspension upgrades and occasional trackdays. Currently running factory 328 stoppers.

My old driveway was worse than that! Gorgeous 3.0 Was it a bimmersport member selling the 3.0 coupe a while back?

***** got skillz

Looks good! until people start putting replica bodykits on their E36's..