Mike

are you talking about the cabin air filters, or something else? repco do sell the cabin filters, e39 might be pushing it though, call and find out. cheap wiper refills are $5, from memory they're around 650mm. bit more for the refills with the metal backing

go pre/fl coupe! but you got to be at least an inch lower to pull off that look

yeah later M3's had alloy arms with bigger ball joints too, but same geometry (as std M3, not e36 evo)

^Thats what I was thinking. FWIW, I know some guys pretty into their cars who have no problems with recommending the lucas pads, or some of the other Ferodo pads either. For 99% of the population the pads should do the job fine (on the road). when you're travelling at 190km/h you have 3 times as much kinetic energy as when your travelling at 110kmh, which pretty much means 3 times the heat is going to be generated when stopping from those speeds, thats a hell of an ask for any road pad. I'd like to hear how you get on doing the same thing again with another road pad of similar retail price (actually).

I'm pretty sure E30 M3 control arms are the same as normal E30, (which are also the same as E36?). However, the e36 M3 evo uses control arms with more castor, maybe thats what these were from?

handle please? mine snapped yesterday, will put up a pick of the broken bit

I've read the opposite, reason being the higher pressure opens the channels in the tread, allowing more water to escape. Does that have any validity to it?

well said, people need to stop thinking that imports (this goes for any good) are all bad. To put it bluntly we were crap at making cars (in an economic sense) much better off to have those people in the industries mentioned, and allow the rest of the population access to cheaper goods.

Posts like this are why we have this thread: http://www.bimmersport.co.nz/forums/index....showtopic=15800 please read the stickies!!!

couple of things to note: the 260 and 240 are different lengths, so a different front half of the drive shaft is needed, or have the current one shortened if your going from a 240 to a 260. And I'm pretty sure the pre-FL L-jet 320i and 323i dont need the gearboxes sensors that the 325i does - so any box will work.

The tyres look a little small, but that is still a decent gap. this pic shows the 60mm/40mm drop antony suggested (preF/L so yours will look a little bit higher in the rear due to the difference in guards

Gus is right, I'd say your source is wrong sorry. The 885 is a 2.5 head. However, the 1988 325e (2.7m20) used the 885 casting but with a shithouse valvetrain so didn't rev as high. There maybe some odd ball S/A models about that have a 2.7i motor in them and use the B27 block with B25 head? Anyway, why are you trying to put the junk 2.7 head on a 2.5 block? I doubt it will even fit with those pistons.

Pretty much, just wait. If you're really keen start checking out Ebay in europe. or this guy maybe able to help: http://www.felgen-man.de/english/indexenglish.html (love the 3 piece hartges!) BTW, just because offsets are the same the widths mean the konigs may stick out more than factory. Given the extra price premium for the real thing I'd think I'd be happy with replicas and spend the money elsewhere.

Pretty sure you can, just rare as rocking horse sh*t and priced accordingly.

Pretty sure repco sell adapter looms for the E36 for most headunits. at around $30 they're a pretty good deal, especially becuase you can return the car to stock extremely easily

sort of played it, actually quite disappointing. No-one was really paying a huge amount of attention though so probably missed a few things. Surpised ALAC hasn't been complaining about it.

if they are similar to e30 you should be able to. 2 options here, either buy a kit for an e30 from bmw2002.com (Ireland Engineering). This is a bit risky as it may not fit, I'm not sure how similar the e24 rear setup is, but this kit is basically eccentric bolts and some small plates that are welded on to the subframe for a bit more strength and to guide the bolts. If you want to do a custom kit you can use eccentric bolts from an e39. You'll want #11 and #13 from this pic: http://www.realoem.com/bmw/showparts.do?mo...hg=33&fg=30 details on the bolts all there, its got a key in the end to ensure the waser rotates with the bolt. actually got a pic of the bolts and modified subframe: The larger one is made by IE, no key in the end but allows for much more camber adjustment. The smaller galvanized one is the e39 bolt, used for toe on the outer bracket, shown below.

You'd be mad not to do the subframe bushes too, especially seeing as your pulling it all out and doing the other bushes. Also, why run the bilstein and H+R combo, nothing wrong with it at all, but I thought series cars were all using koni's and king springs?

They made 0.5%, doesn't sound like much that way but thats 1 in 200 people. and it was 10700 people voting for them. Gonna be interesting times, particularly seeing how much of Labour's "achievements" will be undone.

I agree, definitely paying for the fact its a 5 speed wagon. No doubt a corolla (or equivalent) would be the best idea financially, but I want something a bit nicer and more powerful, something i dont despise driving. Will probably end up towing a trailer sometimes too. I was actually quite impressed with my flatmates vtec EK civic, used no petrol and went pretty well for a 1500. DC2 integra could also be a reasonable option. Dam list of cars just keeps getting bigger. I'm not sure what I'm doing the e30, I want to keep it as a toy but not sure whether I'll have somewhere to keep it. Its really not worth selling as I dont think I'll get anything for it.

hmmm, so much to choose from. that 328 wagon would be dam practical, tow bar too. Only thing is I've seen too many e36's with the interiors fall to bits, late model ones are supposed to be a bit better aren't they?

few options out there, cheapest/easiest is to wait until a set of e30 specific wheels pops up here or on TM, eg BBS RS, (like you posted) schnitzer, hartge, or alpina wheels are all good looking too. You can import new wheels from overseas, couple of BBS RS reps out there, either Imagines which are 16x7, or theres a company starting to make 16x9 RS reps which will be very cool. If you want bigger breaks and a huge wheel selection theres a 5 lug conversion, either E30 M3 parts (expensive) or E36/Z3 parts (less expensive) Or you can get high offset wheels and run spacers or adapters (not strictly legal) How much do you have to spend? I think you'd be looking at least $800 for the first option unless you went with BMW 15" weaves.

Which is why the system needs looking at. I'm not sure on how the figures should work, those were only ideas. It almost needs to be different for each area of the country, obviously its much cheaper to live in palmy than Auckland, should the incomes reflect that? and who pays if someone wants to go to Auckland instead of palmy? Tax-payers or add the extra onto the students loan? Under what I suggested your GF wouldn't receive any less income per week, she would just be required to pay a larger portion of it back. Which I think is fairer for all, given often the parental income system fails, leaving many graduates with $45K + loans simply because their parents earned just over the threshold. (BTW the system worked how it was intended for me, but know many who it didn't.) That wasn't how I intended it sorry, I'm all for older people re-educating themselves, and not in anyway saying that they shouldn't be allowed a uni education. A lot of the adult students do really well as they work so much harder to catch-up, and keep up the effort even when they caught up with those straight from school. But why bother with UE at all then if people who miss out because they screwed around at school can just wait a couple of years then enrol? Maybe several tests or exams to ensure basic numeracy and literacy wouldn't be a bad idea for people wanting to bypass UE? (with appropriate course if they fail these before entrance is granted) Your comment on older students is also true, and universal allowance would only see more younger at uni because they dont know what else to do.

the other argument is that any money spent on an allowance is just less money to be spent on the universities. So we are going to end up with more people at uni and less university funding to pay for them, consequently the quality of the education suffers. I'd like to see the parental income scrapped. Keep the funding for allowance the same but divvy it up amongst every one, say $100 a week as an allowance, then if more is needed up to $100 or so could be loaned. Paying for everyone's living would just be too costly and encourage too many to go to uni when they would be better off as an apprentice or someother training. And scrap the 25 year old bit too, along with adult entrance for uni, its just dumbing the system down. Other option is to pay for degrees depending on what the county needs, and have it go to the students with better grades. Eg, teachers, medicine, and engineers. Need some way to keep them in NZ though. If someone wants to study Ancient Greece or make sculptures good on them, but why should the tax payer pay for someone else's interests? As long as they scrap parental income testing, thats wrong. The wealthy avoid it through trusts, and most who are over still get bugger all from the olds. So you need to have poor parents, or wealthy parents. middle NZ gets screwed.

Just in case anyone can help out 120 days need to be done, at least 40 of those need to be practical, eg in a workshop. And another 40 as professional practice, for a professional engineering firm or similar. Given that she's only second year I'm guessing she needs to get the practical stuff done as she wont really be a lot of use to anyone for professional work. There heaps of stuff that can be done for practical, though she's probably left it a bit late to find something now. Tell her to call round some mechanical workshops, electrical places, or even the power companies might have something. She could probably even run wiring for sparky. It doesn't have to be that relative to the degree, eg I did practical hours for civil making motorcycle exhausts.