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  1. I imagine DCH Motorsport (if they have a public shop?) would know a thing or two also.
  2. Welcome - Who's is the 320? I also see you car heaps in Newton.
  3. Apa Khabar I lived in KL for a couple of years - g'day If you in Akl Saturday come to the meet and say Hi - front page or meetings (auckland) thread for more info.
  4. What is your gearbox doing exactly btw?
  5. they are TSWs. Did you buy them from Andrew?
  6. Those plans do look decent from Orcon. However they make all their $$ from charging more for line rental (which they wholesale from Tcom and some retarded uncompetitive rate) I'd expect to see Orcon roll out on Vodafones network the same way TelstraClear has. I notice Kordia offer 'true' wireless broadband. I suspect this is resale of Wiredcountry run by the most terrible company, Compass.
  7. Yep about that power - mine was welded locked
  8. Ouch That Youtube is removed btw - New linkage http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDijgr5FEe8
  9. Westie has done it to his 328
  10. I've only just broken the small case in my race car - that took and absolute thrashing.
  11. Welcome - I could be tempted to take my 318is Turbo drifting if no one buys it. Badass.
  12. Andrew

    E30 325i *PARTS*

    You can use the e36 tow weapon if you want.
  13. The handbrake holds them on - whack them real hard with a hammer round the edges then pry them off with big f**k off flathead screwdrivers. My discs always seem to be stuck on real bad.
  14. Andrew

    e30 m3 body kit

    The easiest way really is to buy an M3. Mtech bodykits however are much easier to find/fit on.
  15. Welcome to the site Can't go wrong with a E39 (1996 - 2002ish) 5 series - 528 is a great car and great on gas. Decent size for a family also.
  16. Vodafone purely for GSM/GPRS I use my phone for calls (around 250 mins/month) Text (only 400/500 or so) Mobile Internet through my laptop. Bill is usually 150 - 200 /month
  17. It all went right for Hamilton and wrong for Fernando Alonso at the start, as the two McLaren drivers scrapped with one another while also making sure fast-starting Nick Heidfeld didn’t get the drop on them. Hamilton thought he had things covered until Alonso went flying down the outside heading to the first corner, but the Spaniard ran wide, over the run-off area and across his team mate’s bows, and for the second time in three races they narrowly avoided a collision. As Hamilton resumed the lead, Heidfeld got the jump on Alonso, who just kept Felipe Massa at bay. The Brazilian had been assaulted lightly by team mate Kimi Raikkonen in the melee, and lost a place to Nico Rosberg. As Hamilton sped on to a remarkably controlled victory, a disastrous afternoon unravelled for his main rivals. Alonso went off a further three times in Turn One in an up and down run, suffering braking problems, and right at the end suffered the indignity of being overtaken by Super Aguri’s Takuma Sato, who drove splendidly to exploit all of the various incidents that occurred to take sixth place. The first safety-car deployment came when Spyker’s Adrian Sutil smacked a wall out the back of the circuit on lap 22, the lap on which Hamilton first refuelled. Alonso and Williams’ Nico Rosberg came in on lap 23, before the pit lane was officially opened, and would subsequently drop down the order after serving their resulting stop-and-go penalties. Then, just after the track went clear again, Kubica had a horrible crash in the very quick left-hander prior to the hairpin on lap 27, his BMW Sauber hitting the outside wall and then rolling all the way down to the hairpin entry. As the safety car came out again the Pole was released from the wreckage, mercifully conscious and lucid, and was hospitalised with a suspected broken ankle. This time the safety car stayed out until the 32nd lap, and again Hamilton rebuilt his lead over Heidfeld. He stopped again on lap 48, a lap later than Heidfeld, and this time retained the lead. Then the third safety-car deployment came when Christijan Albers went off in the back chicane and littered the track with his Spyker’s discarded front wing. The track went green again on lap 53, by which time Massa and Giancarlo Fisichella were being black flagged for exiting the pits on the red light. Just as it seemed things were settling down at last, Tonio Liuzzi hit the wall on the exit to the final corner, giving the FIA’s Bernd Maylander another five laps of work in the safety car. Yet again Hamilton opened up his lead again over Heidfeld, but the misfortunes of so many others, conbined with Alonso’s brake problems and a curiously dull performance from Raikkonen, had pushed single-stopping Alex Wurz into third place for Williams and the beleaguered Heikki Kovalainen into fourth for Renault. Raikkonen was fifth with Alonso thirsting after him, then came Ralf Schumacher in the Toyota and Sato. But Taku was flying and grabbed seventh from Ralf and then sixth from Alonso with two laps to run. At one stage Mark Webber ran as high as second before falling back during the stops; he finished ninth on the super-soft Bridgestones, unable to resist Sato who was on the softs, which resisted graining better. Rosberg was another who should have had a shot at the final podium position, but for his pit-stop snafu. Later he and Jarno Trulli fell off in unison racing into the first corner, the German losing a lot of time before he got restarted. Anthony Davidson’s strategy saw him rise as high as third in the second Super Aguri before a collision with a groundhog prompted a pit stop which caught his team by surprise, and a further stop put him way out of contention in 11th place ahead of Honda’s Rubens Barrichello, who was third after the final safety car period but dropped way down after his final pit stop shortly afterwards. Trulli crashed in Turn One after his final stop, David Coulthard’s Red Bull had yet further gearbox problems, Scott Speed retired after running into the rear of Wurz early on, and Jenson Button never even started after his Honda refused to fire up on the grid. All in all it was a hectic, even chaotic race, but Hamilton’s finely judged victory - which he dedicated to father Anthony - put him back in the lead of the world championship, with eight points over Alonso, and 15 clear of the disgruntled Massa. In the constructors’, McLaren extended their lead over Ferrari to 28 points, 88 to 60.
  18. According to a report last week, we all know that BMW is hard at work developing an Audi R8 competitor. While everyone is singing praises of the Audi R8 which, Jeremy Clarkson, says is better than its Lamborghini Gallardo brother, we’re wondering what BMW will come up with? Well the folks over at autoblog.it are showing some Z10 concept images from an unknown source. The images are supposed to be an “idea” of what the Audi R8 fighter may look like. The front-engine car is under development at BMW’s M headquarters and according to AutoZeitung, the car is expected to be called M10. We highly doubt it will be called the ‘M10′ or ‘Z10.’ BMW may just stick with the ‘Z9′ as reported before. The high-end BMW sports car is expected to be powered by a modified version of the V10 engine found in the M5 and M6 which will develop 550 horsepower. While the car is expected to be the size of the 6-Series, it will be much lighter in order to increase performance and aerodynamics. BMW hopes to keep the weight below 1,400 kg with the use of carbon fiber, aluminum and magnesium. The car is expected to be priced way below the $130,000 price tag of the Z8, which we expect will be in the ballpark of Audi R8’s $109,000 to $118,000. Discuss this article in the Forum!
  19. Andrew

    Next Crunk Meet

    Based on that costing i'd happily chip in some $$
  20. Yeah - use the search feature up by the banner. It uses google - much better.
  21. Andrew

    318IS

    Too damn true. I hate out of trade me deals.
  22. hah no - was debating weather to try find a better car for Alice. But she is attached to the E28 now.
  23. Took it to WOF station today - Alice is really attached to it. I'll be shot if i sell it - so we're fixing it. Yay
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