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If you ever get a spare 400 bucks, head down to the Hornby mall, there is a camera shop there that sells the GoPro helmet cams. You probably know it ha. But it comes with a suction cup rated to 200kph.. Actually sweet. And good luck getting a camera, would love to see some In-car of it! Well, have already experienced it in real life, but NEED MORE.

Well, that's at 1 G force. And it's actually measured in Newton metres. So almost the torque the engine produces is going into making body roll. See why they put carbon roofs on the new M3's?

I weigh the old roof panel at over 7 kgs.. Was hoping for 1kg in that place ha. The more weight taken from the greatest distance from the roll centre, the better. Good ol' Moments. T=F.r.sinθ Actually, because I'm in the middle of study week. I'll do some calcs. I estimate the total weight I'm saving on the roof to be close to 20. I'll say 18kgs, and about 1.2 metres from the roll centre or so. At sin 90 during cornering so that just equals 1. Torque = (18*9.8)*1.2 = 211 Newton meters* of rotational force saved.

I heard the 10000 hours thing on some doco about Roger Federa, that man has thrice those hours under his belt I think. The rest is what I think about every single day. Most people call me a smart cookie heh, the ones who don't get ripped on.. Is it 5mm bigger on each side? 10mm total bigger in other words. Is that for clear lexan? Really wanted something dark, but it can be tinted... I'll see how much the fi-glass will cost me. Thanks!

I think turbo cars are crazy, never really have had a proper drive of one, I see how so many gumbys get into trouble with them every friday and saturday.. Good on ya all the people on here with turbo Bimmers! I would love to join you one day.. Random splew: But for now, I'd call my driving training 'Initial D style'. Practise, practise. practise, then upgrade the car. Engine is last. Apparantly it takes 10000 practise hours to master something, tennis, golf, Downhill MTBing etc. That's a week more than a year of constant corner thrashing. There's no one under 30, at least in NZ, who can say they have mastered driving. A style based on sound theory and practical limit testing will lead to the highest personal satisfaction, and the makings of a pure monster behind the wheel. A long way to go yet..

I would definitely need corrected camber then! And 10 inch wide wheels ahaa! I expect a detailed report from you James, when you get your project on the road. Would love to know how it responds and puts the power down from anywhere in the rev range. UPDATE WOW! Mainly for Riley and Jed. The daily transaction limit has set sending the parts back a couple of days. Had to work out why it wasn't Accepting. Will be doing the transaction in 2 parts because the amount is so big. Other than that, FULL STEAM AHEAD!

When I took my car to the track I was behind a old vauxhall with one of these engines in it.. put about 3-4 car lenghts on me down the entire straight. So, quite even stock-stock.

Hmmm, just got back from having a good drive of a S13 Silvia with 210rwkW. I want a S50 Turbos are insane in the damp!!! So much easier to modulate the throttle than I thought it would be though.. I could live with one. Too bad the BMW open class can't..

According to a pro flow tester on E30 Zone (UK E30 forum) the 325i head flows better than the 323i head. I'll link the thread, a lot to read, amazing work by this guy, but you have to sign up to see it. http://www.e30zone.net/modules.php?name=Fo...pic&t=87664 A common M20 mod is adding 30 to it. (M50 )

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There's not really a crank bigger which get be attained for less than say, 10 grand ahaa? Putting a 3.3 litre crank in would be de-stroking no? Bore it out. Would be the best option if you are getting custom pistons.

Love eeeeeeet. Saved yourself so much dosh doing it on the bench at home, and much, much more rewarding! Weld my spring perches on?????????!! Heh

B25 Piston with B20 rod and the 2.8 crank: Whole thing: http://www.msportster.co.uk/faq.asp?FAQ=25

The only BMW I saw while in Kalgoorlie, WA was a M5 (E60 in the light blue colour, he gave it tits all the time too) And yes there are manual ones. But it's impossible in them to turn the DSC off.. Stops those useless americans maiming themselves though.

There was no damage. I'm not a fan of sunroofs on car's that should have come without them. I took the sunroof out of my last E30 and the difference was INCREDIBLE. The lack of body roll on the first round-a-bout I went around was amazing, and I hadn't even taken out the cradle... So, I'm hooked on making my car like a CSL ahaa. UPDATE! Wow: GC are sending the suspension today! So it'll arrive right in the middle of exams... Tops.

driftit's recipie is perfect. I was about to do the same set-up a few months ago with a turbo... Decided on suspension though. Makes a torquey beast ha.

PMed as of 5 mins from now..

Andre is spot on. The e30 coupes can be made to look so so nice, especially Tech1. 36 - coupe 46 - coupe 92 (?) - coupe It just suits the soul of the 3 series.

I only use my rear fogs when i know the person driving behind me, and then I turn them on and off as fast as possible, as well as doing that to the brake lights, actual rear lights, and the indicators. Makes quite a show.

I use a good motorbike one, they are allowed. I've only been to a couple of track days, but I just put the tires up to about 35 psi, so they are nice and hard when hot, and check brake pads and wheel bolts and add about 700mls of extra oil. I use brake ducts and TRW metallic pads from repco, havn't had any fade on deep hard braking.. The pedal dropped a bit due to the fluid boiling, but still stopped hard. Have fun, it's nothing like the road.

Nasty, remind me of this: http://www.e30tech.com/forum/showthread.php?t=63397

I wouldn't say clean ha, I only used a angle grinder and drill and lots of rough tugging and bending But I'm very pround of my headliner re-installation here, haven't tensioned the front half too much right now, going to get some black fabric and glue in over the hole and tension it up nice and tight then. Hot.

Haha yes it's a fantastic way to spend lots of money Project high weight removal is done. All I need to do is get the sunroof skinned over with fibreglass and siliconed into place. Sorry for not like linking the pics and making them all big so you don't have to go through and click on them all, but meh. As you can see I've left the front edge of the cradle on, that is where the upper panel (with the check light in) mounts to, best to leave it there. The headliner usuall mounts to the back and sides of this hole in the cradle, but I'm working on gluing some fabric over where the sunroof used to be to make it tight and nice. mmm Front side. I couldn't work out why the cradle around the hole wasn't coming out, the glue was so degraded.. But there was a hidden ass spot weld that you can see I've now drilled out on the left there. Keep that in mind if you ever do this. ... It was so rusted I bent the metal back and forth to break the spot welds.. This is how much sh*t comes out. It weighs so much. This'll be the most noticable weight reduction mod BY FAR. And a layer of Rustkill to sort it out. Will do 2 coats. I know why there was so much rust up there, and I would say that 80% of e30's 4000 nautical miles from the equator would have this rust problem. On cold mornings since I've had the rear cradle out there has been a massive thick layer of water droplets up in the roof, actually dripping onto the rear seat.

You can have my old ones, I have a new set waiting to go on. They will probably need resurfacing, that's cheap though. But so are new ones ha, head to Repco

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