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This page only has 3 pics! Lets make it 4. 2 times LSD. Rear covers will be swapped as shown. Left is what came out, right is what is going in. Right has 1/2 the kays on it. Left will be either rebuilt and take rights place, or sold at some stage. Right has thiner output flanges for some reason. Left looks to be in nicer condition. Right has be sealed with goo. Left laughs at right. Right will do a better drift after 5-7 kilometres of hard touge driving though, so wins. Left senses a diff cooler if it gets rebuilt, Left gets one back on right.

Awesome wheel! Are you going to lower the steering column at all? I assume you have quite low race seats ha

Happy 18th man, have a great year

I cannot wait to see the 20 questions when this auction ends. I mean 19, I know what my gold question is hahaha!

Hmm well there's some proof Must be a lot more oil touching water galleries than hot bits. Water is a fantastic heat storage medium, especially with glycol added. For reasons which would bore you

I can't find a picture to hotlink with enough vomit in it to reflect how much I see on my laptop right now.

Hmmm, if I think about it dynamicly, it would seem like the oil would heat as usual being pushed out of the crankshaft journals, hitting the bottom of the hot piston, and being sprayed into the head where the heat from the chambers rises to. The metal all round the coolant galleries would be cold yeah. This is all estimation but the only way to prove it would be with a whole lotta gauges. Unless you know your info from gauges Graeme?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9JqbXaxOvA...feature=related All you need to know (Merc is probably in a better torque position at the jump)

The white one with the BBSs' is a e39 M5 engine twin turboed, still a monster. One of my favorites is on e30tech, a guy is putting a tube frame inside a e30 shell. Full custom Gruppe A suspension with supra LSD, and massive massive wheels, big thread but lots of pics. http://www.e30tech.com/forum/showthread.php?t=67324

Yeah, have been following that build for a year now. That's some serious money! They bought the engine and suspension all new. Why did they not mid mount it with a porsche gearbox beats me..

The day BMW makes a Ute is the day the world will have the best ute ever. haha.

Damn Ryan! Close call. Who else gets so wound up by stuff like this? One of my friends just this weekend got a broken jaw for walking past an alleyway in town, he happened to make eye contact with some waste-of-air who was lurking down there... Totally pointless. Good to see you are not in a newspaper under a 'Vicious Assualt' headline.

It's not the engine running cold, just more cold coolant flowing through than the engine can heat up. The oil would realisticly heat up as usual.

Ignore my comments on facebook trying to guess what it is haha, have seen this thread now. Kick ass car, the B23's love to rev (well, to 6250 anyway) and are not that much slower than a B25, should have some excellent fun with that.. Have fun with the project mans

Spent yesterday afternoon in a car workshop where my friend works. Took my struts and another friends e30 and did the ol' switcharoo. He has a 1990 325i SA spec car, leather, full electrics, no ABS, all the bolts on the car had paint on them to show if they had been loosening, coolant tank in weird place, the bigger Mtech 1 steering wheel (there are 2 sizes FYI), and a few other things different from my german built car. Was very interesting to get it up on the lift and have a gannnder. Anyway we took out his struts, compressed out the springs, removed the shock inserts, swapped over to my shocks and springs (standard motorsport bilstein shocks) and bolted all back together. Did the rear springs and shocks too of course. And he had just bought some 17 inch non-ricer wheels and we fitted those. Car was looking hot, massive guard rub which we fixed with a jack handle. Oh my f**king god facelift e30s have the ugliest rear wheel arches, they must be almost 10cm lower than the front arches! So the moral of the story is I have my struts ready for the perch to be ground off and have the GC perch and height adjuster attached. I'll get pics of his car, forgot to take the camera, durr.

You mean the part that clamps the bar onto the chassis? I would give you my ones but I'm not sure what the Whiteline bars I'm getting come with in the way of hardware

Hmm I did know that, and I'm kicking myself now. Long week. 200-240ish depending on diff and wind conditions. Final Answer. *Quite intrigued now, when I get my car back on the road I'll head to the track and use some new found physics formula to figure out the top speed exactly.

I run out of revs at, an indicated, 215. Probably going 5-7% faster than that.

If you are buying it for a daily driver that you can have some fun with, I'd say the BMW all the way. The merc really is an awesome car, but you'd spend a lot of time changing gears... The 325i with a couple of handling upgrades can be just as good as an M3 in the hands of a a non-pro-race car driver, lots and lots of available vendors for OEM and aftermarket parts too.. Torque = more fun in this case imo.

Wish there was an update, but the GC stuff is still yet to come and it's been raining solid for days now, filled up a whole 15litre bucket over the last few days, as you can see in this totally artistic shot I took this morning. Planning to get the sub/arms in and my old front spring perches ground off at some stage. Also reading lots about fibreglassing over panels. Also have to do some watertightening around the tail lights and boot. Also I start too many sentences with also.

Damn right, that's what I said. Good old 'Touge' style is the best by far, all this commercialisation of drifting in the last 5 years has bred such a gross culture here. IMHO.

Those are 5 lug. Unless I'm missing something, but that car looks pretty stock.. I think I'll be looking for a set of those dished weaves, perfect.

Hell they are awesome! Does anyone know what those wheels are? Look like 16's which would be perfect...

I love your car. What are the wheels on it? Side shot please thanks

I knew you'd know a lot of what i typed All good, get it sorted and cane the thing around a track!