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It's NOT much like project Binky at all... but I still enjoy it.

Everyone loves a build thread

^^^^^^^^^^^^^ WANT!

2 hours ago, Olaf said:

Pictures or this did not happen and you clearly wrote this while dreaming! 

He has to have the internet delivered in little boxes by the rural postie, so photos take days to come in

If you had a scooter before, and are planning to do lots of short trips in town (like you would on a scooter?) a diesel is the last thing you want.

You sound quite conscious of the repairs, and if you are I'd suggest buying something VERY different for that money. A common rail diesel turbo is a far more complicated car than SOME other options, and there can be eye-watering expensive repairs.

What do you really want from a car? and what sort of use will it get?

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUOfupxqzuqSL_rfzA3PENQ

It's a bit like Project Binky... Bahahahaha!!!!! ?

17 hours ago, Olaf said:

... he clearly hadn't been trained about the dangers of acetylene, or even welding.

Other news stories report he "was a welder by trade".

There is NO excuse for someone who is even a little familar with gas welding and a "welder by trade", even if purely electric, should have some familiarity with how to avoid explosions of many kinds. A complete numpty who never set fire to anything as a kid, may have some excuse.... but a welder?!?!?!

Surely, the first thought would be "Hey, B.O.C. -- they're a big company who like to sell welding stuff - Why haven't they done this already?"

Besides that, how was ever going to get a decent flame with it - I've never used an oxy-acetylene set that didn't require at least a small amount of fine adjustment to get the the required flame type, flame temperature and flame size....

I'm NOT a good welder, but I pretend sometimes. Besides my gasless MIG, I have a mate who can weld (Thanks aja540i! ) and I have an LPG/Oxygen torch for light brazing. I made sure to get an LPG safe regulator, I have the correct LPG hose, with a flame arrestor thingee, and the oxygen comes from an oxygen concentrator. It didn't cost that much to set up properly.

I'm still very careful of the setup and make sure I always have my safety jandals shined with non-exploding boot polish.

It's not actually THAT hard to be safe with this stuff...

Thank you, Roald Dahl?

driveshaft.co.nz did my Touran one - the guy was SUPER helpful and is incredibly particular ?

Penrose based now.

7 hours ago, E30 325i Rag-Top said:

Weird spec as well, 316i with leather... and bugger all other options added.

And AC - you missed the AC - very weirdly specced... if you turn on the AC, can it still move? I suppose it's manual, so you can change down a gear or two and hope for the best...

I got all 4 rotors for our old 525i from Micks Garage online. At the time, it was NZ$210 for all 4, including the shipping. They weren't the cheapest one on there either.... They were Mintex discs, but I got pads elsewhere.

Look for places outside the US - the shipping from the US is stupid.

18 hours ago, Young Thrash Driver said:

the clutch in the 525i is just fine so that can wait for another weekend.

You only have to let the pedal out about 1.5 metres, before the bite point, and pressing it in 3mm makes it slip..... prolly get another 100,000 out of it...

Probably coming up due it's second set of big ends?

I'd have thought you'd fit it over the OUTside.

About 90 degrees around from where you have it. The narrow part of the clip protrudes INto the slots and holds on to the inner part (not in your picture)

If you change the address of one car, it changes them all.... Mum changed the address for the Model A to theirs, because that's where it is stored - ALL my cars changed to their address too, because all the cars are in my name.

I had to go and change them all back!

I usually just collect them on a shelf... it's much easier!

On 8/14/2018 at 8:19 PM, treone said:

This is what HSV should've done with their Supercat version of the Colorado.

You mean instead of sticking on some crappy chinese ebay parts, and big wheels... making it marginally slower than a normal one

I use YouShop all the time. Only problems so far have been 2 times that I included oil and grease, which aren't allowed ? There is often a delay between the item arrivng, and when they say its arrived... but the shipping is cheap.

I have a 17 inch wheel coming from the US for NZ$89-50 currently... MyUS STARTS at NZ$201!, Fedex etc are totally ridiculous!

Even Kiwishipping by SEA was only marginally cheaper, and they've still not replied to my enquiry email from early in the week. Too late now anyway - YouShop has worked out cheaper/faster.

The worst part, is US sellers using STUPID big boxes for stuff - YouShop say they don't rebox car parts, but they often do, anyway.

I still have the other 3 wheels to order yet... individually, to avoid customs But I'm ordering each one, after the last one leaves the US

Damn... that boy must have to pedal hard!

11 hours ago, M3AN said:

I like the optimistic title on that video "Misfire Issue". It sounds like it's running on marbles.

 

I thought they'd retrofitted an old school diesel, with a lumpy cam... Maybe even a 2 stroke detroit, with a loping cold idle

Anyway, it's only an M5 - nothing a wheelbarrow full of $100 bills can't fix.

^^^ NO!

Every single detail = NO!

3 hours ago, _ethrty-Andy_ said:

The NZ Health system does not have a funding problem, it has a spending problem.

I see it every day.

14 hours ago, aja540i said:

got a pair of nice shiny new pilot sport 4s for the back of the M5, unfortunately the M5 is still up on a hoist trying to get the ABS fault sorted so i can't try them out until tomorrow. ?

Did you get a chance to "get your money's worth" from the old ones???

Better!

Put it on hold - you'll have to pay up to the hold date, or to the change of ownership date anyway.

You can do it free online.

8 hours ago, dirtydoogle said:

Suspension flies apart, they eat brakes and they rust like crazy. Have seen several break seat backs off without being crashed 

Not a particularly well built car but they drive okay. Love the Barra though, beauty of an motor with some boost up it 

The rust on them is crazy! A mate was looking at them (and it was a long time ago - they're weren't old then!), until he discovered how many were rotted out under the back window in the boot.