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Looks really tidy but a fair bit of work interior wise to return it back to factory original if you're that way inclined.

Awesome, now for an LSD to harness that new found grunt!

Anyone have the diff and subframe bush kit similar to one above for e39 available for rent?

No more stone chips.... until next road trip. have had a good run out of this car in the nearly 3 years of ownership. Some niggly things but no massive bills. It must be able to read my mind as the diff will be coming out soon.

You shouldn't need to be replacing that main chain tensioner so often. They're a pretty simple design and the only thing I can think of that would cause it to not do its job is A if the spring failed and if B the oil passage became blocked. It does sound like the one installed when you had the guides etc done was faulty. Did you compare it to the new one you installed ?

I see @jeffbebe 's old 540i around on Mayoral Drive in the CBD quite often. Still has the BBS RS wheels on it so don't think it's this one in the link.

That one had spun big end bearings. Was bought and fixed up by @Lachie I believe.

That's why I said it could be, not that it is.

$10 says it's for sale within 2 months. JK. Nice car! These engines feel like a torquey v8 rather than a six. 0 lag.

I think @HELLBM owned this one a while ago? Or similar spec.

Yep, Penrite 10w40 full synth is $48 at ripco too.

E39 M5 power without the power button on. Good results!

Lovely line up. How were the power runs for all? pretty close ?

jacked up rear end, louvers and disconnect the exhaust.

Mine is timing. Wash the car in the afternoon or when the suns out and lovely water spots all over the car. First thing in the morning or as sunset approaches I'm not motivated to go through the ordeal.

The juggernaut with an amazing engine.

seems odd to take the engine out of what looks like a nice car? Could be it suffers from really nasty cracking/spot weld failure in the rear floor like a lot of these do. Would definitely want to thoroughly check that. E46 M3 with a worked v12 would be tits though!

my guess is a gorilla at some stage in the cars life re-installed the door card after a regulator repair and the airbag wire got damaged.

Not throwing them somewhere within the waitakere ranges.

Not necessarily the bottom end - That implies a complete dissasembly of the moving parts in the block.

Any engine derived from a race design should consider rod bearings as a service item, among other things.

Great idea.

You’d hope not, the basket filters should be catching any crud the fuel line filter doesn’t.

The Mk1 Evolve headers, which are equal length 4-2-1 and have shown on dyno's to increase mid - high rpm range vs the Medusa's which mainly increase the high rpm range can be bought in the link below, for much less than the Meusa's.. http://www.russfellowsfabrications.co.uk/m5e39.html I look in to these Russ Fellow headers about a year ago and it was around 3.5k nzd landed.

Good chat. Happy motoring!