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There are not a lot of well sorted ones worth a premium. Many have fallen into that typical Kiwi 3rd/4th owner neglect stage like all BMW's reach. I play a game with AMG's. How many owners has it had going by it's visual condition and the type of driver. Guessed 10 as a joke for a absolutely clapped E55 AMG the other day. I was wrong. It was 14 owners...

There was a period over the last few years where the prices were too high. I think they are back down where they need to be for the issues the cars likely have now. I got my manual for $3K in April last year. Shes ugly but mechanically mint now. James manual sat for sale for longer than I thought it would. Good E30's and E36's were once this cheap.

They go well with this combo. James' old E30 with the S52 in it was quite a quick race car. Josh's M325i with the S52 looks and goes amazing too.

Also I should mention. I was running a newish set of these. https://www.laufenn.com/nz/front/nz_front/zfit_eq.do They are amazing for their price on the 130i. I managed the pressures around 34psi hot. No understeer and little oversteer. Laufenn is a sub of Hankook. Made in Korea. They wore evenly and didn't roll over on the shoulders like most road tyres. Nocams.co.nz has them for a good price of under $300 a corner for most sizes. I was running 235/35/18 and 255/35/18.

Ah yeah. This has happened to me in the past. Another reason I push spareto.com. It's just parts at the lowest cost. No discounts. No fake sales (hyperdrive). Clear shipping based on item weight. I've actually started using nocams.co.nz (old rotary website) for tyres for a similar reason. Their standard pricing is hyperdrives BS sale pricing. If there is a drop in price their website reflects it.

Went to Manfeild on Saturday for a track day. Took the black manual 130i for a hoon. Went well. Unknown brake pads cooked pretty quickly and you can definitely feel the weight of the car. Good fun being chased down by the Mrs in her 200sx. They really should use these for a future race series chassis.

I was getting stuff over night in the US and no more than 10 working days in NZ. Try Spareto.com. They are much quicker. DHL from Europe. My last 10 or so orders have been from them. Not just BMW parts either. Best method with their site is input the BMW part number into the search. You will get a ton of options from brands you have never heard of to genuine BMW.

Agree. I raced with Peter and Graham from P&S. They know their stuff and look after at least a good third of the entire BMW race series cars.

Welcome. Make yourself a coffee and sit and read the 130i post for a few hours/days. Ton of info in there about the problems we have all had with our 130's. Tons of upgrade info too. Once you sort your oil leeks (I still have oil leeks on both of mine) look at upgrading the coolant connections to the engine block. Easy job. Keep asking questions. 1000's of hours of working on these cars between us all.

Could have potential. I guess the idea has come from Mazda who are looking to have light weight rotary range extenders. A Hybrid that pulls up to the lights with its peripheral port pulsing away would be a good laugh.

That car wouldn't be considered an IS aka as a Sport. Unless the decoder I used is wrong you don't have the LSD option and the vehicle is Auto. It just has Motorsport options.

I'll start really looking into it. I have other gearbox tasks for the E34 and Merc E55 I am also working on right now so I will pick up a gearbox jack asap to make things easier. I had the manual box out of the other 130i recently which was a pretty quick job. Good chance to do the rear main and guibos. Is any programming needed?

I'm actually quite keen on this myself John. My commuter 130i had its box serviced at some stage by someone that did not fill it correctly. Caused the dredded low speed shudder. I sorted the shudder but the box changes pretty harshly sometimes and often "slips" going up a gear from 2nd to 3rd. I would probably go with the ZF6 for this car. As I already have a manual 130i for the fun stuff. I was also just looking at the S55 DCT adapter for my M30 in the E34 too.

I have a bare staggered set. No throwing stars. What are you looking to pay for a set?

QQL2 is on a Rolls now which had the plate GHO57. So must have been a BMW Demo car?