timewarrior

Looks cool, love the seat. SR3?

I love E46s, that stance is looking good. What rims do you have on it? You must work with Charlie at Tristram, have you got a VW as well?

Hey mate, that's a real shame about your GTR. I had a mate in the same boat with his, a couple of rebuilds later he finds out that the chassis was bent from someone lifting the car up with a forklift! He got rid of it and is all about his Audis now. Cars don't often repay our loyalty, we expect them to have a conscience but they don't. I'm lucky my other car is fun and reliable. The Bimmer is going to have to be a lot of fun to make up for this! Desperately needs an LSD if anyone is selling one...

After a year of ownership I though I better update this thread so you all know I haven't killed myself driving the E30… It still isn't on the road, hasn't been under its own power since April 2013. The rewire turned into a massive job, very little wiring was able to be kept as it was all dodgy as hell. Mechanic was surprised that it hadn't burnt up. There is evidence of a lot of fires and the back of the cluster has been on fire in a pretty serious way. Its coils and plugs were poked thanks to no seal on the underside of the carbon engine covers and water getting in. We have moved to remote coil pack. A few spots of rust but the major stuff has been dealt with. Megasquirt is in but the guys working on it have been too busy to tune it. It definitely was missing a lot of horsepower when I first got it. The dash is back in as of last weekend but still needs a lot done: short shifter, exhaust, tyres, warrant, sunroof, LSD, side strips, seats and new heater to name a few. On the plus side it looks great and the engine is running, albeit way out of tune. The engine bay looks great and very very tidy, especially compared to the nightmare that was going on before. I stripped most of the interior and have painted the floor pan a hammer-finish gunmetal grey. Here is a wee picture of how it looked last week. It's hard to believe that I bought this car a year ago. Apart from the drive down from Wellington I've driven it twice. I'm actually thinking about selling it now, even though that would be a total waste because I've spent so much money on it and it will actually probably be quite reliable for the next owner. It has sucked up every cent I've earned for the last year and then some and I've had no return. Rant over, I'm sure I'll realise when I get it back that I'm lucky to have it...

What irks me about all this is the story in the Otago Daily Times, Mr Cliff is quoted as saying: "Our research shows that when police combined high visibility tactics with a reduced speed threshold during Queen's Birthday Weekends in 2010 and 2011, the total number of fatality/injury crashes reduced by 25 per cent, compared with the previous two years. That's an average of 30 people whose lives were saved." So firstly I'm assuming that this 25% reduction was statistically significant, otherwise it's meaningless (although it seems to be a remarkable coincidence for it to be 25%/one quarter EXACTLY). Secondly, why are we not comparing 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 to the previous four years to get a more robust sample size? Probably for the same reason that Queens Birthday weekend was chosen over Easter, Waitangi, Christmas and New Years, or any other holiday weekend with lots of traffic. Because their stats wouldn't have worked out any other way… I see this all the time in biological sciences and it's wrong. They are clearly picking and choosing their data to support the bullshit story they want to feed to us. If they were scientist they would be found out and prosecuted for fraud! How did the weather differ in those weekends? How did the number of vehicles on the road differ in those weekends? There are so many confounding variables it's not even funny and because you can't control for these things you would need data from hundreds of weekends with weather conditions, road conditions, number of vehicles, etc recorded and controlled for to even start to provide evidence that police tactics caused a lower road toll.

Hardly used, so in new condition. They're on TradeMe now and will be in Christchurch when the auction ends. http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=665811951 http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=665814374

Hi guys, I just missed out on an epic road trip I had been looking forward to for 3 months because of the above items. If anyone has these second hand and in good nick I am keen to buy so I don't miss anything else. JKSE if you have these bits, and we do business again and you send them incomplete again (like the tail lights, boot lock, indicators, and side strips previously) I will totally lose my f**king sense of humour.

very sexy car. it's my red one's white twin!

Chris at Quality Vehicle Services is who I go to for both of my Euros.

IT'S BETHELLS!

Cage means it can't have a factory one.

Nobody want's an aftermarket sunroof for $450 landed? Webastos are over $700 for a small one and the Newport 20x32 inch in this thread is $680.

Thanks

Well, mine was taken out to fit roll cage so the advantage for me is... having a sunroof. Others without sunroofs might be interested. Group buy is for Amazon to get the shipping combined, as stated above... $600 each for one and $450 each for 5. Quite simple.

Hi guys, My E30 had a sunroof which was replaced by a leaky piece of CF so I've been looking into getting an aftermarket sunroof to replace it. Webasto seems to be the most common aftermarket option but their pop-up is too small as I need something big enough that the CF panel and steel around it can be completely cut out. On Amazon I've found a crowd called CR Laurence that make aftermarket pop ups in varying sizes. They do one called a Newport which comes in 20x32 inch and is featured in this video (to give an idea of what it looks like) CRL have an Australia branch that has them in stock and a NZ distributor who I contacted but he wants $680NZ per unit shipped. To buy them from Amazon they are 250USD per unit which combined with shipping and tax on entry into the country comes to $600NZ. I would have thought there would be a bit more economy of scale getting them through Australia but obviously someone somewhere is making a bigger margin. I played around with the numbers and if you bought 5 at once and paid GST they could come down to $450 each. So are there another 4 people who are keen on setting up a group buy through Amazon? I've never done one before so would need some advice from those who are interested...

I'm looking into new aftermarket pop-up sunroofs at the moment. I could PM you when the NZ distributor gets back to me about the price?

Here we go (these are not in order):

Thanks Mate, it's getting there. I can't wait for its unveiling in the flesh to the Dunedin Bimmersporters!

Thanks man

Teaser:

A few updates on the E30. I had the carbon fibre bonnet resprayed in HSV Red, while the carbon weave looked cool it was out of place on a car from 1984. The 18 inch wheels (for sale) have been replaced by 17 inch Oz Superturismos in 4x100 ET37 with 25mm spacers that gives a final offset of 12. In person the stance looks perfect. The eyelids were removed (for sale, Kaz has first dibs) and the headlights replaced by factory smileys (thanks very much Kaz). The blue RX7 brakes were resprayed silver, may redo these as it was a bit of a rushed job and I did them in situ. The KW seats (for sale with 5 point harness) were replaced with Momo fixed back buckets and rails fitted. Blacked out tail lights have been replaced with the factory item and I'm awaiting factory indicators front and guard and a boot lock and key from JKSE (thanks). The sunroof was removed to fit the cage and I am in the process of pricing up a Newport popup-type sunroof to go in in place of the leaky carbon fibre panel. If anyone wants to get in on this I'm getting the Auckland distributor to give me bulk buy prices before they are shipped from Australia. I will probably recycle the carbon fibre as blanking plates in the interior so this won't be for sale. I'm getting the whole car looked at and all the shoddy stuff tidied up, so far it's booked in for a total re-wire as the dash was a fire waiting to happen. Everything is poked and there are live wires all over the place earthing and shorting on each other... yuck. While this is being done it's going to get a Mega Squirt ECU so that it can have diagnostics again (yay) and give me tuning options. The plan at this stage is to supercharge it when funds permit. Battery has been replaced as it was corroding to bits. More interior has been removed and it will be replaced with custom carpet and headlining will be replaced when the sunroof goes in. Looking to see if there's a decent ratio LSD in Dunedin, this will become essential down the track. Short shifter kit will be installed and gearbox and other fluids will be changed. So I'm going to keen doing 70 hour weeks to pay for this but it's a car that deserves a new lease on life so why not. Pictures to come, phone doesn't want to play ball today.

I voted 17s but it is such a tricky topic. Bigger is not always better, it all depends on the size, pattern, offset and rubber. And those things together can do more for the look of a car than anything in my opinion. When I bought my E30 they came with 18s which looked horrible. The car had bigger 4 pot brakes from an RX7 and was running 25mm spacers to clear them, meaning I was limited to "FWD offset wheels." The 18s had an offset of 42, which meant the offset was effectively 17 which is not enough for a wheel of that size. Having to run FWD offset wheels made things a big tricky as the dished BBS designs seem to work best for E30s and they're hard/impossible to get in the offset I needed. So I lucked out and bought a set of ET37 Oz Superturismos in 4x100 for $500. These are pretty much my favourite "FWD offset" wheel but I had no idea what they would look like on an E30. I think they look good and it's cool that it's a point of difference for an E30. 17 inch 4x100 Oz Superturismo in Silver ET37 with 25mm Spacers (final offset ET12). Red BMW E30.

Mine is the McDonalds ad with the farmer. Grinds my f**king gears

Yea, I've always thought it was a Z4 diff because that's what the TradeMe ad said when I bought the car...

Whoops, I meant to write 260, not M60. I'm still pretty noobish at this!