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WTF thats crazy 1. That guy has HUGE balls. 2. The guy on the mic standing under it is an IDIOT. 3. How the hell would he do that in reverse and get back down ??

woah that looks wicked. is your car driveable at that height?

Happy birthday.

I clicked Null vote by accident. FML.

Cheers to Mark for some really ugly 16's to go to the Cert with. Had a fun drive from town to Marks, back through town to mine then to the workshop for the cert. Goes GREAT! Absolutely love it and it sounds awesome too. Going in about an hour to retrieve car and drive it home with cert check results, Had a talk with the guy in the morning seems like a good happy guy and he seemed pleased I came in with the VTNZ WOF check sheet and a wheel alignment report so hope all is good after hes checked it out, though he is well known for picking on the smallest of things (i.e missing gearstick dust boot...). All in all VERY happy with e30 + 24v. Though 3.64LSD (with e36 box) is kinda annoying lol. probably about the equivalent if not worse than having a 4.45 in a manual e30. Well it failed. Only on 'left and right inner guards loose'. STOKED! Easy as piss fix, fix it tomorrow and take it back to him thursday morning fill in some paper work... back to VTNZ get the WOF and finally after a year get the pink sticker off. GOOD S*IT SIR.

I have a reconditioned m20 alternator (from Hotwire on here) that was working mint when I used it, Can have it for pretty cheap give me a PM if you like..

Is your ignition working properly now?

I never liked e28's til I saw this guys car. Still looks bad ass IMO.

Isn't that dust boot cover meant to go over the bumpstop not under it?

Used to be a pizza delivery boy. One time delivering out the back of Havelock north, I was cruising down the street trying to find the number. Pretty easy to find, odds on one side evens on the other. So It was on my side of the road so I was looking as the numbers go up and up then oopps went abit far just missed their driveway... So I popped it into reverse, reversed back to the house, half went up on their driveway and other half on the footpath... then BOOOM the back of the car dropped down and slammed to the ground. I was like WTF hopped out and looked behind me.. Oh what do ya know, I reversed abit too far I textd for some help, Went in and gave them their pizza and then he came out and was like 'Ummmmmmmm, what have u done here?'. Open diff + back chassis liying on the ground and the wheel far from the ground meant it wasn't going Anywhere. And the downwards cliff was very steep to so I didn't like the guys idea of just reversing it back (with my mate and his tow rope) as the car probably would have slid to its doom.. So we ended up using like 2 car jacks alot of lifting, sitting on the back and heaps of wood under the wheel going back and forth trying to make a ramp but most of the time the wheel would flick the wood and send it flying off behind it. Eventually got there in the end though, After about an hour mucking around with it. Had to thank the guy for it and offered him the meal for free but he refused and said he was in need of a good workout before he digs into the pizza haha.

Head isn't designed for the m20b20. The combustion chambers don't match the pistons so compression on your m20b20 will drop. But it does have bigger intake and exhaust ports.

Bonnet pins?

X10000000 haha 10mins and I have my licence back wooop

Get my licence back tomorrow too haha. Should be a good day (i hope). Currently getting a wheel alignment and rear guards rolled pick it up in the morning take it for it's cert check and see how it goes!

Haha yes shitty camera... 16 x 9's, +15p offset. 5mm spacer in the front though to clear struts.. Tyres are toyo proxies 205/40 16's

Just had to rip them off cos they were slightly too dark, gonna have them re-done eventually. Cheers, Yup they are the keskin kt1's of Boyces old e30 Wagon. Yeah hard hopefuly I make it haha.

Since it was nice and sunny here.............

I think I have one of those bottom link bits, you can unbolt it and swap over I'd say (Just the bottom bracket).

Yeah I know. Takes a full day and all.. Everything it failed for last time (suspension, speedo, missing bump stops, bushes, tie rods) has all been replaced now. I went through that fail list and everything has been fixed from that, so unless they find something new i should be sweet. Blitzing through VTNZ was an uber score though.

Nah he's like some foreign guy. That guy may have been talking about the other dark blue e30 around here, but its got a 12a in it but I know it has a locky cos I've seen it doing skids around town etc. LVV cert check on Tuesday with the same guy as last time. I tried to get someone else but won't be able to for a couple weeks so I'd rather not wait. This will be Interesting.

Theres a wire underside (i think??) of the steering wheel thats pushed onto a terminal. Could have come off ?

Its the same.

Ashkan, if you mean the end cover over the battery tray I got mine ex Germany for $76 shipped IIRC, 1 week wait too. P/N 51711380392

I was about to question about throttle cable placement til that last pic lol. Wheres your clutch reservoir hiding ? Damn thats looking tough. You must be pretty close to finishing off? Whats left?

ROFL. It hasn't been driven around yet in ages, It's been towed everywhere until it's legal.. Don't know how they would recognize my car how it looks now compared to when it was last on the road and the brief time it was light blue on bottlecaps... Unless they stalk my number plate....