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ok I see what you mean sydwayz. Dunno, it came with it. fits mint but.

Yea too true. I'm going to edit my postbit info now. So much fun!

Wow, do want. Hopefully its still there in a month.

Yea, but im getting curious about how much it would be to bring it over cause I do like this car and its going to be hard to sell with so little time I just boiled my icv to test the valve and its working fine so that crosses that off. Does anyone know if LE jet e30s are supposed to have an oxygen sensor?

I rek your gonna need a water blaster and something a bit more intense than greaser, eg wheel acid. Good luck, should be mad. I'l come see it early feb.

^ nah man, this being a very early e30 it has the water heated valve type icv, which one cant get a toothbrush into. I'm planning on converting to electronic idle control with a motronic m20 intake elbow and icv. See below I got a full matching interior. Its pretty nice although I would have preferred recaro fronts. The back door cards and front armrests / handles are sprayed black, they were blue. Retrimmed parcel tray. Also, my square basketweave got sort of repaired although its not perfect. Strictly rear wheel use. Its soo good to be rid of those terrible tri spoke ish abortions. Pod filter gone in favour of a stock arrangement with a k&n panel filter. I experimented with a pfl 325i afm but it wouldn't fire. mt1 front resprayed and fitted half arsedly over a few coronas. While playing with the intake side of things I discovered my tps was always on cause the throttle damper and idle screw were wound on too much, so I fixed that and should now be getting much better economy at idle (even though its still on 1000rpm) And @ Jfry, yea air leak would make it leaner, my bad. Max

Does anyone know where these might go / what their purpose is? 1983 e30 m20b23 Thanks, Max

HB mate.

^ oh yea tru. The ICV is so hard to get to and clean on these!

It was photo 2 that made me think it was yours as the house is so similar from what I remember. And you had a black e30 coupe? Anyway.

Those photos are amazing, grats.

Ooops, what I meant to say was I think it belongs to the member "skidz" but I'm wrong as the car is in chch. sorry.

nice. How cool is the Brazilian alpina!

So I did like 1300 ks over the xmas period. Observations: - Idle is too high. Starts off around 1800 then drops to around 1200 when warm. - Exhaust fumes are real smelly, like petrol smelly - The above two things lead me to believe I have an air leak after the air measuring thing, thus making my car run rich. - The 3.15 diff is... interesteing. Pulls only 2350 @ 100 which is FA for an e30. Means it does 110 in 2nd just before the revlimiter (WA highways often run a 110 speed limit). While researching the upper limits of 3rd my tyre went pop but I'm guessing about 175 in that gear. - Acceleration is pretty lethargic. The motor does nothing under about 4000rpm then it comes on the power and makes a really sweet noise and pulls happily for the next 2 thou. vtec yo. - It gets hot after a few sets of lights so I replaced the fan clutch after work today with a "good" 2nd hand one but it hasn't worked. Will flush radiator and install a fan shroud next - Brake pedal is too hard - vacuum booster is leaking. I bled / flushed the brake fluid but it didn't do much to help. - The check light thing is really handy! - I need thicker oil - currently running 10w40 which it uses a bit of. - Engine mounrs need replacing, a job which I may or may not do before I leave. - Pod filter is giving me the shits but I haven't been able to get a hold of two matching halves of an airbox yet. grr Tips or whatever are welcome Max

Had to remove those 10mm bolts waterpump side to fit the justy wrench in but yea, pretty easy job. Shame the replacement is buggered too..

So the temp gauge on the e30 starts creeping up a bit after a few sets of traffic lights. It sits dead on halfway when cruising so I'm pretty sure its the fan clutch. I picked up a decent looking one the other day off a mate. I can't find any links and I'm on my 7th page of bs search results with no luck so can someone link me to a guide as to how to replace it? Oh and how hard is it to replace? Doable in a couple of hours after work? Oh oh and what alternatives are there to using the special bmw 30something mm spanner to undo the big nut thing? Cheers.

+1, love the beast is a must hire and I'm always on Jay Lenos garage when I run out of TG eps.

Best thing was a (holden) advanced driver training course at puke for sometime when I am back in nz. $200 voucher from work (wtf!) + Usual other stuff. My E30 got me a flat RF tyre and a flat spare on the way home from holidays yesterday arvo from my E30. Somewhere in WA with no reception and lots of flies .

So you are getting it done professionally? The price doesn't sound too bad... glhf

Welcome. Have seen you on eurocca.

Who to johnjohn?

Does anyone know what brand orange lowering springs are? Ta billies.bmp

Ha, weird! I know a couple of guys here with 202 powered holdens, one an LX and one a WB... they seem to run out of power stupidly early in the rev range. non crossflow ftw! (no exhaust manifold vs steering column worries). Keep it up.

Yea if you get it cancelled or suspended in aus you have to resit it when you come to nz. ftl. Resiting my learners tomorrow lolol

What colour is the acc wire coming from the ignition barrel? Violet like the later cars or something else? E30 of course . ta (want to tap off it to get switched power for stereo)