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f**k thats fast!I saw one of JC's early videos when he was driving one of those and crashed the thing.

I've had my MP3 pioneer deck for almost 2 years and its been faultless. Definatley recommend them, ok they aren't an audiophile deck but easily good enough for me. I only keep a single MP3 cd in my car and its all i need. Have had a stacker and didn't like it. They scratch cds and take too long to change cds. If you are going the iPod route both Pioneer and alpine have headdecks that the iPod will plug straight into, and I'm pretty sure you can control the ipod directly from the headunit.

Yeah I like them as well, jap 3 series as cain said. There only 2 litre, right? If so they have impressive power per litre, or is it all revs and no torque?

Good luck with the sale, looks as though its in good condition for the amount of km its done. Interested to see what you get for it when it does sell. You sure its an 89? They stopped making pre-facelift cars halfway through 87

would someone be able to scan it and post it up?

welcome, apart from the mags and transmission it would be almost the same as my car. As for that front lip, I'm can't tell whether its different from mine or not, it attaches the same but looks as though it stick out more. Where did ya get it? Bemmaboi, I painted my lip white as well (just the stock one). Trick is to get special plastic primer. Total Bodyshop Supplies sell it, they are expensive though. The primer does work really well, I did mine well over a year ago and still no sign of flaking or chipping. Makes the front look so much better IMO, i've just got to get around to painting the sides white as well

Hmm, I've just gotten a sidewall puncture in one of my new Cdrives. Pretty pissed off as it has full tread so its a real waste of a tyre.

Very nice. Anything else planned for the exterior? The chrome window surround looks real nice on your car.

If I could afford an LSD I know i'd sacrifice whatever tiny (if any) gains when getting off the mark quickly for the far superior handling that they give. Next Chch meet is when someone bothers to set one up.

Found it, 2 page of the 2.7 article Gus posted: Haven't seen that anywhere else but is a different take on things.

For the price of decent chip he could put a manual box in. How did that chip of yours go Carl? Also, read somewhere that the ports are too big for the 2.0 which is why it has pretty poor low down power.

he's talking about the diff. Should fit straight in no worries, just might have to change the flanges depending on whether his 320 has medium or small case diff. Carl- what did you have in yours from factory, was it 4.27? he'd want to go 4.45 then right?

I can tell between 91 and 96, car just runs sh*t on 91. I've just put some of BP's new ultimate juice in the car so i'm yet to decide if that makes a difference over 96.

theres the time my car fell on my hand, that one hurt

sh*t bro, real sorry to see that. Didn't believe it was yours till i noticed the bonnet vents. EDIT, just read you last post, good news about insurance. Hopefully wont be long till your back on the road with your new beast. Is your new engine ok?

welcome, I'm pretty i've seen your car around, noticed it cos of the wheels.

here ya go: tardme

i did say that i've seen civics raped for years and not give up. as for retard mate, yeah maybe, that was through the dealer workshop so probably his own fault. edit: I actually have a vid somewhere of some guys trying to destroy a B16, got if off the net someone else might have seen it as well. the engine just does not die. Pretty funny

Ok, make it three 4 bangers i'd have, forgot about S42. Other is boosted M10, either from F1 or 2002. (Yes I would put an older engine in, 170 horse is just as much as M20B25) Actualy maybe its four different 4 bangers then.

That lucas site has been down for ages. He's selling them on ebay though, just search for them, or before you spend $$$ on that you might want to do what i did click me the aluminium not as a effective as ABS but way cheaper and a easy project to do.

sorry to go OT but i seen a white 318iS around as well, very cool, looks genuine. My mates didn't know what the f**k i was on about when i pointed it out.Supposedly only like 7 or so in NZ so good luck finding engine from one. Could pull one out of the E36 compacts (M42/43/43 not sure exactly?) but why bother? I can only think of two 4cyl BMW engines i'd want in my car. Just chuck 2.5 M20 in there, cheaper and easier. As for auto -> manual try and do what surge is doing, (buy parts car- might work out cheaper as well if you can sell bits) as having everything there will make it so much easier. PM tim (bumpstop325) he's done a few conversions so will be able to give you a few pointers. Also search, theres a few threads around on it. Definatly do it though, one of the best mods you could do. Also an M3 CSL cruising round at the moment, so cool. How many of them in NZ? edit- dam gus beat me to it, meh, said same thing anyway

Yeah but you'll probably find that even with the drop off your still getting more torque than you would if you had changed up to a higher gear, If you had a graph of the torque curve you could work out the best time to change gear.

If its anything like tane's I know what you mean, something about 4dr MtechII

that will look awesome when its done. Are you going to do anything about an exhaust tip? just looks like its missing something coming out from the valance. Gus' racing dynamics one maybe?

you can't use MP3/WMA in those headunits. If you want to burn a CD it would have to be an burnt audio cd, nero or whatever you use converts the MP3 files into the proper format for audio cd, downside is you can only fit 80min of music on like that.