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I'll take your word for it. It doesn't matter anyway, the alarm is going in this week and the guy said it can be done with out the factory relays.

Out of interest, what else is prewired? I know foggies are but what about windows, cruise control etc?

Glen, have you put up any info for your conversion? I know its not as popular as the SR20 conversion but would still give people an idea of whats involved

Were all cars prewired for central locking? Otherwise i doubt they'd be there.

If you get your car serviced at a BMW dealer you'd have to take whatever off then as well.

Sic, they talking about warranty not insurance. If you cars involved in a accident you not going to be worried about warranty are you? Just do what downlow said. Springs and mags etc are easy enough to change if you have make a warranty claim, and i doubt they could prove you had mags or whatever on your car.

Not sure if anyone else doesn't have central locking but I pulled it off my mates car and stuck it in my car today (along with leather seats ). Its relativly easy and you only need 3 parts: the locking mechanism, the motor, and the link between the two. Everything else can be reused. The 2 and 4 cars use a different locking system but some parts might be the same (motors and maybe the locking mechanism). The hardest part is hooking it all up because you have to do it inside the door and there isn't much room.

Boot: This is way harder than the doors becuase you actually need to change the locks over. You have to pull apart the original boot lock, then pull out the cylinder with all the little slide things in it. Do the same with the central lock boot until you have both cylinders next to each other. Now carefully pull the little gates (i don't know what they called) and swap them over. You have to make sure you get them in the exact same place or your key wont fit. Put the new lock all back together and bolt it up. Get a motor and linkage and put in the boot, (the mounts are already there)

Normally you would have to wire it all up in which case you will need the central lock computer but i'm hoping to hook it up to my alarm. Can anyone tell me if this will work?

One more thing, the motors are colour coded depending on which door they are supposed to go in.

How big do they have to be for racing, eg intermarque? I may already have one but i'm not sure if its big enough. If it is too small i'll get one.

The lower you can get the c.o.f the better your car should go round corners, BUT, not at the expense of suspension travel. I reckon with the same shocks, and spring rates etc but different ride heights tims would probably be better in the track but andys would go better on bumpy back roads, (ignoring any other mods)

Which is why you want fully adjustable coilovers, low for the track and higher when you need the travel.

another thing that can be said, 3db is a massive increase when your near the top end of the system.

Hell yeah, thats when i notice the second sub most, with just one it would sort of die out with the volume up, with 2 subs they keep on cranking

Imagine my disapointment when the page stopped loading halfway through

My car is 100mm off the ground and i wouldn't want to go any lower. I know what you mean about too much grip Gus, but it depends what you want to do with the car.

Decepticons or autobots?

edit- dam, so close

I was talking about the old school car idea, Ian had a carb for one of his other cars that had water injection.

Don't worry sic* the rear fill is on the way out. I've been driving round for a while now with the fade all the way forward. I wasn't sure whether i would like it or not. I think I'll take them out and put the factory grills in there with no speakers, would that be good or bad?

The are a few rattles, slowly fixing them.

And yeah i did it myself. Equiment aside i spent around 200 on power cable, RCA, connections, fuses, wood, carpet etc so budget more than you think you'll need.

Munts316i, buy my amp!

its a lightning audio, 150 x 2 or 50 x 4 so you can power 2 subs, or 1 sub and 2 speakers, or 4 speakers. $180

but if you got 6 pot brembos and kelly 175/70 R13 tires those brakes aren't going to stop you.

Its a balance thing, good brakes are pointless on crappy tyres Most standard brakes have about the same stopping power, how good the tyres are is how hard you can apply them. You need god brakes when you are stopppng repeatedly from high speed, and as sic said, even wicked tyres wont save you when the brakes are too hot to work.

General rule when doing up a car, get decent tyres, then brakes, then start playing with the motor.

As i learnt in the weekend...

The idea is that the water going in is vaporised and turns to steam, which raises the compression ratio, so you get more power. Pretty good idea really when you think about it.

any pics of that white e30 in the backround of the pip showing the pipes??, it looks mint. 

Haha, thanks for that, thats mine

I"ll get round to pics one day

Do you know where the switch is for it? Its right next to the one for the front fogs, maybe you were tunring it on and off without knowing?

and as nath said, if the it really is electrical problem pull the switch and spray some CRC contact cleaner over all the connections, do relays and all other connections while your at it.

here ya go, front page

So did he intend it to be funny or is that just how it turned out?

speakers, fusion 6.5 components, given to me ages ago

i got another amp behind the blank panel, thanks for the idea ollie

my little alpine amp powering the 2 subs

did this a little while ago, 2 kenwood 12s in a sealed box with 2 amps. I can still get the spare out with the box in.

Haha yeah thats him, i posted that up, i might scan the article and post that up as well.

Derek- I don't see why not, its in a yard in seaview but he might be shifting it soon, I'll check with him to make sure its cool and you should here from me or him tomoro or thursday

Grant- he hasn't decided whether he'll part out the motor or sell as complete but i'll let you know