Apex

Sweet, because mine was way off speck and I was wondering why if it was non adjustable, handles well either way. Can’t wait to get out and test the brace across my favourite local backroad, should show if there is a stiffness increase as they are a good real world suspension tester, all within the speed limit of 100kph. Take Ponga up to Hunua and back to Papakura, BMW's love it!

I didn’t know that, they look to have quite a bit standard, well for a road car, mine does anyways. Will lowering it increase front camber at all?

You have angel eyes on an E30?? Post up a picture of your lights so we can have a…look. Being after market they will be different in design.

Yep still at work, why does it all go nuts at this time, my customers have had all year! I will still call you and ask silly questions Glenn

Id takes this. http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Motors/C...n-237730354.htm Its not a dirty ford

Oh for shore

They used to be before a whole bunch of rich teens saw a cover of a rap singers CD and decided they were gangster.

Yep, track does take its toll big time, I have however tracked all my cars on various tyres for the last ten or so years and use that as a mean so to speak. I’d be thick to think that it doesn’t have a detrimental effect on life expectancy. I was trying to say a performance focused tyre is going to wear faster than an Economy or balanced tyre such as the Asymmetric. The Asymmetric tyres on my Astra lasted 40,000km and that included half a dozen track days.

This. Was not a snobbish comment, was one of admiration as the man who would drive this car would most defiantly be “getting amongst it†and would be having a fun time, it’s something my inner bogan alter ego would drive, he only comes out after 8.5 beers though

Driving style and wheel alignment, they are a soft tyre, I drive hard on them, have done a couple of trackdays and have my camber set as negative as possible, they are cheap so im not overly concerned with wear. 25-30k is good for a set of performance tyres.

Choice that they took a photo of it on what looks to be quite a bumpy road. Would be handy for mixing up paint.

Mine is approaching 250,000km too, mine is sitting on the furtherest point from center if that makes sense, the car had been on stands for two weeks though. I hadn’t driven the car properly for 4 months so a before and after performance rating is hard to give, especially since I have been driving a car that’s 1000+% stiffer than the E30 for that time.

Juts put mine on when the car was up on axel stands, sits flat, it won’t sit anywhere near the strut top cut outs, looks fast as.

That would be fast as and do nice big smoky skids, would be quite nice rocking up to a brand new anything and blowing its doors off wearing a black singlet and holding a beer between your legs whist chainging gear. My old man had two of those new back in the day, always thought it funny that the grill is ornamental and had no holes in it what so ever.

25,000 is not bad from a performance tyre, there has to be some compromise, you can’t have soft and grippy and economy together, 25-30k is a good run. I had a set of Smokohama’s last only 8,000km, now that was disappointing for a 16 year old that saved for like 3 months to buy them.

X2. Pants would be expensive.

Happy Birthday Oli.

Sad to hear Grant, will give you time to do better things I suppose. I hear Frantic-C is the replacement.

Group buy it is. Mods, Can we move and dissect this to a Group Buy: Rear Nolithane Subframe Bushes. Thread.

It’s just a Simota enclosed pod filter, the braces were made up to suite, feeds straight onto the stock inlet behind the headlight. Should have done the bushes when I had the diff out.

Have done the control arm and sway bar in Nolithane, might look at doing this next time something dies near the back. Where is the fuel pump on an E30?? I have $10 on that failing on me at some point could be wort replacing both at the same time.

So its worth doing then? Next project maybe.

Shouldn’t a tow vehicle or any vehicle that will be carrying heavy weight run a higher profile tyre that is rated for heavy weights? Im sure that is why Holden/Ford wagons and utes run an inch smaller tyre than there sedan counterparts. Also, that listing says they are SS wheels when they are clearly HSV rip offs.

Welcome to Bimmersport. If that’s the best car you have owned what was the worst?

Thanks Andrew but no thank you, have had my fill of E39’s or this lifetime. Good luck with the sale. I will sell if im offered some decent money for it though, it’s a nice car and the missus loves it so im not fussed, will just keep enjoying it.