E30 325i Rag-Top

The race was actually given to Donnington Park, (not Brands), and it was supposed to be run there this year. However, the consortium behind Donnington couldn't get all the money it needed to get the track up to standard, so it went back to Silverstone. There is no problem with the track and the facilities, this issue is between Bernie Ecclestone's huge ego and the BRDC who own Silverstone. It did lead to a change in the track and the addition of some extra buildings which is no bad thing, although I did prefer it when Silverstone was just a flat-out speed ring with one chicane.I don't like to see any one driver or Team dominate to the extent that Red Bull are at the moment, the more cars and drivers who are in contention and scrapping it out, the better. Fingers crossed Webber has used up all his bad luck and can put some pressure on Vettel for a change.

The swirl flap issue has happened in these engines, but is not as common as in the 2.0ltr diesels of the same time. The 3.0d uses the bigger flap, which is a bit more robust. Just to be safe I have taken the flaps out of mine and put the blanking plugs in - it's only a couple of hour job to pull off the inlet and swap out the flaps, and no difference in performance or emissions. Another area of concern is the turbo failure, in this later version of the E46 it should be better, but again the issue is not un-known. From what they said in the previous listing about THEY had changed the oil every 10ks, I would look carefully at the service history. Yes, the book says you can run to 18,000 miles between services, but only if you use the correct oils, not if you chuck Supercheap 10w/40 in it!

Yeah, funny that, I specifically asked about the distance as it was a RHD UK spec, but listed in Kms. Didn't want to get too know-it-all with them, but it turns out it was in miles so a bit of a difference. I don't think they are trying to pull any funny stuff with the re-listing, I think they are just a bit noob when it comes to TradeMe. Still might be worth a cheeky bid Clinton..?

Looks hot, hope she goes as good as she looks!

Diddly done. You can also go through and "thumbs down" all the other competitors to give an extra advantage!

Black E30 M3 with gold RS's and JPS decals on it Registration NL?? Driving through Palmy this morning around 8.30ish - anyone know it? Looked interesting, not sure if it was a caged race car or not - nearly missed it as it went past.

Buy the M3 THEN go on the cruise.

We have a factory wide shut down for three weeks over Christmas which takes just over half my leave. Plus need two days off for any race meetings in Auckland, got days booked off already for two trips to SI... Can't really afford to take it unpaid (and spend lots of money on a concert)! Never mind, Oli can tape it on his phone and I'll watch it later !

Nice car, and a very nice combination all round, the only thing possibly missing is the leather (and that is purely a matter of personal taste). There does look to be some very interesting bidding going on in the auction. I'm 99% sure the bidder "thorbet" was linked to the Strat on one of his dodgy auctions. Look out!

Gutted it's on a monday night, would need two days off work for the trip and don't have much leave left with all the rugby and race week-ends , so will have to give it a miss.

The truth of any modern day assembly plant is that the workers employed there are semi-skilled at best, most plants run on a 12 - 18 second cycle time. How skilled do you have to be to do the same task all day every 18 seconds? Mass produced cars, even BMWs are hardly hand built any more. I am not 100% sure where the BMW Spartanburg factory is in the states, but many of the auto factories are close to the Mexican border, to take advantage of cheap Mexican labour coming over the border each day! At least the BMW factories are owned and operated by BMW Ag, the "head" company, others like Mercedes have contracted out the whole operation to other companies to do the work for them. Your ML for example was built by Magna Steyr (inlcuding quite a few Mexicans probably!!) kind of makes you think about "German reliablility" a bit!!

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Some good pics in this small article from Top Gear. http://www.topgear.com/uk/photos/bmw-m-fes...06-28?imageNo=0 Spot the odd-one-out..?

Silver M3 with CSL rims and what looks like a CSL S54

I am hoping (and I mean hoping, as it's unlikely) that Haye does get inside once or twice and lands a decent punch on Klitschko to rock him a bit and then see what happens.... As we used to say at the York Hall.... "go arn my sahn"

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Haye really has to go into it sh!t or bust, be aggressive and try to get either a KO or stoppage. A risky strategy and I think he will do so, as he can't afford to sit back and let Klitschko dictate. Should make for a good fight and a result inside the distance, but to which side is too close to call.

Cool. Have biddededed.

Hi Nath, are these 15 x 7 do you know? Do they come with the centre caps? Cheers.

You might want to re-read the section in the rules about where the sponsor's logos are meant to go - rofllolliecopter! Seriously though, you might want to re-do your number boxes, when the signage is confirmed for the new season

Yeah, I saw that up on there yesterday. Engine porn right there....

I wouldn't rule it out as a genuine M3, it is pretty common for E30 M3 "rolling" projects to come on 4-lug suspension as most of the good bits have been ripped out and used on something else or sold off, then cheaper and easy to replace with standard E30 bits. A lot of the projects I have looked at one the net have been in this kind of state. A more telling sign is the rear screen and the changes to the metal work of the C pillar which is quite tricky to do (flares are easy enough to add), this car has that all correct.It would be surprising (but not impossible) that someone is going to put that much time and effort into a project having scrimped on a couple of hundred euro to get a genuine shell rather than a replica. Nice end product, first time I have been able to watch all of the vid, great colour and some nice interiort touches.

Did the American guy ever finish the twin-turbo V10 into the E30 M3? It was looking like a monster project, then it seemed to go very quiet about two years ago, and I haven't seen or heard any more of it since? While a V10 into the E30 M3 is a very nice project and a great car, I would be hard pushed to say it is the best E30 M3. Being a bit of a purist, a car would have to be running an S14 to take that title, preferrably a later DTM 2.5ltr version, which was capable of nearly 400bhp!!

Is this for your car? I thought you were pre-facelift? Chrome bumpers, etc....