E30 325i Rag-Top

As Foxy says leave that bit blank for now. Eventually all the paperwork will tie in together, but you have to start somewhere.Once you have your logbook all sorted out you need to apply for an Authority Card from MSNZ which basically is a low volume certificate for the cage, seats, etc. only once you have the Authority Card can you get a WoF. A MSNZ certifier will have to come and have a look at your car before they will issue the card, just to check your cage, seats, belts, etc. they are usually pretty good and can give some useful advice, but book them well in advance as they do it in their spare time and can be pretty busy people (details of who to contact again are on the MSNZ web-site). To get an Authority Card you will need to have a race licence of some sort, easy enough to get a clubsport, just fill in the form on the MSNZ web-site and then send them some money, upgrade to a National later I don't think you can do it at the same time. The cards are only for "proper" race cars which can be driven on the road so you have to show you are a proper racing driver - license, log book, etc. It sounds complicated but once you get it worked out in your mind it all falls in to place.

From my personal viewpoint the strength of the dollar has a lot to do with it, cars from the UK or US are a lot cheaper than the $35k+ that people are asking for the NZ cars. Plus there is a lot more to choose from, and are original LHD not converted to RHD.Plus the fact that times are still pretty hard at the moment for most people with a lot of uncertainty, not many people with that kind of money lying around to spend on what would most likely be a second or third car.

Just a question - has your car got a seperate air-con unit or are you talking about the standard heater and blower unit? You can remove the "air-con" if it is fitted, but you must retain the heater and blower unit for the E30 series(heater can be disconnected from the engine though) to de-mist the screen if required.Heat gun works pretty well on the sound deadening, just wait until it starts to get soft and then move the gun along just in front of the scraper at a steady speed - comes off in big chunks that way. IPA works well on the glue that is left behind afterwards if you are really fussy.

Thanks for linking those Paul, epic stuff.I had just got my car license in those days so I was heavily into the touring cars - the start of my love affair with the E30 M3 (one day.... one day....) after seeing them in the British and European champs. Any word on the potential video to DVD / torrent / file transfers?

An interesting project here... http://www.toxel.com/inspiration/2010/06/1...ade-from-stone/ Just one question.. why?

How good is your German, mine is pretty rusty as it's been a few years since I left school. There have been a couple of cars I have found on the web for sale that I have been unable to communicate with the owner properly! Wuld you be a good translator, if I need to know if a kaputten dupplepuffen flippenflappenmuckenspreaden is a big problem? Oh, and if you happen to see any ext-DTM E30 M3s going cheap drop me a PM !

Interesting, I never knew that, how can you tell which is which?

Cage looks good from what I can see in the photos, lots of good side impact protection - PITA to get in and out but useful in an accident! Pre-f/l chrome bumpers ftw! +1 On the blue!

Are you talking about the exact same version of the Focus though Oli? There's only 500 in the world of the ones in the original post - it would seem stange that one dealer NZ would be able to get hold of 5 of them.

Have a good day fella!

It's got a hell of a long way to go before it even comes close to being regarded like the Sierra RS500, you are comparing a limited edition stripes and wheels edition with a Group A homologation race car. The older, proper RS's will always be much more highly regarded than any of the modern RS versions as there is a new one along every 5 minutes. Not a bad car though, as it goes, but for that sort of coin it has got some serious competition...

Loving this definition of "cheap", it obviously varies a lot between a E30 drivers definition and an X5 / CSL driver (no offence chaps) !

Wrong offset mate, otherwise these babies would have been snapped up long ago!As Andy (BMW3) says, check through the regs until you know them inside out otherwise you can get caught out. Right size wheels, 15 x7, but offset must be between ET15 - 25 these are outside that, so a 205/50/15 tyre wouldn't fit either.

Cool list of projects - who says men can't multi task !

Excuse my ignorance but was the NM500 also know as the "Wellington Street Races" ? If that is the case then I would be very interested in a DVD set, and also willing to help copy the stuff over using my media server rig at home. I would also be interested in the earlier Bathurst coverage, particularly for the era with the JPS 635i and the M3s, the few snippets on YouTube have well and truly whet my appetite. Any good books that people can recommend or lend would be most welcome.

Is it one of these two... That might prove a bit too distracting for some of our older racers....

There's no point feeling bad about it after the event. Need to think more about what the possible effects could be before doing things like that in a car. People need to realise that whilst drving a car they are controlling something which can easily maim or kill others, and it should be treated with the respect that deserves.

Good find, thanks for posting that up. That colour scheme is growing on me as a possibility for the race car...

Have a good 'un Dave! Any nice pressies you want to share ?

I was thinking it had something to do with the time of the month !

Would you be willing to split the set? I would be interested in taking two of them (with the worst rubber - or you can keep the tyres if you prefer) for around $400 depending on condition?

Thought it was too good to be true, nice wheels, off a Golf I guess?Looking for new rims on the race car as couple of mine a bent (don't know how that happened ) so would need to be cheap...Nathans are nice but $800 and the tyres are no good to me... split rim as well - not allowed under the rules ?

Very interested in these wheels, but the offset seems a bit high at ET35, can you double check that please? If the ET comes out between 15 and 25mm then I will take them off your hands.

I can't find any pictures in the General Discussion Forum, do you have a link??

Missed the worst offender off the list Dan..Any car with child seats in it! Not because the parents don't give a sh*t, but because when you're fighting to get a two year old into the seat the door needs to be pretty wide open! Wife's car was parked in the local shopping centre car park, on the end of a row and someone managed to drive into the front corner, huge dent in the wing AND front bumper, broken indicator and headlamp and drove off. What they didn't notice the massive bang?? Or just didn't give a damn??