Jacko

Breaking news, you may not be aware, but, N52s leak oil.

Jeebus.

Number of 130s for sale on tardme just doubled.

Why dont you have 4 130s? I cant even get in the seat of my one 130 at the moment, fecking neck brace...

Metal seals on the ledges?

And you'll be able to look at the actual outputs of the MAF and see if they are crazy or bugging out etc.

Protools does coding.

My 2c - Vacuum/intake leak and FRM needs a digital kick. Get a proper scantool, bimmergeeks protools is a very good bet, and itll help you figure out both. Way to early for the parts cannon approach.

Ive pulled 130 box on jackstands, its not exactly fantastic but is doable.

Your going to need a red one now...

Does your have stop/start? If not, no need (from memory at least)

Have Varta in 130 and was in the 330, many years. Does battery stuff.

I think this might be peak "trying so desperately hard to be cool" Fake plastic Wilwoods (in Manukau)

Agreed, 130 pricing is flat as sh*t at the moment, cheapest in the world (clarkson voice)... but most of the ones on trademe look ropey as. I think you could get 12k, if you found the right buyer (and they would be getting good deal). The problem is finding the buyer at the moment. As sh*t as a it sounds, you might be better off financially to part it out and sell it "stock" as a looked after example on tardme. Or, dont sell it.

Thats not how cars work, since like 1998, pretty much everything in an E87 is on CANbus. Youll need coding to tell it it has cruise control hardware etc.