Jacko

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article....jectid=10681529 About time they started actually doing something that might work! 10 points for thinking outside the square

Got a link? Had a search and all I could find was a jaycar ignition on a 2002.

Starting current may blow it maybe, running it shouldnt (most 16" to draw around 10-13A) . I wonder if the softstart will be enough to tame it...

Screw the power resistor, just found this - http://www.jaycar.co.nz/productView.asp?ID...mp;form=KEYWORD

Damnit. My youtubes is broke

Please dont Tis what it tis, nice newish 318 BMW. Its not an M3. Maybe some nice wheels and lower it a tad, dont turn it into euro trash FWIW - 318's are 2 litre 4's. 320's are 2 litre or 2.2 litre 6's.

Bit random, but im after one of these. Aparently came in few lowly spec'd E30/36/34/46's that had genuine retrofitted aircon. Little doofa that sits in the radiator hose and has two temp switches. Preferably with the temp switches if possible

Thinking option 2 is the go, Tardme 16" fan single speed fan, with a .25R Resistor 80W resistor, should, according V=I/R give me around 25-30% less rpm on low speed. Something like this http://www.davebarton.com/pdf/coolingfandiagrams.pdf with the resistor jammed in the "blue" line (last diagram) THIS is the wiring chart for an 85 323i to 91 E34 M50B25. Ian Haynes did all the hard work He also managed to answer some questions of mine, couldnt find the answers online so Ill stick em here too. Correct, the DME simply provides a ground when it wants to illuminate the lamp. You would never want to ground DME pin 65. This pin is connected to 12v when the auto trans selector is in park & neutral, but effectively not connected to anything when in any of the drive gears. Just leave it disconnected when you convert to manual. On early cars (like yours), the Tacho and fuel rate signal don't go via the C101. They go via the C104 connector (3 pin connector) under the dash. Later E30's do run these signals through the C101. You can either hook into these wires close the DME under the dash (once fitted), or extend the wires from the C104 connector to the body side of the C101 and pick them up from the E34 C101 connector. I don't think the early E30's had the road speed signal going to the ECU, so you'll need to get this from the back of the cluster, or the OBC/Cruise control (if fitted).

Just figured it out. The relay mounting bracket supplies the ground, its sneakly soldered to some of the relays terminals. Red is +12V Green goes to headunit. +12V on the green wire switches the relay, antenna goes up. OV on the green wire switches the relay back and antenna goes down

Latest (November) Classic car is an E30/BMW Bonanza too BMW Club article, and a couple of targa E30's on the cover.

Found it. E32 Alpina cars VIN start with WBAP (AP - Alpina) So neither vin is alpina, and the cars possibly dodgy. From the Alpina aussie site - "Alpina Bavarian Motorsport is in no way affiliated with Alpina GmbH Germany or BMW AG Germany" So theyre not genuine alpinas anyway, but its possible its one of theirs? - ie - http://www.alpinaaustralia.com.au/gallery/e30/alpina027.htm

Hmmm interesting. Ones LHD, Ones RHD. WBAGC420X0DC15758 - VIN - 7/89 RHD WBAGC41020DB93675 - Chassis - 9/89 LHD

Carjam'd and realoem'd - WBAGC41020DB93675 1989 735iL - LHD Jap import, its been converted Why do the chassis and VIN numbers not match?

Looks like badging, wheels and an alpina steering wheel too me? http://www.m6board.com/alpina/e32b1135.html No build tag photo, no alpina interior, no front spoiler, no "gearknob of fine wood" etc etc I know if I had one, the first photo I took would be of the build tag!

Cheers man

I wonder how many genuine Alpinas are in NZ? I remember seeing an Blue E21 in the auckland airport carpark a few years ago. Had a yarn to the owner, car was awesome, cant even remember what model it was though.

Shouldve explained that a bit better. Relay has two inputs Red and Green, and 3 soldered output wires to the aerial - Ground, Up and Down I guess. So Ive only got two wires to plug in. It must use the + output of the headunit too drive the aerial up and down, and the other wire must be ground? I guess the relay has some sorta latch and is only used to control stopping, starting and reversing the motor in a cycle.

Weird. Alpina bits on a M325? I want that gauge/vent thing bad Why would an Alpina have a tech2 kit, no alpina gauge cluster, no leather, no alpina seats, boot badge stuck on engine, and 325i badges... Genuine

Yup, same thing. BMW "approved" tuner.

Interesting badging, I wonder what other MK bits other than the badge/stickers it has. Sideskirts?

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Motors/C...n-325097789.htm http://www.mk-motorsport.de/

Im after the engine side of a C101 loom plug, off a pre 85 E30 M20 if anyone has one (rectangle plug)

Picked me up a new power aerial for the E30. Bit confused, its probably simple though. The original (aftermarket motogard) aerial has two wires, red and black. They were reversed at a connector though, red-black black-red. Aerial has never worked when ive owned it. Playing with a multimeter shows that red is earth (explains the reversed wiring...) and black seems to be dead whatever happens. New aerial has 3 orange wires too a relay, then a red and green wire. Tried plugging red-black green-red, nudda. Can someone point me too a generic wiring diagram for a 2 wire power antenna? I assume the red wire should go to the headunits power aerial output, and the green too ground? The relay is some sorta reversing thing? maybe current sensing and then reverses?

Visited HellBM. Got bits. Threw bits into collection (pile) of old BMW bits. Washed crud out of boot/bonnet/door frames. Managed to clean inside of boot/bonnet/interior all with one swoop of the hose.... Woops... good thing its sunny. Pulled out all blown dash bulbs. Drove to supercheap to find new ones. Discovered Supercheap only stock stink bulbs. Drove to Repco. Installed dash bulbs. Christmas Tree FTW! Pulled out bent/smashed/rusty aerial. Stuck multi meter on wiring. Discovered Red is ground, Black is ACC. Scratched head. Placed in the cant be f'd sorting this now basket. Fixed Digital clock! Woohoo!

From what ive read while researching M5x's is that the 323's engine is choked up so as not too make it faster than a 325/328. Cant have lesser models being quicker. With a decent exhaust (incl manifold) and intake manifold, add a dyno tune in theory it should be able to woop a stock M50B25/M52B28 Dont have any personal experience with it, just information gleemed from reading lots