Jacko

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

Hell yes, its more worthy than the the last year of nz performance car cover cars added up.

Im gonna be ordering a set this weekend, sorry dubman need them in my hands before December But I wont need the sway bar bushes (e30), so if anyone wants a set of sway bar bushes (sport 90 ShA) lemme know what diameter you want, before I order, and you can have em for $50. Ill let ya know the shipping time (EMS) too

Its a resistor. Throw it in bin Edit - ^ Haha Great minds Glenn. http://qcwo.com/technicaldomain/iat-resist...l-chips#more-64

Did I win? Aint got a PM back? But just found out I get a sweeeet discount on new ones anyway

PM'd

if tcbaur power only wants the firewall aft section, Ill take the firewall fwd section of the cable

Welcome to the world of real cars where you dont need grass to have fun, or at least to keep ya gearbox in one piece

Lots of E30/28/36/34's very crossed up. A bit painful watching the two M3's have a fender bender.

Covering a big lardass SUV in carbon fibre bits is like watching a fat chick drink diet coke. Engine rocks. Ultimate remuera tractor Fails hard.