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Apparently not, I thought the same (and that water will get in), completely reversible if its all crap though... the stock cowl panel definitely weighs a crap load and gets in the way.

Just ordered this setup, fingers crossed it fits E87. Ditch the heavy ass cowl panel without having the engine loom dangling over rocker cover. https://www.turnermotorsport.com/p-1809115-turner-e9x-cowl-delete-kit/

First thing to look at when buying a used car - does it have shitty chinese tyres... it pretty much invariably comes with shitty half pie maintenance performed by supercheaps finest techs. There will be exceptions to that, but the rule is 99.9% solid.

$110 a corner tyres... "well maintained"...

Thats how you give away a 130i....

My house is next to entrance to a walkway, Level 4 results in a literal traffic jam of cars trying to find a park to go for a walk with 300 other people... its insane. Its like watching ants following each other. Lets hope vaccination rates improve, otherwise our hospitals are going to explode.

I got 2 just in case... not to sure on total capacity of system, less than 2 quarts

CHF11S and coolant all the way from the land of freedom in 6 days via fedex (At level 4)

I bought the whole superpro kit for my car which included these, but I went non adjustable M3 front arms so these werent needed. Im not sure on how much geometry can change with these Vs M3 units, it may actually be more than M3. be curious to see how the front end changes with PU bushes Vs M3 too. If we stay in lockdown I have a set of spare stock arms I might put them into and see as a little project.

Bump, found these in the bits box still....

Much more level 4 and Im going to have mirror finished primer.

In the style of singer, but now with electric supercharger and turbo hybrid setup (presumably its now an EV and tax breaks 😛 ) . This thing is pretty much perfect....

Yeah it ships fine, ive got 3 of those kits through FCP now with no issues. Latest order from FCP has PS fluid in it, and that appears to be fine to ship too (so far anyway)

No worries, you'll need a little torque wrench for the ali bolts (10Nm + 90 degrees), a battery charger and ideally something to trigger the bleed cycle (ISTA/Protools etc, you can also do it manually but). Its not a bad job, just a bit messy and fiddly, dropping the front antiroll bar etc to help with access makes a big difference.

Nice lockdown Wx so mandatory make it f**ken shiney exercise... There is noticeably less sh*t stuck to back of car, that Maxton rear lip does a thing!

This is the right kit for your car - https://www.fcpeuro.com/products/bmw-water-pump-replacement-kit-n51-n52-n52n-oem-11517586925kit https://www.realoem.com/bmw/enUS/showparts?id=UD52-EUR-10-2007-E87N-BMW-130i&diagId=11_3754 I have yet to be charged GST on arrival on stuff from FCP with FEDEX, with the change in GST legislation more stuff seems to be coming through than used to without being stung by tax man (its like they assume all the sellers are applying it now....). Most FEDEX orders seems to be going Honolulu-Aussie-NZ at the moment, so takes roughly 7 days to arrive Vs the 3ish pre-rona.

Thats listed as kit for E70 X5 N52? Whats your VIN?

Dont put an ebay waterpump in it , get a pierburg and decent thermostat and same time. Make sure you get the ali bolts and some BMW coolant too, FCP do a kit of the whole lot for good price. https://www.fcpeuro.com/products/bmw-water-pump-replacement-kit-n51-n52-n52n-oem-11517586925kit

Digging the interior on this, Im going to get me one of those steering wheels... when I have a spare $1600usd floating around

And plastic, they have a good one welding cranks on 4 pot lada engines end to end as well, think it got up to a straight 12

Garage54 is great! The which way will pistons fly out of lada engine at 10k rpm video is scienceAF

Less than 100k apparently, its had the rocker gasket done in the past with some sorta of goop (reminds me of hylomar) though and the goop that was on the inside went kinda brittle and flaky, I suspect that the globs are the remains of that combined with BMW scheduled oil changes. This is a bad one

Has anyone looked into or familiar with DME tuning? Ive done a bit of hunting etc but got nowhere on tweaking MSV70s.. Im half tempted to try clone my DME and then screw with it... whats the worst that could happen . There are services like https://www.bimmerlabs.com/ but they seem dead, Ive sent them a few emails but got nothing back. Which kind of leaves the only tuning options I have being https://stagefp.com/