Jacko

I think ill go have a poke around this one this arvo - https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/bmw/other/listing/3168916290 I only want bits of it though

I think this lives by me somewhere, its definitely head turning.

36mm 32mm 28mm on E82 135 fronts (6 pot) , 42mm e82 135 rear (2 pot)

You got it, the good thing the 135i calipers is there is sh*t loads of pad options. The weights must be a harmonic resonance thing, they are big chunks of steel bolted to the aluminium caliper. I didnt bother weighing them, probably similar to stock brakes though for any meaningful purposes in unsprung weight - Steel Vs Ali, and the 135 rotor is two piece with aluminium hat. The the other option for the real BBK fanbois is to run E82 135 calipers up front, on adapters with E46 M3 CSL rotors. FBBK.

FWIW, I suspect my rebuild of the 135i calipers I got cheap ($800?) cost more than just buying BMW Performance kit new... could do a cheaper rebuild than what I did in saying that.

The coding bit is piss easy, takes about 5min, you dont actually need to code them but BMW did the work to get the brake balance and feel right... so why not. The easiest plug and play is E82 135 calipers, these are the big banana brakes on my car. They bolt straight on front and rear, calipers are big but old school design (at least in the front)... only real downside from them is having to remove the caliper to change pads on the front, rears are more moden. Think the caliper was share with a few porsche models. The front rotors are same as 135, the rear are specific to the BMW performance 130 kit, but are available at sane prices (brembo) if you shop around, think I paid $120 a rotor slotted/dimpled nice rotors. Rotors for front and rear are also available from DBA so easy to get. Technically, you dont need a cert for this option. The other option for shiny big monoblock calipers is F20 M135, fronts are bolt, however the rears require some finnicking to make fit as (from memory) use E39 M5 rear disks that are modified and trimmed pads. More modern caliper, but comes with more bullshittery as was never a stock 130 option (whereas the BMW performance option is just painted up 135 brakes) Third option, which would be nice, but difficult logistically, is F20 M135i front calipers and rotors and E82 135 rear calipers with BMWP 130 rear rotors. 335i/d brakes are also an option, but are not monoblocks and are big single pot and not shiny. Arguably good option if making a cheap track car, but if cheap track car is the goal best option is probably race pads and rotors on stock calipers.... the shiney monoblocks are 90% wank factor Suspect the fronts are bolt on, not sure about the rears.

Gah, c**ts. Worst thing is cleaning out the neverending bits of glass out of everything.

Are they B30s? or B25?

Did some interneting, found a guide on how to screw with kombi using ediabas and hexadecimals and flick the mpg gauge into a oil temp gauge (when I want to make my oil temp gauge stop being an mpg gauge :D) ... then found this little program - Perfekt Toolbox. Works great! (the numbers here are what to plug in if anyone in the future is reading this) https://www.drive2.com/l/515881510977405074/ I now have a working oil temp gauge, that even shows oil temp. Now to solve the speedo, going from 260kmh to 280kmh on the lci has made it go a bit out of whack calibration wise (only starts getting bad above 140kmh)

Is it OK? I had Ultra racing braces on my E30 and they were made of some sorta cheese based alloy (it was softer than 6061T3), I'm hoping they've improved.

Saw this in supermarket carpark, driver let me into traffic so high 5, but it looks to be on M3 style 220s. Looks good, fitments pretty aggressive and I couldn't see the wheels to closely. I wonder if its 2 sets of fronts? (19x8.5 ET29) or replicas with different offset to the BMW 19x8.5 ET29 / 19x9.5 ET23s? @qube?

Quick show of hands of who would be interested in set of N52B30 RHD headers, will be nicely made, budget couple of k. Seeing if its worthy of convincing fabricator to make a jig off of mine.

Looks good in profile, but front and back look like a depressed angry pokemon.

Damn.... Whats more entertaining S65 or the cummins?

http://www.pandsauto.co.nz/ - these guys are good, personally Id take it here or hellbm. Have seen some sh*t work out of some of the others.

Its just Mdecoder being a potato... its commonly broken. VIN is correct. 130s are epic little cars, good choice, and its got all the right options! BMWP are still available, all old stock and sporadically (mostly UK BMW dealers). If on faceballs jump on "BMW 130 Owners Unite" as stuff occasionally pops up there. BMWP is nice and shiny, but often overpriced and a lot of the aftermarket stuff is actually better to be fair

http://www.storm-motorwerks.com/interior/bmw/shift_knobs_v4/ - These are great, like BMWP but for grown men.

Verts have hoods

realoem.com and fcpeuro.com are your friends.

I do not need two 130s. I do not need two 130s. I do not need two 130s.

Did basic service today, and as an experiment left the lid off the airbox... took it for a blat. Epic induction noises , noticeable resonant howl when second vanos stage opens up. Roughly same intake temps when moving, circa 4 degree delta over ambient, but expectably spikes up quickly when stopped.

Gah.... doesnt work... well.. it does... but in unexpected ways. My oil temp gauge is now a vacuum/fuel efficiency gauge (like on prefl 330s ). Whats weird is that it responds to oil temp gauge commands from coding, like driving it to half way and sweeps. This is going to take some coding. @promo any ideas?

I wouldnt buy anything from mag and turbo, they are clowns... pretty sure their business model is selling finance.

Dog helped me wash the dust off it....

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