Jacko

I wonder what the cost is of pre formed concrete slab side buildings at that scale? 300m2 is more like a factory than a shed

200,000+km without a spare and no rft.... call me crazy but never been stranded (and I go into the wops)

So whats the verdict?

I dont think many of the Police would disagree with anything in this thread...

Cant find the alignment sheet I have, have so many receipts its a bit of needle haystack situation (never add it up...), but FWIW what mine runs is as much front end camber as possible, from memory its 1.6, the rest is E92 M3.

Thats the one, FWIW the key is circled here, the other flavour has the key offset to the side.

I have 4 bosch second hand coils packs here, all work (removed for trouble shooting 330, wasnt them), can you take a pic of what plug style they are (there are two, and when they swapped style over is murky) and I can send you these for a box of beers if you want em. The ones I have have the keyway on the bottom centre of the triangle.

Meyle make consistently good sh*t, the Meyle HD stuff is consistently extra extra good.

P&S must be getting good at doing M3 specs on 130s Ill have the alignment sheet somewhere, will dig it out tomorrow.

On oil filters - Go Mahle or genuine, theyre mint. The mann ones are average, the repco ones are horrific piles of sh*t that look like stuff kids made with a hot glue gun. I order packs of a few Mahle ones at a time from FCP.

It runs on vacuum, so no vacuum (ie engines not running) it'll be open. Common mod is to disconnect it and stick a golf tee in the hole to stop the vacuum leak, makes it sound tougher at low load

No choke or ignition advance lever for the magnetos either!

Next week, the can opener... no need to smash cans with rocks anymore!

Thats a HUGE shed!

Did he mention anything about resetting the adaptations? If its detonating, the DME is going to be pulling timing to stop itself exploding, even if you put 98 in it now its still going to have retarded timing as its expecting sh*t gas. Even on my stock map, car is not happy on less than 98 with the DME adapted to 98, I only run 98.

Ahhha, a code! That'll make it easier. Valvetronic for the most part is pretty reliable, considering how complex it is, you get 12 ITBs Kinda sad that BMW didnt stick with it, is a cool idea (just expensive)

Haha its fun aye, think mine had something silly like 20mm toe out on the front initially. Point it at corner and it wants to suck itself into the kerb You going for E9x M3 numbers on the alignment?

Odd that its not throwing a code, if it is ignition they are normally pretty good at picking it up. Definitely use a ISTA etc and not something that just does generic OBD2 codes as BMW use their own for the ignition stuff. Intakes not full of oil? My 330 with the dead CCV behaved similarly when intake sensors got soaked, and threw no codes. If its a silver top, check that the rocker covers not corroded out and coils are arcing straight through, the other common thing is a leaking valvetronic motor seal that dumps oil down the tubes for 3 & 4.

Awesome, you'll like the results. I found it took me a few minutes to get use to the new pointy front end.

There is a big ass socket thing for getting them off, supercheap etc sell em. I have a couple if you want one.

Pretty much all the E8/9 generation have runflats, but two different systems for telling Karen the tyres flat.

This is a GS6-37BZ as in the 130, which is supposed to run the MT2 life time fill GL4 nonsense. Mine just has 75w90 progear, there is a GL4 progear product as well. Online downside ive seen is its pretty clunky for the first few minutes on real cold mornings.

Switching to 75w90 penrite progear on my SMF conversion solved the noises when the stock viscosity got warm (with a spring centre clutch)

Found something similar the other day, 128s (the US market N52B30 coupe) uses actual pressure sensors, makes ya wonder why BMW developed two systems for two different markets considering so much of the parts are similar.