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bmrmad gets the prize for spelling.....

All this talk of cat converters and piss in tanks reminds me of when a cat pissed in my car. Wasn't a tank though, it was an RX2 coupe. It still went ok, it just smelled bad. Actually, it went like stink, even before the cat pissed in it.

Bit rude telling lady525 she needs a shave.

DON'T WANNA KNOW!!! I'm poking my eyes with forks so I can't read this thread and running about with my fingers in my ears yelling so no one can read them to me. HAPPY PLACE! HAPPY PLACE! HAPPY PLACE!

You've gotta take a look at Ray's E30 Touring........ nice, and for sale.

Anybody got a better than standard cam buried in their workshop they're keen to sell? I'm building up another head for my 2.7 and looking for perhaps a 272 or thereabouts.

Primera P10. Fits like a glove.

Don't worry about side skirts, get yourself one of these!

Definitely heard the shrieking she-devil. I was going south, at about 9:30 Sunday morning. It made the hair stand up on the back of my neck, like being left alone in a room with the mother in law. By the way, I read in the local rag tonight that the cops stopped some guy on Saturday night who had somehow gone north through the south tunnel....... Still feel safe on the road?

Next time you go through the new tunnels north of Orewa, take a look up at the ceiling. There's speakers all the way along the roof. So if you were to go through there, say, on a Sunday morning when the road was pretty much empty, in, perhaps something like, maybe an e30 convertible, and if you were to start in slow then kind of ring it out in second and third just enjoying the beautiful wave of BMW noise bouncing off the tunnel sides you might find that as you neared the end of the tunnel, barely audible over the resonance of the 2.7 you might be just able to make out the shrill shriek of some woman sitting somewhere in a control centre yelling at you through those overhead speakers "SLOW DOWN!" Weird huh? And how do you get a job like that anyhow? "Welcome to Civil Service. Your job is to yell at convertibles going through the tunnel."

Off topic, but I was under the impression that no more e36's were able to be registered now if they weren't done before last year some time due to changes in the rules? Can someone enlighten me?

It seems like everybody's doing it. I too have installed the wiggly stick in my e30 just a few weeks ago, at the same time as the 2.7 went in. Out with the Nanna trans and in with the 260. Yeehah!

I guess my one on Trademe will be a bargain then....Trademe

A friend booked the track for the day - does it every year - and invites a few friends to run what they brung. About 8 guys, 2 Ducatti MotoGP bikes, a couple of GSXR's, an RS1 and such like, an Alfa 156 (my son) a 307kw Holden GTS, a Jag XKR, and me! It's a private deal, so I guess some of the normal regulations don't apply.

Yeah, a lot of fun for sure. You sure get an appreciation for how fast you guys are pedalling your 318's and 320's to turn in the kind of lap times you do. The convertible is definitely not the lightest of the e30's, and it shows on the back straight and trying to pull it up at the hairpin. Still fun though...and it feels faster with no roof.

....I wasn't.

I used to have an air bag in the passenger seat, but now I make her walk.

Well, allow me to be the first to report on the motorway extension and tunnel. Came down this morning on my way to Puke, about 8:00, no traffic, tunnel is pretty short,but sounds great with the roof down on the 'vert. Opportunist Plod was there already "saving lives" with a radar gun and a ticket book. Then I came home again at about 2:00. The road was gridlocked solid. Question: Who is the d*ck head who thought it would be a great idea to open the road on the busiest traffic weekend in the year for that particular stretch of road between Albany and Warkworth with a "no tolls today" day? Every freakin Flanders family in the country decided to load little Nigel and Samantha in the back of the family wagon, and go have a look at the new road! It's a road, people! It is black with a white line, and it has a couple of bridges. Oh, and there's a tunnel. If your kids need to see a tunnel, take them for a drive and get them to close their eyes for a few seconds. Or perhaps take them for a drive when it's dark! It's pretty much the same! Oh, and it doesn't sound any good in your Enima. Surely this would have been the weekend when the geniuses who make all the really big decisions should have charged 5 bucks instead of 2, to DISCOURAGE every freakin Chariot and Previa and whatever else from going for a drive to look at a freakin road. Go take a look on Thursday. Or Tuesday night. After all the traffic from people who just want to get home, or away to their bach at Omaha, or whatever, have done that. And after they've all gone back to work next week. The road will still be there. So I went the old slow way around, round the goat track that up until last night was SH1 through Hatfields and Waiwera. And it was gridlocked. And the passing lane has come to a standstill, so the decent, considerate drivers just form a line and wait in a queue, except for the dip sticks wearing their floppy sunhats and listening to the Wiggles who see an empty passing lane and think that it's ok for them to race up it and try to push in at the top, further congesting traffic. So the new road? It's fine. But the inevitable result will simply be that the congestion that brought traffic to a standstill around Orewa will now bring it to a standstill around Puhoi. Unless someone has the kahoonies to get the next bit built ASAP - right up to and past Warkworth. But of course that won't happen. We'll have several years of Govt depts applying to Govt depts for consents and being stalled every step of the way by consultants and sandel wearing bearded Ones. And their spineless husbands. Just like this particular stretch was stalled for a couple of years by an objection form a wierdo in Coromandel who was concerned about frogs. Anywhere else they'd feed the frogs to the wierdos then make them dig the freekin road by hand. But it would get done. Aah well, Puke was great, good to meet some of you guys. See you again sometime if I can be shagged attempting to drive on our pitiful motorway network. I feel a bit better now.......

If there's no air con specialists around your way I know some of the auto electricians do system re-gassing.

I'm doing it tomorrow on the way to Pukekohe. Yeehah! The new 2.7 ringing out the tunnel!

It say "95 petroleum the sauce of life surging through the vein of your super outdoor machine. Where sauce meets pressure and electric spark you live the fun of the outdoors in your machine on the road of glee." Well, probably something like that. Actually, I have no idea.

I bought a clutch master cylinder for my e30 on Tuesday from Trade Parts (now called Exeddy or something) in Wairau Rd and it cost me the grand total of about 80 bucks including GST. Pretty good deal I thought.

I dunno, a holden that's pretty good for doing skids must be pretty attractive? Anyone interested in swapping their classic e30 for an old holden that does good skids? Come on now, ...one at a time.......