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Been doing my sums on importing boxes, keeping an eye out etc. Can be done reasonably cheaply if your on to it and bide your time. Thought about a bit of cut and paste with auto bellhousing myself, just not sure how complex it would be? I'll be watching this thread with interest: Blown Manual M62 E21. Awesome!

Mint. What Box are you using?

Correct. The quoted Blog Post was written by Martyn 'Bomber' Bradbury who as one of the staunchest left wing bloggers around will take any opportunity at all to discredit the John Key lead National Government. Usually however (as in this case) All his posts do is serve to highlight how f**kin lame his spin is on any given situation. His politics are questionable at best.

Firebirds. About the only car i wonder what drugs i was on. otherwise, everything that ever was awesome always will be.

Congrats mate. Doing the same myself in 5 weeks. Hope it all goes smoothly for ya!

Once of my Favourite working concepts of all time. Big Engine+Little car always = Awesome!

But then People would most likely confuse it for something with two more cylinders. Yes.

Well Mint. Almost identical colour scheme to my DD Subaru. Much love!

Saw that red touring today too, was waiting for yum cha in tory st.

That's ridiculous. a Well sorted M325i can still fetch 8k and beyond. Yeah, it's the "you may also be interested in..." that keeps on nailing me lol.

Somebody bring this in? Please? http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1988-E30-BMW-ALPINA-...530145392520317

Traction is Overrated.

Weakest point about the V8's Is the recirc ball steering setup they have (imo). They lack a lot of feel and response in comparison to a lot of well set up cars running a rack. Grow some nuts though and they are a surprisingly capable car even on tight back roads.

Yeah, part of me quietly thinks its a good thing, as it will force my A in to G. 3.46 looks like it would be the go, how useable are 1st and 2nd with that setup?

Yeah, if you want to keep it bmw. Dont see why you couldnt mate a T5 or whatever with adapter plate/custom bellhousing etc. But tbh, cost and hassle its probs just as easy to import. Hmm, thats not too bad, though a 6th cog would be nice for those long trips. Got a couple of months to think about it and research at least.

Big loud bearing whine, slippage, and no ability to hold gear until i got the trans program error and it went into limp mode. Once in limp mode it just seemed to hold the same gear. was able to drive it the 52 k's home like that haha! Was always going to make it manual, this just shifted things forward a bit. Indeed it will brent. out of interest, what ratio diff do you have and what kind of revs you pull @ 100 in 5th? Ideally would like a 6 speed, but open to 5.

The transmission lunched itself today. Will be parking the car up realistically for the next 6 months whilst i try and find a 6 speed in good condition for the right coin. Can't do anything till after my wedding in march, otherwise i'd be on the blower to the states/uk now lol.

My E34 has real wood.

This. I clay mine every 6 months just because it feels awesome to have such smooth paint.

depending on spring rates, i would expect it to have a harsher ride. Pretty much apart from driveway scrape, thats pretty much the only negative i can think of.

Easy as to fix. took me 10 min last time: http://www.nmia.com/~dgnrg/page_33.htm

Cosworth designed AND built the head on the 2.3. Your right in that they were never officially called cosworths, but that hasnt stopped most people calling them that since their inception.

Gorgeous car in spectacular condition!

^^^ Looks tuff as. Washed it. Fixed a pesky coolant leak.

You think that's cheap, check this out: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1997-BMW-540I-TOURIN...=item2c59f13c4c 2,500.00 GBP = 5,115.16 NZD Someone please buy it and ship it here!