cainchapman

Welcome Mal & Annie. The car club is a great place to start. For the $65 you get 10% off parts from BMW dealers, a quarterly magazine and reduced $$ entry to events (the ones that actually cost). We'll look forward to meeting you sometime. Cain

Sweet as Andrew. You get a roll cage fitted to it and I'll race too. I think I could hold off the odd 320.

I doubt that many of the Southern cars (M3's and Super Tourers) would travel North for a couple of Sprint races in a week-end. As Andrew has pointed out, the fast cars will lap Pukekohe in 59sec to 64sec. I'd bet the standard class will need a sun-dial to take laptimes. Inexperienced drivers not watching could cause a massive amount of damage to valuable cars. Hence the Skope rules of needing to race 3 times at Ruapuna in the year to qualify as a starter. But that kind of rule would be prohibitive for Southerners also. I'll be showing up to see how the season runs. I'm really looking forward to seeing it.

You'd like to race my old floaty boat then? Personally, I'd stick with the 3 series. The smallest E34 motor I'd go with is the 3.5 litre. Unless you do a fair bit of open raod touring and then the 5 series is a great car.

It is only North Island based though isn't it Conrad?

Nice!!

South Africa have a bi-lingual national Anthem

I like both the Blue and McLaren Orange schemes. Well done Andrew (and helpers)

No relation of ours!

I'd disagree with the Haka being an anthem. Pokarekare ana would be my 2nd choice as an NZ song. I'd also like to point out that the Maori are no more indigenous to NZ than the English. They came here by boat also. Te Rauparaha's Haka definitely has NZ origins, however the wardance (Haka) does not as a concept.

Drinking Capuccino after lunchtime is culturally insensitive (ask any Italian), chicks running with the Bulls is also, and yet I saw plenty of Kiwi's and Aussies doing it with me. People in glass houses..... I'm sure they didn't mean to offend anyone. This topic has received more discussion on this site, than the Southpark Episode with the Virgin Mary. Which one is in worse taste?

Glad you told me it was meant to be a Haka. I'd say it is just a crap ad. I'm not inspired to buy the car. Are you saying I shouldn't sing "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" because I'm not English or a Slave? The Haka is not a NZ thing, it is a Pacific thing. The Samoans, Tongans etc all have their own. So we can't get pissed off. I'd be annoyed with the poor performance of it though.

*sic, my Mum can beat up your Dad!

The 540LE (officially our car) is the top spec 540i with M5 running gear(EDC, Turbine mags), but with the Cruise control, Sport seats, ASC+T. Little extras like the illuminating Gear knob (M5), Memory seats (honestly couldn't comment on the standard iS), No climate control. 4 Spoke M stitched wheel. And as you know Paul, only 70 RHD drive models built to this spec. I'd need to park a normal iS next to ours to spot the complete set of differences.

You are kidding! Currently the price of a 1994 540iS is at $10,500 vs less than half the car at more!! If it was an M3 (which Dakar Yellow is the colour of), then I could understand it. A 320i AUTO. Keep taking the drugs.

That steering wheel is not the M (4 spoke) one. It's the same as Paul's 535 on (off memory). Can't remember one like that before. Nicer looking wheels than the one in Wellington. Mate, they are some km's.

Cool, haven't seen that one before. Never would have come with 16 inch wheels. The interior is correct for the iS. Still like the Black wood inserts better. It's low k's, but missing the extras the LE has. I don't think the Standard iS ever came with Throwing Stars. Can someone keep an eye on it and let me know what it goes for. Cheers

Call Robin at Torque Performance, as they have a dyno day once a month for $50 for 2WD. A little extra will get the Air/Fuel ratio done too. Cheers and Welcome

It is hard to charge $1000 + dollars for a solution like that. Also, it's power output is far higher than you will get from any silicon device.I didn't say you couldn't use the glass. I was just using the most basic components, if you'd like to add extra cost to your jammer. Go for it. However, more components, the lower the MTBF. As you highlighted in one of your earlier posts. There is some component of non-visible light in the radar detector/jammers. So plastic would make a difference. Every tried to look through the rear window of a Z3 these days? It's like looking through a glass of trim milk. If you don't think that effects the transmission on light, you are wrong. You have highlighted a major advantage of driving a small vehicle and one that is a good defense against being pinged by the cops. All the relected signals, need to be deciphered. So, if you are travelling in front of something much bigger than you (i.e. a Truck), then the police need to be closer to get a definitive lock on you.

Someone you know is one of the best RF Engineers in the world, and he says it's true. Who am I to argue?

The most basic system you can build... Get an old round headlight (like my Morris Minor had), take the reflective dish, fit a spark plug, where the bulb used to go. Wire this into your spark system. It will blind pretty much anything on the market. Highly illegal, but extremely effective. Hard to hide, when the cops pull you over too.

Tim's Route gets my vote. Or you can just skirt around Taupo on the west and come out at Tokoroa.

I'm not going to comment on whether they work or not. However, if it is able of jamming a Police device. It has the potential to get you in trouble. You can be charged under the Radio Frequencies act, as the Police have control of those bands. You are not allowed to transmit on them. Detectors, just like scanners are legal to have, as they are a passive device. However, acting on any information received from them is illegal use of that same frequency. i.e, you are tapping along SH1 at 115, your detector goes off (like rxsumo says too late now) and you slam on your brakes and scrub off speed. The can ping you under the RF act. How likely this is, well how does he feel on the day. And most Cops probably don't understand the law. Most don't understand the limitations of their equipment anyway. They will struggle to ticket you in the rain or fog (unless right on top of you). A detector will help here or after dark as they'll will be pinging cars as they travel along. The spill of beam is much lower than previous models, so again, they'd need to be close. If you are going to buy one. Look at the ones NZ Autocar have tested, their tests are pretty good and well documented. As the best ones are $1000. I can pay a lot of fines with that. Being aware of your surroundings is a much better approach.

Happy Birthday Carl. I'll have a beer for you. You old porn star! :pimp:

I thought they put the SE tag on the E39 personally. I've been wrong before. The A is for Auto. The SE for Special Edition (in theory). So it should have some extra bits over the standard 535. I couldn't tell you what. I'm sure Brent or Paul can. 280hp, no way. Not without a lot of work on the motor. 200ish. Congratulations.