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who needs skids when you have launch control? DCT 1 - 6SPD 0

Gorgeous, all of them. Although, i do have to say i think i prefer the E31 body in dark colors rather than light.

Time to lock thread and throw away the key? Once again the "manual is superior to everything else" brigade has ruined a thread.

3pedals does not maketh race car driver.

i disagree with this. a manual isnt going to make you a better race driver. If you dont know lines, corners or which gear to be in, you'd still be sh*t on a track even in a manual. Dont get me wrong, im all for a decent manual with a clutch, but i dont buy into having one instantly making you superman.

You shouldnt be "learning" the clutch in an M3 anyway IMO. I love dual clutch boxes, think they are the best thing since sliced bread and beat out a manual clutch any day. Ive been there done that to driving a manual daily in rush hour traffic. Give me a clutchless anything for that trip, any day.

oh but have you not heard? UK import corrosion is a myth.

LMAO and thats not even the worst part. The worst part is that the chain isnt on the front of the engine like normal, its on the rear, against the firewall.

Erm, is the plate on that corolla, "Violate"?

i use http://www.adobe.com/nz/products/premiere-elements.html I have it for other videos too, but its easy to use when i edit my dashcam videos.

never replaced the waterpump in any of the cars i did it on, and it was perfectly fine. Same with a lot of other people out there, its a common way of cracking the nut. its a swift sharp tap on the end of the spanner with a hammer, not bloody belting on it repeatedly.

Bold claim, guess im lucky with a 3 for 3 success rate with my technique.

also remember its reverse threaded.

ive had good experience doing the above. A swift whack of a hammer to the spanner usually cracks it.

i think i hear what you mean in the second of the new tensioner videos (the one with the link), its especially noticeable as you decelerate near the end. Im sure i also hear it in the first one too, just not as loud or as much, but the test conditions in that video arent the same (revs arent as high or held as long). If you can do the same conditions as that last video for the old tensioner, i think you will hear it there too. My gearbox had a whine that sounded like that in first gear, and apparently its fairly common in 3.0s.

its called driving to the conditions, he clearly wasnt >_< Going to go back to the same color, or change it up?

i had a quick listen before i went off to work, and ill have another listen after work but from what i heard, i didnt hear anything abnormal? Could be my speakers, so ill try some earphones tonight.

argh, thats some brutal curbing.

Likely it'd be an E46 if i went M3 again. Would love an M5 but they are still mental dollars.

looks good, really like the height and wheels, suits it well. Welcome.

started craving M3 ownership again. im f**ked.

i did wonder when i did mine, why BMW chose to use that wee circuit board on the solenoids rather than just hard wiring them. Seemed a bit redundant really.

id be inclined to disassemble it as per the link you posted earlier, and reassemble and see if the tensioner operates better then. Could be something as simple as that circlip being slightly out of place. http://www.bayareamotorsport.com/tensioner.html

actually, does anyone have another B32 tensioner you could try? Plenty of googling has revealed a couple of other people with whine after doing tensioner (albeit on different BMW engines, but same theory). One of them said it went away after a drive (eek, risky) and the other said it went away when they tried another replacement tensioner. is it possible yours is faulty and is creating too much tension? Alternatively if you havent already, try taking your B32 tension apart, thoroughly cleaning everything and reassembling? might now be complete together correctly?

as you know i did the B32 tensioner to mine. Replaced the 210,000km original one. Silent as a dead mouse. how much wear/scoring is there on the end of the old tensioner piston?