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So these are number 5 in the diagram? If so, ill take a pair. Can pick up.

The last thing i priced up at a dealer shocked me at how reasonable it was.... i just find it a pain having to call them to check availability then having to sort out picking it up. Rather buy online (where itll tell me availability) and get it shipped to work. Damn technology has made me lazy!

yeah cheers, idea is to replace cats with resonators. Either way its gotta be better than the peashooter i have. tempted to just get an exhaust place to knock up a nice 2.5" single pipe system.

As per title, im after a 328i twin pipe exhaust (or an aftermarket system) to replace my single pipe 323i coupe one. Needs to be from the headers back (not including the headers/manifolds themselves). Must be in usable condition, dont care if the cats are stuffed, will be removing them anyway. Im in wellington and would prefer local as i imagine shipping being a pain for a large item like this. Will consider getting it shipped depending on cost. Anyone got one?

Went past a VERY unhappy looking Silver E36 coupe on ACS wheels that had been involved in a pretty bad accident just north of Temuka. Looks like it clipped the back of a bus and went into a field. Easily a write off, but appears the occupants got out ok (doors still opened). Hope its no one from here, and hope theyre alright.

Subarus have O2 sensors....

WANT! oh so much.... cant afford and auck is too far away Gl with the sale, hope it goes to someone that will look after it.

Not much of an update. Just moved, so FINALLY have a garage i can use. So excited! and also did this, Hoping to stop by the dealer tomorrow and grab an oil filter so i can do the oil change it desperately desires on sunday. After that, its shifter bushings, and a decent cut/polish/wax.

Mine has delayed wipe, constant slow wipe, and "violently launch the water off the windscreen" fast constant.

That was an AWESOME car. Remember seeing it at turners and going "holy sh*t!" at both the awesomeness and the damage. Wish i was into bimmers back then, would've bought it myself.

Im already running my conversion on the auto ecu. Theres a couple of small things like the revs holding between gears etc that are known issues, if it was easy to recode then i would do it. Otherwise its not worth the effort when the car is already awesome as it is.

Could you just swap the whole ECU out for a factory manual one? All this recoding thing sounds like a load of arse and a lot of effort, for gains that thus far arent proven. If it was just a matter of rocking into somewhere, they load a new coding on the ecu and away you go, i'd be keen (but it doesnt appear to be that easy?)

Heard good things about arrowwheels.co.nz up there in auck.

IIRC the bolts need to go through plates on the other side of the floor?

my 323i had the jatco jerk too.... at 70,000k. I heard it depends on how much start/stop traffic the car was used in, in japan (1st-2nd-1st changes). Ripped the box out and got it converted to manual, best thing you can do to the car if its automagic imo! In terms of things to look out for, as mentioned worn wishbone bushes and ball joints are very common, as are sagging headlinings and loose door trims. The later cars are much better put together though.

i think he was using that trademe photo as an example of the style...?

Only issue i had was wheel spin going up my hill and doing a hill start at the intersection, on a hill in snow with some dimwit atshole stopped right up my ass. Going up the hill when i got wheel spin i just kept my foot in it, feathering throttle (to keep revs high but not bouncing on the limiter). Singlespinner means it just cut through the snow with one tire and went on its way untill it got enough grip to chop second. Wouldnt do it with an LSD though, could get very hairy. That hillstart was a c**t though. Couldnt risk slipping backwards (into the front of the twat very close behind), so had to limit any wheelspin off the line. Did it without issue, but still made me nervous. Glad the snow is gone (for now) tbh

tbh, imo there is very little if any need to bother doing a recode. Other than the idle being a little higher than a factory manual car, most people would never notice. After the idle valve clean, and with the lightweight flywheel the rev holding thing is barely noticeable.

my 323i E36 conversion holds revs a little bit before dropping. Ive just gotten used to it, in saying that i also have a M20 flywheel, and i imagine the dual mass would be terrible at holding revs anyway. Cleaning my idle controller made a big difference too. I have bulb removed, trans comp still in place.

its shocking. Now im accountable for what my stupid flatmates do on the interwebs.... Thanks to the politicians that dont even remotely understand those personal computational devices, or the interwebnets.

Going up and down the hills in johnsonville on the way home was damn near terrifying in the E36... not something im keen on doing again in a hurry. Although it was kinda awesome wheel spinning my way up hills at 1/4 throttle... too much torque at low RPM damnit!

Oh what i would give to drive a real F40

Pretty good over here in Johnsonville

Yup, knew my E36 was missing something.... a dirty great v8!

works fine for me...?