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Hey ingus, Yeah it takes awhile for them to approve your membership. maybe as long as a week??? Slow buggers!

Will get some. Its bright orange (factory colour) with faded areas (gay) steelies, and a 1" exhaust lol 1000cc (also gay) manual (sweet!) and goes pretty good. White vinyl interior - mint. Got a coby and a dumpy and getting that welded up soon. Will be perfect for her - small, not that fast but sweet summer cruiser. She only uses it during uni holidays up here in Paihia. Her b/f has a mazda 323 wagon, custom paint, mazspeed LSD, mazda bongo 'box with rx-7 bellhousing onto a 12a bridgey (think a 12a, not 13b, but can't remember for sure cos he changed his mind so often, but hes running webers, so guessing 12a) which is being built at the moment by some mazda performance place in silverdale (should be here soon). Full coil-overs all round, on wide modgies with a stretched tyre. We were hoping the mazda stud pattern was the same so we could rock his old wheels (spitfires) but the mazda is 108 and they've already been drilled out to that. Here's a pic from the web of a car a similar colour, but with the older round lights - hers is an F-II model.

Will get back to you after the weekend. Having a few beers with my sister and nutting things out. Trying to get hold of Keith for some springs otherwise will just get some kings, and have the exhaust side of things all sorted. Her b/f wants to put a 10A in it. I told him to go right ahead lol. He went quiet after that.

For my sister's Datsun. Something like these maybe or some modgies, etc. As long as they are not bent, would be willing to look at some that require some tidying up, but preferrably ready to go. Keep it under $500 too. Found a couple of sets on TM, but nothing that gets the blood really pumping yet.

I paid more for my RB reps! Then again, they were new, and rare-as-sh*t e30 fitment. Still a steal. Bet you thought I was going to have a go anyway. Well I'm not, so there!

Hot is my bet. nice work Martyyn. I don't need to tell you pics are compulsory once you get it back.

Bumper will fit no prob. Rest of the kit will depend on what kit it is.

I agree with you Westy, I think he's related to Gus. Even the names are similar!

Couple of things can wear out which affect your suspension geometry, feedback, ride quality, and thus overall handling. The bearings wear out, and the rubbers do to. I havn't had a wheel alignment since I put mine in last week, but I'm expecting it to be better than I've been able to get in the past. The old ones had sagged a good 10mm from un-installed new ones, which probably relates to 5mm one the new ones settle. I wouldn't go out and replace them just for fun, but if like me, you were replacing all of the suspension bushes, and shocks aswell, it seemed silly not to do them aswell. Think of them as another rubber bush that should occasionally be replaced.

Badass. Nice work mate. Will be watching this project. Plenty of guys use megasquirt as it is so cheap, but some of the more expensive computers might cause less headaches. All depends on what you're after.

Yep. Forum Sponsor Euro Italian Car Parts I bought a set of these last week Somewhere a little over $250 for both (can't remember exactly) with bimmersport discount.

We have a 323i manual in the family. Was the first BMW I ever drove in fact. Goes really well. 'tis the car that started the madness. My 325 still smokes it though. Mike pretty much covered everything else.

I drive mine hard pretty much all the time. Long trips aveage between 8.5l/100km and 9.5l/100km. Short trips up near the 11l/100km. 60l tank = 600km.+

hahahaha thats terrible!

Wicked. I love the stories behind how sayings come about. So many are nautical too. for instance between the devil and the deep blue sea.

Not sure if this is a hoax or not, but came as an outlook fwd email with all of the header info intact, so may be legit. f**kn funny either way. Have converted to a png. Makes more sense if you start with page two and read up from the bottom...

Prefer the old one.

Close enough to $80k for this exercise. I forgot to subtract the current value of my vehicle. So mine is more like $0.35c/km lol.

jinx!

Cool, but this on the same website is cooler!

lol. My e30 has depreciated $0.40c a km. That's still a hell of a lot. So from now on, if I give my mates a lift to town - Yea, that'll be $5 bucks for gas, and another $10 for depreciation thanks. Don't worry - I won't charge you for wear and tear, Reg/wof or insurance. Or look at it this way - the more kms you do, the less depreciation is per km, so get out there and drive it now! You're being paid to drive it!

There was a big craze of flash-mobbing in the late 90's. Hard to organise, but very cool.

Cheers Graeme - worked a treat. So the cluster and sensor is OK, must be a broken wire somewhere in the system. No matter, It's good now.

and PM's - jokes.

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