bravo

I can prob get you a e21 one - anyone know if they are interchangeable?

Chucked a NZPOST courier Trackpack your way this morning - bubblewrap jobby - should be plenty big enough. Thanks.

Yeah, the council wouldn't let him build a wharf because his neighbour in the same bay (but round a small point from him) had one. He didn't want to walk around the point to his neighbours wharf, so he built a tunnel through the hill so he can drive his tractor or golf cart through. (Its about 100m away - can't be walking 100m now can we? Man that's cool. One of our newest billionairre residents up here (from Geneva) just built himself a Gondola so he doesn't have to walk down to the beach from his house - and he only lives there one week a year. Another one just finished building his caretakers "cottage" for 1.2mill - his house has a budget of 11mill for the house. The cartakers cottage original budget was a third of what it ended up being, so imagine how expensive his house might end up! And another one just had a valuation of his section - 1 mill per acre for the undeveloped, unbuilt-on portion - and its rural beachfront. You expect those prices on city beachfront, not rural!

Cheers - you rock! E30stz - yeah he put that up at my request, but $10 more than I was willing to pay, hence my bid. But thanks anyways.

I have thought of a way to get my bonnet release working, but need a spare lever incase it doesn't work and I stuff it up. Would be willing to also take the cable and latch itself if anyone has these whilst I'm at it. Anyone got any of these?

Considering the number of people on here asking about forced induction, i would have thought a link/ad for a bolt-on kit would be a perfectly reasonable thing to post whether you are getting one or not - what we gonna stop people posting opics of new model BMW's because they not actually buying one? Agreed about the ratshit topic title though. Edit: Wicked stuff on that website, and some not too expensive!! Mmm - Alpina rep wheels...

Islands in the Bay of Islands come up for sale semi-regularly. I'd rather own an island under NZ rule than Fijian rule - in Fiji you're likely to lose the thing in a coup! You can buy a seventh of Roberton Isl. in the bay at the moment for just on a couple of mill - I know it's not the whole island, but it's pretty big, and Robby has twin lagoons, and one of the bays was used by Captn Cook to shelter when he first came to NZ so is steeped in history (Cooks' Cove) and that price includes the house and not just the land around the house (yours only) but a 7th share of the balance aswell. I'd rather that personally. Bigger than 14 acres and no road or bridge, so much more secluded (just have to put up with bloody tourists visiting the lagoons all the time as they are below high tide and thus public access if you have a boat or come with a tourist operator). The dude who set up SKY TV in NZ owns a third of one of the islands up here, and Moturoa is quite affordable, but you have to share with 11 others on the isl.

Depending on price I'd be in on the group buy.

Intake manifold on the four is very different - easiest way to spot the diff at a glance.

Somebody had to do it.... :thumb:

Heard of that trick - never had to try it - good work!!!! It's usualy a once-only try though, so you wanna make sure you start it on the first go. I second the motion.

Same thought was running through my mind.The rust under teh rear bumper - was that there already or is it a result of sitting outside since the accident?

Which metal bit? The broken seat in dad's e30 is being fixed - The local engineering firm thinks they can weld it and it is sprung steel, so yours should be sweet. Don't let anyone sit in it if the only thing holding it in is cable ties - the seatbelt attaches to the seat, and in a crash there will be quite a bit of force on the seat - cable ties will not hold. Period.

Dad reckons it will be strong enough easily. (they are still 12v, but about the size of a windscreen wiper motor - i.e. massize!) Not the little mini ones at jaycar - they only go up to 2kg pull. Don't want to hook it up to old cable as it needs a spring or else you need to exactly match the movement of the solenoid to the amount of movement required. Too little and bonnet won't open, too much and it'll rip the lock apart. Solenoid will be free, and time I have, so will have an experiment. If it gets expensive, I'll just move the lever like originally planned.

Not all e30's have them. Mine does. If you look through the front grille on the passenger side just to the left of the headlights, you'll see a small round thing with a slot cut into it. insert a long flathead screwdriver in the slot and give it a good twist (I find a quarter turn clockwise best) and the bonnet will pop. Make sure your face isn't in the way as it springs forward lol (and no I didn't do it, but I thought of it the first time as it sprung) Yeah - I thought of that Andrew, but it's a bit rangi. Good last resort though! I have been talking to my old man who is a sparky - he reckons the solenoid is the go. I would mount it in the engine bay on a short cable (get one made), and then attach that to a spring and then to the bonnet catch - the spring would tension the whole lot, plus mean that I wouldn't have to worry about the solenoid pulling the catch apart if it had too much movement. Then either mount a switch inside, or hook up to alarm. Gonna rob a solenoid of a washing machine - they have 12v internal circuits - and give it a go. Thanks for the ideas - I'll let you know when I'm done - might even hook one up to the boot too so I can pop that with the alarm fob without fumbling for keys when carrying shopping etc.

Nice car, and an inspiration! Rock it!

Would involve dismantling the lever I guess (if possible, think the pivot is a rivet but could drill out ant put a bolt in maybe). Will look into it tonight.

Can't ditch the speaker grille - those baby's have some hell extension, and they just about hit the lever at rest - grill was the only way to protect the speaker. i was going to have the factory trims in front for a stealth look, but with 9mm of extension , there was just no way that could happen. I tried other misc grilles lying around, but all fouled the speaker cone on full extension. I am thinking of trying to put it inside the glove box, failing that under the bumper (could put it into a bike brake lever for easier grip, but yet to suss it. have been suggested to solenoid it like on show cars with shaved door handles, but not sure if I can find a big enough solenoid that will work, That will be the shiznit - could open the bonnet using my alarm fob! Any other ideas welcome, don't know if I want to spend the time or money installing a solenoid system even if I find one strong enough.

I know this was asked a few months back, but no-one had a solution - I thought I'd come up with a good one, but I haven't. The issue is the bonnet release lever fouling on front speakers whenever you install something larger than factory. I have just finished putting my new fronts in, and of course have this problem. You can't space the lever out or it fouls the glovebox, and you can't move the glovebox over becaus the latch won't line up (I may move the latch yet if possible, but don't think I can.) So I am thinking of moving the lever either to in front of the speaker, or somewhere outside the car (like under the front bumper or something). Anyone done anything like this??? Pic:

or pull the unblock codes off the internet

Usually if you take your phone overseas you get stung with global roaming charges and often they charge you to receive calls as they are all directed via NZ to you wherever you are. If you buy a local prepaid whenover there, or sign up for a short-term contract it often works out cheaper for you - you can't do that unless you can swap out your sim card, or you buy a local phone. At least that is my understanding.

That depends - I have agreed value of $5300 on mine. And there is no point in pointing out to me it's not worth that much, that is what I insured it for. Not going to go through how much it costs me because it is quite a good deal through FMG who will only insure you in a rural area, so all you city dwellers - tough. Still not cheap IMO though. That's the cost of running a car I guess.

thanks

There was a link to a site that has the Haynes one on PDF I'm pretty sure on here somewhere. I've got a copy, but being 7MB and on dial up I am not going to send it to you. Could possibly pu it onto CD, I'll see how I am for time after work this week - pretty busy right now. Anyone else remember that link - it linked to a site with downloads for all the specs for the e30 series - all the variants. It was like a ftp site I think. Sorry, I'll try to remember where I saw it. EDIT: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^That's the one - cheers Andrew.

I will up to the point it starts to cost me - I can get telecom deals through my dad's business as they offer it to friends and family too (he has 17 cell phones on his contract so far). but I didn't want to go to telecom in the past, so never jumped on the deals. If it starts to cost me fighting vodafone, i'll just switch.