Jamez

Sunroof was bad, rear guards had a little bit and front A pillar had some repairs, but was ok. It needed about 2-3k of work to get it mint so I sold it.

That's my old M325i, even with the problems it has I still regret selling it back in what would be ~2011

Post update,

How low could you go before surge?

I found with only the standard pump it was ok at 1/2 full, but not really keen to try any lower.

I've got a brand new return assembly. I removed it because I didn't like the feeling.

AMI

Tried out some tunes on the Revolution Dyno Centre dyno. I still need to dial in the tune but have already got massive gains in the midrange.

6cyl

Also do you have a pic with the springs fitted? cheers

As per auction, have pic of rear but no front.

Nice driving on the weekend, also good on you for putting your vids up here.

Can I ask you some questions on your front sway bar set up..........

1) what size diameter is it and

2) is it attached to the control arm as in a standard e36 or to the shock like a M3.

3) do you use M3 king pins.

1) E36 6 cylinder M Sport Bars front and rear, I think the front is 25.5mm

2) Attached to the control arm

3) Front spindles are E36 M3 Evo

It's no secret what I am using as the everything is pretty much OEM E36, kind of makes the whole thing quite comical when the cars I am racing around all have AP racing brakes, dry sumps, carbon airbox's, adjustable sway bars, modified motors etc etc, I think I was the only car there still running carpet

Race 2 - Handicap Start

Race 3 - Grid Start - Drying track

It's running off a virtual server on my blade cluster which is in a C3000 blade chassis at Hampton Downs.

I am looking at moving it to a cluster at work though.

Traffic wise, the VPS has moved quite a bit in just under 2 days.

16:32:40 up 1 day, 18:14,

RX packets 51717195 bytes 54970010770 (51.1 GiB)

RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0

TX packets 24506792 bytes 7954451946 (7.4 GiB)

TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0

It's free if you take it by tomorrow, otherwise I have to move it to the back of my garage.

and i was driving it hard alright, will be better with some better brakes and i can put it in harder with more confidence i can slow the car if needed!

What lap time were you doing?

What are people hoarding? Not much on trademe these days

Sorry about the site downtime, have had issue over the last week with servers getting to hot. Have disabled thermal shutdown until a resolve for the cooling issues is found.

I would just like to give the cops some credit, at least the ones I came across were fair and gave me a chance to slow down after finishing a passing manoeuvre instead of being a trigger finger. I had two flash their headlights until I was back under 100km/h and then let me go on my way.

Sure it's not BMW, but it's still German and awesome. I hacked together some clips from last weekend and it's all on again this weekend.

Do you have a lower rev limiter set for launch or are you sitting on the main limiter?

I want to try it but I'm scared something will break.

I had a 3.91 with ZF 5 speed on my E30 race car with S50b32. 2nd gear launches weren't a problem but top speed was 220km/h @ 7400rpm, this became a problem when I got more power as I started running out of revs in 5th.

Now I have 3.91 with Getrag 6 speed I can idle at 3000rpm at 100km/h on the motorway, top speed 260km/h. The best thing is it's like having a close ratio dog leg 5 speed as 2,3,4,5,6 are all used on the track with the most used gears being in a H pattern.

will take it off your hands for an 8 million post count

What about 2147483647 Likes

Does anyone want this? I am prepared to just let it go in return for some junk food.

Just some random clips

Have run it on several cars for the past 10 years ... no issues ever. Infact Jamez ran it for 4 years in his race car that only ever saw extreme conditions, engine started with 80,000ks on it ... and was compeditive and still had all factory hoan marks when he dismantelled it for a routine rebuild. This meant that he didnt actually need to rebuild it.

I wouldnt believe everything youre told on the internet or around some traps. I prefer to rely on proven race performance.

At the end of the day as long as you select a good mid range oil which is matched to you temprature condition of where you live (again a non issue in New Zealands mild temprature range) and you maintain oil change schedules you car will last you 300-500ks easy. I would be more worried about cam lobe wear than bearing failure in this case.

I think Polly summed it up once in a thread, buy some bloody oil, change the filter, do an oil change, close the bonnet and just go enjoy your car.

I can also confirm that I found the following:

-Running the car super lean will cause the pistons to blow up almost straight away from detonation.

-Having an oil line burst gives you about 300 meters of road before the bearings fall out.

-When the bearings go, the pistons will tap the head, It only took the layer of carbon off so didn't do any damage.

-Running 5w40 Edge has dropped running temps considerably at the track, not only that but its also much cheaper. Seems like a no brainier.

I would say that as long as the engine is run at the correct temps, with the correct AFR and with a constant oil supply, they are pretty bullet proof motors.