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Nice work! ... come on fellas ... oppertunities dont come past like this every day ...

Its a very subjective subject .. rush hour / town driving will obviously give you bad results. Open road obviously good. Yours looks really good. I would get the car scanned using GT1 as its a bit more friendly on the returned results. I may give you better clues.

good points: it looks good bad points: to many to list

Looks reallllly nice ! .. congrats. Im interested in the exhaust tone ... thinking about doing mine soon for a suttle v8 burble ... Mine came with the ultra quite exhaust

BMW do have good brakes, good drivers is another story. Such a shame this has to be wrecked but some brillant oppertunities for you e36 fellas in there.

Just say; "yeah I dont want to pay that, do you actually ever want to sell that thing?"

Its really down to two people in the NZTA .. one isnt a car person the other is. Just hope you get the one that knows whats up.

This has always annouyed me ... you have to get them kinda in the right position for it to lock ... easier to just give it the ole firm german shut.

All the steel lines are f*cked ? .. I would just replace the rubber. Last resort is gayco or supergreg I mean cheap.

yeah .. bit of a junk post today .. but some old vids that made me crack up handling +++ and this old gem. The e30 of win.

erm ... you sure its just not the o2 sensors going bad ? When that happens it reverts back to 'failsafe' maps which runs a little bit richer than normal. You can tell from a drop in fuel economy and blackish sooty powder around the boot / bumper area when you wipe your finger across it. More than usual obviously. again, leaks between the MAF and intake manifold can cause this sort of things.

will do tonight Pretty easy Get FL lights Get FL body loom plugs and generous tails. (need 6 and they are all different EG park wont fit in high beam hole etc etc) Get heat gun for heat shrinking Get appropriate heat shrink Get solder Get decent soldering iron disconnect battery keep bonnet open remove grill and pre-fl lights Sit around front of the car and work on it through through the light space instead of bending over the car and rooting your back. chop body loom pre-fl plugs off Low beam plug = Brown is common ground for low beam and park lights. one wire is low beam and the other is park. The left hand side park light has two wires coming out of it. That is the positive that chains onto the right hand side light (facing forward if sitting in the drivers seat) ... youll get what I mean. High beam = Brown ground and coloured wires are positive. Wire in new FL plugs after testing circuits and writing results down strip and tin the new expsosed wires ... DONT FORGET TO PUT HEAT SHRINK ON Wire in the common earth .. Wire in the positive for park and the positive chain for the left park light ... its a bit of a pain and left hand side took me 2 hours because of it. Right hand side repeat the same .. should only take 30-40 mins instead as you only need to chain up the common earth. Use another car you know has its lights set up perfect and mark in pencil its light beams up against a flat surface and a garage door or side of house. Move said e30 in to place with only one screw in place (top mount screw) this way you can make adjustments to the seating of the lights in relation to the black grill and light holes ... after you have it set up so the lights fit the holes properly .. put other mount screws in then use the light aligment adjusters to correct the beam. All done!

Bloody nice ! .. great to see it being restored to how it should be. congrats you two.

The task of the adaptive transmission control is to adapt gear selection to the driving characteristics of the driver as well as to the current driving situation. The main arguments for the use of adaptive transmission control are: •Reduction in fuel consumption in conjunction with steady driving characteristics •Avoidance of frequent gearshifts •Optimisation of driving safety on slippery roads •Reduction in amount of necessary driver interventions The control unit transfers the shift pulses for upshifts and downshifts to the transmission selector unit (solenoid valves, pressure regulator) and decides when the torque converter lockup clutch is to be engaged, taking factors such as comfort and safety into consideration. For this purpose, it processes, in a computer program, input variables such as engine speed, output speed, turbine speed, injection signal, throttle (accelerator pedal) position, kick-down switch, drive program, selector lever position and oil sump temperature. Note The control unit is installed in the E-box in the engine compartment. Driver type evaluation The influencing factors which are used to classify the type of driver are described in the following. The result of driver type evaluation has an effect on the selection of the gearshift program. Approach evaluation The behaviour when approach driving (forced or more moderate) influences the selection of the gearshift program. Kick-fast evaluation A sporty, performance-oriented gearshift program is selected automatically from a low gearshift, consumption-oriented driving program by quickly depressing the accelerator pedal (kick-fast). This normally results in a downshift. Driving evaluation When driving with a constant accelerator pedal position, a consumption-oriented gearshift program is selected within a short space of time and the transmission shifts into a higher gear. Kick-down evaluation The sporty gearshift program is selected immediately by "kick-down". On completion of kick-down, the gear selection is still influenced for a certain period of time in the sporty direction. Braking evaluation Above average braking manoeuvres cause the system to change to the sports gearshift program with earlier downshifts. Gearshift program selection In addition to driver type evaluation, there are still further factors for selecting one of the four gearshift programs. These programs are classified from very comfort and consumption-oriented through to very sporty. Program selection button This button makes it possible for the driver to intervene in the driving program manually. Selection of the S-program (sports) leads directly and exclusively to the sports gearshift program. This program is not exited before the A-program (adaptive) is selected and the adaptive functions are activated once again. The A-program is always selected when the vehicle is started. Uphill driving/trailer detection A performance-oriented gearshift program is selected when negotiating extreme gradients or when driving with above-average load. This avoids frequent upshifts and downshifts. Winter detection The winter gearshift program is selected if the drive wheels slip through even at low acceleration. The program starts off in 2nd gear and ensures earlier upshifts. This driving situation is evaluated by way of the sensors of the antilock brake system (ABS). Different wheel speeds at the front and rear axle result in winter detection. The winter program is exited automatically as soon as a road surface with good grip in conjunction with high drive torque is detected for several seconds. In addition to automatic gear selection in accordance with the above-specified criteria for gearshift program selection, four special functions are provided to ensure special driving situations are detected. Downhill detection Upshifts are suppressed when driving downhill without pressing the accelerator. If the driver presses the brake pedal, the transmission shifts down by one gear to provide extra assistance. This ensures the braking effect of the engine is utilised more effectively. Fast-off detection An upshift is prevented when the accelerator pedal is taken back rapidly. As a result the braking effect of the engine is utilised more effectively in these driving situations (fast changeover from accelerator pedal to brake pedal). This function considerably reduces the gearshift frequency when driving with a more sporty style. Stop-and-go detection In this driving situation there is no downshift into 1st gear. The car starts off automatically in 2nd gear. This increases driving comfort, reduces fuel consumption and reduces the crawling tendency when the car is stationary. By depressing the accelerator pedal more intensively, a downshift can be triggered in order to utilise the full power potential. AGS interfaces AGS inputs and more, http://spaghetticoder.org/bmw/wds/zinfo/246010001.htm

wow .. seems the whole collection is up for sale! .. I wonder if some collector passed on and the kids just dont care anymore ... or some investment tycoon is getting liquidated?

HB knobend .... pretty mint day for it.

Some new toys Dunlop 240/625r17 D11's and 17x8 BBS RC 304 Two spare slicks on the right. Off to be refurbed next week

Great explaination of un-sprung masses and why less unsprung mass is important.

Some photos. You can see inside the projector housing the metal mask which will stop the top half of the light ... the phot was taken the right way up, the project glass vertically inverse the light image upside down so the top half of the light is cut off. You could probably modify this by cutting out the mask to help operate as a high beam better. This is the inner part of the lens housing in which the projector globe sits behind. This is a pretty munted housing for each light. However you can see the right hand side is different to the left hand side, you would have to rotate upside down the 'low beam' head light into the high beam housing to make it fit. but it does look possible. Hope that helps.

nice find! ... for the original Bastos m3, I would have to say conrods group-a version looked prettier than the original.

Just beaware that projector beam pattern and scatter is only designed to diffuse and short range unlike the reflector type which focuses a lot further away. Also the projector side walk mask will make it so you have no light in the top part of your beam. Night time driving on open road will be affected. Im also not sure if a warrent officer will pick it up on a light alignment board. Anyways .. it should work easy enough ... I will look tonight on the spare projectors hosuings I have at home.

120 + the cost of a ps3. Once I have them sorted will reveal what they are. They are not new and not centerlocks if thats what you mean. They need a refurb.

no probs man. Seriously gets better and better .... this thing is going to look so hill climb!

Im buying wheels for my set new of slicks for the e30. no GT5 for me.