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A friend mine is selling her silver 330ci cab for about 35k. Its a '02 motorsport with 80k odd on the clock.

Is it an actualy OEM m3 body or is the bumper one of the many ebay ABS plastic bumpers flying around ? If it was an OEM kit / conversion. will have about 20k worth of body parts on it! ...

Yo, Our music video crash is getting some good air time thanks to voting power! We would love you to vote for us in the Vodafone c4 Select poll. Trying to keep this video in with the trendy kids show To view it click here (click HD at bottom of video to see it in stereo/high qaulity) Antiform "Crash" - TEXT s150 to 4440. every vote counts ... get in there ya dirties! voting list http://www.c4tv.co.nz/OnTV/Shows/VodafoneS...NZ/Default.aspx thanks Josh

I want to watch the whole thing now! .. awesome post. thanks

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Would give my left ball for one of these ..

* E36/5S E36 Compact with M3 Engine - I remember an older friend of mine had one of these in the UK. quite a limited model and at the time was BMWs best handling vehicle.

If youre after BMW specific lighting .. go here http://www.jlevistreetwerks.com/ good products and good reputation to match in the e46 community

Just to clarify before this jumps off topic ... this problem is not a dry joint issue with the soldering.

Because the HID works on a focused beam of light and you looking to use it on a relector instead, It wouldn't be an upgrade. I thought about doing the same with mine but the amount of light is about half when you run it with reflectors. (not focused) Which I prefer to be able to see what i'm doing on the open road. The other problems are they take about 20 seconds after about six months of waer and tear to heat/light up properly. The only good reason for doing it would be for looks and well, realistcally, people dont watch high beams. It is possible to install projector housing into the high beam cavity but you need another set of lights to pillage parts from. pretty expensive mod for nil gain and something people aren't going to see.

It is entirely possible to run the CSL airbox on a normal m3. You need to run Alpha N software however as it does away with the MAF.

Knew I would find this vid somewhere One of the guys on this forum owns one and has been slowly modding it so im sure hell chime in soon enough to give you his story. Its one hell of a car. Just a pity they never made them in manual.

Christchurch waaaaaaaaa waaaa waaa waa Christchurch waaaa Bloody hell, Bob parker is acting like this is a new thing. So has anyone learnt anything bringing up teenagers/kids ? punishing the trouble some types with more, more!, MORE! is not really going to work as westie said. Notice auckland problem has more or less gone away? (the troublesome ones anyways) Gas price raise last year did wonders for AKL. A lot of them couldnt afford to keep the cars up to scratch so sold them. Probably some sort of modification certification system similar to low volume but instead you have to have each mod certted, but have a price on each tested system.

Seeing as the e36 doesnt have the self leveling system ... you're fine. We are lucky with BMW. They actually come with HID as a option. So the conversion isnt really a conversion. Its more a balast / bulb upgrade. The euro spec OEM lights also have a switch on the back of them to change between left and right hand side walk flare. This is by law in europe as cars travel between different left and right hand drive countries. Its not really rangi mods fella, you just need to maybe research it a little more. 2k is a bit a silly price to pay. Mine converted cost me $1200 for the whole thing for the e46. This was of corse US spec lights however I switched the masking plate to hand RHD.

sure can, All an HID kit is a Xenon gas bulb that fits in the normal place of the filiment bulb and a Voltage 'balast' which converts 12volt current into high voltage (needed to charge the xenon gas in the bulb) The normal headlight cables on a spec kit fit into the balast boxes and then the balast boxes plug into the bulbs. You need to look out for qaulity Balast designs and bulbs can also vary in qaulity. 8000k while it looks cool doesnt emmit the most light, 4300 (yellow/orange) actually does .. hence why OEMs use this colour. 6000k is a good medium between light and colour (white purple)

should look like this, noting the left hand light 'globe' projector for the low beam. normal reflective ones look like this. (not HID compatible and the reason WOF outfits fail HID kits)

dude .. you ever pulled one apart ? .. again not rocket science.

hmmmm you can get away with HID if your model of car comes out with projector head lights. This is to say if your headlights have the focusing lens and proper internal right hand drive 'sidewalk flare' masking plate. If you tick these two boxes then youll be fine with HID through WOF. The main thing a WOF engineer is looking when you have HID for is that your side walk flare is correct and the headlights are set to the correct level (not too high) and that your bean focus is level and sharp. The e36 did come out in later models with 4300k HID. I have successfully converted my US HID e46 headlights to right hand drive sidewalk flare. Its quite easy (albeit tedious) What they dont want is people putting these kits into non projector headlights with nil masking .. it scatters bright HID light everywhere and truly does dazzle drivers. As the side walk flare is set on the headlight glass for standard filiment bulb light and doesn't work at all for HID as they are setup for reflection and not projection. I will be installing HID onto the e30 with converting the standard projector e30 lights to take a side walk flare and mask with pressed cut sheet metal. I will also set it back about 30mm as to focus the beam correctly. Its all just a bit of common sense.

After sourcing the relays, Brendon and I set to work this afternoon on perminantly fixing the stuck relay / central locking failure. Out comes the GM5. As you can see the white box and board electronics. Also the relays on the left (the central locking VCR's) Out they come.. Because the boards electronics are convered in a sealant we scrape this off. The solder is of the high temp kind so unfortunitly a normal soldering iron wont do .. I own a professional varible temparture workshop iron so it was nearly maxed out doing this job. New realys (tyco / seimens) soldered in. I cant really take a photo of the locking working but Im happy to say it works 100% everytime. Even with the doors open which it just would not do before. Very happy camper. Brendon and I are thinking of offering this service to others. Im looking to source the relays in from hong kong. The job itself take a little over an hour. But we could offer a repair service if other people are interested?

An earlier thread I posted last year. http://videos.streetfire.net/flash/55de216.../xlate/play.swf

Sure is.. http://www.amplifier.co.nz/release/40772/crash-single.html candirect debt this site too if you dont have a credit card. Or if you want to wait a month or 2 ... itll be on the album

e46 316i compacts are 1800cc