trottsky

1000 dollars >insert Dr Evil <

If you can afford it, get a new water pump, thermostat and housing, alloy radiaor with combined header tank and a full hose set. It sounds like overkill but otherwise you'll be chasing leaks/issues until you've replaced it all anyway!

I didn't but I suppose you could to get it to fit perfectly

Cheers bro haha yeah it's essential for winter Queenstown roadtrips, the gravel gets pretty intense! Yes it's an EZlip, the msport bumper didn't have enough presence so I bought the factory plastic lip, still wasn't happy but I couldn't go any lower because of the state of the roads (christchurch). So I got the EZlip, it actually looks really good for what it is, needs replacing now though as it's been on for 1.5years and gets scraped daily. It's still stuck on though! It's just looking a bit frayed along the front. Can't get a pick right now but it literally just sticks on with 3M foam tape (it's really good). Only tip is don't pull it tight as you go around the bumper corners or it deforms a bit

Going to have to say Style 21. Hopefully I can afford them one day, but until then I'll have to stick to my fake Schnitzer type 2's

So nice!

Good job he isn't around these days to see it then i think it might actually be perfect. Yes it is, it's perfect

Haha excellent break down dude! Yes well I love the e36 shape, so maybe it's worth taking mine off the road or a few years while all the awful examples die off. Who knows how it'll pan out but it's gonna be fun............and expensive.........and time consuming

I was looking at all these the other day, the silver replica csl is amazing. I want it bad. I can't believe he just had the stuff hanging around on the shelf ready to go on a car when he found one

M cars are always going to be awesome and I'd have one in a heartbeat. But yeh it's just fun to imagine what you can do to the car you have outside on the drive! I think I'd just be after a fast street use, so as long as it had the brakes to stop it and suspension mods to put the extra power down in a "controlled" manner then I'd be happy! Watch this space.......but don't hold your breath I've got some saving to do/a car to find that I'm happy to drive while this one is off the road

Yeah it's hard to decide to take the plunge into it. A supercharged 2j would be pretty cool! If I was to do it myself rather than buy the kit, then I'm sure there'd be a lot of research into charger size, water/air intercooler systems due to space issues etc. Then to do it properly I'd want to at least rebuild the head, all leading to the car being off the road for a long while (obviously as it would be a project)! If I have a windfall I'll definitely be buying that kit then stronger gbox,clutch,diff..............ha

Nice

http://www.eurosporthighperformance.com/supercharger.html

Has anyone on here ever supercharged their BMW? I don't know why but they've always interested me more than turbos. I think it's the sound more than anything, which is why it'd have to be twin-screw rather than the centrifugal type as they're pretty quiet in comparison! Anyway I've found a company that actually make a kit for s50/m52 which quote pretty awesome power figures. It looks like a really good quality kit too! It's just a pipe dream at the moment as it's roughly 9k USD which is twice what I paid for my whole 328, but thought I'd share it as it looks cool as. You'd have a pretty unique car if you got this fitted up to it too

Should look sweet as on any of those! Pics when you get something fitted