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Pretty common in Z3's, E36's, also was in that era MG and Rovers.

As the title states, I'm after a set.

I know there is a couple of set floating around New Zealand, who has them?

Cash buyer, very motivated.

Fill and drill, anything is possible.

Talk to Brugars on the North Shore.

That particular M3 was about as far from dodgy as can be. Immaculate would be the word I would have used.

LOVE the sparco rims!

Were those on TM a while ago? Shame the offsets are a little high for an E30 M3.

Have you tried reading the very first post??

I failed at reading comprehension.

How much?

Damnit! I knew it was a combination of 5/10 cyls and definitely turbo. Funny how they both sound the same!

C6 RS6.

I have always wanted one of these.

http://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/dealer/bmw/700/1648223.html

Reasonably priced too!

Blue - XB Fairmont Coupe

Green - second gen Camaro

Yellow / stripe - first gen Camaro Z28

Yellow - Mustang Mach 1

Black- Ford XY Ute?

White - fifth gen Fairlane 500?

Blue - Another Ford Ute

Red - Could be another first gen Camaro

Hi Bruce,

WHat are the RS numbers for the wheels? I can't quite make them out in the pics on the auction.

Cheers

86km on the clock, sold for $6k.

inb4 New Zealand M325i vs UK 325i Sport conversation.

Gone before I saw it

Woah I haven't seen 108 KDN in years! Blast from the past.

Just requested shipping costs for these from a few suppliers overseas... If anyone knows if these are available from NZ, preferably not through a dealer, please let me know..

Not in that material and pattern, that's BMW Performance only, I've tried ordering directly though Recaro.

Kicking myself I didn't pick up a set of these from McMillans when they offered them to me for $2k all up.

Hitup Retro for the Recaro's themselves, http://www.rve.co.nz/recaro.html the seat is just a Sportster CS https://www.recaro-automotive.com/en/product-areas/aftermarket-seats/products/recaro-sportster-cs-cross-sportster-cs.html

They are SUPER comfortable as well.

Edit: Vivid Racing are selling them too. Not cheap. http://www.vividracing.co.nz/recaro-recaro_H4wzk.php

And happens to add an overdrive box and different diff as well...

Perhaps not officially a model on its own, but it's definitely a spec that is enough of an outlier to be considered standalone, as distinct from something like options 812 / 814, respectively Great Britain / Italian versions, in which the only change might be a mph/kph cluster to the physical car.

I know of 16 NZ new 1M's also.

Though this is my break down:

White: 7

Orange: 7

Black: 2

We may as well collate our findings via PM.

How many Fiji Green iS's do you know of? I've got 6 still on the road.

Common problem, especially as you state the seat is often at its lowest setting.

Fudging the wiring here would be a pretty Darwin way of killing yourself.

The plugs on the rear of the cluster are the same, regardless of model.

The exception being the M3, which has an extra plug for the oil temperature gauge.

Awesome read thus far, love what you've done with the place.

Are you hanging onto the interior? I've got a project car that's been crying out for an M-Cloth interior for some time if you're willing to sell.

Love it. Always wanted to do this swap to a 318iS.

If your car is Japan spec, it will say on the build sheet (I like to use http://www.bmwarchive.org/vin/bmw-vin-decoder.html)

There were 395 Japan spec E30 M3's built between July of 1987 and March of 1989. Each was equipped with with the 195-hp catalyst motor, a 5-speed overdrive manual transmission, power windows, air conditioning and on-board computer. The only extra-cost options were leather upholstery and a power sunroof.

Being is Japan is a fairly populous place, it's hardly surprising that more than few US and Euro spec E30 M3's made it over there.

For reference:

Here is an example of what happens when you run a Japan spec VIN, for reference this car is in NZ:

Regarding the alleged "weakness" of the Getrag 265/5 box, it was actually the 245 dogleg that came on early 323i M20 cars that was weak. The M10/M30 bolt patterned dogleg boxes are practically bulletproof.

Sam will have it .. there is a spread sheet he has with quite a bit of this research on it. Will see if I can find it in my email.

Not comprehensive sadly Josh. The list is at 12 pages now

One of the cosmos ones, rego WD7979 is now a racecar.

One of the Byzanz suffered a massive rollover and was rebuilt, the roof was all kinds of funny angles, fairly sure it isn't the one with BLPxxx though (rest easy that member)!