Olaf

looking at the images, the style 15's they're the beluga caviar to my perrier jouet le belle epoque. style 32's are simply Moet NV with some average fois gras, in comparison. Fois Gras and Moet is certainly nice, but beluga and vintage limited release champagne, is something else indeed. Graham, I expect you to have acquired these style 15's before next week begins, in case they vanish! Do it for humanity.... do it, for the whales and the geese!

What'd I do to my BMW today? "you remember last time, when I was talking about next steps (last week I did oil, oil filter, air filter, cabin filter)".... Today I went to my mate's place to visit/catchup/work on his driveway. We: Changed out the fuel filter (more below) Flushed and bled the Brake Fluid. I had a few containers of fresh BNT RBF 500 (which is 599F rated - close to Motul RBF600 and under $20 per 500mls)... the brakes a much more firm now, and we got some bubbles out of the system as well. Braking is much firmer. Installed the 24mm Motorsport front ARB with new Febi ARB bushes. Upgrade from the 23mm. Now I *really* need to get the 20mm on the rear - Monday. Monday she's going into my trusty local BMW Independent to: Install the 20mm Motorsport rear ARB and new BMW ARB bushes. Upgrade from the 18mm. It'll match the rear to the front, I think. Replace the rear trailing arm bushes with Meyle HD, and add delrin reinforcement shims Repair the rear and front screenwash (rear dead, front flagging) 4 wheel alignment Then I can fit new wipers front and rear. And locate the source of my damp carpets. Oh, about the fuel filter. What a Pr*ck of a job, laying on your back on the driveway. I had new 7.9mm ID high pressure fuel hose, new vacuum hose, new hose clamps, silicon grease, and the filter (of course). I found cutting the old hoses off a right bugger. Fortunately we had a drain pan to catch the spillage. Now here's the fun bit. Despite thinking through it, I managed to confuse the inlet with the return. I had fuel coming out the outlet, figured it was ok. zipped it all up. reinstalled the fuse. dzzzzzzzzzt. no starting. And a funny 'ftttttt' under the hood. Thought our way through it, looked for fuel pressure at the schrader valve on the fuel rail.... and zip, no fuel pressure. Oh. must have the inlet and return reversed. Consulted the Bentley manual. Yep, theory confirmed. Jacked her up again, supported her, removed the cover, found I'd not secured the bracket correctly... reversed the connections, secured the filter correctly, tested for fuel pressure - YEP. Zipped her up, started fine. Result. So what we'd figured through and interpreted as correct function was fuel from the return line flowing back along the line, passing into 'inlet', passing through the filter to 'outlet'. When it's correctly setup, no fuel comes in from the pump, as the pump's off. #8 ) So the moral of the story, don't mix up your inlet and return! D'oh! #8 ) PS: I'm sore, tired, but very happy with the outcomes. My thanks to Herbmeister for excellent advice, Brent BM World for easy supply of the ARBs I sought, and the search bicycle for previous discussions here. I found some excellent posts from Ron, Dave and others about e36 setup, ARBs, Springs etc that helped me consider the right solutions. PPS: BNT RBF500 has a street in-service life of 12 months. That'll do me.

^^ I saw my mate's megasquirt project today, was hugely impressed. He's added an extra ignitor for wasted spark setup, and extra module for barmetric pressure... and he's bought and built the testing platform. Wow.

I saw one of the new government ministerial 7's today on Taranaki Street after I visited BNT. It looked *very* swish.

great candidate to become a 325Ti, though. If it weren't so pricey. So hey, it's a 318Ti Msport. And it only gets short running. Hey ho. Shouldn't this thread be in 'TradeMe Discussions"?

"Oh, we can get you one in..."

damn, is that for sale?

it's not exactly a pristene time capsule, but appears reasonably tidy and not screwed around with. I'd pay $14k if I had the cash. "supercar" is pushing the envelope a bit, I think.

nope. they are aparrently very rare, so if you see a set, buy them. then weigh them, and tell the world.

outstanding.

jebus christ, what is this, the Toyota Catfish? It rivals even the Pontiac Aztec!

hi Kyu, I had a quick look at the Penrite lube guide. The said it's *either* Power Steering Fluid/Dex III =OR= CHF11. And "Check vehicle owners manual (yeah right) or the reservoir cap". And of course, don't mix the fluid. link here. Post a good image of your reservoir, mate! Perhaps someone here can help on identifying the two fluids. Dex III is usually raspberry red (at least till it's dirty - then it's brown) and has a particular smell and feel, whereas I think CHF11 is clear and feels thinner, not sure of the smell. HTH

yep, it's awesome. I used it for baselining e46 7J16 ET 47 (205/55/16) against e90 8J17 ET34 (225/45/17) and 8.5J 17 ET37 (245/40/17). Being able to visualise how things change with those dimensions is brilliant.

wow. I'd buy these in a heartbeat if I had a plan in place for some track-work. not there yet. GLWS.

I think this is how some alignment guys think it should be; if it all cancels each other out to effectively 'zero' the car, she's apples mate. sigh. when these cars are well-aligned, it can be, well.... sublime!

more seriously though, that's a very pretty car, particularly in that blue. wow.

"Jason Shirt"? If you're gonna be named after a shirt, surely you could live up to the stereotype and get some sartorial guidance from James May?!

This made me snigger... youtube link "Ask any E30 owner, maintenance is expensive and sucks. In a lot of ways, owning an E30 is like dating a super-expensive high-maintenance MILF who cheats on you and sometimes abuses you, but whom you live anyway." ... should give some idea this is not a *serious* review!

well, 32kW & 65-m more than an equivalent 728i, which can still be plenty of fun. #8 ) it's probably worth $4k of anyone's money. I'm seriously considering selling my turbo brick.

have you considered supporting our forum's sponsors like Brent at BM World and Ray at Hell BMW?! You should find them very easy to deal with, very accommodating... and you can still deal with them n TradeMe if you prefer....

how're you getting on with this, Mac?

I've aloways replaced coils at around ten years old (usually single coil, rather than coil on plug), and always found an improvement. PS - NGK BRK6EQUP is the OEM plug for M54, along with a Bosch p/n. The ones I removed were BMW branded, ISTR they were NGK.

Hey, it's gotta be easy yeah - no worries about maintenance plannng etc etc. My update for "what'd you do to your BMW (yester)day: New oil (Penrite 5W40 full synthetic) Oil filter Air filter Cabin filter next steps (within the next week): rear trailing arm bushes & reinforcement shims fuel filter flush and bleed brake fluid fatter ARBs and OEM ARB bushes new 4 wheel alignment. and figure out what's making the front carpets damp. Sunroof drains?

exactly - the vendor's trademe handle is 'tampax'.

oh mate, not advice as much as a tongue-in-cheek observation #8 ) if we get logical we are consigned to 14" boots in staying with the bottle-caps, which is a somewhat hair-shirt approach these days. Still, one should have a set in good nick with good rubber for 'sunday best', yeah?