DrphTa

uhh link?

Didn't know Crunchy was into the rust scene? haha

You dont like?

Not running virtuals?

Always liked that colour

Looks cool mate, saw it in person last week parked in the same place outside your house

I was staying across the road

Like bollocks you have a 3" side wall.

well maybe if you're measuring the slope length [or from the rim bead not the lip]

My 225/45's on 9's would only have ~3" (from the lip)

An the E30 is pretty old, with a repaint or two

Haha yea they are pretty stretched but I compensate a little with buying higher rated tyres that have a stiffer sidewall

Is it back on the road yet?

To be honest swordfish. You could get these rims to fit.. but you would have to run the skinniest tyre ever. You could never run any practical tyre sizes. Nice wheels never the less

P.S

Have you used this to measure?

http://www.rimsntires.com/specs.jsp

Really?! Then I am all over them...

That is the rear and it is mighty tight

I think my E30 has paint thicker than the sidewall of a 225/35 on a 9.5"

But yeah, what wheels are we talking about here....

3 inches is a lot of paint mate..

Send me a PM of the wheel details

I have 9.5 ET20 on mine no problemo. With a 225/35

What wheels are we talking about?

And mine

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Looking good! Ild leave it as is (with out that fiberglass thing) or go 20mm lower in the front IMO.

Bring her up to the Auckland easter meet!

Yeah!

Awwww bring it over!!

Best of luck

Awesome mate

The cheapest your going to find those springs be it race, sport, or cup, is going to be on the Turner Motorsport website or similar American websites. The exchange rate is good right now, that my excuse anyway...

+1, to buy them off the shelf they are literally 4x as expensive as Turner

Wonder where the pilot controls are?

Bit off topic but where do you buy parts for your ride DrphTa?Just trying to locate decent places in Goldy that sell BM parts. Cheers

I haven't found any places in the GC that sell cheap BMW parts. I get my parts from the states, seeing as our exchange rate is good. Postage isn't bad either unless your buying big/heavy parts. Where in the GC are you?

Bit of a thread dig..

In late December driving back from Brisbane I broke the little diff mounting point on the subframe. After trying to source a decent subframe (not new as they are $1600) Ray from Hellbm had an old rusty one for $100. Had that shipped over, it was in pretty poor condition as you can see

Never the less, after a few hours with the dewalt and handbrush it came out like this

Hit it with some rust killer, will give it another coat tomorrow. Then metal etch, prime and paint

Also ordered all this to be put on eventually

- New subframe bushes F/R

- New coolant level sensor

- New radiator hoses top/bottom

- New drive belt

- New aircon belt

- New filter

- New power steering pulley (old one is bent which wrecked my belt)

- New idler pulley

- New tensioner pulley

- Repaired the aircon unit with a 20c resistor. Have a great write up for this

- New oil to a 10w 60

- Aircon regased

- Coolant flush

Next to be done is fix my in passenger panel on my door as the heat has baked it off

Hope to drive it next week just before I got to NZ, but ill most likely run out of time

There is a white 535is with 240k for 8k

www.carsales.com.au is a good site

E30's are a joke to find

The most decent e30 I have found is $4500 and has 250,000 ks on it. 320i Manual coupe of course, but is in mint condition

BMW's in general are highly priced, but you get that seeing as Holden and Ford had/have there own plants here. You can buy brand new Commodores for 30k

Remember when lowering the wheel actually sits more inward to the guard at the top. Best to lower it and then look at where you are at?

To answer your question directly

Yes you can use two schemes. But you will pay through the roof for importing 2 or more cars

so one cant use 2 schemes at once? As in bring 2 cars under different schemes each?

What I know is, the cheapest way to import a car Is under a personal licence. When you want to start to import multiple cars you will have to pay for a seperate importing licence as it is not deemed personal anymore.

If that helps?

Finally NZ follows. When I come back to NZ next week I wont have any trouble driving on the roads!

Have a close up of the drivers seat?