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Not bad at all

What boost were you running?

If I was to guess. 400-500 for 6 hours work

Nothing beats a v10 in a e30 haha

Thread is useless without pics!

Ethan, do you know anybody who imported under pre 1989 rule? The personal import scheme is looking quite straight forward at this stage. Do you know if it is ok to bring two cars at the same time where each car is under different scheme? Also do you know if maybe its easier to bring the e30 as parts and get a shell locally? Thanks, been good source of info so far.

It is quite straight forward to import a personal car.

You would be hit with commercial charges if you were going to be importing 2 cars at once. Unless you could import the car under a partners name. Therefore both being imported as personal cars as long as you have owned them for atleast 12 months

Importing the parts would not be viable in my mind. You would definietly have to weigh up the costs of shipping vs selling and re-purchasing. What parts would you want to import?

A lot of the ticking I find comes from the injectors rather than the tappets.

Interesting to know! Do you think new injectors reduce the noise or is it constant through older ones too?

Cool project James

I will probably end up doing this with my E30

Good luck , They will probably encourage the idea of a V8 in a e30

oh so much safer....lol.

mods is really just wheels (still have standard ones) front springs, strut bar, filters and exhaust. I doubt they would pick up things like upgraded slotted brake disc's or light upgrades.

Geeze I hope we can get away with 1 container.

You should be okay, another thing to note is you cannot have anything in the car when importing

That was not touching anything. Van lines packed everything up and then unpacked it where we told them to in Aus

I know coolant is a must, not too sure about the other fluids

What mods does your M5 have? probably best to put it back to standard when shipping. Just for moving purposes and compliance. The other thing about QLD is we dont have to get wofs every 6 months. You only need a "road worthy" when the car is being sold. You could own a car for 30 years here and never have it checked

PS we used NZ van lines.

Had a 48ft & 24ft container for all of our things including the car. Cost was around the 50k mark

I'm another interested party here. Planning on moving at the end of this year and taking my e39 M5 with me.

Ethan, what did you have to do to your e39 apart from the $4k shipping costs?

compliance costs? stamp duty? how much is the mod plate?

do wheels count as a mod?

Moving to QLD if that helps.

(don't plan on selling it ... ever)

The car had to be immaculatly clean, then the underbody of the car is steamed cleaned to remove any dirt, oil etc

Incl in the 4k the car had all fluids removed, new belts put on and new filters.

Seeing as the e39 we imported was NZ new it met all compliance with AUS regulations apart from child safety restraints. These are mounted in the parcel tray to accommodate for securing baby seats. Cost for these was around $400 installed

You then pay %10 of the value of the car in stamp duty

Mod plates vary depending on the mod. The most basic plate costs $66. Any mod that is ADR approved does not need a mod plate. Ie I have new springs and 18" wheels on my M3, as it is within mod specification. In QLD if you change wheels they cannot be 2" bigger or smaller to standard and must be within 3% of standard rolling diameter. Lowering springs cannot be lower than 30% from standard. Things like coilovers, new brakes, engine etc all need mod plates

Back on topic.. for $4000 the stamp duty and child restraints were inclusive. The only thing next to pay was the rego ontop. This then varies depending on number of cylinders.

4cyl is $340 for 6 months

6cyl is $440 for 6 months

8cyl is $540 for 6 months

After the rego is paid we picked the car up 2-3 weeks later!

I m wanting to take two of my cars over with me, one under personal import scheme and one under pre-1989. The Personal import is nice and clear, so thats left for last thing to worry about. But the pre-1989 is my e30...it used to be 316i and now it has 2.7 m20 with a hairdryer on the side of it with all the accompanying stuff, so thats the biggest worry, will i actually be able to get it there in modified form ok? (Say for arguments sake I got a cert for everything here in NZ)

It will have to meet regulation here in Aus. Which state are you looking at?

To be street legal for modifications here you have to obtain a "mod" plate, Identical to a "cert"

Wish it wasn't raining!

Can go into more detail if you like, im sure the you know the jist on what needs to be done?

We moved a e39 to Australia from Auckland 3 years ago

It cost us around the 4k mark, AUD

Its not worth it in my opinion unless you plan to keep the car for years to come. It is much easier to sell the car in NZ and then buy one over here

Whats that exhaust in the original post?

Yea they are pretty fun!. We have a monster crusher with a 3 speed box. can do 120km/ph. Quite scary in a park seeing as it weighs 7kgs!

Hey guys,

Any of you into RC flying?

My dad has always tried to get me into it but it wasn't really my thing. Taking his new one out for a fly this weekend. Some of you may enjoy the pictures.

The Extra300 has a petrol 50cc engine with a 23" prop. A tad over powered

The Extra300 LP Redbull has a 80cc engine with a 27" prop. Soon to be a 120cc twin with a 29" prop

They are used for 3D and Imac

You can also use this site to plug in your old wheel specs vs new wheels

It tells you differences so you can go out to your car and measure

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

That is running 19x10.5" with ET22 on all corners

You could go as low as ET10 on a 8.5 in the front and ET20 on a 10"

It all varies on how aggressive you want to be and what tyres you are going to run?

What are bags?

If he is worried about the colour, paint the M3 Fijian green

Ohh sorry Simon, definitely not

Westy isn't abusive at all

Go Bigger! Dont listen to what Matt says lol

Dont like it