Neil McCauley

Not sure if this has been posted, but a twin cam 5 stud E30 for $10K... What's the catch?! https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/bmw/318i/listing/4661790436

Might I suggest Jagermeister Orange?

Fractured pelvis. So that's golf and snowboarding done before the season began. Stable fractures so no surgery, but I was teased fairly aggressively by the ED nurses about being under 40 and suffering an "old lady injury." Priority parking for the next 6 months though!

Got the Simple Green and then the Aerospace 303 out to clean up the plastics I'll not see for another 180xxx km. Back on the ground for a couple of days before my airfreight arrives 👀

Hey team, what are the chance of fitting a 19x8.5 ET17 wheel under F3x guards?

I'd be shocked if the first bill was only 4 figures.

Racecar MT2 M52 anyone? Go to 3.2 and it would decimate all at Race Wars. https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/bmw/325i/listing/4675293669

Things were going well. Until they weren't. My kingdom for 2mm.

Love the wood, but the beige is questionable

I'm throwing money at the screen but the car isn't appearing in my garage?!

https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/bmw/316i/listing/4671966332 Give us the gossip SJ!!

Absolutely insane attention to detail. Following closely!

Singaporean cars should have an engine hours gauge rather than an odometer, for the reasons Olaf mentioned.

Test pass with a Rupes yellow DA fine foam and Farcela G3 1+2 compound. Might have to dig a bit further into the clear coat with a Rupes DA blue coarse and commensurate compound.

Hah! I saw that this morning and thought it looked bloody good - great minds etc etc I do need to be in Wellington shortly to collect some items, so this could actually be a "cheap" courier.

In a fortunate turn of events, both Dogballs and I got the bits we wanted from SJ's set of F series big blues for sale. I've done brakes plenty of times but this will actually be the first time I've swapped calipers out, so I have some questions about the bleed / refill process as I've heard the brembos can be a pain to bleed completely. I'll only be running the fronts as the rears on an E90 are firmly in the way too hard basket - that or spending moonbeams on having the calipers converted to axial mount. Some quick maths on piston sizing shows that braking bias won't be affected very much, the difference being 10,202mm^2 stock compared to 10,048mm^2 for the new blues, which is a 0.4% shift in brake bias to the rear. 1) Check the bleed nipples firstly - I've heard they are prone to seizing - are these an off the shelf / generic item if I need to replace? 2) Bleeding calipers from empty - I guess the process is the same as bleeding but will obviously take longer to fully clean the system out? 3) The E90's that could be retrofitted with the 6/2piston BMW Performance yellows also had coding added to the VO as "+SPBR" - is this necessary at all? 4) Bleed the outer side of the calipers before the inner side? Many thanks!

Best colour and interior, but jeez that's some mileage! Good E30 swap donor hah.

Hey they finally improved the front end

Yep, but struggling to find the right F31 320dX I'd need to replace it with... That or an M235i because sensible winter car.

Very tasteful with the wing and I love the 313's on it! (am biased though).

Looks like a really honest example Beemwr! Definitely not a garage queen, and I mean that in the nicest possible way. You could always sell the 318iS if it happens to be Brilliantrot...

Aaaaand they get even cheaper when you realise how common the brembo 1609 and 1656 pad sizes are. Give you a call tomorrow after work SJ? I'm in the North Island Saturday week with the van...

I've been very interested (multiple excel spreadsheets interested) in diff and gearbox ratio tuning after the Mine's R34 GTR was found to be using GTST diffs, but won't get into the weeds here... ...Surely the 3.64 is the least desirable ratio when compared to the 3.73 and 3.91? And at $2k aren't you looking at an off the shelf OS Giken or similar slipper which means you get to choose whatever crown wheel you'd like?

Would the 4.6 not be a more special car as it’s an Alpina engine?

Yep... The next glut of E30 M3's to market will be estate sales... There could be an argument to be made for market saturation, where everyone who had their rose tinted nostalgia goggles on has already gone out and imported an M3. Case in point - there's some 30% more M3's in NZ than there are MT2's now... Looking at it objectively: colour / interior / period correct mods will all factor into a potential purchasers decision making process, and that's even before you get into the weeds about US spec / Japan CR/OD gearbox spec etc etc. If you've got that much money to spend then you can also probably afford to wait for the spec you want to come up for sale. And for those sorts of buyers, RHD is a no-no word. Suspect there is also a fair few off books transactions taking place, so true market pricing might be slightly different to what people are asking.