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Raced the car at a Hampton downs single car sprint where it performed flawlessly ad managed to take home 9th place. Was a big day for the car, literally melting tires on track. Oil temps were perfect, not getting hot at all, cooling upgrades working well. 

Then this past weekend, drove down to Ngutunui for the 9km long hillclimb. Raced the fist run, and as I was rolling back down the hill the car stated making some very bad noises. Didnt want to hold up the event but eventually had to pull over and stop because the noise kept getting worse. Inspected the car and couldnt see anything. Tried starting it again, slow crank, turned over and made the most horrible metal clanking noise ive ever heard. Got towed down the hill by the race control ute. The trailered it home, was a long day. Havent had a chance to open it up yet but 99% sure it has a spun rod bearing, and judging by the noises the crank is beyond fcked.

So its time for a new engine. Waiting for garage rennovations to be done (about a month or two) then i will start tearing the car/engine down and hopefully source a new one, swap everything over and slap it in. Planning on doing a baffled sump, and fresh rod bearings for the replacement engine.

Pretty gutted that it died, but still came 10th on the day with only 1 run, so clearly the car's potential is there to do well.

35 minutes ago, Cement said:

A followup with the new wheels on Really need to go and have  glamour shoot some place !!

wheels looking great!

https://eurofina.co.nz/pages/mhd-tuning-products

Been getting an intermittent misfire on Cylinder 3. Really odd one, some days when driving down the motorway and trying to smoothly accelerate (high load, low rpm) it breaks up and starts shaking, doesn't recover until you pull over and clear codes, then drives fine as long as you stay out of boost. Swapped coil and plug to Cylinder 2, went for another drive, same issue. Try do some data logs the next day to log fuel mode to try diagnose potential injector fault and car drives perfectly under WOT all the way to redline no issues. Decide to swap out nectar in Cylinder 3 anyway as I need it running properly for Hamptons sprint this coming weekend.

Install new seal on injector, compress it etc, start pulling out old injector and notice a part of the injector is missing, the metal claw shaped bracket is missing a piece, the bit that rests against the head. Luckily I manage to catch it between my finger tips before it fell into the bore, scary moment!! New injector goes in, coded with protools and so far no issues, but then again neither was there on the last drive...

Will drive it a couple more times during the week to see what happens but hopefully the new injector has sorted it!

Selling a M-Sport Paddleshift steering wheel for e90, e91, e92, e93 or e82, e87, e81, e88 cars. Has some wear in the leather, particularly on the right hand side. Does not include steering wheel buttons or airbag, wheel and trim piece only.

$250 but feel free to make me an offer

On 10/22/2023 at 8:30 AM, Cement said:

Car looks great doing what you've planned for it to do 🏅Must be a bucket load of fun, and nerves !!

A trip to Meremere this Friday ? 😅 I'm going to take the car to see how it goes compares to my historical cars (maybe 18 years ago ?!) ... weather is not looking great so hopefully it's worth going.

thank you, yeah its been doing pretty well! Definitely a lot of fun, doing my best not to crash it. 

haha I don't think my car would be any good for drag racing, would be nothing but wheelspin! Hopefully the VQ goes well

Signed up for a couple more events in November, one of which is a 9km hillclimb near raglan. Longer event has me worried about oil temps, as they were getting high after a 1minute hillclimb, despite already having two big oil coolers right behind the vents in the front bumper. 

Managed to find a good deal on a oem oil thermostat delete plate and mishimoto inline oil thermostat. Installed that yesterday, took a little while to do, had to redo quite a few an lines, figure out where to put everything, bumper had to come off etc. Got it all plumbed in now, fresh oil and filter and should be good. This is a 85C thermostat, oem is 100C, only done a couple little drives but definitely significantly lower oil temps so far. Will post photos soon.

Had so much fun at the hillclimb I decided to take it to another event, Hooncorp event at the mere mere drift track.  Was great fun and ended up 4th/37 on the day, only one second behind a purpose built turbo 1UZ swapped e36 coupe on 265s. Car performed flawlessly once again, albeit oil temps getting up there, not an issue on a short 2 lap sprint, but definitely something to think about for longer events. Stoked to be putting the car to use, halfcage, harness and bucket seats aren't just for decoration.

Been a while since I posted in here, been very busy with my (hopefully) last semester of uni. Took the 135 to tis first msnz event, doctors hill road hillclimb. Really enjoyed it and the car did really well! Managed 13th/34 on the day, not bad considering it was my first event and there was quite a few pretty serious racecars. 

20 hours ago, M3AN said:

Pretty well sorted 135 up at the Museum in the Domain, anyone we know?

 

i know the guy that owns it, pretty tidy car,  the rear end 'aero' is a bit questionable though, but to each their own.  

42 minutes ago, Apex said:

Spotted Jooles old V12850 in Tuakau yesterday, was with a customer so didnt catch up the new owner... did watch him do a 15 point turn to get out of the car park though so I can only assume they haven't installed a reversing camera.

Also spotted a few e90 series 335i's BMW's in Tuakau.. so that means they have reached the lowest depreciation point and we should be looking to buy some tidy ones soonish before there are bugger all left? 

 

yes e9x 335i have reached an all time low in depreciation. Not really in a position to talk too much since my 135i isn't exactly unmolested either, but the majority are now driven by yobos with heinous burble tunes and never see any maintenance but a bunch of aliexpress bolt ons. Also quite a few being crashed. Not many tidy ones around. 

On 9/6/2023 at 5:07 PM, cleanish_e46 said:

It's good to be back.

I recently picked up this E36 M Sport:

I had no intention of owning this, I saw it in a carpark and told the owner I liked their car. Next thing she's giving me the keys and said if you still like it at the end of the month, you can buy it. It definitely felt too good to be true, but here we are. 

The two owners in the last fifteen years are her and her company. 160,000km and New Zealand new, the '328 S' plate has been with the car since '95. 

It's an unfamiliar starting point for me since it works, and I don't want to break anything.

Suspect rear main seal is leaking, so there is that, and then I'll work through the typical E36 things, but to be honest I just want to give this thing a detail and drive it. 

I can't say I ever progressed from a bucket and sponge, but I recently started watching: AMMO NYC - YouTube and I'm keen to learn. Sing out if you're local (North Shore, Auckland) and have some wisdom to share, or just want to go for a drive (when I've fixed the oil leak).

 

im on the shore too, car looks great, let me know once you fix the oil leak, id be keen to catch up for a drive 

32 minutes ago, AndyB said:

Not sure if anyone has used these guys: https://runautoparts.com.au, but just bought a 4 pack of Mann oil filters and 2 x cabin filters for about $130 delivered. Seemed really good value compared to other sites. Delivery took about a week 

yeah that is good value, best value for oil filters locally ive found is https://eurofina.co.nz/products/mann-oil-filter-kit-n54-n55 n54/55 is same as n52 

@HELLBM may be able to help should you be interested in a conversion

All sorted have sourced one

Not much been happening with the car lately, but finally got the rollbar homologation done so its all officially MSNZ approved now, logbooked, homologated, got my car club membership and M grade license so ready for a hillclimb later in the year. Still need to get around to measuring correct swaybar endlink length and order a set of adjustable ones.

8 hours ago, Angelo said:

Do you guys know any car yards that may possibly have any bmw 135i brembo calipers? I've tried making an account through "pick a part" but their whole website is glitchy and Im not really sure if they do stock 1series cars

try @HELLBM

Anyone selling a good condition HANS device before i buy new?

Cheers

On 8/12/2023 at 4:00 PM, Spudooli said:

Can recommend Precision AutoWerk on Archers Road on the Shore. They did a great job on my car and the service excellent.

would second this, extremely expensive (got to pay for that fancy waiting room somehow) but if insurance is paying id be going there 

11 hours ago, E30 325i Rag-Top said:

Far fewer 1Ms built and it managed to get a cult status at the same time, both of which kept up the bottom of the price curve.

Lots more M2s built, pre-LCI, LCI, Competition and CS. And now a new generation in production. Great little cars but never going to have the same economics as the 1M.

As to how low they will go, always a great crystal ball gazing question, at this point in time my prediction would be there is still  fair way to go down, especially for those at the bottom of the desirability list.

This is my hope too, really only after a n55 m2, preferably LCI, so definitely one o the less desirable ones compared to a comp, but might just wait another year till they come down to the low 40s more consistently and maybe find a cheap one for high 30s. Until then I guess ill keep my 135i unless something interesting comes up.

yeah i get what you are saying, maybe being a bit optimistic. Not necessarily after a crashed one, but something with issues, for two reasons, because cheaper, and because i enjoy working on cars, want something that i can work on and build into my own, hence id rather start with something a little rough with potential issues, oil leaks etc etc than a mint one. My current project is pretty much complete (can take a look in the projects section), that one stated out as the cheapest 135i in nz with a fair few issues and is now, in my opinion one of the most unique in nz, but not much left for me to do.

I have repaired a crashed car in the past, it was crashed but uninsured, so didnt have any issues with write off etc, but had no structural damage, i repaired it and sold it for a profit (e46 330ci). I enjoyed that project a lot and it made sense as i was able to sell it for a profit.

In regards to finding an m2, ideally id like an n55 one with some mechanical issues, oil leaks, valvetronic issues or similar problems and obviously at a lower price. Yes i could save up more cash and buy a tidy one but why not use mechanical skills to my advantage to get a cheaper one. But the problem is they arent yet old enough that there are many broken ones around, unlike n54 cars which are all clapped out and cheap now.

can get the mosfets replaced which is significantly cheaper than replacing the entire DME. 

2 hours ago, Jacko said:

Just got it back again, again, hose blew off top of waterpump... fingers are crossed.

Yup woodhill, Im fairly regularly up there trying to not fall off. It shat itself right when I got into carpark, missed out on hero dirt...

ah thats unfortunate, yeah its good fun trying to stay on the bike

would need to read codes, but could be DME mosfets if its MSD80. Fairly common issue.  

On 8/6/2023 at 2:28 PM, Jacko said:

Didnt even make it 48hrs. 100% makes 335i's look reliable

 

sorry to hear about the trouble its been giving you, is that out at woodhill? Im out there fairly often riding my bike, might see you there sometime!