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Not much progress recently, car is booked in for its cert for early next month. Still need to do a couple minor things to get it ready for that, drill and tap hubs for wheel spacers, get a wheel alignment within 0.5deg of factory spec, and a wow fail sheet, last part shouldn't be too hard. managed to source a muffler for it in case the cert guy reckons its too loud, although strictly speaking it does still have  2 cats and a resonator so might be ok. 

Also have been looking into insurance, as I have invested a fair bit of money into it but most places don't seem to be too keen on insuring this car, due to the value of the modifications, as well as the driver... 20 years old and about a fair few fines in the past don't make it easy. 

Selling front and rear leather seats out of my 2008 135i.

Front seats are black leather heated, electronic sports seats (have the adjustable bolsters). Drivers side has memory. Good condition overall.

Rear is the bench and seat backs, in excellent condition barely ever used.

Have the rear seatbelts available too.

$550 ONO.

Taking up space, no longer needed any offers considered.

On 12/30/2022 at 9:17 PM, euroriffic said:

Got my new oil cap today.

Started fitting the Racetech seats in the compact and battled with where to mount the seatbelt receiver. I’m too skinny for it to work going over the top into a e30 one, so tried to make the rear middle seat one work, but having to thread the belt through the side hole to click it in is a bit awkward. 
So is on the rear seat mount bolt currently till I can find a better/longer option for one to come through the hole. 

 

I went through the same thing with my 135i, ive settled on using the rear seat belt receiver and threading the seatbelt through the seat hole. According to my cert guy it is acceptable to extend the receiver using a steel flat bar as long as appropriate size/material/thickness and hardware is used. Might be easier than finding one with longer webbing.

Im on the shore as well, could come up Orewa ways 

Some finishing touches (for now), apex stud conversion and hub centric spacers, as well as boot trims back in now.

Cage and interior almost entirely done now!

This is awesome to see, a much more extreme version of my 135i build, also had Ray do a halfcgae for me, very impressed with his work! Might have to steal your idea of blanking off the holes in the centre console trim piece.

41 minutes ago, M3AN said:

I'll ask the dumb question then, as the challenge of painting an installed cage has come up a few times recently, why not have the construction (welds etc) inspected with the cage out, paint the cage whilst it's out, install the cage, have the installation inspected, and then touch up any required spots?

Or powder coat the whole thing out of the car?

 

not a bad idea, however due to the geometry of the cage and car, you wouldn't be able to get it into the car after its assembled, has to be welded together in the car.

In other cars, with other cages it may be possible. There is a company in AUS who do bolt in powdercated cages, but that isn't MSNZ approved.

Might not look like much has changed, but the half cage is painted, was a bitch of a job I wouldn't ever reccoemnd anyone does haha not fun at all. Began putting the interior back in which is easier said than done, putting things to make it fit and try making it look tidy is quite tricky. Rear door cards had to be split in half, vertically tried to hide the split behind the main hoop of the cage but may still cover it with some form of thick black tape, but doesn't look too bad overall. 

Put the drivers seat in to move it and pretty happy with how it all looks and especially how the seating position feels. 

11 hours ago, Kees said:

Bought this tonight, will post some better pics tomorrow. 
 

Was always curious about 130s so thought might as well buy this one seeing as it seemed to be a pretty decent deal (cheap), hopefully it’s not too unreliable. 
 

Not sure what I’ll do with it yet, might drive for a bit and fix the major cosmetic things (front bumper is rooted) and then hopefully sell on for a little profit, which I’ll use to tidy a few things on my E34. Was also thinking of using it as a track/novice competition type car but wondering if that’s a rabbit hole I should avoid going down haha 
 

Has Style 216 wheels which are neat. Otherwise just regular 130i things. LCI, M Sport, Le Mans blue, Auto, etc 

saw this one on marketplace and seemed like a good deal, especially a good candidate for a track build, strip the interior, get a cage welded in, an FIA seat, some decent suspension, bushes, Swaybars and an LSD and it could be good fun even as an auto. 

15 hours ago, Cement said:

Been following the progress here, very cool. I predict within 6 months its a fully stripped race car for the road 🤣

Hahah there has been some scope creep for sure, got a bit carried away recently, but one thing led to another and ive somehow ended up here, no regrets though, should be a fun car!

Been following your Nissan E46 build too man, some very impressive stuff in there, great work!

Got the car back, halfcage is all done and looks fantastic, very happy with it. Wasted no time and got straight into installing the doubler plates for the transmission tunnel to mount the seatbelts, to LVV cert standards. Took a while to do, had to remove half the exhaust and then try locate the hole which is tricky to do without any reference points. Got there eventually, used 5mm bolts with spring washers instead of Monel rivets as it was much easier to do and still up to LVV spec. Plates have metal to metal contact, sound deadening was removed and the area was etch primed and painted to prevent rust. Used holes on the diagonal in the direction of seatbelt pull, as described in the LVV handbook.

now onto masking the interior and painting the halfcage... slowly getting there

wrong one sorry, different numbers

Got some photos from Ray (Chubb racing Ltd) who's doing my rollbar/halfcage, its looking great so far, really friendly/helpful guy would definitely recommend him to anyone looking into getting any sort of cage done, all to MSNZ spec.

First mock up of the new seats, only done drivers side very roughly before it started raining again, really need to get a garage...

I have a CCC unit form a 2008 135i, I will check for the part number

21 hours ago, m325i said:

Like what?

have removed the factory CCC iDrive unit, and want to run an aux straight to the factory speakers, either through an aftermarket amp or the stock amp, don't want any headhunt in the car, just the aux. Have searched all over the internet and been to audio shops but nobody seems to have an information on this.

Can anyone recommend someone that knows their stuff about BMW audio in Auckland, need some rather unique/unusual work done on my car.

Cheers

Now that im pretty happy with the exterior and handling, aside from needing some bigger swaybars, Ive made a start on the interior. The overall goal for this car is to build what is my interpretation of the 135i cs that bmw never built, so I started tearing apart the interior today for some major changes coming very soon.

1 minute ago, M3AN said:

All good and that sounds like a great plan. Other end of (stock) seatbelt will certainly not be an issue, if it's OE it's already approved.

All said and done, since you're putting in a half cage and proper seats, why not install a 3 or 4 point harness? That will probably cost you less than adapting the lap/sash and provide a more secure human/seat interface...

From what I understand harnesses are only street legal with a full cage, complete airbag removal and motorsport authority card but I may have misinterpreted the rules.

Will be getting a harness bar as a part of the half cage to keep the option for track use etc.

On 1/21/2023 at 3:50 PM, M3AN said:

No rear seat makes a huge difference to the ease with which you can do this. Different chassis but same considerations, I researched this for my e36 M3 coupe, and @sweetm3 did get an e36 coupe certed with aftermarket fronts and sliders, and a rear seat.

No rear seat (rear seat and seatbelts must be removed and I believe the vehicle needs to be re-registered as a 2 seater) means no access/egress requirements so that's good, I know NZKW and VAC Motorsport mounts can be certed in NZ, I'm sure other brand name mounts, like Recaro would also be fine. I can't recall what brand @sweetm3 used but they're obviously also fine. Or at least was all true a few years back, always talk to your cert guy before spending the money.

Then the seatbelt receptical fixing point needs to be OE or a new, reinforced mounting point, you can't use a non-OE mounting point on an aftermarket seat base (or slider) to the best of my knowledge. This is normally on the transmission tunnel and there are documented NZTA/LVVC standards for this with all of the necessary measurements.

Did you find this: https://www.lvvta.org.nz/documents/standards/LVVTA_STD_Seatbelts_& Seatbelt_Anchorages.pdf

 

sweet thanks a lot for the info, much appreciated. From talking to a certifier ive come to the conclusion that the most straightforward method is to use nzkw bases and mount the receptacle to the transmission tunnel to NZTA/LVVC standards. I won't be using sliders as I don't need rear seat access and im the only driver of the car so that keeps things simple too. I will be using Sparco Rev art seats, and will get matching FIA spec side brackets to make sure all the parts are of a reasonable quality to ensure safety. Then should just be a matter of coding the airbags. The other end of the seat belt shouldnt be a problem?

Cheers,

Sorry should have added, the car will not have any rear seats, its getting a half cage fitted before cert, seats won't be on sliders. Main concern is what bases can I use that will pass NZ cert. My bad should've worded my question more clearly, appreciate the response none the less.

cheers 

sold pending payment

Sold sorry, my bad forgot to update the post

Anyone here successfully managed to get aftermarket fixed back seats carted in an e90/e82 chassis? My main question is around what is required to pass cert in relation to seat base and seat belt buckle anchorage, since it is originally mounted to the seat.

Any help is much appreciated,

cheers