elias
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Front bumper off a sapphire black 135i Some damage here and there $450 Number plate, kidney grilles not included. Mesh for lower vent in front of intercooler will be refitted upon sale. *bumper has been removed from car so is ready for sale
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Finally got round to working on the car again, decided to do something about the rather warm oil temps, especially if im going to take this thing to the track. Got my new bumper and started cutting pieces of it out to let more air through the vents. Bought a pair of 19row aeroflow oil coolers and made some brackets to mount them in the wheel wells, positioning them as best as possible behind the 1m style bumpers vents for best airflow. Will make some better ducting at a later stage to force feed them. Bumper off to paint next week. Before After Coolers mounted With bumper Horn mounts added, will have one horn each side considering keeping the stock oil cooler and converting it into a transmission cooler. Just not sure about removing the stock heat exchanger yet as it does help warm up the transmission. Possibly would still warm up quick enough if i used an inline 80deg thermostat. Project for another day...
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front seats sold, still have rear seats and rear seatbelts. $75 for the lot.
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have sent you a message
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looking good, lots of good work there, looks like an incredible build. In terms of a halfcage, that one doesnt look ideal, if you arent opposed to a weld in one, have a chat to chubb racing ltd, hes in auckland, welded a halfcage into my 135i, very happy with it and done to MSNZ spec. Seats, seatbelt anchorages are all LVV certified as well no so no issues there either. More info on the whole interior changes in my build thread
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New to NZ, new forum member, in the market for an F20 M135i
elias replied to celarc's topic in New Member Introductions
Good time to be buying an m135i, prices have come down recently, can find decent ones for sub 20k now. Awesome all round car and great fun to drive! Would definitely suggest sticking to an m135i over the smaller engine ones, 6 cylinders are what bmw does best! -
Car has passed its cert, got its wof and reg now, can finally legally drive it on the roads again. Also came up with a mount for a old ipad mini to keep track of oil temps, boost, IATs etc etc. Took it out for a quick drive around some riverhead backroads today, definitely missed driving this car. Next job is going to be to get the front right corner damage sorted.
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Still for sale, UPDATE: Had to keep the buckles/pretensioners from the front seats, so they arent included in the sale anymore, hence dropping price to $300 for the set, want it gone
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Took car in for its Cert inspection today. Few things to rectify after talking to Paul, main concern being the removal of the front seatbelt pretensioners. Currently I have just bolted the rear seat belt buckles to the transmission tunnel, but it appears the pretensioner must be kept. So ive managed to remove it from the oem seat, and disassembled the big yellow connector to now only contain the pretensioner plug inside of it so the connection to the car remains as it was from factory and no wires in the OEM seat had to be cut. Now will just bolt that to the transmission tunnel. Other than that, just needs a few more spring washers in some places, wanted some more information around the brake swap especially the adapter brackets, and to level out the front ride height, seems to be about 8mm difference across left to right. Mostly pretty straightforward stuff, took a bit of thinking with the pretensioners but should be somewhat straight forward from here, and then hopefully a legal car soon, once I pass the wof it failed for exhaust being too loud and the front right headlight angle being wrong...
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Ill let you know when my 135i decides to blow up
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Public parking isn't great, but I don't really have much choice at the moment, cross lease and an neighbour who is extremely particular about parking means it can't be on the driveway, and no garage currently. Yeah could've been worse, but going to need a new fender, as well as the bumper repaired/repainted, decided I might as well get a new bumper if im paying for paint anyways, so hopefully car will look better than before. Ill get to that once I get the cert sorted.
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Car has been parked up on a quiet culdesac near my house due to having no wof or rego, waiting on cert. Parked there as my driveway doesn't have any room, and house is halfway through renovations. Someone hit the car while it was parked, and damaged the front bumper and fender as well as a small scratch in one of the brand new wheels. Didn't leave a note or anything, so ive got no idea who it was, and my insurance is only 3rd party. So looks like im going to have to pay to have it fixed myself, pretty shitty thing to do. Spend all these hours working on making the car as nice as possible, just for some c**t to f**k it up. 😡 Nobody saw anything and no CCTV. Got a good plan for getting fixed and looking better than before at least but going to take a bit of saving, with being a uni student.
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Lowered the front of the car another 20mm ish, quite like the way it looks with a bit of rake, and the bumper isn't particularly low anyways. Quite happy with the ride heights now, so will probably get it carted for this height.
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I don't see why not, if they're deemed strong enough/safe in a 2 door car why shouldn't they be safe in a 4 door car? But not sure on exact WOF rules. Not sure regarding fitment for an e87, they came out of an e82, both 1 series of the same generation.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Some finishing touches (for now), apex stud conversion and hub centric spacers, as well as boot trims back in now.
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Cage and interior almost entirely done now!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
