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I didn't know that, Yokohama certainly make some very good tyres. Are Nankang a Chinese company( I assume they are made in China or Korea maybe) that Yoko bought, or are they a "budget" brand they created? Have you checked out the "Tire rack" (www.tirerack.com) for prices and reviews, it seems to be a very comprehensive and unbiased (if that is possible!) source of info, as they APPEAR to stock all brands of "tires"

call me a snob, but I don't think I would ever fit a set of tyres to my car with the name "Nankang" as well as others such as "Wan Lee" etc - I would not be confident driving on anything with this on the sidewall, and tyre fashion sense doesn't count for much when your car is parked in a ditch because it ran out of grip on that tricky right hander.............. I will gladly fork out the extra for a brand that has a bit of a pedigree, remember, its not what they cost you, it is what they could save you, and generally speaking the higher the milage you get from a set of tyres, the less grip they will produce.

Porsche Brembos, and by the looks of where the coilover is mounted, I'd say trailing arms off a 5 series- very nice! Did you use the E30 rear beam, or modify the 5er to fit?

Okay, found my 325 driveshaft (axle, halfshaft or whatever you want to call it) today, and did a few measurements as follows: 325: Inner CV joint 86mm PCD 99mm Dia 30mm wide Outer CV 29mm spline M22 thread M Roadster Inner CV joint 94mm PCD 108mm Dia 30mm wide Outer CV 33mm spline M27 thread So it seems, E30-323ti, you were right all along! Hmmm, feeling a bit hungry, what is this in the fridge, a nice piece of leftover humble pie............

THATS THE ONE!!!!!! The look is definitely dated now, and I have only seen the car driving down the road, but it looks like it was put together quite well, and no doubt would have cost moonbeams for whoever built it. Anyone know the history of it?I first saw it many years ago, and seem to see it occasionally on the Nth Shore. It has a strange sort of appeal to me in a kind of "big hair-bright clothes eighties rock" kind of way, sort of like watching "Flashbacks" on C4.........

Probably wouldn't look that bad with a proper paint job, and some HUGE wheels, but I'd say the budget ran out long ago just quietly........I saw recently somewhere a similar kit to make your E30 look like an E46 M3 CSL- or so the makers claimed, it actually looked terrible, all those curvy spoilers on a square cut car....It kind of reminds me of that Metallic Blue E30 that I see occasionally on the Nth Shore, it has one of those outrageous WIDE bodykits that were popular in Europe in the late 80's early 90's, complete with the Testarossa flutes etc. and some humungeous BBS wheels on it, think it had turbo M20 but not sure. Anyone else seen/know of it?

The last two I had anything to do with were around 1100 kilos, with similar spec. BTW, its an Escort, not a Sierra, and sorry for changing the subject in your post,that was a bit rude of me, but I couldn't resist as that other Cossie is so similar to mine.

Looks a lot like mine!.......Looking good Andrew, you are miles ahead of me! Sweepstake on "guess the weight"- I'll say 1090kgs.

My M3 didn't have this, so you must be special....... I think you only get about 5 "power boosts" every time you take the car out, so use them wisely my friend!

wheels should have offset stamped in the centre by the wheel stud holes, under the centre cap. Will be ETXX.

Agree there,I posted a similar reply in "Turboing an M3" a few weeks back on this crowd, I reckon on about 800hp max from this conversion, and the installation is pretty sore too, with that nasty crossover pipe to the turbo. His maths is not even very good, at 30 pounds boost, you get a theoretical MAXIMUM of 963hp (pressure ratio of 3 atmospheres or 3 bar absolute x 321hp) before you start to take away thermal and pressure losses etc,lowered comp. ratio etc which would probably leave you with 700-800 hp. Still fast, but BS factor a bit high for my liking......

Hell no, took me too long to get my hands on that one! I am building an E30 racer, with a similar engine that is in that hillclimb car in your post, should be fun!......

Aha, sprung! You will be reported and dealt with in an appropriate manner! That race car is just mental! I got a big woody watching that!Meanwhile, check out this bad boy, yet another fine way to way to up climb up a hill. I have posted it before, but not in this section, so apologies if you have already seen it. http://www.berg-zeitnahme.de/plasa_videos/...slowenien04.mpg

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Why would you want to do that?

Damn! That looks too easy, I know where there is one of those engines which could probably be bought, I gave it some serious consideration before I went looking for the S50(had the tape measure out, and the S62 is only 6kgs heavier than an S50!) It looks quite easy( apart from the obviously difficult bit-finding an S62!) the chassis rails on an E30 are the same distance apart as an E36, which is same as an E46, and I THINK same as an M5, and the strut towers are FURTHER apart than an E36........ (Which makes it no surprise that Alpina fitted an M70 V12 to an E30- see link below).......... Interesting to see, they didn't even bother freshening up the suspension......Or brakes........ This would be a hard one to top, I guess maybe one of the new M5 V10's perhaps, or possibly an S70 if you could find one. Very cool though, I like it! This takes a while to download, really need broadband http://forums.mwerks.com/zerothread?cmd=print&id=1492020

Because nobody (at Herberts) took pictures or made notes of the last cage they built!

Darn, two doors too many!

He has just pulled the auction, check the unanswered Q's - very funny!

I see what you mean. The tube that attaches to your shock tower is a good 40-50mm further inboard than mine were, so you are probably going to have to do some surgery on the fusebox to get it to fit, or try moving it as you suggested.

On the last two cars that Herbert did, you could fit the fusebox almost in the original position, needed to move it sideways about 10-20 mm, but otherwise went in okay. If your forward running strut tower bars are in a slightly different posi, then it sounds like you will have some problems getting it to look tidy.will cutting away the lower part of the fusebox, and making an ali panel to cover the hole in help?

Normally known as "Racing No.1", the fuel you are paying 2.50 for IS just aged avgas, which by the way, will cost you a LOT more than .60 per litre (it hasn't been that price for a LONG time!) Proper race fuel such as ELF WRF, VP Fuels, Optimax, etc. cost $6 to $8 per litre, these are lead free fuels, unlike avgas/No.1 which has a decent lead content.

Are any available here yet?It available overseas, as through Europe most Race Series Cars now run Cat's. Generally "Race Gas" is aged AVGAS, AVGAS has a shelf life in the Airport tanks, and once the tanks are passed their use by dates the AVGAS is brought back and repackaged as Race Gas spot on about your comments on race gas/avgas. Race gas is imported into NZ, a couple of examples are ELF WRF and VP fuels(various blends such as C14 and C16) and it is lead free. But at around $8 a litre, you wouldn't put it in your road car!

You are supposed to show your racing licence when you buy the stuff here, and it is intended to be for your race car to use at Manfield, they used to enforce this, not sure if they still do.

I know the 320 and 325i definitely have different sized inner CV's, but I have only measured the OD of the 325 CV joint, I have not checked the PCD or internals of it to see that it is the same as the M Coupe/M3, I have just assumed it is the same.I will do that in the next week or two and confirm.A bit of (possibly) useless information, the outer CV on the M3 and M Coupe is larger than the E30 325, and the M Coupe/roadster trailing arm is different in this area, the casting is larger to allow clearance for this. As far as the diff goes, you would be hard pressed to destroy one, they are VERY strong, a friend has an essentially stock LSD in his 500hp 2002, and in 10 years has never blown one!