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some paint shops have colour scanners . Not sure how good that would be on matte black or frozen colours Could be worth a try ?

Isn't the idea of matt black that you don't care about paint colour because it's so gangtsa ?

Add looks like the standard TM dealer cut and paste rather than an add for NZ new. Dealer mistake IMO. Should have waited a year rather than buying a low KM e46 M3 Would be interesting to see what a non trashed servicing costs run at. Launch controlled starts , brake pads and clutch every year ? Sounds like their money would be better spent on a 1000 cc sports bike which will take it all day !

Get the same on commute. Can go higher with lots of short 50 kmh type trips. Drops to 7.x/100 on open road

Just interested in how many on here have had smg II pump failures ? Anyone ?

Nice car. Factory 19's look fine , don't go any larger ! It won't corner as well. Get some light 18 rims and super sticky tyres for track days (Mind you 18 inch factory ones as same weight as your forged 19's) Nailing it in 2nd / 3rd brings a huge grin, hard edged noise of the 3.2 six reving out is very addictive. Same colour as mine !

Nice car.Looks almost identical to my old one. Rear spoiler is a BMW motorsport item. Great to see that your taking time to fix up those wear and tear items, the car is in good hands.

Seriously nice looking M3. looking forward to your updates. In terms of hard wired safety devices there is a nice install for BMW's. Fits into your rearview mirror and headrest. http://www.radar-mirror.com/Gallery.html

would this work instead of single pipe muffler ? http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/car-parts-...n-505787387.htm

Car is still missing plaque on dash , Steering wheel button, I think they even had thier own t bar. The 1993 3.0 version on 325i base

Go for period mods like Alpina C2 2.7 rep engine or drop in Brent HARTGE535i's worked M5 engine that's for sale at the moment. Be different from everyone else putting in M50 engines into E30's IMO.

Talking M50BXX ACS 3.0 bored and stroked engine non vanos motor with roughly 240hp rather than S50 with 286hp When the ACS of around that year came to NZ your M3 hadn't come out put the price was roughly $130k nz (Same as your M3) Once your version came out the performance drifference of the M3 meant the ACS was no longer cost effective.

Every time I read this thread I want a coffee

He's dreaming .... Wrong body kit , steering wheel etc. Even the 3.0 E36 version didn't get to 280 hp.

Hmmm , cats out of the bag on that mini now. With 250 + being advertised no wonder the little brick made it past 250 kmh. 380 hp, That beats all the UK guys ! And here am I aiming for 130hp using a 1275 block + ihi rbh5 + 5 port. Shows what an expert can achieve compared to a novice

I buy roasted coffee beans (italia) from Gibbston Coffee Co on the terrace in Wellington. Tony doesn't advertise and doesn't need to as word of mouth is he's one of the top roasters and barista's in Wellington. He also produces a wide range of roasting styles and uses a antique looking itailian roaster. Im a self confessed addict Machine wise use a La Nuova Era Cuadra E61 head and a Mini Macho Grinder

In my opinion 1, If your running stereo , then only rear fill is needed at back with clean and basic speakers. However , matching fronts and rears in my opinion sounds good. If running multi channel then matched speakers are the way to go. The rear tweeters in the door are put there so they don't put the image backwards for front passenagers and also so that rear passengers have better stereo panning than if the speakers where behind. Personally I'd just run the componets in the rear parcel shelf. 2,Tweater position comes down to personel choice. If you like a headphone still of stereo image then use the doors. Down side is that the image is pulled middle to the right from the drivers side due to greater unequal distance between left and right speaker relative to the seating position. I prefer pillar or dash corner mount for tweaters. Pulls the image up and forward. Closer to listening to music at home. 3, I suspect that your amp doesn't support balanced audio input ( only a few higher end car amps do) However , you can use speaker out to high level in on your amp. Not ideal but will sound ok (two amps in the audio chain). The other way is to modify the headunit and take RCA out before the unbalanced output stage and run these to your amps. Will give a cleaner sound but doing the mod's is not for the the faint hearted. (Check out my profile attachments of a bm53 tunrer unit that I modified for RCA out) If the amp is close to 500 per channel then check the gauge of the standard speaker cabling. I'd probably run larger cable if it knocks out close to 500.

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Dont have tats , wear a suite and tie to work , I'm somewhat old school in this regard but take people on facevalue regardless. Have respect for people that tatoo themselves with something meaningful to themselves. Was talking with a Samoan village chief a few years back, He'd had the full on traditional tats done in his late teens and explained the meaning and what they repesented. I have more respect for this lava wearing tatoo'd man than I do for most people. (Saved a number of tourist risking his own life a few years back)

Some interesting M cars in this video like an e30 m3 powered ute

Have a read of this link http://www.macadamizer.com/bmwfix.html , if your up to do this , otherwise $100 is a good option if your not into electronics DYI.

1 of 15 , Most exclusive M3 ?

Silver is never a great colour to photo under NZ daylight , but looks better in evenings

S e n n a great doco moive eh . If you enjoyed that check out TT3D Close to the Edge . Follows a Isle of Man TT motorcycle rider.

Check with kiwi535(Paul) , I think it was at the BMWCC Wellington Chairmans place.