Neal

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.

This

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.

Apex , you make some valid points. Always thought the re-11 were a Japan special only that finally got released to the world market. The orginal comment was tyres for my older 325i with 225/55/16's . He put me on to tyres that would have similar grip levels for about $150 per tyre cheaper than the Preilli or Michelin / Uniroyals. He was happy to sell me the later , but said that all I'd be doing was to help him retire earlier. Apart from the Conti's the M3 had when I purchased I checked out Ps2's And pilot cups laughed at the price and went back to Bridgestones BTW , what do you run for targa ?

Similar opinon here on tyres , Not nesscarly fused with Country of orgin with tires. More about the right tyre for the right vechile. Got out of Euro tires on the advice of one of our local mad hill climbers a few years back. (mid mounted Mk1 V8 escort driver) Looks something like this BMW Bridgestone Re-11 best road tyre so far (have had re001's , Yokohama and Conti's which all had good grip and better ride comfit) Mini Road Yokohama A032r's A008's (10 inch wheel limitation) Track Dunlop slicks Bike / Sprints / Hillclimbing / Dunlop D20x'gp's / qualifiers Check out the tyre rack survey results and decide if your after Dot rated / extreme performance / or performance tyres for the way you drive your car. http://www.tirerack.com/tires/surveyresults/index.jsp

JBL comes to mind. They have 30 years of making this size for cars. In someways 6x9's can be a good way of getting nice mid to high bass notes. If you like insainly loud rock music or slap style bass players , then go for it. However , they will over power your fronts and pull the image to the rear. (roughly 8 db up on most component speakers so sound almost twice as loud) http://www.jbl.com/estore/jbl/us/products/...d=GTO928_JBL_US (note usd) Personally for Stereo music I would rather run high quality fronts with a bit of rear fill and a sub running down from 80 hz with steep crossover rolloffs. It pulls the image forward with a reasonable soundstage for a car. (I'm not too fused with what rear passengers hear) It's hard to achieve with 6x9's in the rear.

In my view a good step in factory bass before going to sub (s) I've heard some nice sounding 2 way 6x9's in the past. Should also produce a higher spl for the same power of the 4 .5 inch nokia's. Cost effective upgrade.

Might pay to see what brands are around in your size before doing a down selection. In the Bridgestone range it looks like the Re002 is the only tyre in your size which is a good trye at a good price. However , there is more grip as you go up the range. Brigdestone NZ only carries a certian size range within the Potenza series for wider / lower profile tyres.If they don't have your size they will order in for your (3 month process through Bridestone NZ 0800 number) However , since the earthquake last year it's been hard to back order for them. BNZ tried hard to get me a set of re-11 in 235/40/18 & 265/30/18's Ended up importing a set of re-11's from tirerack for $2300 (NZ would have been $1800 through firestone if stocked) In terms of re-11's high grip dry (trackday) Wet and cold weather grip is good, good steering response , meduim noise (white noise sound) Take about 1000 kms before they are at their best.

Only the Diesel versions of the e46 330's where turbo'd.

also looks like The two interfaces use different flow control on the rs232. t The bluetooth is expecting xon / xoff or no flowcontrol. The resiler is using hardware rts/cts Youi could try strapping RTS to CTS and set putty to none.

The other way to sort the ibus connection would be via your usb on the tab. Driver here http://www.ftdichip.com/FTDrivers.htm Device here http://www.reslers.de/IBUS/ I'm running one of these via win 7 and all good so far.

Very interesting project and a great way to get a low cost high res touch screen into the car. Like Hybrid I couldn't get around the steering wheel controls and also wanted a high end dac output for the audio system. If you added 3 g with a 2degrees bulk plan data sim you could stream radio stations / gps maps / pandora