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Great filming on this

Isn't the use of copper grease on the caliper side of the pad suposed to help eliminate pad rattle & squeak ?

Sounds like you have an an exceptional example. Was giving an indication of what a well looked after standard NZ e36 325i 5 speed eather coupe went for. Car had full dealer history and was garaged day & night. Price has nothing to do with engine technology, more to do with market reality. ( e.g. one of my Mk1 Mini's I brought at the same time for 10% of the BMW's price ended up being worth more ... which is the better car ?) Maybe my old E36 could have reached $5k. I wasn't too worried about the price as I'd had my use out of it and it had owed me nothing for quite some time. Mind you, if someone wants to give me $9K for the E36 328i they can have it tomorrow

Agree on price. Traded my 94 NZ 325i Coupe / leather / Type 1's /5 speed with 225k kms for $4000 Aug last year. Paint was in mint condition . Car dealer put it on trademe for $4000 and it sold within 24hrs.

My understanding is that when these where first released Honda wouldn't support getting parts or servcing to protect values for current owners for what was a top of the line offering. A well heeled friend of mine looked into importing one about a year after they came out and that is what a dealer told him. Mostly likely different now.

Birds London also did a number of Conversions. The NZ new ones where also largely converted to RHD. Not sure if they were done in NZ

All of the equipment in front of the web server is capable of logging information. Even if your bandwidth has been be saturated you still can log the information of the traffic that is making it through. If you have a quick read of something like this link you'llappreciationaitation for the security layers that will go in front of Web servers. http://www.libraryinsight.com/events/technology.htm It's a bit like your home PC on steroids steriods You have your ADSL router . For a large enterprise you will have many routers connect to the internet. These are capable of logging a substantial substancial amount of data on where traffic comes from and is going to. Next stage will be firewalls. These will allow / deny traffic and are capable of logging internet traffic. A large NZ enterprise will see a few million log entries a day , most of this being virus / bots / hacking engines and the odd real attempt of hackers trying to steal information / break in. Next stage are load balanacers / traffic directors. These will typically handle web sessions and pass them off to the Web servers. Again this is another logging point Then you have the Web servers. If you knock these out you still have another three layers of security and logging that are up. So for people silly enough to attack these web sites from home it will be more than likely that the web site will have the internet address and times of the attacks and can just pass these onto the authorities. If it's like the European hacking groups who tend to use remotes bots / Trojan servers spread around the world ( p@rn users pc's typically are effected by these) then it becomes far harder to trace the source of the attack. However , you'd have to be pretty dumb and neivee to go after a USA govt web site and think you'd get away with it.

Anyone want to shoot a bimmersport e30 music video ? I'm sure we could do better

The first version gain my respect when one finished third at Bathurst hrs despite hitting a wall at 180 kmh in practice. They needed two jigs to straighten the chassis it was that strong. Honda NZ also had a policy of not supporting Jap imports which did well to protect resale values which are still high now if you can get one.

I remember the days of going passed "PDL" in Wellington in the Bus in thd 1980's and seeing a road going Rs500 in the car park. These where manic as a performance car then let alone a race version.

Have seen a few examples here in the last week or so. Tend to be rust free with faded paint as oposed to cheap mods and hiden rust examples that I saw when living in the UK.. Plenty of USA seem to have the tunermotorsports 2.5 crank and evo cam inlet cam replacement done which is a nice way to go . Check out the gearbox specs as the 2.3 has an over-driven 5th rather than the CR ratio 5 speed in Europe. Plenty of info if you seacrh bimmersport on importing. As these are all 20 year plus they are easier to import than when I looked at doing the same in 2005 when living in the UK. From what I've seen have the owership seems to be either track day cars or collectors with immacutale version. But the overall standard seems to be higher than the UK.

From what I can tell you need to add the factory siren , tilt switch and ultrasonic sensor (if you can be bothered with the odd false trigger) and a DWS led for visual indication which is the Rearview mirror on RF based remotes . Looks like the flashing LED connects back to the General Module so adding the possibility of wiring in your own. From what I've read so far I'm getting the impressson that it won't matter if you have the RF or IR remote to enable / disable the alarm function, but haven't been able to confirm either way. have a read here for the base understanding of the general module and have a read of the dws section http://www.bmwmotorsports.org/BMW_docs/x5zkeIII.pdf

Firewall logs / site minder etc. Gives you IP addresses / ports for all of the traffic. Place court order with ISP to convert to user names if people are stupid enough to run these from there home machines.

It's made the news on CNN here in the USA http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/19/business/meg....html?hpt=us_c2

Currently up a few miles up the coast from San Deigo. 650ci 645ci convertables are a common site as are last years 5 series. Haven't seen a single e30 but have seen a couple of mint big bumpered E21 320's and an E36 Dinan M3. Also seen about 4 v10 M6's and a pair of fighter jets that are patroling the sky's.

If Johno hasn't sorted it and your mate has time you can get manafuactured to order from the factory RE11's for about $250 less. I've been able to order 235/40/18's & 265/35/18's via Bridgestone NZ as they are are of stock / only to order the 265/35/18 size. These will still go on the factory rims but run at the minimum end of rim width recommendation. Check out http://www.tirerack.com for reviews.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/BMW-IBUS-I-BUS-RS2...e-/160393261886 Similar design to the older Resler. You can also google circuit diagrams to build your own as the circuit isn't complicated.

Even with the diversity aerial use still comes down to the tuner used. The wifes Sony head unit in a e36 works better than the bm53 in the m3 for FM reception. I live in a finge area. Best FM receiption I've had in a BMW was the factory 1994 BMW OEM Sony U550 Tape player via e36 rear window. The tuner was designed in the early 1990's and runs rings around the 2000's stuff. I suspect a decent aftermarket tuner running one half of the rear window will out perform the factory unit switching between the two halves.

What model head unit is it ? You maybe able to retrofit RCA outputs at the op amp stage before the final amp stage. Plenty of examples on the internet for CD/BM53 / 54's . Wouldn't put to much power through the factory speakers. If they are nokia's then you looking at 20 rms watts max.

Have Ski MyHDI (acts as PVR ) mainly because I cant get Freeview HD reception. For digtial content I have a HT PC setup up with a bunch of file shares and currently 4tb of storage. HT PC will drop into low power mode when not being used for content and will spool down the drives for longevity Shared content can also be streamed / downlowded to PS3 (which does blu ray duties as well) PC's , Squeezebox audio streamer, iphones and CarPC

Came across this build tonight tonight> looks like a good way to do it. http://www.e46zone.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=29298

For the race engine I'll run mobil 1 mainly because of the added turbo and of low wear I've had on older BMW engines while running this oil. But Keith Calver that writes a collum in mini mag has written a few artilces about the rights and wrongs of modern engine oils in older technology engines that don't have the same level of harding on some of the drive componets hence permature wear if some are used. Check out the end of the second article for an oil recommendation, but have a read through the two to gain the understanding of what is important for oils in a mini engine context http://www.minimania.com/web/SCatagory/ENG...89/ArticleV.cfm http://www.minimania.com/web/SCatagory/ENG...ticleV.cfmehind

Just checked out the photo's in a bit more detail. Looks like you've got a good one. Good price too. Many people have spent more than this to make standard minis look like cooper let alone the real thing. Change the tyres to 165's on your next change and you'll find the cornering will improve considerably.

All sounding good then. BTW, those old mini's become very addictive. I've got one side of the garage full with two & half minis from the 1960's. One is still leaking oil dispite having not being moved / started for 6 years !

Sound order based on M3 & e36 325i all 225's or wider. Note older models of tyres. Continental ContiSportContact 2 Mid noise level at low tread level Yokohama ADVAN Neova AD08 ( close to Re001's) Bridgestone RE001 Adrenalin's