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If you can picture an overweight 40 something going grey and the hairs thinning a bit with a mullet I think it would be called a muppet ! Still....... always lusted over the Mad Max interceptor ...... things you'd consider doing for a car ........ I think the old interceptor would be interesting on a dyno though.

Makes me want to build up a Ford XA coupe with a 671 supercharger and a clutch kit for the supercharger ...... without the studded leather gimp suit

Saw this or a similar car during a London Motorcycle show a couple of years back. Was part of a stunt team. The carwhich was about 1/2 size sounded like it was motorcycle engined powered. It must of had some kind of front wheel locking device as the driver got out of the car whilst it was doing dougnuts on a dime. The driver was showing excellent skills on what was usually a roller/ iceskating ring. They also had a team of extereme style motorcycle jumps. Very cool show !

I'm an IT Network Manager for large NZ govt Ministry. Been working with / building/ managing large computer networks since the late 80's Have a small property rental company on the side for hopefully early retirement. Don't have a company car as such, but use the 325i / 328i for our 25,000 km annual commute. Whilst "DINC's my wife is an accountant hence our modest cars. Spare dosh goes into property and some discretionary income goes into Italian motorbikes and a coupe of old Mk1 Mini’s.

A lot of the performance (or lack of) you get is down to the over subscription rates of the service. ADSL2 won't do much for the end consumer unless the approperate levels of back haul network have been engineered correctly. It may help speed up NZ hosted sites , but unless more international bandwidth has been purchased it won't make much difference to the responses you see on your screen. A large area of the expense for ISP's is the wholesale cost of international bandwidth. Normally this is the highest area of over subscripton for NZ traffic with most of NZ's internet traffic being moved on the Southern Cross fibre cable system. I think you'll find that the term Quality of Service is more about the priority of one traffic type over another rather than the quality or error rate of the cable between your home and the exchange equipment. Most NZ ISP's don't run "QOS" for consumer based networks. Having flash routers can help with the service your getting as they have improved technology which can drive copper pairs faster and may have newer error correction protocols than older equipement.

We had a 1985 323i That we traded at 330,000 kms. Seemed like it could still do plenty more

I've used Blair Wright (By the station) & Arlington Motors in the past. Both have been excellent in colour matching the paint.

I've heard excellent bass out of tube subs. The 10 inch should produce good fast bass in you X5. Otherwise if you’re after something more discrete it could be worth importing a JL Audio stealth Sub which replaces the small factory sub. Cost wise though it would be considerably more than the fusion but JL make top quality subs. http://mobile.jlaudio.com/products_stealth...php?fit_id=1556

Can't speak for the Viaduct but used QV quite a bit when assessing potential rentals / equity gain houses. Was a good guide for the market last year with the information worth the money ($70 dollar report). The market is a bit fickle at the moment so it's a bit hard to predict prices.I'd be interested to see how close property valuers are at the moment. We aren't using QV in the same way as the more recent data closely reflects the market peek from last year. Largely we are using the concil sights for property GV values and are working down from that. Doesn't seem to be many cash / finance aproved buyers at the moment so it seems to be a "buyers" market. Get yourself a copy of " Home Truths" by Martin Hawes if you haven't already done so. It's a good read from understanding the game point of view. Lower cash offers with quick settlement times seemed to be getting through now which wasn't the case late last year. This worked well for us over the last week, a few bargins to be had at the moment.

Try http://www.jaycar.co.nz for your sub grills. The key is to have a fairly open weave , or just at more power.

Have a section full of mature trees and no lawn ........ops and four cars & two motorbikes in the garage. The good thing is that I can only use one at a time. We do the recycling stuff and turn stuff off.... but we are not exactly green

Gidday Reaper36 http://www.bimmersport.co.nz/forums/index.php?showtopic=8286 should cover this off for you. Personal choice would be Boston speakers powered by decent amps. Hi end sony has good bang for buck as well.

Both she and a Ferrari would be high maintanence

One of the Longhurst e30 m3's ended up being written off against the NM500 start / finish wall (yellow car) was there another car ? (he was lucky to survive that one) Didn't Jim Richards drive a 635csi in the first couple of NM500's . I think John Billington QC also drove one as well ?

You also have to look out for ICE gear as well. I jumpstarted a car that had broken down in the middle of no where so couldn't really leave them stranded. Was careful and connected to earthing points on the body , then the two positive terminals of on the battery. All seemed ok They drove off happy. I'd left my stereo on whilst doing this. Drove off, noticed a lack of Bass , the Alpine Subwoofer Amp ended up having it's PSU fried.

Had the airlow sensor / meter replaced on my old e30 323i , whas doing the same thing , fine from 2- 6krpm , A real pig below that.

I think superchips did a inline for these many years back. Also check the sticky on the 2.7 litre conversions for the M20 engine. One conversion I read years back talked of using 323i rods. However, my understanding is that the Le jettronic will compensate if you do things like air filter / and freer flowing exhaust (EG you don't need to chip it if you change those things and it should add more fuel based on airflow.) Would be interesting to dyno a E30 320 race car with Motronic verse Le Jettronic as I suspect the Le might produce a bit more on the dyno due to the allowable exhaust change. The Le should add more fuel as a result. Others may be able to put me right here if I've got it wrong.

Yeah, this is the same route as the 94 E36 with factory badged sony changer

Not sure on shipping costs as our's was free , but it took 7 weeks for our contain from London to arrive in Tauranga and another week for it to arrive in Wellington when we moved back from London.

Yeah , no cutting of pannels within 300 mm of Seat belt mounts , according to ltsa. Done for everyones saftey.

Must be someone how's copied the AC E36 M3 CLS arche's by now http://www.ultimatebmw.co.uk/month.html

Used to have bad tram lining on my AC type 1's (16x8) running 225/50/16's with a Uniroyal performance tyre I moved to Bridgestone Gii and then later gIII's which cured the tram lining / weaving under braking & downhill stability . This weekend I replaced the fronts with the new bridgestone re001 ( http://www.potenza-adrenalin.com/ ) these are the replacement for both the Giii and S02's. No tramling with these and seem good so far. The design looks like it will protect the rims (No as much as the lower profile older verson Giii) In terms of tyre threads ..... Yep they do crop up , but there are always newer tyres on the market so these threads do need to crop up again. Maybe it's work a sticky thread on tyres with opinions that can change as the tyres do. I've seen this run well on motorcycle track day forums Just remembered , 8 inch type 1's may require the rear arches to be rolled with anything wider than a 225 so check clearance if you go to a 235 (the 225/50/16 rear Uniroyal's used to rub sometimes )

Very nice with all the right options. Hints .... If you hop out of the car and have left the windows down you can close the windows from the drivers door lock by turning the key anticlockwise for about 2 -3 seconds and hold it in that position. Any windows left open will close.

My wife was going to buy one of these a few year back , fortunately she took it for a test drive on the motorway which included a roundabout after the exit. After the thing nearly rolling and been extremely gutless she changed her mind and brought an E36 318I , She has since upgraded to a 328i and has never looked back. Make sure your wife give it a good test drive before buying, should be enough to change her mind. As for bridge ported rotaries at 2 am .......... wait until your 40 + and one turns up outside your place at 2am ........ must be getting old.

325i is 143 kw 323i is 120 something kw , I understand that the inlet manifold is also different. Schintzer used the older 325i one on the 323ti upgrades they used to do in the 1990's to restore some of the difference.