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i'm just south of where you'll be, down in North Carolina.

You're better off bringing the euro stuff here with you!!

being that they are so rare, one should jump on them if you get the opportunity and want them.

Took me 5 years to find a pair of 8's, then a buddy of mine found another set so I bought them too. Now I have two staggered sets

thanks all, these are Alpina specific parts so I may try the Alpina route.

The set I have are part numbers 4100151 and 4100152, supposedly cabrio specific.

Anybody have the mounting measurements for these? Picked up a genuine set and hoping to find a pdf of the instructions/measurements before I drill into the chassis.

Thanks.

I have 225/45 on my 8" Alpinas

nice car!

I love my cabrio! A front strut bar does wonders for them

Gay? yeah ok. Here's a sneak peak of my cabrio. 24V, staggered Alpinas and a few more bits. Once its finished, i'll put some better pics up. I blew out 3 discs and had emergency back surgery on march 25th. Haven't touched it since. http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c55/e30rapidic/Mobile%20Uploads/im...

well I love my cabrio with an S50...

check to see if there any spring pads back there. They could give you a few mm

Rav335uk wrote:
Luis325 wrote:Thanks RAv!!! I wish i could find some!
There was a set on R3v not long ago.

They're on my car now

As always....nice car Luis!

it was me, I sent it to you.

I've had mine fitted on my cabrio since I sold my 325is back in '96.....

no issues

I took the lifters apart in my US S50, soaked in carburetor cleaner and rebuilt. It fixed the tick on all but one....although I think it may actually be a header leak.

You can also try running quart of automatic transmission fluid for a couple of hundred miles before your next oil change.

If your willing to ship over here to the US, you could make a few bob....

I have had a few people wanting to buy mine, right off the car

I'm a displaced limey living in North Carolina, USA. Let me know if you want something and I'll try to help you out.

use 21511204525 with the M20 clutch setup and zf trans. I tried it with the regular m20 throwout bearing and the catch point was practically on the floor. I swapped in the 525 part number and its close to where it was when stock.

Rickz wrote:
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Thanks

Mel is a good guy.

Diable- agree with you there mate, I think the E30 has a much bigger following over in the States. It's the car that really launched BM there, and we had already had the 02's and the e21. Having lived in both places, I can say this is true. The younger crowd is really getting behind the e30. 02's a...

vanos seals?

sounds like a main relay issue.

for the M30 AFM, make sure you get the one ending in 027. The other part number needs to be fiddled with to get it "set" properly, not so much plug-n-play. Someone I know dyno tested just the injectors and MAF "upgrade" and got a whopping 6 peak horsepower. I ran the injector/AFM setup with a BMP ch...

are you certain they are S52 cams?

http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum/sh ... M52-vs-S52

M3 uses a 22mm slave, non M's use a 20mm slave. Only difference is pedal feel, no difference in travel or catch point.

I have a US S50 with the zf transmission, running a lightweight single mass M20 flywheel and stock type 325i clutch masters stage 2 clutch kit. I originally had the stock 325i throwout bearing installed but my catch point was just off the floor. No good so I installed the taller 323 throwout bearing...

lol I swapped my big metal bumpers for a "euro" set

have you tried the stomp test? Turn the ignition to the "on" position and press the gas pedal 5 times. The red check engine light in the cluster will flash in succession

Cheap way is to buy an non lighted emblem and carefully scrape the paint out of the gate pattern. Might be a bit "council" as you guys say but it works. My first lighted shift knob was done this way, I now have the one piece boot/knob.

http://www.e30tech.com/forum/showthread.php?t=103506

I beg to differ...I have a 11 pound flywheel on mine and it will idle rough as anything with the stock idle speed. There is a night and day difference in the smoothness between the two chips and their respective idle rpm's. I've run the lightweight flywheel on M20 2.5's, stroker 2.8's and an S50. It...

I removed the weight out of mine.The only difference was a 3mm increase in ride height on the RR that I adjusted out. I have bilstein sports, eibach pro kit up front, coil overs in the rear, larger sways, new bushings, strut bar, etc...

first thing you need to do is check out and see what ratio you actually have in there. 318's came with 4.45, 4.27, 4.10, 3.91 and 3.64 ratios.

a lightened flywheel will certainly affect the idle smoothness. I put a lightweight flywheel in with my S50 swap and had the idle bumped up to 900 rpms for that very reason. Nobody can tell. A cheap fix would be to adjust the throttle cable at the throttle body; bump the idle up just a bit to see if...

bend the bracket back and forth a few times and it will snap off. I still have the windage tray in my S50(US)e30

16" Spal puller fan

actually non vanos engines built before 9/92 won't have them

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