Bought a Haynes manual off Spadge the other week. Arrived swiftly well packed and in good condtion. Top man.

Sorry its taken me a week to post this mate, thanks for your help

Just reading the latest Top Gear mag. James May going on about the 1984 911 3.2 carrera he bought and what good value it was. Then moves on to other cars of similar value, including the M3 ("from the desirable original up to the present day") Now I was annoyed because I've always thought the 80s "st...

Lakenheath to Ely (long straights, hairpins, ditches either side, terrible road surface as it all sinks into the Fens). I was in a Citroen ZX diesel 70BHP and totally kept up with (never passed!) a US import Corvette (lot of them around those parts what with the USAF being there.) The US barge flew ...

Nice bit of kit; very clean bodywork - seems like a good price. Mind me asking the mileage out of curiosity?

Fck me, just read all 17 pages of this. F*cking inspirational. Dunno what else to say that hasn't already been said. Absolute kudos Simon.

I have all the parts here you need to fit pas going cheap. Thanks Ed but I'll leave it for now. Wallet + also I went for a run from Streatham to Soham (through Wicken) earlier - know the road? Anyhow I'm getting to quite like the steering :) Looks like Zinnobar red to me Yea 'tis. Keep it original....

btw if anyone local fancies popping round and giving it a spin I'd value the opinion of a more experienced owner Dunno if there's much in the way of meets round this way? Bury St Eds perhaps? Seem to be a lot of zoners based round that way..

I bet it drives nicely at 88k Not significantly better than my 130K 320 used to tbh. A little perhaps. I've been driving round Ely today but haven't done a run yet. Think I'll drive to work (Norwich - 120 mile round trip) Monday to get a real feel for it. Going into 2nd gear always crunches and the...

Same problem on my 530d E39 a while ago. Totally different engine granted, but that WAS the crank sensor. Worse when its warm than cold?

most obvious way to tell is if it had it you would have the fluid reservoir between the brake fluid reservoir and airbox. Right you are, thanks. I wasn't sure if it was that little tank between the coolant and the battery. What's that then? Ironic that you added PAS to a manual whilst Ed325i did th...

ed325i wrote:No Its got a manual rack mine had pas and I have converted it to manual.

Can you tell from the photos Ed or did you see the car?

If your's hasn't got PAS I would definately recommend getting it done Well I'm not sure whether it has PAS to be totally honest. The rack looks like a PAS rack but then I've never seen a non-PAS one.. Steering is heavy-ish but I'd expect it to be heavier without PAS. On balance I think it probably ...

Oh yea. Get this. According to the service book its on its FIFTH cam belt

Sure you can't be tempted to do a sympathetic resto on this one and find an unloved high mileage 4pot to do the m52 conversion ?......go on.....save a chromie !!!! :D Truth is I'll do neither for a while, lottery notwithstanding, but you're right it would be mildly sacreligeous (sp?) to rip out a p...

As the seller is leaving the country give us a clue what you paid for it winkeye Half his starting price more or less. Which is about right when you find a new scab every time you walk round the car :? Mostly surface rust but I'll take it to the garage and pop it on a ramp at some point soon to see...

ed325i wrote:Thats the one from ely.
He had it up for £750 ?

Yep that's the one Ed. He was actually in Soham. He paid £1500 for it off a dealer First E30 syndrome!

Out of respect to the seller I won't say what I paid but suffice to say a lot less than £750!

Well, having lost a packet when I got rid of my automatic 320i 4-door last year (yea that was a bright buy wasn't it!), I've finally persuaded the keeper of the pennies that another E30 would make, er, sound economic sense. This time its a B reg 323i 2 door manual, which I picked up for a song last ...