One day.....must get lottery ticket at weekend
So here it is.... an E30 M3 for me! Now sold.
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jimbom30cab
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One day.....must get lottery ticket at weekend
One day.....must get lottery ticket at weekend
Can't see the Sport doing many miles now 
Sport? What sport?
Only kidding! That's coming out to play at the end of the month.
Only kidding! That's coming out to play at the end of the month.
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jimbom30cab
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Are you planning to keep all 3 classic BMs ? You'll be opening a ///M Museum soon
If I can, I will.
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Good man !!
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Nice work Trevor 
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Lovely motor bss.
I do regret selling my m3.
A nice e30 m3 is a lovely machine.
For some reason I think white suits thee30 really well.
Especially in tech2 or m3 form.
I do regret selling my m3.
A nice e30 m3 is a lovely machine.
For some reason I think white suits thee30 really well.
Especially in tech2 or m3 form.
M3 cecotto ultimate driving machine
had a passenger ride in this recently, very impressed !
Thanks guys.
So I've now covered approx 1000 miles in it and it's been rock solid until yesterday when it failed to start after an hours drive. A hard tap on the starter motor and it span into life so a new starter motor is in order.
With the ring trip looming ever closer and I thought it prudent to check the health of the engine a bit more than a visual inspection of the top end.
First thing was an oil pressure test so after a run to get the engine up to temp I took a reading. Bmw specify 7-28 psi at idle and 57-85 psi at Max rpm. We as you can see in the pic above it was just over 80 psi at approx 5500 rpm and did not climb higher than that with any more rpm so pretty much perfect oil pressure! Happy days!
Next up a compression test resulted in a pretty even 160-170 psi across all four cylinders and going on BMW's specified data which is 10-11 bar minimum (145-159 psi), it within spec. Now from what I've read of other people's S14 compression tests, some seem to be getting up to and over 180 psi but I guess given the high mileage it's not too bad and most important of all, heathy enough to take on track without fear of it grenading itself. I hope!
These bare tail pipes were letting the side down so as a reward for not being a tired old nail of an S14 it got a pair of oem shaddow line tail pipe trims.
Much better!
And to end, although proving to be pretty awesome at stopping, these BMW Motorsport group N front pads give off a ridiculous amount of dust!
Oh, and after checking the VIN number, it turns out my car is one of the first 5000 built to homologate the car for motorsport use!
So I've now covered approx 1000 miles in it and it's been rock solid until yesterday when it failed to start after an hours drive. A hard tap on the starter motor and it span into life so a new starter motor is in order.
With the ring trip looming ever closer and I thought it prudent to check the health of the engine a bit more than a visual inspection of the top end.
First thing was an oil pressure test so after a run to get the engine up to temp I took a reading. Bmw specify 7-28 psi at idle and 57-85 psi at Max rpm. We as you can see in the pic above it was just over 80 psi at approx 5500 rpm and did not climb higher than that with any more rpm so pretty much perfect oil pressure! Happy days!
Next up a compression test resulted in a pretty even 160-170 psi across all four cylinders and going on BMW's specified data which is 10-11 bar minimum (145-159 psi), it within spec. Now from what I've read of other people's S14 compression tests, some seem to be getting up to and over 180 psi but I guess given the high mileage it's not too bad and most important of all, heathy enough to take on track without fear of it grenading itself. I hope!
These bare tail pipes were letting the side down so as a reward for not being a tired old nail of an S14 it got a pair of oem shaddow line tail pipe trims.
Much better!
And to end, although proving to be pretty awesome at stopping, these BMW Motorsport group N front pads give off a ridiculous amount of dust!
Oh, and after checking the VIN number, it turns out my car is one of the first 5000 built to homologate the car for motorsport use!
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Check out the brake dust on the rimz !! the new pads are bedded in
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& folk round here wonder why i painted my compo cxn's blacke30topless wrote:Check out the brake dust on the rimz !! the new pads are bedded in
if it's got t*ts or wheels it's bound to be trouble...............prove me wrong.
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Demlotcrew
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Hmmm, that is low Barry, did you have a nice booster on the battery, is the starter ok?
This is one of Petes turds.
Sorry I didnt reply to your text, just got round to it from my list.
This is one of Petes turds.
Sorry I didnt reply to your text, just got round to it from my list.
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Demlotcrew wrote:Hmmm, that is low Barry, did you have a nice booster on the battery, is the starter ok?
This is one of Petes SERVED turds.
Sorry I didnt reply to your text, just got round to it from my list.
Vermin Motorsport, innit
Dan, yes throttle wide open.
Andrew, the battery is good but the starter is a bit slow imo and has started to give trouble as per my prev post. I need to put a starter on any way so I'll test it again after I've replaced so we shall see.
Andrew, the battery is good but the starter is a bit slow imo and has started to give trouble as per my prev post. I need to put a starter on any way so I'll test it again after I've replaced so we shall see.
A minor update but the car was in need of some new rubber as the bridgestones were finished on the rear and starting to perrish on the front so a set of continental sport contact 2's in the correct 225/45/16 were ordered up.
Tyre availability in this size is now becoming very limited with choice now limited to these, some toyos, falkens or budget rubbish.
Luckily the conti's are a great tyre with awesome dry grip, good wet grip and reasonable wear rates. I had a set on my 325i with staggered alpinas as well as driving all sorts of other cars with them and rate them highly.
A stroke of luck came my way in that someone had a freshly lessons refurbished 16" BBS in sport Evo style of Nagaro centre and silver lip but was going to have them redone in Ceccotto style like mine were. Now i always intended to have mine refurbed to either silver or nagaro centred at some point as I was not keen on the black so by a stroke of luck, I swapped mine which needed a refurb for the freshly done ones in Nagaro!
£260 worth of refurb gratis, winner!
So new rubber on like new Sport Evo wheels topped of with some new genuine roundels.
Much better!
Tyre availability in this size is now becoming very limited with choice now limited to these, some toyos, falkens or budget rubbish.
Luckily the conti's are a great tyre with awesome dry grip, good wet grip and reasonable wear rates. I had a set on my 325i with staggered alpinas as well as driving all sorts of other cars with them and rate them highly.
A stroke of luck came my way in that someone had a freshly lessons refurbished 16" BBS in sport Evo style of Nagaro centre and silver lip but was going to have them redone in Ceccotto style like mine were. Now i always intended to have mine refurbed to either silver or nagaro centred at some point as I was not keen on the black so by a stroke of luck, I swapped mine which needed a refurb for the freshly done ones in Nagaro!
£260 worth of refurb gratis, winner!
So new rubber on like new Sport Evo wheels topped of with some new genuine roundels.
Much better!
Lucky sod! Can't wait till I've got fresh wheels 
Just got the same contis on mine, good so far Oponeo had them at £87 a corner the other week too which was even better!
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Demlotcrew
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Great road tyre a‘aaaa
Theres not better in this size. As I said, the only choice were a falken and Toyo T1R and both do not even come close.
The fallen is actually more expensive at the moment, the conti's came down by a tenner in the last month.
The fallen is actually more expensive at the moment, the conti's came down by a tenner in the last month.
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Toyo better than Conti? a˜‚
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zinnoe30m3
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Looking so much better with the nogaro coloured wheels, I'm even tempted although will probably go OE silver to be honest.
My car has a new set of conti's I think they're great, in fact my '63 VW bus has them fitted and coped perfectly well when it had a 323bhp turbo, fuel injected and chargecooled engine! Good enough for my M3
Keep it up, spurring me on to doing a little progress thread on mine.
I'll probably be popping up to ML soon to book it in for a little job, be nice to see the motor and meet you
My car has a new set of conti's I think they're great, in fact my '63 VW bus has them fitted and coped perfectly well when it had a 323bhp turbo, fuel injected and chargecooled engine! Good enough for my M3
Keep it up, spurring me on to doing a little progress thread on mine.
I'll probably be popping up to ML soon to book it in for a little job, be nice to see the motor and meet you
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