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GBE30
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Sun Mar 29, 2009 5:54 pm

Cleaning out my air intake, throttle body and idle control valve.

Cant believe how much smoother and responsive the car is!

I recommend spending £4.50 on carb cleaner and spending an hour doing cleaning the intake parts.

Also polished the car, and clibrated my obc! Happy days..........

Cheers

GB

"Its a far cry from small boys in the park, jumpers for goal posts, secretly rolling the ball in dogs poo and getting a friend to head it!"

I miss the fast show.
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Sun Mar 29, 2009 5:59 pm

i love the fast show.

today i've mostly been,





GROUTING!
my lurvely new kitchen floor and wall tiles :D
another spring job completed.
now back to the IS & my stockpile of goodies 8)
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Sun Mar 29, 2009 6:14 pm

I've been repairing one of my fender guitars and watching harry potter!
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Sun Mar 29, 2009 6:34 pm

trying to work out why i woke up at 230am then stayed awake :mad:
if there wern't people like me,
with cars like mine,
who would you put down to make yourself feel better?
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Sun Mar 29, 2009 6:36 pm

painting my kidney grill black :cool:
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Sun Mar 29, 2009 6:40 pm

Mostly tidying out my van :( must do it more often!

BM is now full of rubbish to go down the dump, bonus is the amount of copper that i have gathered over the last few months, need to get that weighed in! shame the price of scrap is down.
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Sun Mar 29, 2009 6:41 pm

...........been mostly buying stuff at the bootsales to flog on Ebay,and then robbing skips for packing materials in which to post them :D ..........in the E30,to at least try and help keep the thread from being sent to the depths of pub talk.
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Sun Mar 29, 2009 6:53 pm

today i

went round the car with a touch up brush
fitted SS zaust
checked for rot underneith, all is good 8) sprayed waxoil in the nessisary crannys
i also calibrated my OBC
and cleaner the dash with some mr sheen :mad:

also went to halfrauds and got some diff oil to do that during the week
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Sun Mar 29, 2009 6:55 pm

Took the leather out cleaned it, feed it and changed the head unit :D
It`s a state of mind.
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Sun Mar 29, 2009 6:56 pm

..... removing sound deadening with a flat bladed screwdriver and a can of thinners. High as. 8)
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Sun Mar 29, 2009 7:19 pm

Did uni work whilst watching the world go by out of my window :(
Dreaming of the day I purchase an E30 M3

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--- Z4M Coupe - daily driver
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Sun Mar 29, 2009 7:22 pm

GBE30 wrote:Cleaning out my air intake, throttle body and idle control valve.

Cant believe how much smoother and responsive the car is!

I recommend spending £4.50 on carb cleaner and spending an hour doing cleaning the intake parts.
Have been thinking of doing this myself. Easy quick job would you say???

Gotta love the cheap or even cost free jobs that actually make a difference :wink:
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Sun Mar 29, 2009 7:27 pm

I got a blow job,got up at 2.30pm,went out for a coffee and then went up my mums so she could try and fatten me up........get a life fella's :D
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Sun Mar 29, 2009 7:28 pm

Oops....wrong forum :o: :D
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Sun Mar 29, 2009 7:28 pm

.................been at work :cry:
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Sun Mar 29, 2009 7:29 pm

today i've mostly been, worrying about mine going for its MOT tomorrow 8O
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Sun Mar 29, 2009 7:34 pm

I worked, Then after fitted my elipsoids and re wired the main beam. changed plug's and filter,
And took the faulty imobilizer off the cab.
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Sun Mar 29, 2009 7:41 pm

Epoxying a boat I'm making :D.
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Sun Mar 29, 2009 7:46 pm

madaboutthe30 wrote:Did uni work whilst watching the world go by out of my window :(
Me and you both, although I made time to do an oil change on the e30 for the new owner, doss about watching the grand prix etc etc etc.

When I say I made time...well I just stopped doing the uni work as it is so lame.
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Sun Mar 29, 2009 8:05 pm

Been fitting HIDs and trying to get that annoying screw out of the heater valve on Daryll cab. Lovely day for a bit of fettling. :cool: :cool:
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Sun Mar 29, 2009 8:05 pm

Jon_Bmw wrote:
madaboutthe30 wrote:Did uni work whilst watching the world go by out of my window :(
Me and you both, although I made time to do an oil change on the e30 for the new owner, doss about watching the grand prix etc etc etc.

When I say I made time...well I just stopped doing the uni work as it is so lame.
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you selling up jon? :(
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Sun Mar 29, 2009 8:07 pm

you aint been looking in the for sale section magpie :D
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Sun Mar 29, 2009 8:09 pm

limped the 306 20 miles on no clutch
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Sun Mar 29, 2009 8:13 pm

Alex wrote:you aint been looking in the for sale section magpie :D
too busy with the house m8.
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Sun Mar 29, 2009 8:22 pm

....hoisting the engine and box* out of the sport at spook's. only got one coffee too! oh, and a blt sandwich! well, 3/4 of one anyway, miss starved staffy at my feet as usual! :roll:

*...and the abs and loom, bonnet cable (fiddly b4stard!), etc
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Sun Mar 29, 2009 8:23 pm

d6dph wrote:Been fitting HIDs and trying to get that annoying screw out of the heater valve on Daryll cab. Lovely day for a bit of fettling. :cool: :cool:
...watching Dave fit my HID and getting very peeved off with said heater valve screw.

Thanks again Dave. 8)
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Sun Mar 29, 2009 8:30 pm

pics soon adit,
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Sun Mar 29, 2009 8:33 pm

:thumb: good day, enjoyed it, and thanks for giving me the horn er... :o:

p.s. two coffees really :wink:
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Sun Mar 29, 2009 8:34 pm

Sticking Knitting needles into a plasticine copy of my cab, Voodoo styleee.
Hope the feckers feeling it. :x
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Sun Mar 29, 2009 8:34 pm

...starting to remove the rear subframe. Got stopped in my tracks trying to disconnect the brake hoses. Some hammering, cutting and swearing and the calipers are off and 'a new set of brake pipes' added to the shopping list.
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Sun Mar 29, 2009 8:36 pm

Daryll wrote:
d6dph wrote:Been fitting HIDs and trying to get that annoying screw out of the heater valve on Daryll cab. Lovely day for a bit of fettling. :cool: :cool:
...watching Dave fit my HID and getting very peeved off with said heater valve screw.

Thanks again Dave. 8)
It was a pleasure mate, I'm always willing to lend a hand.
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Sun Mar 29, 2009 8:44 pm

wotched gp in an ice cream van. orderd new iphone. put car in gardin readey to play tomorow.
Yer i am sorry for my bad spelling. i am dislexic and find it just as hard to read your posts as you do mine.
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Sun Mar 29, 2009 8:45 pm

LeonNewton wrote:wotched gp in an ice cream van.
that must be one big van! :teehee:
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Sun Mar 29, 2009 8:54 pm

huge requires a hgv licence to drive. ow no, no it dusunt its just a van.
Yer i am sorry for my bad spelling. i am dislexic and find it just as hard to read your posts as you do mine.
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Sun Mar 29, 2009 9:07 pm

Chucked some un-sellable junk away out of the garage - no doubt to make space in which to store more un-sellable junk :roll:
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e30topless said : Proper BMW's have 4 headlights, last of the run was the E30 and E34/E32 anything after that is just complete shite
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