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veeza
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Post Tue May 21, 2013 10:19 am

light weight fly wheel, and white compomotive th 15"wheels its a red car also black front lip spoiler and rear boot also change wing mirrors to black.Is it worth chipping the car to :-)
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Post Tue May 21, 2013 12:08 pm

Leave it standard, spend your time and money getting it back up to scratch. You have a sound car with good history, please do not make it look like a council estate refugee :(
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Post Tue May 21, 2013 12:21 pm

thank you my heart was thinking that to ive got a friend coming over later this week who worked at bmw in the past to give me a hand and advice standard it will stay.
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Post Tue May 21, 2013 12:46 pm

Pete is right as usual, don't spoil it, theres so much dreadful tat around, keep it original, you can't go wrong.
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Post Wed May 22, 2013 9:14 pm

Well you won't go wrong with a light flywheel, help free up the revs it does make a difference. Compo's might look ok. Just leave off the random black parts as it will look shite lol.
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Post Wed May 22, 2013 10:12 pm

my 318is had a big bore throttle body,an evolve chipped ecu and a lightened m20 flywheel.it made 152 bhp on a dyno and to look at the engine you couldn't tell...it still looked completely standard :D
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