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Post Wed Jul 26, 2006 9:03 am

See pic below:

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Post Wed Jul 26, 2006 9:13 am

No idea!! You found that in an E30?
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Post Wed Jul 26, 2006 9:14 am

Looks like the mutant off-spring of a steering rack and a master cylinder attached to an exhaust bracket.

Is there a part number on it?
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Post Wed Jul 26, 2006 9:24 am

Rocket launcher tube for Guy Fawkes night ??
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Post Wed Jul 26, 2006 9:47 am

Erm related to air-con...? Brakes? I dunno... enlighten us please! :mad:
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Post Wed Jul 26, 2006 12:29 pm

Not the gas jet off one of those South African BMWs with the anti hijack device, is it?
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Post Wed Jul 26, 2006 12:57 pm

I really don't know! It was in the back of my car when I bought it along with an ECU and headlamp and few other bits and bobs.

I'll get the part number off it when I get home and let you nkow what it is. It's definately BMW I know that much - have a vague memory of someone saying it was off a 5 series.

Mysterious.
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Post Wed Jul 26, 2006 1:03 pm

Does the car it came from have an inlet manifold with multiple hoses coming from it or a single hose?
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Post Wed Jul 26, 2006 1:09 pm

Some kind of valve thingy we shall call it the,

Inletpotentiometerreleasebearingshaftsplitpinalignmentvalve

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Post Wed Jul 26, 2006 1:13 pm

That my friends, is an early cold-start "air slide" valve.

I had one on my E21 323i, presume early E30s must have had them.
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Post Wed Jul 26, 2006 1:16 pm

LMFAO - Only from you Alec could that have come...
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Post Wed Jul 26, 2006 10:51 pm

apologies it doesn't have the BMW logo on it - it has a logo reading DVG part no: 12782589
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Post Wed Jul 26, 2006 10:57 pm

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Part in the top right, number 10. More or less the same; certainly the same function.
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Post Sat Jul 29, 2006 1:52 pm

cool..............anyone want it?

no use to me
1989 325i Convertible
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Post Sat Jul 29, 2006 1:54 pm

Geeman wrote:LMFAO - Only from you Alec could that have come...
its an alpina snob thing :lol:
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Post Sat Jul 29, 2006 2:03 pm

billgatese30 wrote:
Geeman wrote:LMFAO - Only from you Alec could that have come...
its an alpina snob thing :lol:
exactly what i was thinking fpmsl winkeye

i think its some sort of optional bmw bong 8O
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Post Sat Jul 29, 2006 2:37 pm

If it was in the boot, it's probably bust anyway.

And what's this about Alpina snobbery, the only reason I know is that I changed one on my rust-bucket of an E21 323i?

yer al jus jelus. :wink:
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