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If you want it to look better, a nice set of rims would be a great start. and lower the suspension. You should be able to do that for under $3K. It could probably use a CD/MP3 player, and full set of speakers, a couple subs and amps, and satelite radio. Chip it, exhaust and intake. Do...

Jeez, That thing really IS in excellent shape!! I almost don't believe it! How much did you say you paid for it? (You're in the right section). MAN, I'd love to see what it looks like underneath (don't worry about taking pics of that). What can you do to make it look better? Well, the...

I was waiting for something to pass him out of nowhere! Sweet. I'd love to drive to work like that every day. I wouldn't like to pay for gas or tires though.

Yeah, that's what I'm thinkin... I was hoping there were little batteries to replace like in the E30's, but I guess I'm not that lucky. How much of a pain in the @$$ is it to yank the cluster out?

Okay, My E34's gauge cluster has been acting up for a while now. It started out that the speedo and tach would spin around aimlessly, and the gong would ding a few times, and then it would go back to being normal. Then my gas gauge stopped working. Then I got a message on the dash readout...

That's good, I had no idea there was that much work to do! I'm glad you informed us, and I'm glad you know so much about these cars. It's too bad you don't own one any more. Hopefully your knowledge won't get rusty now that you don't work on them any more. (BTW, I PM'd you Justin.)

A compression test is cheap... or fairly easy to do yourself if you have a tester. It'll check how much compression each cylinder has and tell you if you lose compression... (weather or not your vavles are seating properly, if your piston rings are worn, potential head gasket problem...

I dunno, as I can see in your photo with the spoiler on, there is a bit of warping going on. Could this be due to the unprotected (by paint) plastic being eaten away UV light from the sun? As I scan through some of my favourite pics of E30's, only one has that spoiler on the back... all the...

Yeah I figured as much Justin. You should see these instructions that come with the koni's... impossible.... I'm better off just doing it off the top of my head, or asking you and Joseph on here. The fronts are going to give me problems... I can see it now.

Man, that's terrible. It's stuff like that that makes me think when I go too fast in the cabrio... "I don't have a roof or airbags. If I crash, I die". He's damn lucky.

Well, it's not that great... I'm sort of puzzled about the order below the mount, not the mount itself. There is supposed to be a foam bump-stop between the shock body and the mount, but the brass coloured cup on the shock stem is not removable. So I'm thinking I don't need the bigger cupped...

I'm just doing a dry fitment to make sure I have all the stuff I need to do this job quickly. These are OEM (for now) rear shock mounts going onto Koni adjustable shocks. The Koni's have a top bumper, so do I need the one that comes in the box with the mounts? The one on the left is without...

IF that invoice is hand written, maybe it reads "transmission Shell"? The housing might have been cracked and replaced? Hell of a lot of labour to change the housing though. Weird.

Do you have a picture of what you want?

Restored, patched up, whatever. You have to cut the rust out, simple as that. If you don't want to rivit it, weld it in.... but there is no such thing as a replacement floor pan... maybe for an old American car, but not for an old BMW. No-one will be judging what you have between the...

Justin, I'm not saying that I've done the "e" to "i" conversion, or that I understand it, but I've heard of it being done before. I'm just going to say again what I said in post #6; Chip it, cams, exhaust and intake, and be done with it. If it's not noticably faster, go ahead and put a turbo...

http://www.activeautowerke.com/ These guys are some of the best in the business (for Turbos). I'm sure they can ship worldwide. HKS makes turbos too... http://www.hksusa.com

Just go to that BMP link I posted, and the "catalogue Request" section is on the top menu. I don't know what it stands for, but it's not all that important. The other thing you can do to get rid of the low redline, is swap the head... the old "e" to "i" conversion. You'd be better off not...

What price was it? Could it mean the shifter carrier? The thing that attaches to the back of the tranny that your shifter is mounted in? But then what would be wrong with that that it would need replacement? Either that or it's the brace that goes from one side of the driveshaft tunnel to the...

Basically there's no such thing as a Targa, or t T-Top as far as BMW's are concerned.