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This is a 40mm lowering kit on my old 328i sport

did you ever find out about the run in time for your cams?

Cheers Tony.

Them coilovers are not much more than lowering springs and shocks. But if they're better for everyday use, I might get them instead.





I didn't find out, you recon I should do that to get them run in?

bedding in a new cam usually means not letting the car idle, i.e kepping it above 2k. glad to hear you finally got it running!

cool, will run them in over the weekend then me thinks.

bought a 5000k HID kit, so should get that soon.

Going to look at buying the alloys below tonight and im also looking at getting these headlights:

Now its started Joe you can spend all the money you saved
Shouldnt be too long before we see your cherriby little
face going down the road

weyheeeey! Good news!

Glad it was something fairly simple too!

yeh, nice one joe, those parts will look good too, like the head lights too !

Cheers for comments

I picked up the alloys before. They're in pretty decent nick, well worth what I paid for them.

I'll be sanding them down tomorrow and maybe start paint them white.

Also should be buying my carpet tomorrow.

I'm after some M3 leather seats too after I put my carpet in. I will put up a post of what they look like in the wanted section so if anyone comes accross them, let me know

these seats by any chance??

yeah mate, the ones that were in your old m3, but in black

mmmmmmm, nice!

they're sweet matey....

Started it again tonight with the help of a jump start from chris (aceritz) and pomp - cheers.

Got my fan wired up so that works nicely.

Thermostat housing is still leaking and I think its causing an air pocket in the coolant system as it dangerously overheats after running for about 20 mins.

Need to try and get that sorted.

Cant find anywhere to buy carpet from, but hopefully i'll be buying some at the weekend.

HID Kits arrived today from Hong Kong, so I'll be installing them when I get my new headlights in the new year.

Finished sanding my new alloys down, so should be painting them this week.

Tonight I swapped the idle control valve for a spare one I had so it idles much better now

Video of it running:

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Still sounds like a tractor as the exhaust is stll blowing. Hopefully fix that soon too.

glad to see it stared dude all the long hours and the hard work you ave put in to gettin it goin

hope to see ya on the road soon matey and will be nice once finished cant wait to see it at its best at the meets