Stephen

Pattern parts are available through Zcentre. That's the best way to go if you have the dosh, ensures a perfect fit. I made my own pieces but it was a bit of a faff. Matching the stone chip is a nightmare as well.

The arch lip on those is double or is it triple thickness. Rock hard. I mate has the same age Beemer and the arch lips are massive.

Yeah the pitted effect below the swage line is factory. The sills are covered in a thick rubber type material as a stone chip gaurd. The bumpers it's moulded into the plastic to match. You will notice if you look underneath it carries on throughout the whole underside.

Corse the margin for error is higher but you could say the same for welding in the stock unit. Unless it's placed properly.

Not tube Ali, box section. An ogblong or whatever they call it these days.

Oh I'm getting itchy trigger finger thinking about it. :lol:

I must admit I'd be going this way myself. Price new is crazy, and I'd take a lump of new metal any day. I know it's not original, you can't tell though, it's not like it's visible. A proper soild job well executed beats sticking some old thing in there. Probably be easier to weld in as well as you could spec a thicker material (it's gonna be let's face it) then simply blast it in. Your not going to burn through 2mm box section by accident. Puddle the section in from the inner wing, least you know it will be strong as **** as well.

Looks like you could do with going even further. Be a shame to buy a brand new crossmember them leave surface rust on the chassis rail and inner wing. Shouldn't take too long to drill out the spot welds and pry it out. Good luck, I don't envy you.

Couldn't say for sure, but the boxes widest part is there so I can't see how fitting the box has any impact. Don't forget the oil banjo bolts are different and handed. Iirc that's the one that should have a K on it.

I might have some bad news for you mate, I'm pretty sure you can't remove, refit that with the turbo on. As you unwind it it fouls the exhaust housing.

Creature comforts are pretty low in mine. I don't regret binning the air con, freed up so much room in the bay, I never used it anyway. I'd kill for aircon in my daily though. Sat in traffic on a Friday fighting the tourists to get home it gets hot.

Just been out, Christ I'm glad I've got T Tops, no air con but T Tops took the edge off. The dash says its 28c and I'd agree, it's like Spain here today.

Winner!

I saw some of those wheels on a different car a while back and wondered what they would look like in a zed. I think they work.

Don't take this the wrong way, however. Unless you know something that others don't Jeff if doesn't state what specialist tuned it or where that specialist was, not that I can see. I appricate that you motive as some one that's been stung buy a rouge trader years ago, not one that's ever advertised through the club I might add, "caveat emptor" and all. That's what a community like this is about, help and advice which you've gone above and beyond with. It would appear though, understandably due to previous experience that certain traders have left you with a bee in your bonnet. I think you've made this point now. Maybe it's time to drop the axe and pick up the pinna colada. Your retired, your on the other side of the continent and you have your health, things look pretty sweet for you atm in your M6. Let it go a bit and enjoy your life. I hope you take this the way I intend it and I look forward to more sunny photos and tech debate.

Is the rad orginal? That's on the filler neck end isn't it. It's got that look of, "I've been dripping water on this piece of steel for some time" look about it. I know mines in a lot better condition than this and I think this winter il be stripping the nose cone off like you've done to ensure it stays that way.

Nothing serious I hope.

Not that bad really, mostly wear and tear. Split gaiters and leaks. I recon many of the cars in this club have those very issues and the owner doesn't even know.

The clutch and brake will be very straight forward. The matrix pipes are a little more fiddly, due to thier location behind the engine.

Bottom ones heater matrix pipes, then I think the other two are clutch and brake master.

I think that's why it was donated under that stipulation. At best it's a basket case used in an advert as a stunt car, it's not the feature car in the advert it's used in the jump only. At worst it's a bent Z32 that's unable to be registered, making effectively a paper weight.

The dream car? If so there's more to that then you may realise. Such as the car potentially cannot be used on the road, ever. The car was gifted to a university on the explicit condition it was never registered, some law thing to do with liabilities I believe. As such it is apparently not going to be straight forward to ever register the car.

Being better, than bad doesn't make anything good. As for sky, they are fast becoming one of the biggest power houses in TV, programmes like Game of thrones, The Left Overs etc as well as the rights to the F1. If I had to pick a British TV station it's got to be channel 4. For varied content, quality drama and cinema as well as news delivery.

Interesting point about the beebs other services, how many do you use? I listen to radio 4 most of the time, because 1,2 and 3 do my fruit in. I don't have DAB in the van, the other car does and I go straight to planet rock. There are some great American programmes out there, personal taste really though. We have plenty of commercial channels here without the excessive American style adverts. M pretty confident the BBC isn't unbiased, in fact I find it often very biased. But then when your pay check comes straight from the Goverment I spose you'd be biased too.

Pretty much Richard look at what BBC1 & 2 have on offer at prime time this Friday and Saturday night. A crap game show, seriously, does anyone think Pointless is a good programme? Don't worry though because after this and the news at gone half 10 at night that new film Die hard with Avengence is on, this film was realesed in 1995, a great film but it's older than Alic!! Don't even get me started on Itv, I'm pretty sure thier purpose is to make the scum class feel part of society, when your greatest achievement is Jeremy Kyle and Simon Cowell, oh you get the point.