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Makes complete sense when it's explained! Ta Rob

I'm looking to do the same, however the only 5mm spacers I have seen (even the h&r ones) lack a wheel lip to centre the wheel. The spacers have a taper profile to centre the spacer on the hub, but there's no tapered lip to centre the wheel on the spacer. Did you find one with a lip, or did you...

Blast from the past! One of those bigcoupe threads was me and my old E24, 15 years ago. eek In my bodging, I used the standard "nut behind the plate" to hold the inlet rocker bars in place, and experimented with machining grooves in the rocker bars, to take a circlip (using the same circlip and...

Keeping detailed lists of work done and parts replaced makes sense and is a valuable thing to do, as part of your project's history, and for the benefit of the wider group's reference. I can only comment on the bits of the car I myself have dug into (scratching the surface really), but the way...

I put LEDs in my E24 and the light pattern was so bad as to be really dangerous. This was a while back, and the tech may have improved, but I'd not put aftermarket LEDs in anything now. ....so I bought a set of cibie CSRs and good halogens and wow, all is daylight. Cibies now fitted in my E9.

Well I tried a number of things, and the one that made the difference was an adjustment to the waxstat in the warm up slide valve thing. This was passing air, very slightly, when the car was warm. Once this was tweaked the mixture was much much better. Idle CO levels are still a bit higher than...

I have a staggered set of 5 Rial Mesh wheels in 15" They're not Alpina, and they're the in the uk, but apart from that, they look great on an E9 and they're exactly what you need! :) o_O

Sold for £88k and JK's car didn't sell... either that was a good (cheap) buy, or something untoward in the rust department? Hope the new owner turns up here

You can jumper the fuel pump at the relay underneath the rear seat, so you don't need to mix a fuel leak with a hot exhaust. I hope it's either the oring or the hose, both easy fixes Still keep a fire extinguisher to hand...

Oh yes, JK's CSL. How did I miss that!? https://www.silverstoneauctions.com/index.php?option=com_bidding&view=commission&layout=details&id=16202&pn=1&el=16202&pp=50

Yes, I'd spotted the dent, my CSL has one also, in about the same place, so it must be a city pack special feature (an extra £20k please!) Interesting about the door card blanks, my car has one blank per door, where (I assume the manual winders were changed to powered for the UK market), not...

https://www.silverstoneauctions.com/index.php?option=com_bidding&view=commission&layout=details&id=12680&pn=1&el=12680&pp=50 Has this one been discussed? Looks like it needs a clean, but on the upside it looks to be in nice unrestored condition, except for the steering wheel (what's that all...

Hi, if you're in Europe, I also have a set, partially stripped (pistons out, bleed nipples removed) and ready for a rebuild kit. pistons are good enough to reuse in my opinion Edit: I think you're west coast US...

Welcome to the party! Piccies = great :)

Hi Erik, yes make my own was plan B. I think it'd be quite easy to make a good part, but thought I'd reach out to the E9 collective in case anyone had one stashed away Cheers

BMW can sell me the 55mm clamp, but I need a 60mm one to fit a 60mm exhaust Part no. is 18 21 1 105 435 Thanks

Welcome to the forum what I did when trying to find a fuel leak was to directly power the fuel pump without powering anything else. By running a long fused wire direct from the + battery terminal to the fuel pump power under the rear seat. I unplugged the pump relay and worked out which wire...

There's a long wiggly plastic line which connects the nipple on the filler neck to the small plastic funnel

Where was the E38 7er? the 750i should be there as the best looking exec limo in history. Yes I'm thinking about that too..... maybe the merc 600 comes closest? Or perhaps the original 60s quatroporte?

Re the lock, try with the key different degrees of in. That's entirely unclear as an explanation I realise.... ....if you pull the key back a mm or so from fully in and give it a wiggle, then another mm out and another wiggle, and repeat. Until I rebuilt the boot lock, both of my keys worked...