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Yeah it looks really clean and as SM says below, its very uncommon to find an unmolested one these days. I had a 96 Series 2 in white about 25 years ago! (holy Jesus thats depressing). Honestly, from my perspective, theres not much to watch out for. If you've already done a decent pre-purchase inspection just keep up with the maintenance but the RB25 is a tough bugger. Yeah, AMEN!

Nice series 2! Looks clean! And stock?

Damn that looks awesome. The colour is incredible!

Argh! That sucks!

Hey mate, I've updated those links. Reach out if there are any other issues. 👍 Any pics of the new Gtst?

Hey sycotix and welcome! We changed domain names a while back, some of the old links still go to the old domain. If you can click the report button on these posts I can fix them up. I try to attack them as I find them. Thanks! Christian

And now for the big one. Tomorrow the car goes in to Bimmertech to get the replacement turbo's put on. This is, hands down, the most money I think I've ever spent on a car in one go and I'm only fixing and future proofing 😭 This is what $2450 in BMW parts looks like (including the dang $350 in taxes I had to pay as I got them from the US). Its not much. Main things are; New oil pan gasket and replacement bolts All new exhaust manifold studs and nuts New exhaust gaskets and brackets 4 x new oil lines 4 x new coolant lines All new O Rings and seals Would have been double going through AU BMW I reckon. Then we have the turbos which were $750 and I'm hoping labour is under $1500. But, then I'll have a car that doesn't rattle, whose wastegate closes cleanly and who can hold boost (this could very well be the cause of my boost leak as the rattle gets worse it can change the shape of the flapper.) I'll finally be able to run my MHD tune! I'm so excited but so nervous they'll find some other disaster in there. If all goes well, I've bought myself another 100k's free of turbo-related problems.

When my car started leaking boost the first thing I did was to order some cheap diverter valves. I didn't know if this was the cause of the leak so I wasn't prepared to spend $400 on some nice aftermarket ones. Well ... You know . .... Cheap and Chinese ... . 20240211_172751.mov Thankfully right after this I found a guy in Perth selling some used Forge DV's for about the same as I got back on the ones above. Havent had another leak yet but also haven't been back to the track. The leak was only present when the car was super hot (which is why I thought the plastic OEM valves).

The next update is my brakes. When I test drove the car it had a major shake when braking. The dealer fixed this with brand new discs and pads all round which I was impressed with, but I'm fairly certain they got the brakes from the drawer below the bottom shelf. I mean, the car stopped, so its good for rego. Late last year I swapped the front pads out for EBC Red Stuff and it was like I was in a different car. A few months ago I swapped the discs out for DBA T2 and it got better again. The brakes are awesome, despite being single piston. They're the same calipers as the M3 I believe.

I have a few updates. The first is my wheels. I bought a set of BMW MSport style 403M last year. Because they were from an F30 the offset was low but even with chunky tyres and 20mm spacers, I couldn't get them looking right. I did plastidip them to see if it'd be worth respraying them and it looked ok for a bit, but one thing NOBODY mentioned in their Youtube videos of plastidipping is that brake dust quite literally STICKS to the plastidip, It becomes embedded in the rubber and its super hard to clean. So, I took the plastidip off and now the wheels are the OEM diamond cut face appearance and given the offset issues I'm just not loving them at all. So I bought a second set of BMW 351M wheels (same as my track wheels) to use on the road. The 403' are now for sale. This is with the plastidip. Looks great until you get close. I think respraying them properly in this colour would be pretty nice. This is the car today after a big clean yesteday. I got some Sailun 255's for the rear hoping it would fill it out a bit but its still quite tucked. A bigger sidewall would help. But, incase you missed the poll, dont buy Chinese tyres.

Yeah I've noticed that too. The more expensive the car the cheaper the tyres. Except in my case...

This is what got me @Duncan. Surely not all of them are terrible so I did my research and found a lot of good things said about the ones I got.

Seriously? How can anything be terrible when it has "claw" in the name? What a let down.

Some super cool cars in those pics. I love the 90s spec white R33. What became of the $400 s13 shell?

Period correct wheels. 👌🏻