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murran wrote:someone with a long white stick?

anyway jimi will tell ya..... it offers lots of down force while its parked up in his garage!
the spoilers probably for sale now anyway as he's raping his car for owt worth a quid.....
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--ALPINA-- wrote:
Mihajlo wrote:I'm thinking of fitting E30 Mtech 1 boot spoiler on my E21.
It's obvious I will not have as much benefits of it as it suposed to give on E30 but...
did anybody did it already? any pics?
:mrgreen:
some wanker on here done this...

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sexy!!!
tomorow I'll put pics of my spoilered car. :mrgreen:
Understeer is when you hit the wall with the front of the car. Oversteer is when you hit the wall with the rear of the car.
Horsepower is how fast you hit the wall. Torque is how far you take the wall with you.
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i will win the prize for the biggest and most expensive spoiler on here when i fit mine but im not sure thats really a good thing to be honest
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what? do you have BGW (big gay wing) :lol:

don't carbage the car! please! :mrgreen:
Understeer is when you hit the wall with the front of the car. Oversteer is when you hit the wall with the rear of the car.
Horsepower is how fast you hit the wall. Torque is how far you take the wall with you.
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Mihajlo wrote:what? do you have BGW (big gay wing) :lol:

don't carbage the car! please! :mrgreen:

OOOHHH, BPW (Big Pufters Wing) loool


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no one on here knows more than me about spoilers
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yes its a BGW.

Its of a lemans Prototype car.

just need to make the endplates and the uprights,

its sat in my living room looking pretty,

Price brand new from LOLA is just over £1000 but lets just say it fell of the car and i rescued it from the parts bin :)
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are those spoilers pictured in that old pic available anywhere?
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They do come up from time to time on here or ebay. You just need to keep your eyes peeled.
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mine HAD one on there at one point in its life, now theres holes in the trunk lid that floods my trunk when it rains, gotta get it back on there
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--ALPINA-- wrote:some wanker on here done this...

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same shit here :mrgreen:
Understeer is when you hit the wall with the front of the car. Oversteer is when you hit the wall with the rear of the car.
Horsepower is how fast you hit the wall. Torque is how far you take the wall with you.
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Yeah your right same shit, but yours smells !!! :lol: :lol:

Nah, it looks nice, did you find it difficult to drill and fit??


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no, it wasn't dificult. one afternoon and that's it.
Understeer is when you hit the wall with the front of the car. Oversteer is when you hit the wall with the rear of the car.
Horsepower is how fast you hit the wall. Torque is how far you take the wall with you.
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e-einundzwanzig wrote:Maybe this will help, got it from a german e21 test article from a magazine

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What magazine is that? that the number of magazine?
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