Intense to say the least

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Wow..thanks for sharing..what a job.

Wrenching on these cars drives me nuts with all the plastic and special fasteners (I have become the chief German mechanic in the household).

Assume you have similar duties :).

Thats a impressive display of fabrication skills. So thats a V10 out of an M6? Pretty cool, but it needs turbos now :D

Assume you have similar duties :).Mine is still under warranty, but there will be the day I'll have to wrench on it.

It is quite the swap they are doing. Later in the pages, they installed a roll cage and you can't see it.

I don't think there's any room left for turbo's, but one never knows.

I bought an E30 in 1984. I am still driving it to this day. All systems and functions work perfectly, the best car I have ever owned. At 108K miles, she still has a lot of get up and go.

alan

it's only money.

Now that is wicked! My wife has a '04 3-Series that runs pretty good. I have often wondered what one would be like with a LSx engine in it.

I hate to imagine the final price for that build. Although I had a bad experience with my wife's 4.4 X5, which seemed to ALWAYS have something wrong with it, power windows, sensors, etc, there's just something about the way a BMW drives.

I bought an E30 in 1984. I am still driving it to this day. All systems and functions work perfectly, the best car I have ever owned. At 108K miles, she still has a lot of get up and go.

alan
You've owned this car for 25 years and it only has 100K on it? IMHO you ain't driving it.

Jeff

can you say twin turbos

I hate to imagine the final price for that build. Although I had a bad experience with my wife's 4.4 X5, which seemed to ALWAYS have something wrong with it, power windows, sensors, etc, there's just something about the way a BMW drives.

True story. My wife and I looked at several brands when she needed a new car and narrowed it to four, Audi, BMW, Infiniti and Lexus. The BMW drove great, definitely fun car to drive but a bit too 'sporty' for my wife's driver and our weekend roadtripper, but the maintenace history on them was horrible. The Audi was not a real high rated car but better than BMW(repair-wise) but it drove like crap. Mercedes is a nightmare as well, I don't know what happened to the German cars.
A buddy I work with had a 2004 7 series, a really sweet car but always had expensive problems, he loved it anyway. He actually just bought an '07 6 series, now that is a sweet car, I guess we will see how it holds up.

How has your's been Everett?

How has your's been Everett?Like a new car, nary a problem.

I have to make a chiropactor appointment to have my jaws massaged back to normal from smilin' so much.....