chit chat thread
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This seems like a good place to say hello again after joining once, saying hello, and then disappearing.
welcome (back) to here.
Dan
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Hoping to pick this up at an auction on Saturday for cheap. It's an "M converted" 93 325i coupe that looks like at one time it was a pretty nice car. It has M door sills, bump trim on the doors, bumpers, steering wheel, etc. It has a bottom mount turbo of unknown quality/size, tubular style exhaust manifold rather than cast which seemed interesting. and quite a lot of janky fender stretching in back. Complete with all the essential stickers on the back window such as "illest", "lowislife", "euro trash", "Stanceworks" etc.
I am not sure if the engine is original or not, the car is a '93 but the engine has vanos. I don't know what month they started with that. I think the injectors had green tops. It still had a MAF, and some weird relief valve on the intake piping. It looks to me like the hardware got installed and never quite go to the tuning stage.
How much would you pay?
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$4k sounds like a reasonable price.
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Yea, not paying near that much, it's held together with zip ties and it supposedly runs but it might be junk. The fenders appear to have been rolled with a channel lock pliers to avoid rub after sawzalling the springs... I think max I would pay is 700.
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Assuming its a running turbo m50 car with a manual and proper tuning platform (TRM chip/aftermarket ECU) Id feel really good getting it for anything less than $4000
$4k sounds like a reasonable price.
Thank you for giving me hope that my car is worth something.
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The fenders appear to have been rolled with a channel lock pliers to avoid rub after sawzalling the springs....
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That's not how it's done?
1976 530i e12
1990 325ix e30
1992 325i e36
1995 740il e38
2001 330xi e46
^More to come
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I was gonna say, $4k is crackhead price for that car. Glad you got it for under $1000, I wouldn't have paid more than that for the car.
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It made it to 252k, my wife and I drove it away from our wedding in 09, and brought both of our kids home from the hospital in it. Kind of a sad moment for a sap like me. Hope I don't have any trouble with the other guys insurance, it was clearly his fault and a cop saw it happen. His insurance company should be glad he hit a 1000 dollar car lol.
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In unrelated news, the Miata is very close to being done
Just need to set ride height, get some exhaust stuff buttoned up, get an alignment, get it out of my life, etc
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those wheels look really good on there.
Unlike e30s, you can fit a 9" wide wheel with ease and you have a nice selection of wheels that will actually fit. The storms are lightweight and relatively inexpensive. Very popular with miatas, as well as 6ul and Jongbloed or whatever they are called. She had these powder coated white because she is insane
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Before she goes to get an alignment I'd probably pull at least the front lip off if not the whole front bumper. Unless the shop has an in ground rack I don't see that going well.
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Before she goes to get an alignment I'd probably pull at least the front lip off if not the whole front bumper. Unless the shop has an in ground rack I don't see that going well.
they do have an in ground rack, shes had it aligned there before a couple times
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they do have an in ground rack, shes had it aligned there before a couple times
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