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Saw this puppy on the DriftWorks forum on Friday and somehow managed to beat every other bargain hunting drift kiddy too it!
£300 and £10 fuel later I had this bad boy.
BMW 325 Coupe
Jan MOT.
Part Service History.
3 Previous Owners.
Current Owner since 2008.
189 bhp / 181lb-ft (M50B25TU) single Vanos.
ECU: Bosch 0261 200 413
Absolutely spot on after a clean, tiny bit of rust on corner of drivers side front wing and ABS light on - can hardly complain!
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- Bucket seat
- De-cat (£40 back when weighed in)
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- Welded 325i Diff (147k 07/2015) £0
- NGK BKR6EK's Spark plugs (147k 08/2015) £14
- End Tuning 210 bhp chip (147k 08/2015) £60
- Crossland Air Filter (147k 08/2015) £5
- Castrol GTX 10W40 Part Synthetic 6L (147k 08/2015) £19
- Crossland Oil Filter (147k 08/2015) £5
- Boss (147k 08/2015) £15
- Quick Release (147k 08/2015) £20
- Fake OMP Deep Dish Suede Steering Wheel (147k 08/2015) £35
- Coilovers (147k 08/2015) £140
- 5mm Slip On Spacers On Front Wheels (147k 08/2015) £0
Parts Total: £313
Should owe me about £500 in mod's all of which can be sold/transfered/whatever if and when I write it off, even less if I'm patient and buy via auctions and/or second hand.
The other option is to turbo it to 400bhp, the manifold/turbo wouldn't be particularly expensive but the stand alone management and mapping would, so probably best just brushing that under the carpet and leave the turbo business to the Datsun! After all this is supposed to be cheap and cheerful!
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All of the cars... looks clean. I still think these look good but only on decent wheels!
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Looks relatively smart
Coming up for a passenger ride on evening
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You do seem to like pink cars...
Must admit I do like this shape BM though!
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(28-07-2015, 10:34 AM)Toms306 Wrote: You do seem to like pink cars...
Must admit I do like this shape BM though!
They ain't pink, they just 100% natural no filter.
Doesn't do the colour justice, looks mint in person.
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If you were to go turbo route with this, I think piggy back over standalone would be the way to go in terms of cost effectiveness.
Looks like quite a bargain though mate
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(28-07-2015, 11:16 AM)Midnightclub Wrote: If you were to go turbo route with this, I think piggy back over standalone would be the way to go in terms of cost effectiveness.
Looks like quite a bargain though mate
I won't, I can afford too but I have the S14 for fawking about with boost. Even though a 6 pot turbo would be insane.
Ideally I'd like to RB25/1JZ/2JZ the S14 for that reason, 6 cylinder turbo, it's just costly. An RB25 conversion would cost around 2-2.5k and that would be for a stock motor running 280 bhp.
I bet you could turbo the BMW for £1700 and it run better power / be a hell of a lot more unique. The fact the block is iron stands in it's favour and from what I've read 400bhp at the fly isn't particularly unrealistic.
Anyway... No turbo.
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Looks very clean and tidy that for £300! Sounds like a bargain
Almost seems a shame to butcher it to go drifting as per the fate of so many cheap RWD cars these days
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(28-07-2015, 11:39 AM)powerandtorque Wrote: Looks very clean and tidy that for £300! Sounds like a bargain
Almost seems a shame to butcher it to go drifting as per the fate of so many cheap RWD cars these days
I was tempted to just stick it on eBay for £800, take £700 and make a quick easy buck.
But..... At £300 it seems rude not to stick with it.
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Dude those M50's can run properly metal power if you de-comp them a bit, like you say much cheaper than whacking an RB in the 200'
Just gunna leave this here... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5Q1xMTb5VU
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(28-07-2015, 11:50 AM)Midnightclub Wrote: Dude those M50's can run properly metal power if you de-comp them a bit, like you say much cheaper than whacking an RB in the 200'
Just gunna leave this here... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5Q1xMTb5VU
Not being funny but that build probably cost £7000, not £1700! :
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Probably haha, but you could probably run 450-500 at the crank on stock internals with some decomp.. plenty really!
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Just bear in mind most kits on eBay are for LHD cars, so you'd probably need a different manifold. It'd be cheaper to just get bits here and there and make your own kit.
I don't know how much the standard ECU can be played with, but there's a fair few tuners about.
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(28-07-2015, 01:04 PM)Midnightclub Wrote: Just bear in mind most kits on eBay are for LHD cars, so you'd probably need a different manifold. It'd be cheaper to just get bits here and there and make your own kit.
I don't know how much the standard ECU can be played with, but there's a fair few tuners about.
Fair point.
Mmm, anyway, enough of dreaming about turbos I think before things get out of hand...
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Dooooo eeeeeeeeet. You know you want to
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(28-07-2015, 01:13 PM)Midnightclub Wrote: Dooooo eeeeeeeeet. You know you want to
Haha, naaaaaa. Lock mods, suspension etc first...
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You've already got a drifter though, why not just make this a handling/track day toy?
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(28-07-2015, 01:37 PM)Midnightclub Wrote: You've already got a drifter though, why not just make this a handling/track day toy?
Because I don't like track toys. I like side ways.
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I actually want this and would bite your hand off for it if I had space.
This post is an artistic work of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted above as fact.
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(28-07-2015, 02:01 PM)RetroPug Wrote: I actually want this and would bite your hand off for it if I had space.
Hehe, sorry dude!
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Fit the engine from this into the S14, boost it and have something different.. Then sell me the rest so I can put a stupid 6 pot diesel in it
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Seems a shame to drift that to be honest, tidy, 2 door, 6-pot, manual. Looking at the price of an E30 with that spec, this could be worth a fair bit in 5 years. Epic bargain though!
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(28-07-2015, 03:44 PM)Jonny81191 Wrote: Fit the engine from this into the S14, boost it and have something different.. Then sell me the rest so I can put a stupid 6 pot diesel in it
Haha, nooooooo!
(28-07-2015, 03:56 PM)THE_Liam Wrote: Seems a shame to drift that to be honest, tidy, 2 door, 6-pot, manual. Looking at the price of an E30 with that spec, this could be worth a fair bit in 5 years. Epic bargain though!
Well same could be said about my S14 but wheres the fun in chucking a car in a barn...
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(28-07-2015, 03:57 PM)silverzx Wrote: (28-07-2015, 03:44 PM)Jonny81191 Wrote: Fit the engine from this into the S14, boost it and have something different.. Then sell me the rest so I can put a stupid 6 pot diesel in it
Haha, nooooooo! [emoji14]
(28-07-2015, 03:56 PM)THE_Liam Wrote: Seems a shame to drift that to be honest, tidy, 2 door, 6-pot, manual. Looking at the price of an E30 with that spec, this could be worth a fair bit in 5 years. Epic bargain though!
Well same could be said about my S14 but wheres the fun in chucking a car in a barn... I'd just drive it and keep it fairly standard if it was me, maybe some BBS wheels and coilovers. And an M-sport kit. And a nice, throaty exhaust. And a tubular manifold.
Oops....
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Haha..
Well I got busy last night...
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That looks beautiful! I actually love it!
TEAM CONROD SHITTING RALLYE!
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(29-07-2015, 01:09 PM)Matt Wrote: That looks beautiful! I actually love it!
Cheers dude!
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Why was it so cheap, how much MOT is on it?
Oh and damn you making me want another BMW!!!!
(edit; you and the 330d that absolutely f*cked off from us the other night)
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