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Zip said:
Thats a huge guess that you simply can't make imho, nothing on the auction points towards this, why would they need to anyways running the stock 500bhp?
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Thats a huge guess that you simply can't make imho, nothing on the auction points towards this, why would they need to anyways running the stock 500bhp?
Firestar_3x said:
It was just a guess. Ill also take a guess that hes using magnesium wheels since hes decided to use carbon fiber to lighten the shell.
You could quite easily make somethign 120k if you bought of high quality or expensive brands
Firestar_3x said:
It's a V8 rather than the current 500bhp V10 so it would need some serious work to take it to 500bhp as it'd normally make 400bhp. From the decription there's not a chance it'll be making 500bhp.
If you want a proper 3 series v8 conversion then have a look at an Alpina B8.
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Zip said:
It says it has carbon fibre door cards, rear quarters and rear diffuser. The CSL has a fibre roof panel as standard. I can't see anywhere it saying that it has a carbon fibre body shell.
Neither does it mention any engine work apart from tuned headers and a custom induction setup. That, with the 540i gearbox and the CSL final drive, with a generous calculation from a rolling road, could potentially give a paper figure of "just under 500hp" at the fly. They present nothing to back up their claims of a 25% power increase.
Mr Nice said:
thats modding in general. even show cars that have had 10s of thousands spent on them will get nowhere near that money back from a sale. you mod it like that because you can, not because you want to make a profit on it ;]
The_Dark_Side said:gazes at Freefaller and reminds himself that a 9mm round costs approximately 22p.
hmm
my gut feeling is the reserve will be somewhere around £80k.
in reality, apart from the seller, who knows?
currently at 56k and the no mention of a reserve so looks like it could sell for under 50%!
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i'm just wondering how much they allowed for labour charges when they say they wouldn't build another for less than £120k.Morba said:
if it's anything like dealer rates then a huge percentage of that cost could be labour alone.
The_Dark_Side said:
which would probably be right tbh.
i cant see that car costing £120k without labour!
yes the donor car and engine, plus bodywork would be a lot, but not that much (imo), labour prolly makes up a lot of it :/
tho that would be why they can let it go for a lot less
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IMHO it's a real shame they went for the 8 pot and not the 10.Morba said:which would probably be right tbh.
i cant see that car costing £120k without labour!
yes the donor car and engine, plus bodywork would be a lot, but not that much (imo), labour prolly makes up a lot of it :/
tho that would be why they can let it go for a lot less
the first time i read the auction listing i didn't notice that.