Turbo on BaT

[Lengrep]

1 hour ago, tjones02 said:

@Lengrep What has the BMW Group Archive said about the original color of your car? info.grouparchiv@bmwgroup.com

Chamonix. It’s had a respray at some point. Lots of overspray but finish is great!

[dlacey]

They uploaded some driving videos...didnt see much on-boost performance...but seems to drive smoothly.

Dare i say..the diff seems noisy...or is that just the back-seat shooting location picking-up some sounds...

[wkohler]

I would say the seller picked the wrong place to shoot the videos.  Paradise Valley is not conducive to going much over 40mph, plus the added “road construction.”  I was hoping for a more remote location.  

[Lengrep]

Acceleration reminds me of my Turbo when the turbocharger was ready for overhaul. Same cool exhaust sound, though!

 

i kept waiting for him to turn onto a freeway on-ramp!

Edited August 17, 2020 by Lengrep
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[Lengrep]

Sold at $156,000 (plus $5k BAT fee) to a dealer in Texas.  Nice price!  Now he can try to overhaul the KKK turbocharger...

 

Original paint is pretty sweet.

 

 

[wkohler]

Nice to see it sell.  Kinda sucks I won’t see it around here anymore but it’s nice it didn’t go RNM.  From the comments it seems like there are more cars we will see soon.  

[Lengrep]

@wkohler Carl tells me I’ll be happily driving mine this fall. Come on out! (Hoping we don’t have to cancel...)

[wkohler]

8 minutes ago, Lengrep said:

@wkohler Carl tells me I’ll be happily driving mine this fall. Come on out! (Hoping we don’t have to cancel...)

Excited to see it again!  The way the rest of the year is looking for work (very little), I’m hoping to make it and also hopeful it will go forward as planned.  Thinking I’ll bring the E28 M5 and that will force me to do the suspension stuff I’ve been putting off.  

[m6smitten]

I'm in Colorado. We should meet somewhere in the middle of Cal, Az and Co

[frached]

Does anyone know if this car had the correct turbo? Does this sale price indicate the value of our cars is rising? What is with the red differential? 

[Preyupy]

I had a good look at this car a couple years ago and it is very complete and as far as I could tell all the correct parts (Turbo included) were there.  For some reason when the diff was rebuilt at some point in its life it got painted red.  I have no idea why.