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Hi, im Gavin.
I will start as most do, with a couple of rubbish pics of my previous rides, and the reasons I sold a pair of legend investment cars with bags of power for a fairly common and not very fast BMW.
Firstly I built this 944, converted the original engine to low comp with forged rods ect and a huge BorgWarner turbo, dog leg gearbox, cage, 968cs chassis and 2 bar of boost. The thing was an animal. (pics are deliberately shit, il get upset if I see it properly)
At the same time, I also had this Audi S2 Nothelle N300. (one of about 20 made) It was chipped RS2 spec with larger turbo, exhaust ect, somewhere between 380-400hp, fast and sounded lovely, but didn't seem fast or aggressive compared with the 944. It was the Nothelle demo car and was full of nice rare parts.
On with the new car, I wanted the above 2 cars since I was about 14, but they really disrupted my life, constant garage time ran me down, fuel consumption that would make a dodge charger ashamed and its a bit embarrassing both have their engines out and you need to get a bus (yes, more than once) I felt I was missing out on life while laying under cars and burning cash big time. As cool and fun as they were, something had to change.
So, I wanted reliable, decent MPG, I only like German cars...needs to have some go, nothing obvious obviously I love cars so the lines are important - Honestly knew I was going for another BMW, and E86 was the only one that seemed right. Nearly bought an E46 M3, tbh there are so many near where I live it put me off, id love another E36 M3, but im off older cars for a while, I want to do some big Europe trips.
I wanted a TI Silver E86 sport non M.
The search found me this very clean 6 speed 3.0SI.
The 265ps N52 3.0 is no power house but it is a nice engine and feels really matched to that car.
I will start as most do, with a couple of rubbish pics of my previous rides, and the reasons I sold a pair of legend investment cars with bags of power for a fairly common and not very fast BMW.
Firstly I built this 944, converted the original engine to low comp with forged rods ect and a huge BorgWarner turbo, dog leg gearbox, cage, 968cs chassis and 2 bar of boost. The thing was an animal. (pics are deliberately shit, il get upset if I see it properly)
At the same time, I also had this Audi S2 Nothelle N300. (one of about 20 made) It was chipped RS2 spec with larger turbo, exhaust ect, somewhere between 380-400hp, fast and sounded lovely, but didn't seem fast or aggressive compared with the 944. It was the Nothelle demo car and was full of nice rare parts.
On with the new car, I wanted the above 2 cars since I was about 14, but they really disrupted my life, constant garage time ran me down, fuel consumption that would make a dodge charger ashamed and its a bit embarrassing both have their engines out and you need to get a bus (yes, more than once) I felt I was missing out on life while laying under cars and burning cash big time. As cool and fun as they were, something had to change.
So, I wanted reliable, decent MPG, I only like German cars...needs to have some go, nothing obvious obviously I love cars so the lines are important - Honestly knew I was going for another BMW, and E86 was the only one that seemed right. Nearly bought an E46 M3, tbh there are so many near where I live it put me off, id love another E36 M3, but im off older cars for a while, I want to do some big Europe trips.
I wanted a TI Silver E86 sport non M.
The search found me this very clean 6 speed 3.0SI.
The 265ps N52 3.0 is no power house but it is a nice engine and feels really matched to that car.
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