Just in time for the racing season. This Race Car needs nothing to be raced next weekend.
Top Speed Over 170 Mph
3.9 6 Cylinder w/ over 370 rear wheel horsepower
Weighs Just under 2500 LBs
All Receipt’s and Complete Build Sheets Fresh S38 Motorsports Engine only 1 Race
Comes With lots Spares
Comes AMB transponder and lap timer
2 Rear Ends 3:91/3:73 Precision Engineering Built
8 Fiske and 4 BBS Lightweight Wheels
Wolf 3D+4 Fully Programmable Engine Management
Ground Control Double Adjustable Shocks & Struts
Fully Adjustable Suspension Front And Rear
AP 6 Piston Calipers Front and AP Rear Calipers
Carbon Fiber Hood
Carbon Fiber Air Intake
Carbon Fiber Air Damn
This is A Completely Sorted Race Car, Campaigned in Scca and BMWCCA. Will pass all tech inspections. Holds Many Lap records and Many Overall Wins.
S38 b38 BMW Engine, Balanced and Blueprinted, Head match ported and polished. Stillen Crankshaft, ARP Bolts and Studs Throughout. Over 370 RWHP.
Has New FIA 6 Point Schroth Belts, Current Window Net, Momo Seat and Steering Wheel. Comes with Spares. Spare Carbon Fiber Air Damn, Spare Rotors w/Hats for Front and Rear. Back-up Master Cylinder, Hydroboost, Brake lines, Various Rate Coil Springs
Comes w/2 Sets Full wets and 1 Set Intermediate wets, 3 sets of slicks; 24 tires total.
The car is (was?) owned by David Daniels, and is pretty well known to people in the E28 community. For a non-turbo engine, it’s HP output is as high as I’ve ever seen in an E28. And stripped down to 2,500 pounds? Wow. The E28 is notoriously heavy and difficult to strip down for racing, but Daniels used a lot of carbon fiber & fiberglass to help keep the weight down. Here is a video of it going up against an E36 M3 (owned & driven by Brian Watts.) In the video, the M3 can outrun the M5 in the straights, but the M5 walks right on by in the corners. Tells a lot about the work that Daniels put into the chassis and suspension! And about the driver!
The car was up for sale on eBay, but the auction ended with the final bid at $21,100, and the reserve not met.
I think I have a new favorite car; the Pagani Zonda. And this awesome piece of marketing magic does a fantastic job of making me want one. Not that I ever will, but… Enjoy.
I had never really heard of this car before buying a copy of Ambrosia Software’s Redline for the kids last Christmas; the Zonda is one of the downloadable add-ons for the game, and it’s one of the fastest & best handling cars in the game. Kinda makes sense, since it’s essentially a street-legal Formula 1 race car.
First, a little background:
The door locks on my ‘88 BMW 735i (e32) have been something of an enigma to me; they worked, but they worked differently than other cars I’ve had. Even differently when compared to my ‘84 BMW 528e.
With the early BMW’s, locking the doors generally involves pushing down on the door lock knob before shutting the driver’s door or putting the key in the outside lock and turning it to the right; that locks all four doors, the trunk and the fuel filler door. To unlock them all, insert the key and turn it to the left. And the same trick works using the key in either front door or the trunk lock.
In the late ’80’s, BMW added a new feature known as the Deadbolt; it prevents the door from opening with anything but the key. To deadbolt the car you put the key in the door & turn it one notch farther to the right. I say ‘notch’ but there’s really no notch when you turn the lock; there’s no tactile, audible or visible indication that anything different has happened at all. The doors just appear to be locked. But they will not open unless you use a key to turn the lock, no matter what. Presumably, if I were sitting inside the car and someone turned the key to put the doors into deadlock mode, I’d be stuck in there until someone with a key unlocked the car from the outside. The lock knob will not move. No. Matter. What.
As with most well-intentioned systems like this, when everything is working properly, it works great and is a decent theft-deterrent… But throw two decades of use at a system that really has no prescribed maintenance schedule, and you have the potential for problems. And of course that’s what I’ve been dealing with. Story of my life.
Help! My Door Is Locked, And I Can’t Open It! (more…)
Filed under: Cars!, Fun! — dave @ 11:56 pm 2010/02/24
I found the perfect accessory for the front bumper of my Rustoleum-painted BMW…
There are a couple of sites that will make custom Euro plates, for not a lot of money; this one is especially cool because it’s got an interactive tool that lets you see what your plate will look like.
Who cares that the US Spec e28s don’t have provisions for the wide Euro plates; it’s an easy retrofit, and they still look right at home!
But it’s on the Euro bumpers that they really shine!
Photos borrowed from mye28.com buds SWattersSR and RoyW; Thanks!
Have you ever approached an intersection in a car with your turn signal on, conspicuously reducing your speed, and have another motorist wait at the intersection to see if you actually turn before they make a move?
That happened to me on my way to lunch just now, and it kinda makes me laugh… A lady sat at the intersection down the road from work waiting to make her left turn, and didn’t move until she saw my front wheels rounding the corner. Not another car on the road for a quarter mile in either direction, my turn signal was on well ahead of my intended turn (and I know for a fact that it works), I was slowing well ahead of the intersection… Even if I was moving at the normal pace for traffic on that road, she would’ve had plenty of room to get up to speed ahead of me. Yet she sat there like she didn’t believe me.
Makes me wonder how many times I’ve done that same thing.
Filed under: Cars!, Fun! — dave @ 12:53 am 2010/01/31
Believe it or not, the images in this slideshow by Michael Paul Smith are just models in dioramas. Some of the dioramas have real backgrounds, but… Wow, are these shots realistic! And the artist says he used no Photoshop at all, just the camera and perspective. Enjoy!
The e24 is an oddity in the BMW lineup because there were major changes in 1982 that should have deserved a change in the designation, but it remained the e24. The earlier cars were based on the e12 and the later ones on the e28. The later cars were slightly lighter and had higher engine output. 25-plus years out, the later cars are generally better buys because they are newer, if only by a few years, and are generally in better shape. I think the sheet metal is the same, but much under the skin is different.
This one is located in Ridgecrest, California, looks to be extremely clean, and has been converted from the original autotragic to a 5-speed; sweet. The seller has a great reputation on MyE28.com (that counts for a lot!); very unlikely that there are any unsorted issues on this car. And given the location — high desert area of southern CA — very likely that the air conditioning works! Priced at only $4,800, it’s a wonder it hasn’t sold yet.
I love the sound coming from the tailpipe of this car. Mmmm, mmmm, mmmm!
I’ve heard that sound at the Fairgrounds when the Sports Car Club of Siouxland runs autocross races; a couple of guys run M3’s there, and they sound an awful lot like this… Probably the same motor with slightly different exhaust. They sound great at full throttle and on deceleration; much more, umm… civilized than the run-o’-the-mill small block Chevy. Not as sweet as a Ferrari, but still very nice.
Watching an old Elvis Presley movie right now — Clambake. Elvis plays a the son of a wealthy oil tycoon, and drives a sharp looking red roadster that turns out to be the 1959 Corvette XP-87 Stingray. What a gorgeous machine! Given that the car was built in ‘59, and the movie was released in ‘67 shows how well the design of the car aged.
The XP-87 was designed in ‘57 by Bill Mitchell and Gary Shinoda as an exercise in racing design, and was raced extensively the for a short time before being retired. It was then spiffed up and put on the show car circuit, and even used as a weekend driver by Bill Mitchell (after they added a passenger seat!) That’s what you call a fringe benefit!
The influence of this car’s design on the C2 Corvette is pretty obvious.
I’ve always liked the looks of that model Corvette better than any of the others… Not sure what it is, but the coupe is one sharp car. I’d love to do a resto-mod of one someday. Someday.
As nice as this one looks, I think I’d have to do it in red. That fits the C2 best.
