Sporty Coupes.........

[Barakka]

The BMW 850CSi... they stopped making it in 1997 and selling it in 1999....

Standard equipment included alloy wheels, gathered leather upholstery/wood trim, power sunroof, foglights, remote keyless entry system, All Season Traction, BMW cellular telephone and CD changer. Featured a 5.4-liter SOHC 24-valve V12 with 322hp @ 5,000 rpm and 361 lb-ft of torque @ 3,900 rpm and a 5-speed automatic transmission.

The rarest being the 6 speed manual, remember reading a review where they said it would wheel-spin from stationary in 1st, 2nd, 3rd or 4th - and still wouldn't stall in 5th or 6th Can pick up a 95/96 model for about £10k but also comes with appropriate servicing costs for a 5.4 litre BMW !! Original Dealer price in 1996 circa £78k - insurance group 20.

Lubberly pop-up headlights fun... pesky pedestrians and their injuries

[weebroonieuk]

only fiat garages will take the engine out to change a coops cambelts mate as they can charge u a bomb there is many fiat specialists that can quite easily do u a full belt change e.g. the cambelt auxillary belts etc for £400 parts and labour! some are cheaper

butuz the coupes dont all have red carpets tho those are nice the interior trim has a strip from door to dash to opposite door in the cars body colour it looks like metal but its plastic with a very good deep paint job and they are in the cars body colour a nice touch which i like and u dont see to often

ive not heard of silicone oil mate i wouldnt go with any oil with silly additives especially the ones that contain ptfe as this is known to sink to the bottom of the sump after time after it has lined the small capillary cooling channels around the cylinder head! not good!

as for leaving your car idleing i used to be a believer in that also , but when your idleing and there is no load on the engine your car isnt produceing full oil pressure so it doesnt get pumped upto the head cams valves , the more modern school of thought is to drive straight away buit keep the levs low and dont give it too much gas just take it easy till your oil and water are up to temp ,
i am going to go different route and eventually get a kenlowe hotstart which is inline electric heater which u splice into the oil line and plug it in when at home means your always always pre warmed luvly :d

300 zx wouldnt be my choice i can easily play with them on backroads but if someones willing to throw a few thousand at it then it will dart towards the sunset like no tommorow

[Rave]

The standard 850 made around 320bhp IIRC- the CSi was more like 380. Much more reasonable. Good luck finding a manual one though.

[weebroonieuk]

couldnt u use a gearbox from another bmdubya ? i know it would be a fair bit of work but would be worth it !

[DeludedGuy]

This thread is so dissapointing, I was hoping to see lots of pics

[weebroonieuk]

who has webspace an can host a few pics ? i only have some outside ones on the laptop i cant find where i archived the other pics of interior an my kerbed wheel

[Butuz]

Heres a few of my sporty coupe anyway.









Butuz

[Butuz]

And heres some pics of my fellow oners club cars:

















Butuz

[Howard]

Get those wheels on your car! Stat!

[weebroonieuk]

i would like the white one the most but looks like somethin from fas an the furious with the daft stickers ripped of

[Rave]

Forgive my lack of googlism (too lazy) but are the ones with the squarer headlights (I.E. not like yours) earlier or later cars?

Rich :¬)

[Butuz]

Forgive my lack of googlism (too lazy) but are the ones with the squarer headlights (I.E. not like yours) earlier or later cars?

Rich :¬)

The ones with the slanty eyes hedlamps (purple one, black one etc) are the facelift model called the s14a sold over here from 97-2000 ish, my S14 was sold from 95-97 ish.

Butuz

[Butuz]

i would like the white one the most but looks like somethin from fas an the furious with the daft stickers ripped of

The White one is a Jap Silva S15 still sold over there but they were never sold over here unfortiunatly, so you have to import them, same 2.0 turbo engine as mine but slightly higher tune at 250bhp. I think that white one looks stunning.

Though he has put a fast and furios style picnic table on the back now which personally i think has completeley ruined the look of car and i told him in no uncertain terms too!





Butuz

[Butuz]

Get those wheels on your car! Stat!

Theyre Nissan 350z wheels 18" x 8". I think they look really good, i may buy a set, but i dont really want 18" wheels, i prefer 17's and the tyres are alot cheaper with them too.

Butuz

[weebroonieuk]

lol certainly has ruined it ahwell a bit of photoshop and it should be nice again with a more discreet spolier , anyone upto it ?

[Butuz]

I thought you said you hated "big daft spoilers and air vents to ruin the lines"

Thats got air vents galore, you want to put a spoiler on it and you think its nice!



Butuz