I am thinking of buying a bmw e36 and am wondering what will give me the best power and tuning options with a total budget of around £4000. Tell me if i'm wrong but i was thinkin 1999 328 e36, which i can pick for around £2000 and spending £2000 ish on it or something lesser to start off with and spending a bit more on it?? Also is it advisable to be thinking about brakes if i'm gonna see an increase in power or are the standard ones up to it? thanks in advance:thumbsup
my experience of a 328i sport running about 210bhp + and standard brakes was they where more than good enough , suppose It depends how much your increasing the power :thumbsup
Why not spend four grand on an m3 mate everything is done for you then there is some good ones about at the moment plus knocking people down will be easy as everyone is skint:thumbsup
I would also back the M3 suggestion, but if you go the other way, depending on how much you beef the power up by, you might need to uprate the clutch as well as the brakes. Just something to bear in mind.
Flock yeah... and i'd race an evo any day... If my car was fixed that is:rofl
Come to think of it i'd race anything... when I had the car on the road I decided to give chase to a Brabus w12? Yep that's the closest I got to an arse kicking:rofl
There was the day where I had an E46 M3 csl try and give it the big one on the motorway... I was on his arse but you could tell given a larger stretch of road he'd just keep pulling away.
I'd be more worried about racing some of the boy'd up old skool 205 gti and similar than an evo:hihi
did the head gasket on it the other day managed to rip a water pipe and its a engine out job to do and im sick of repairing plus this bloody credit crunch it only do 7mpg on optimax.
oh and i had a flat tyre on the escort
thanks guys i'd never of thought an m3 would be so cheap but i've just looked and i'm in heaven. you've probs just saved me wasting a lot of money, and losing to m3's rather than having one!! now to find one that hasn't been shagged by a rich little boy with a lead foot!! one more question are there any issues i should be looking at considering they're gonna be over 100k at that age? thanks again:thumbsup
thanks guys i'd never of thought an m3 would be so cheap but i've just looked and i'm in heaven. you've probs just saved me wasting a lot of money, and losing to m3's rather than having one!! now to find one that hasn't been shagged by a rich little boy with a lead foot!! one more question are there any issues i should be looking at considering they're gonna be over 100k at that age? thanks again:thumbsup
You should be fine with any BMW including M3 so long as it has service history.
A BMW with over 100k on the clock is not a worry:thumbsup
Obviously try to get as lower mileage as your money will buy if mileage still concerns you but like I said it's not an issue so long as it has BMW or Independant BMW specialist, service history.
Apart from when the Vanos gets noisy and you end up forking out over £1000 for a new unit :eek
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