Weird desicion
Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 7:32 am
Hello Group,
Finally I could finish with the interior on my SF and the car is back on the road again for the 2007 season. Unfortunately things don’t turn out as planed. The old 318 is close to it’s end and, meanwhile the 361 BB that I disassembled during the last weeks showed a very fine hair crack between cylinder 4 and 6. To weld it with all the new parts that I would need – it would cost me a fortune to bring it back to life, so this project is also stopped. Not to mention the remaining doubts about it’s reliability. This project seems to be a barrel without bottom.
But, after all this bad luck there is a silver stripe on the horizon - I guess I finally found a solution for my Sport Fury. I know, it sounds weird but on second thoughts quite viable. What happened: Couple of month ago my brother, who drives a 740d BMW had an accident while the car was parked in a parking lot of an expedition company. A truck pulled back and hit the car right in the side, between the front and rear door. Not too, bad but the B column and the roof were bent in a little. As the car was already 8 years old, the security company didn’t want to pay the repair of the BMW because the real value of the car was lower than the repair. That’s how security companies work. After some weeks of struggling they finally paid my brother leaving him the old BMW in the yard. A couple of days ago he called me and offered me the wreck for just taking it out of his driveway. The car has a 4 litre Turbo Diesel engine with 245 hp and only 165.000 km (about 100.000 miles) on it. The automatic transmission is a 5 speed and works just fine. Last time I drove the car it pulled up in 0 – 120 mph in a little more than nothing. I simply like this car and how it drives. Well, and this is the way I go. I take the complete unit, engine and transmission, out of the BMW and transplant it in my SF. I already took the measures and it could work with some bracket adjustments
This way nobody will beat me in performance and fuel economy!!! That is very important here. Of course I will keep the 318 in the storage so I can swap it back again – later.
Stefan
Finally I could finish with the interior on my SF and the car is back on the road again for the 2007 season. Unfortunately things don’t turn out as planed. The old 318 is close to it’s end and, meanwhile the 361 BB that I disassembled during the last weeks showed a very fine hair crack between cylinder 4 and 6. To weld it with all the new parts that I would need – it would cost me a fortune to bring it back to life, so this project is also stopped. Not to mention the remaining doubts about it’s reliability. This project seems to be a barrel without bottom.
But, after all this bad luck there is a silver stripe on the horizon - I guess I finally found a solution for my Sport Fury. I know, it sounds weird but on second thoughts quite viable. What happened: Couple of month ago my brother, who drives a 740d BMW had an accident while the car was parked in a parking lot of an expedition company. A truck pulled back and hit the car right in the side, between the front and rear door. Not too, bad but the B column and the roof were bent in a little. As the car was already 8 years old, the security company didn’t want to pay the repair of the BMW because the real value of the car was lower than the repair. That’s how security companies work. After some weeks of struggling they finally paid my brother leaving him the old BMW in the yard. A couple of days ago he called me and offered me the wreck for just taking it out of his driveway. The car has a 4 litre Turbo Diesel engine with 245 hp and only 165.000 km (about 100.000 miles) on it. The automatic transmission is a 5 speed and works just fine. Last time I drove the car it pulled up in 0 – 120 mph in a little more than nothing. I simply like this car and how it drives. Well, and this is the way I go. I take the complete unit, engine and transmission, out of the BMW and transplant it in my SF. I already took the measures and it could work with some bracket adjustments
This way nobody will beat me in performance and fuel economy!!! That is very important here. Of course I will keep the 318 in the storage so I can swap it back again – later.
Stefan