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Andy, where do i get me one of them oil caps.

you got any magic washer fluid ???

lol, sure, £5000 per ltre

ha ha

its on its 3rd engine mind u

now now boys and girls its all bmw dealer 'reworks' children, call them for more details, just because some of you are 4 cylinders short of an engine theres no need to be like that!! and as for costs, i would never get back what's been paid into it but thats not what its about

oh one thing more, do you folks have like a meet up local place every now and then, where the police leave you alone and just let you have the place to yourselves for the day, i wouldnt mind seeing some of your motors and how they are coming along??? ps whens that 200sx coming along??

we have a meet tomorrow night at the Rock in Birkenhead, but we only have it once a month.

Sometimes the police turn up, but they are part of the meet

We don't tend to have meet's in the daytimes although we do sometimes have a BBQ in the summer.

Lol calm down, calm down.

Its just that you get lots of wild power claims from owners, and I find it very hard to see how the std 286bhp 740i can be remapped to 495bhp....

Esentially an M5 is remapped and runs a different ECU set up in "M" mode, thats a V10, 5.0, runs throttle bodies and is 15 years newer and that only makes 500bhp....

To see 500bhp from the V8, Id expect twin turbos or a supercharger, but theres no way it makes 495bhp with a filter, exhaust and remap - provide a Rolling road report however, and Ill humbly eat my words - id expect to see 300-320, maybe

BTW, its not a 200SX

i am so there this summer. is new brighton always on and do they still have them arcades with the planes you pull on the lever of to go up and down or am i really showing my age.
as for the car i have one of those dyno road test sheet thingys somewhere and i will dig it, out as for the work, bmw do it all as PMA ( a huge South African drugs company ) sponsor our vehicles and pay for all the work but it has to be all Beemer for the warranty ( i put the tarox discs on tho myself ), I have various bits of paper that if i can get my scanner to work with vista I will be more than happy to put on here showing some of the engine mods (I know bits but not all, I fix people lol) showing things like gas flowing the heads (????) replacement ecu and chip (i guess thats the brain) skimming the heads and boring of the cylinders and ceramically coating the bores and cylinders (can someone explain what this does to me, i have not got a fooking clue) as for the brakes my mistake, the discs are tarox but i dont know who the calipers are by ,could be beemer. Shows the cost on these as well and it rather scary lol on this engine alone its had over 83000 rand spent so in english i guess that is about 5100 pounds give or take. I will get my scanner sorted and get stuff posted and i look forward to meetin folks in the summer, Back home to France for a month on the 24th then pretoria for a sun tan and a chance for the car to go home. take care all and i will get them things to you as soon as i can

time for work, fun and games

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am with stu on this ,, thats not 495bhp,, i would say around 340bhp and possible 495lbs will have the 4.4l v8 which is the better motor than the early 4.o,,,


let me no when your cumming down as i will put my std 740i against it,,,,,

i must dig out the papers, and have a double check and like i say i will get them on here as well and any pics of ur motor bigcos

Good point Al, it depends which figures you are looking at, and what measurements you are using.

Std they make 286bhp, chip / remap takes them to 304bhp (providing the engine is running as well as it was when new)

Std they make 310ft/lb, which is 420Nm, chipped / remapped takes them to 460Nm.

Me thinks figures have been misread somewhere

here u go m8..


wot year/reg is your bmw..

nice one and same as yours but on its 3rd engine which i think is a 4.4 but do not quote me on that. I have paperwork for all sorts in my own place in Paris and go back in a few weeks, gonna post some of the mods stuff on here