s54 Swapped Touring on BaT

[George Hill]

Unique way to "make" 10 grand. Wonder how much the build cost was.

I would imagine most people doing these projects aren't doing it to try and make money, I own a shop and I'm not sure its a good business model at that price even for me.

[George Hill]

Truth. My wallet ain't F1 sized.

My wallet isn't $28k donor sized.

[Casa de Mesa]

It's all relative to the size of your wallet...

Truth. My wallet ain't F1 sized.

[Nate047]

Nope it was an entire car. Link to donor: https://bringatrailer.com/listing/2003-bmw-m3-coupe-87/

Note on why from builder/seller:

"The donor car was stripped. Whatever was able to be swapped over to the wagon went over. The shell and remaining parts went to a buddy who had just recently wrecked his track car. It just happened to work out that way as the seller of the donor car wasnt the name registered on the title and it was very difficult to swap over as he had left the country permanently after the sale."

Unique way to "make" 10 grand. Wonder how much the build cost was.

[George Hill]

To each their own. It's not like they tore down a McLaren F1 to build it...

It's all relative to the size of your wallet...

[puma1824]

One can only hope.

Nope it was an entire car. Link to donor: https://bringatrailer.com/listing/2003-bmw-m3-coupe-87/

Note on why from builder/seller:

"The donor car was stripped. Whatever was able to be swapped over to the wagon went over. The shell and remaining parts went to a buddy who had just recently wrecked his track car. It just happened to work out that way as the seller of the donor car wasnt the name registered on the title and it was very difficult to swap over as he had left the country permanently after the sale."

[jet_dogg]

donor was likely a totaled low mileage car. I'd bet it was convertible too. lol

One can only hope.

[enjoy_m3]

donor was likely a totaled low mileage car. I'd bet it was convertible too. lol

[Casa de Mesa]

Is there confirmation that the seller broke a $28k M3 for a donor? If so, that is just stupid.

Do you mean, they used a $28k M3 to make the shaggin wagon?

To each their own. It's not like they tore down a McLaren F1 to build it...

[fattycharged]

Is there confirmation that the seller broke a $28k M3 for a donor? If so, that is just stupid.

[old///MFanatic]

Don't stress bro, I give you kudos for going to the trouble of finding this for the forum database and posterity.
I don't think I've ever seen him like a post, perhaps he's too cool? 😎

Thanks for the kudos and taking time to post. Appreciated.

And out of respect to Puma (OP) I asked if ok to continue to post this tangent info in his thread and he was cool with it.
I do like the correct info out. And there were some things corrected.

[jet_dogg]

Don't stress bro, I give you kudos for going to the trouble of finding this for the forum database and posterity.

I don't think I've ever seen him like a post, perhaps he's too cool? 😎

[old///MFanatic]

e46 M3 is 18,500, CSL is 18,750, per BMW (in their document about the CSL roof, they mentioned the increased torsional rigidity that resulted from it). I've never seen 18,800 listed anywhere.
I have seen the above docs mentioning weld in reinforcements in the M

Yeah I posted those docs before specifically explaining to you about welds, etc in another discussion about what makes up the M3s torsional rigidity.
Now here’s from BMW GROUP’s own internal graph. *Terra can verify it. Looks to show:
M3 approximately 18,700-18,800 Nm/deg. And the CSL 19,100 Nm/deg. Sure hope you appreciate this as it took me like 2 hrs to find my backup data lol 😝
Translation for those who don’t speak German:
Brown Line Graph=Torsion Stiffness with CFRP Roof
Red Line Graph=Torsion Stiffness with Steel Roof
Blue Line Graph=Shear modulus of test adhesive

Ok I see you’ve been back to thread. Expected at least a comment on the above post (quoted you so you’d get the direct notice). I spent hours looking for it for you (and forum). I see others at least “Liked” it yet nothing from you about it. Thought bringing this to light would get at least a response. Maybe even some kudos lol.

[puma1824]

My i3 has gone WAY up in value since I bought it.

… but so have all cars in that time frame, and especially EVs with the gas prices sky rocketing.

Hmmm, I should check how much my i3 is worth

[oceansize]

A dealer offered me more money for my son's 2018 Hyundai Elantra Sport than I paid for it in spring of 2020 and he has added 25k miles to it. Things are just completely stupid at the moment. It sounds great but I would then have to buy something else equally outrageous.