s54 Swapped Touring on BaT

[George Hill]

My comment around the F1 wasn't so much pertaining to the cost but the rarity. M3s are still common. F1s are not. Turning an F1 into a shaggin wagon would feel a whole lot different to me than the way I feel about this donor M3 at the center of our attention.

Fair enough... on the other hand an F1 powerplant being used in the wild vs sitting in some collectors showroom that he only goes into a handful of days a year is arguably a better use of the engine.

How about an S85 touring, similar vroom vroom noises.

[Casa de Mesa]

I liked your post just so I could unlike it

😂 Ha

[Casa de Mesa]

How about an S85 touring, similar vroom vroom noises.

I say sign me the hell up!

[old///MFanatic]

Lol, thank you for digging that up!
... any chance you could post the PDF of the document up? I actually also went digging for it, but couldn't find it in my archive.

Well thanks. And yeah sorry that’s why it took me so long to find. My graph from the old pdf didn’t save correctly because of Google translate and link is now broken. Having this was the best as I had searching my computer. Sorry.

I guess it depends on your definition of "significant". I can easily feel vert to coupe, and that is "only" 2000 nm/deg..

Yeah and just to touch back on your earlier “significant” torsional rigidity example between the convertible and non-M coupe: 10,500-12,500 that is 2,000nm/°. But it’s also 19% difference of their less starting torsional rigidity.
Coupe 12,500 to Wagon 14,000 is only 1,500nm/° which is a 12% difference. 12%-19% is a 58% spread.
So comparing non-M Coupe to Convertible at 19% as an equal example of Non-M Coupe to Wagon 12% is again not really a like for like feeling difference.
Either way this is an M3 forum and doubt anyone here would include a non-M coupe chassis in a real conversation about best chassis for an M3 type conversion.

[fattycharged]

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...

looks like there was a good reason, otherwise, it would be silly when donor vehicles aren't difficult to find.