E23 745i
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Ecurie Ecosse

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4,812 posts

247 months

Wednesday 9th January 2008
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I remember seeing one of these as a youngster in Spain in the 80s and thinking wow!

And now there is one for sale in the classifieds (nothing to do with me):

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/321871.htm

AND it's for sale in Edinburgh - I may have to have a look.

Has anyone any experience of these rare beasts? What sort of power do they put out?

dibbly_dobbler

11,490 posts

226 months

Wednesday 9th January 2008
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Ecurie Ecosse said:
I remember seeing one of these as a youngster in Spain in the 80s and thinking wow!

And now there is one for sale in the classifieds (nothing to do with me):

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/321871.htm

AND it's for sale in Edinburgh - I may have to have a look.

Has anyone any experience of these rare beasts? What sort of power do they put out?
Hi Mate. You cant really be thinking of chopping your GTA in for this are you yikes ! It's got a kind of pimp daddy thing going but honestly...
And running costs etc look well scary!!

Ecurie Ecosse

Original Poster:

4,812 posts

247 months

Thursday 10th January 2008
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Nope - I'm never ever going to sell the GTA, this would be a companion for it.

Having slept on it though, and having looked again at the interior pics, I am slightly cooling off the idea ; )

podman

9,083 posts

269 months

Thursday 10th January 2008
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What a shame about the interior , they’ve wrecked that

BHP wise they had around 255 new I believe, if it has that amount now it would be amazing…

carlosvalderrama

198 posts

227 months

Thursday 10th January 2008
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I was looking for one of those for ages a while back. I had an E12 M535i which uses the same basic engine as that, but they called it the 745i because they turbocharged it with a KKK unit. BMW considered it to have an output comparable to a 4.5 litre motor, so it became the 745.

The turbo/electronics and what not can be slipped onto any of the old iron big sixes with reasonable ease. Apparently... So I was going to try to slip it onto the M. As it was, the tinworm was a more pressing matter.

dan101smith

17,049 posts

240 months

Thursday 10th January 2008
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carlosvalderrama said:
I was looking for one of those for ages a while back. I had an E12 M535i which uses the same basic engine as that, but they called it the 745i because they turbocharged it with a KKK unit. BMW considered it to have an output comparable to a 4.5 litre motor, so it became the 745.

The turbo/electronics and what not can be slipped onto any of the old iron big sixes with reasonable ease. Apparently... So I was going to try to slip it onto the M. As it was, the tinworm was a more pressing matter.
I thought there were issues with the manifold due to it coming from a LHD car?