Morr is no more so how about these?
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Personal taste is a wonderful thing but they do look just like csl' which seem to be the uniform of choice for z drivers now. However if you are bent on dubsends, my advice is spend your money wisely once. ie If you spend a lot of money on something that's not quite what you want, in a matter of months you will regret not spending a bit more to get exactly what you wanted in the first place 
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Probably easier if you used the 3.4S engine from an Alpina B3s, it's the same engine that Alpina fitted to the Roadster S so the transplant should be relatively straightforward - especially if you used someone like Phil Crouch at CPC. You'd need to source a gearbox as well though... very unlikely either the B3 or B3s engine would mate to the existing one in the recipient car....Mister T said:Couple of Alpina 3.3 lumps on ebay at the moment, I reckon you could get one of those freshened up and fitted for less than £4k...Smartbear said:The wheels you already have look great, spend the 4k on a 3litre engine conversion
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I doubt anyone else would be swayed by £4000 wheels when a good set of original CSLs look so similar and would probably be preferred (by them).
But as with all these things - if you can afford it and you want a particular item - why not? Otherwise we'd all be driving mk1 MX5s!
How many sets of wheels would that make? :lol:
But as with all these things - if you can afford it and you want a particular item - why not? Otherwise we'd all be driving mk1 MX5s!
How many sets of wheels would that make? :lol:
I would be very surprised if a standard E85 gearbox is compatible even if it bolts on - perhaps I shouldn't have used the word 'mates' as I meant much more than physical coupling - ratios are likely wrong, clutch, flywheel are likely to be underrated etc. etc.Mister T said:PerryGunn said:
Gearbox will bolt straight on. The B3/s engine is based on the S52 and shares a bellhousing with the M5x engine
I believe that the manual versions of the B3 & B3s used the same Getrag box as the M3 while the RS uses a unit manufactured to Alpina specifications by ZF. Any B3/B3s engine sourced in the UK is likely to have come from a Switchtronic car and would, apparently, require the ECU to be reprogrammed if mated (done it again
) to a manual box, but this doesn't seem to deter people as I've seen reports of people performing (or planning to perform) switchtronic->manual conversions on B3s' using an M3 gearboxtertius said:
This.
HRE have a new line of wheels that are around that price tag and a little more unique than a wheel similar to the csl wheel.
The folks over at Prestige are incredibly helpful too (had a few emails exchanged regarding options and prices)
Certainly worth considering mate, but if your heart is set on the Morr wheels, then nothing's going to convince you otherwise!
http://www.prestigewheelcentre.co.uk/
Edit: Not a plug as I've nothing to do with them, though I wouldn't mind if they were paying me!
£4k for wheels... I'd spend it towards moving towards an M.
Put all your mods on an M and sell all of the bits that are already on an M to further narrow the cost difference.
A decent M can be had for £12.5 - £4k wheels - £5k (approx) for your car standard = £3k difference maybe even less if you count M/aero front bumper, rear bumper, etc, etc.
Put all your mods on an M and sell all of the bits that are already on an M to further narrow the cost difference.
A decent M can be had for £12.5 - £4k wheels - £5k (approx) for your car standard = £3k difference maybe even less if you count M/aero front bumper, rear bumper, etc, etc.