Only one thing left that defines my car as a 35is?
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B21 said:Chippie said:
I was thinking marital :rofl:, you have a very understanding wife
Seriously though the total cost for all the mods you’ve done to it, and man maths don’t count.
So if you went in a straightline (not including 3 alloy wheel set swaps etc) approx £28k! :tumbleweed:
If you look at building a garage, tools, dyno runs etc etc a lot lot more..here's the breakdown..I think I've missed a few bits..enjoy!
Mod Cost
Ohlins R+T suspension £2,425
TTE 500 Turbos £2,100
Quaife LSD £2,050
Fox stainless exhaust £1,950
Apex Arc 8 Wheels £1,800
Index 12 injectors £1,650
DSP amp +bits £1,500
Speakers 13 £1,250
Front BBK £1,250
Wagner FMIC £1,100
MHD and xHP s/w £850
Intake plumbing £850
HPFP £850
Conti SC7 Tyres £700
Nexsys coil kit £550
Rear brake refurb £550
M3 steering linkages £500
C/F inlay £500
Rear lights £500
LPFP + bits £500
MMI MOST box £360
Uprated rear bushes £350
VSRF downpipes £335
Walnut blast £250
Diverter valves £250
Garmin cameras £250
Labour so far £2,500
£27,720
Add that plus the cost of the car and you could have got the G29 M40i or similar but I suppose that isn’t the point.
Silverstar said:B21 said:Chippie said:I was thinking marital :rofl:, you have a very understanding wife
Seriously though the total cost for all the mods you’ve done to it, and man maths don’t count.
So if you went in a straightline (not including 3 alloy wheel set swaps etc) approx £28k! :tumbleweed:
If you look at building a garage, tools, dyno runs etc etc a lot lot more..here's the breakdown..I think I've missed a few bits..enjoy!
Mod Cost
Ohlins R+T suspension £2,425
TTE 500 Turbos £2,100
Quaife LSD £2,050
Fox stainless exhaust £1,950
Apex Arc 8 Wheels £1,800
Index 12 injectors £1,650
DSP amp +bits £1,500
Speakers 13 £1,250
Front BBK £1,250
Wagner FMIC £1,100
MHD and xHP s/w £850
Intake plumbing £850
HPFP £850
Conti SC7 Tyres £700
Nexsys coil kit £550
Rear brake refurb £550
M3 steering linkages £500
C/F inlay £500
Rear lights £500
LPFP + bits £500
MMI MOST box £360
Uprated rear bushes £350
VSRF downpipes £335
Walnut blast £250
Diverter valves £250
Garmin cameras £250
Labour so far £2,500
£27,720
Add that plus the cost of the car and you could have got the G29 M40i or similar but I suppose that isn’t the point.
See this extract from another thread…
Long answer..
I looked at the G29 a number of times…
(I had a long running legal case which was heard at Carlisle Courts over 3 years and kept popping into Carlisle BMW)…
I took a 20i out for a weekend and had a 3 hour drive in an M40i…at the time I had my 20i MSport E89
No doubt that the G29 is a better car dynamically than the E89.
Comfort and ride is better.
Space a big improvement both cabin and boot.
Tech has obviously advanced a lot compared to the E89.
Prior to my court case being settled I couldn’t entertain one financially as someone who was coming to the end of long long set of careers..
However once my legal case was successfully concluded I could easily buy a M40i for cash..so in a different position..
But…each to their own…and..for me…
I’ve always been a ‘tinkerer’ maybe not a very successful ‘tinkerer’ and I like ‘twiddling’ with my bikes and now with cars..
Being and new, and pretty good there is a dearth of tinkering opportunities on the G29..although now some items are coming to the market albeit at cost..
I just don’t like the modern ‘design language’ with a plethora of faux styling accents, and it seems that BMW and Mercedes and to an extent Audi have all used the same computer programs ..
The E89 is very pretty both with the top up and down..the G29 looks ugly to me hood up..
So for me, spending some of the money that would have gone to a M40i on goodies to ‘enhance’ a design with ‘issues’ and to update capabilities gives me much greater satisfaction than just paying a load of cash to buy an off the shelf solution albeit a very good solution.
I’m not sure the G29 will age well..the E85 and E89 to my eyes are.
Effectively due to Covid my work plans came to an abrupt end and I have the time, money and headspace to do these things.
Another route some take is to have many cars at the same time..I did this with my bikes..at the peak I had 8 ..but you could only ride one at any time..they did look pretty in a line in my garage..
So a long ramble …if I was working full time with little time but lots of money I may have bought a G29..then another one..but I probably wouldn’t have had the time so probably wouldn’t have ever had a Z4..probably just another Audi A7…
Hope it makes some sort of sense?
B21 said:Silverstar said:
See this extract from another thread…
Long answer..
I looked at the G29 a number of times…
(I had a long running legal case which was heard at Carlisle Courts over 3 years and kept popping into Carlisle BMW)…
I took a 20i out for a weekend and had a 3 hour drive in an M40i…at the time I had my 20i MSport E89
No doubt that the G29 is a better car dynamically than the E89.
Comfort and ride is better.
Space a big improvement both cabin and boot.
Tech has obviously advanced a lot compared to the E89.
Prior to my court case being settled I couldn’t entertain one financially as someone who was coming to the end of long long set of careers..
However once my legal case was successfully concluded I could easily buy a M40i for cash..so in a different position..
But…each to their own…and..for me…
I’ve always been a ‘tinkerer’ maybe not a very successful ‘tinkerer’ and I like ‘twiddling’ with my bikes and now with cars..
Being and new, and pretty good there is a dearth of tinkering opportunities on the G29..although now some items are coming to the market albeit at cost..
I just don’t like the modern ‘design language’ with a plethora of faux styling accents, and it seems that BMW and Mercedes and to an extent Audi have all used the same computer programs ..
The E89 is very pretty both with the top up and down..the G29 looks ugly to me hood up..
So for me, spending some of the money that would have gone to a M40i on goodies to ‘enhance’ a design with ‘issues’ and to update capabilities gives me much greater satisfaction than just paying a load of cash to buy an off the shelf solution albeit a very good solution.
I’m not sure the G29 will age well..the E85 and E89 to my eyes are.
Effectively due to Covid my work plans came to an abrupt end and I have the time, money and headspace to do these things.
Another route some take is to have many cars at the same time..I did this with my bikes..at the peak I had 8 ..but you could only ride one at any time..they did look pretty in a line in my garage..
So a long ramble …if I was working full time with little time but lots of money I may have bought a G29..then another one..but I probably wouldn’t have had the time so probably wouldn’t have ever had a Z4..probably just another Audi A7…
Hope it makes some sort of sense?
I get what you mean when you talk about tinkering and twiddling and also regarding faux styling on the current cars, so yes it does make sense!
