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Well I have a serious problem to attend to this after noon. I have to fit an old rear end into a new Recliner!

 

Piece of cake; even an amateur can manage it.

 

I've bought/sold/imported/exported thousands of cars...it's tough valuing them once they are 3 years or so old.

Lower class (BMW 3,MBZ C,and Audi A4) hold value better than the higher (7,S, and A8) models. Depends on the engine size,option package,and especially time left on warranty.

And once the warranty expires..the residual drops.Believe me,I've dealt with enough people who were in the ditch on their leases.

Two years ago had a 2005 Audi A8 intended to drive for a month..Active Air Ride screwed up...was in the shop for 6 weeks. 125 computerized modules w/many connected,an intermittent fault/short is nigh impossible to find.
$15k warranty claim.
Technician told me length of wire in the car...not sure,maybe 300 meters?

Just look around...you see very few 10-15 year old S class,7 series,and A8's (even A6's) driving around because when (not if) some module,steering rack,or driveline problem crops up it'll cost more to fix than what it's worth.
And the parts on it are worth multitudes the value of the car.
That said,the '93 to '99 MBZ S Class is the toughest of them all.

It cost a friend $5k to get the power hardtop on his SL500 working right.

BTW stay away from Range Rovers

 

Except this is a Corvette, not a BMW.

 

Not just any 'Vette. Aluminum block, tranny in the back. Subtract weight, improve balance, go fast and it is then GMW. (General Motor Werke)

 

Mark you're easily excited. The GM torque tube concept and aluminum small block have been around for quite some time now. Yes, it's an interesting package, but I used to own a Donavon aluminum small block (350 CID) and this was 30 years ago. I'd do anything to have that block back again. It was 100 pounds (naked) with the raised cam bore for better valve train geometry.

 

Glad to see you now understand the GMW reference.
Donovan will still make you a great engine, BTW, but engineering a competitive ride is not as easy when not slipping in a rolling chassis and what about weight distribution? If I choose to make one of these things competive, it wud take ten times the money for a Donovan to keep up. The biggest engineering problem I confront is too deep of an oil pan and too wide of axle and nothing short of a boxer has a lower COG. All of that, and economical, parts anywhere, and a day-to-day driver.

 

Dry sump man, lose the oil pan, the vette above has a dry sump. The Donovan blocks now are so expensive that you have to be much more serious then I am currently. I'm not sure why you're having axle issues, I've shoehorned a lot of V8 power into ridiculously small cars. I once stuffed a 454 into a Opel GT (mini vette). I never could get it street legal, but I wasn't trying very hard either. 650 HP in a 1,500 pound car is a lot of fun.

 

Everybody's got one of those!

 

Hey Mark I'm assuming that C5 chassis is going into a 5,as it seems wide for a 3.

 

PAR, you and Mark are both obviously out of your ever-loving minds.

I'm not complaining, understand; it's a fun kind of crazy. I've never been much of a motorhead myself, but I can appreciate people who are.

 

Make that (Government Motor Werke).

 

she's the smart one

I'm the one working

 

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