Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

I don't know if anyone else here has ever come across a guy called Stav from the now non-existent Fast Car magazine. The guy is a bit opinionated but he builds ridiculous cars. My friend with the 500bhp R32 Skyline GTR bought that car from Stav, and Stav is now selling his latest project:

Right, so last time it made 440bhp at 2psi boost, and 465lbft at
4.5psi boost. It was very fast. It's now running 8-9psi. It's a whole lot faster. Option 1- Back to the dyno and get a lovely
500bhp+ number for everyone to go 'ooooh' over, but it's meaningless
really, and tbh wouldn't make it sound much better than later E55
Kompressors, and was already pretty sure it was quicker than one of
them even at the lower boost. Option 2 it is then, get the expensive
Racelogic timing gear out and see what it REALLY does. First two
gears, even in the stone dry, it just smokes the tyres as soon as you
boot it, so impossible to get any real timing from that, which was a
shame. BUT 3rd gear on it's ok, and VERY fast indeed. 60-100mph
times... Lamborghini Murcielago LP640 4.6sec. Ferrari F430 4.7sec
Audi R8 V10 4.8sec Nissan GTR 5sec E60 M5 5.1sec C63 AMG 5.3sec E55
AMG Kompressor 5.8sec Golf R32 9.1sec This low budget home brew
Mercedes?- 4.4sec (no gearchange needed btw). Also, looking at the
datalogging, I did one accidental 60-120mph time. It wasn't on one of
the faster runs, so would likely take about 4 tenths off it with a
perfect run, but was 8.4seconds. Even that far from good run was
2.4sec faster than the later supercharged E55 AMG Kompressors, and as a comparison to a 'hot hatch', 21seconds faster than a Mini Cooper S
lol. Only had 5/6 attempts, but the 60-100 was certainly backed up,
rather than a fluke/mistake run... timing1.jpg timing3.jpg
timing2.jpg Also, as I knew it sounded insane from inside the car, I
wondered how it sounded from outside, so a mate filmed a few little
clips. Sounds decent. Quiet enough to pass any trackday noise test
easily too... https://youtu.be/b5SMovRDhuc
And that's about it. It's
been decided, as it's proven everything that it was set out to, and
hardly gets used, that it's being sold. If anyone wants an
absolutely bananas car for very little money, watch this space as I'll
be putting a for sale ad up soon..

In case you're struggling to work out what's going on with that shitty quoting,

Crazy man builds E55 AMG with rear mounted Holset HX55 (because why not?) running 9psi and probably over 500bhp. Takes out Racelogic timing gear and records it doing 60-100mph in under 5 seconds and lists times of very fast cars that it's quicker than.

35 feet of charge pipe?

Something like that. PPC magazine had an article on a bloke who had a turbo hanging from the rear bumper of his 205GTi bolted on the end of the exhaust. He claimed there wasn't any turbo lag. Hhhmmmmm...

Good story NH. As a merc (poor handling auto bahn cruiser) owner I'm always interested in moar powah! for sale, £3,500
Other good tuners: MSL in Birmingham and Dieselpump UK, York

I'm really fucking tempted...

Not really a Sunday Shopper is it?

Oh it is! Sainos >>>>>> 😀

This car was apparently built to show that rear mounted turbos can work when done correctly. Figures seem healthy.

https://youtu.be/HNnrW54xPaY

You clearly have never seen my old E34?

you're a good ole romford boy - say no more ;)

So, alternator's given up on the Bimmer. I've spoken to the garage and they've told me I could replace it with either a Bosch, or a Delco Remy, difference in price is about £75, both come with a year warranty. What should I do?

you clearly have never heard my old E34?

ftfy

You're clearly out of touch wid yoot, my 19 y/o plays that (admittedly shite) stuff all day/night...

What bimmer you got? Are you in London?

Rotating machines on Bancroft road have helped me, and can give you details.

You keep saying that...

Did you take a pic of bonnet at least?

How much?

Le drive. Le like. Le cannot afford.

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How much are they?

Fuck loads, but you get free electrical charging for the life of the vehicle.

Surely the cost is only of any relevance to the deposit you need to pay for the finance?

The batteries last 5 years. A replacement set is £17,000.

That is all.

£17k + a 5 year/100k mile service...

They're surprisingly common in Oslo, with winter tyres naturally.