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Year: 1998
Make: BMW
Model: M3
Price: $11111111
Mileage: 93500
Private or Dealer Listing: Private Listing
Location (State): GA
Color: Silver
Transmission: Manual
Drivetrain: Rear Wheel Drive
LS Engine?: Car has LS engine

Trade Pending

Testing the waters here (NO TRADES FOR F-BODIES PLEASE)

Trade ideas: Porsche, 99+ vette, cobra, mach 1, e46 m3, etc. What you got? Can add cash on top!

Up for trade is my beautiful 1998 BMW M3 in factory Arctic Silver paint. The car features over $16,087.00 in modifications and maintenance which I will list below. The M3 has right around 93,5xx miles on the clock. Interior is in mint shape. Exterior in very good condition, front bumper has a few small rock chips otherwise paint is great. Cold A/C and heat works well. At the current moment the vehicle is at TRM tuning in Cumming, GA having some top end work done to it due to a failure from a poorly machined cylinder head that I purchased at time of turbo install. All parts on this car have been replaced with factory BMW stock or top quality aftermarket performance goodies. I have all receipts and documents showing the list of mods. The vehicle will be out of the shop and dyno tuned before any trades are made. Expected hp will be 500+. If you don’t believe me, do a quick Google search on TRM tubo kits

At this point I primarily would like to trade since I know I could never get the cost of the car and all of its modifications combined. That would total over $27,000. I am looking for anything cool such as Porsche's, Vettes, E46 M3, STI or EVO for a straight up trade or I can add cash if the vehicle is right. Must be a manual and have working A/C. Please feel free to ask me any questions or shoot me any offers. Cash price Trade pending obo Think that's to high, please keep it to yourself or PM me. Thanks

On to the modifications:

Engine: Stock S52 3.2L block with 93.5K miles
 •Oil pan with 10AN fitting for turbo drain installed
• New BMW oil pan gasket
• New BMW rear main seal and carrier
• Resurfaced block deck to a mirror finish
• CES Motorsports cut-ring head gasket plus .070 copper spacer combo (good for 30psi of boost)
• ARP 2000 head studs
• New BMW intermediate timing chain guide
• New BMW camshaft tensioner and guide
• Schrick Performance camshafts
• Resurfaced and pressure tested S52 cylinder head
• New vanos unit
• New BMW valve cover gasket and grommets
• NGK plugs
• M50 manifold conversion with all new BMW gaskets
• AKG polly motor mounts
• Steward Performance water pump
• New Factory BMW thermostat and aluminum housing
• New BMW upper and lower radiator hoses
• New Behr S54 3 core radiator
• New BMW cooling clutch fan (not cheap imitation ones that explode under boost)
• 16” Spal pusher fan to work alongside the mechanical fan
• Provent 200 catch can (no currently installed, CCV vented to atmosphere)

Turbo kit:
TRM stage II kit: (cost $6,400 alone)
 •Garrett GT35R ball bearing turbo charger
• SPA T4 bottom mount manifold (ports cleaned up with grinder)
• Tail 38mm waste gate routed to recirculate from manifold back into exhaust- no open dumps here
• Stainless steel braided oil feed line with restrictor
• Silicone water feed and return lines
• Push-lock oil drain hose and fittings to 10AN oil pan
• TRM motor mount arm
• Powder coated turbo inlet and K&N filter
• Powder coated charge pipes 2.5” out to 3” (this system routes above the subframe to keep maximum ground clearance and retains A/C)
• 600+ hp rated intercooler and frame bracket
• Synapse BOV
• TRM Blow through MAF
• 60LBS injectors
• Rally Road 340LPH drop in fuel pump
• 3” downpipe to 3” Pypes resonator out to 3” Magnaflow muffler
• Factory tuned DME for excellent drivability
• NXS manual boost controller

Transmission:
BMW ZF 5-Speed:
•Fidanza 14.5LBS aluminum flywheel with new crankshaft bolts
• New BMW pilot bearing
• UUC Segmented Kevlar clutch kit and pressure plate (good for 500lbs of torque)
• New BMW pressure plate to flywheel bolts
• Sachs throw out bearing
• Rally road pivot pin
• New BMW input shaft seal
• New BMW clutch fork
• New slave cylinder
• Red Line fluid change
• New Guibo
• Dinan short shifter
• New BMW tranny mounts

Suspension:
• H&R lowering springs
• Strut tower brace
• Motor mount reinforcement plates
• Sway bar reinforcement plates (not installed yet)
• R-tab reinforcement plates (not installed yet)
• Breyton 18” competition wheels
• New Kuhmo LE tires
• Active Autowerks differential brace/support (not installed yet)


Interior/exterior
• New door handle trim pieces
• New cowl vent plastic
• Euro clear tail light and side marker conversion
• Various other trim pieces (some not installed yet)
• Euro Mtech M3 steering wheel (not installed yet)
• Ortiz Customs gauge mount to take place of sunglasses holder
• Prosport Halo series boost and wideband gauges

There are probably quite a few things I am forgetting but onto some low res/quality pics.

Before turbo install and pics taken by the PO:







And turbo install

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Incase anyone is interested more details and info about the BMW can be found on my build thread here: http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum...eek-(pic-heavy)

*Also I should note should anyone be interested in any kind of trade, the deal will be handled by a family member. Reason being I am an overseas contractor and will not be home till late November. This will not be a problem, the title to the car will be signed and ready for your ownership. If you are local to the Atlanta area you should be able to vist TRM Tuning (Cumming,GA) to see the car in person. I will notify the shop owner that someone wants to look at it and while your there you might get to see it get dyno tuned

vette_'98

Bump. Make an offer any offer don't be scared

vette_'98

Bump. About 250 views and no comment. Tough crowd in here. The Price is OBO!!!

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TTT bump

merim123

iTrader: (11)

It looks like a very nice car. The only issue I could see on this site is that the car you don't want trades on, represent probably 85% of the cars owners on here.

This should sell fairly quickly on the bimmer forums though I would expect.

I'd take one of these as roller in a heartbeat to put a ls1/t56 combo in.

Good luck with your sale.

darksrt

I may have missed it but where are you located? Also what fuel is the tune going to be done on?

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In case you did not receive my PM, I will post here as well:

Hi,

The current base tune and the final tune will be for pump gas 91-93 octane. The car is currently in Cumming Ga at TRM's shop. From there it will probably be picked up and stored at my work in Atlanta Ga or my folks house in Carnesville, Ga. If you are interested I can have it stored at either place if one is closer to you. I am also ready to make someone a good deal on it. So let me know if interested.

Thanks,

Chad

vette_'98

Calling vettes (C5 Z06) trades plus cash your way come on in here