E9 racer project for sale

It's a bit of an odd duck. Full cage (but if those forward facing tubes are really carbon fiber then that not a real cage that would pass any serious sanctioning body's standard) and racing seat, but no flares so you're stuck with skinny tires that nobody used in any racing versions. No fuel cell, stock suspension parts, no Heim joints or solid bushings and all of the hoses and engine compartment are street car stuff. No fan showing so it likely has an electric fan, but doesn't look like there are oil coolers for the engine or diff. The motor appears to be built and 240 CV is an improvement, but a redline of 6500 rpm is holding back power. The cam doesn't come on until it's over 3700, and with that much cam you should be spinning it to over 7000-7500 at least. If the rockers aren't done and the head work isn't there to support the cam, then why go with that much cam? Lots of racing livery, but this isn't a race car it's a track day car that might be fun but isn't close to anything like a race car. On the plus side it can still be driven on the street, but the interior is rough for anything but track day use. To sum it up it's not enough of a race car to be attractive to a race car collector and for a street car it's too rough and needs a lot of work to make it nice enough to really enjoy on the street. Unless you are looking for a E9 track day car it's going to take a lot of money to make this what you want. If you want a race car you need flared fenders, suspension work added coolers and the engine compartment brought to a higher standard, the battery moved to the trunk and a lot lot more. If you want a street car you need to lose the cage, and redo the entire interior, and then repaint it. Going in either direction is going to be expensive, so I don't see it selling for a lot unless two people are looking for track day cars. Probably least expensive to put it back on the street and enjoy the perky motor and have fun with it. If it goes for a low figure that could be a fun build.
 
Eh….Grp 1 so yeah not anything like a full blown grp4/5 factory car…Carbon fiber is just tape on one bar. Has FIA pass so yes REAL race car. Understand that there are other classes for CS other than full grp 5 Batmobile. No telling what the engine internals are but that is any case for buying someone else’s race car. Unless there is paperwork listing everything that has been done tread carefully but actually does not look like a cobbled up streetcar and the FIA pass is about as high a level sanctioning paper as you can have…
 
ElGrecko said:
It's a bit of an odd duck. Full cage (but if those forward facing tubes are really carbon fiber then that not a real cage that would pass any serious sanctioning body's standard) and racing seat, but no flares so you're stuck with skinny tires that nobody used in any racing versions. No fuel cell, stock suspension parts, no Heim joints or solid bushings and all of the hoses and engine compartment are street car stuff. No fan showing so it likely has an electric fan, but doesn't look like there are oil coolers for the engine or diff. The motor appears to be built and 240 CV is an improvement, but a redline of 6500 rpm is holding back power. The cam doesn't come on until it's over 3700, and with that much cam you should be spinning it to over 7000-7500 at least. If the rockers aren't done and the head work isn't there to support the cam, then why go with that much cam? Lots of racing livery, but this isn't a race car it's a track day car that might be fun but isn't close to anything like a race car. On the plus side it can still be driven on the street, but the interior is rough for anything but track day use. To sum it up it's not enough of a race car to be attractive to a race car collector and for a street car it's too rough and needs a lot of work to make it nice enough to really enjoy on the street. Unless you are looking for a E9 track day car it's going to take a lot of money to make this what you want. If you want a race car you need flared fenders, suspension work added coolers and the engine compartment brought to a higher standard, the battery moved to the trunk and a lot lot more. If you want a street car you need to lose the cage, and redo the entire interior, and then repaint it. Going in either direction is going to be expensive, so I don't see it selling for a lot unless two people are looking for track day cars. Probably least expensive to put it back on the street and enjoy the perky motor and have fun with it. If it goes for a low figure that could be a fun build.
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Don’t really understand your comments about flares, oil coolers, redline…M30 is an engine for low end tourque, maybe you are thinking of M88/m39 race engines? Yeah if someone goes for a cam in an m30 over 300 they better have full support but as the ad states this is a grp 1 car, don’t think would be legal to add any of the stuff you are talking about….
 
Bavman said:
Don’t really understand your comments about flares, oil coolers, redline…M30 is an engine for low end tourque, maybe you are thinking of M88/m39 race engines? Yeah if someone goes for a cam in an m30 over 300 they better have full support but as the ad states this is a grp 1 car, don’t think would be legal to add any of the stuff you are talking about….
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Yeah but like have you ever even raced a BMW @Bavman?:p;)

I once said during an auction that there is nothing worse than a pretend racecar that is obnoxious on the street and not sanctioned for racing. Then @Sandy Washburn went ahead and bought the car I was talking about for a staggeringly fair price. He races the piss out of it.

At any rate as @Bavman pointed out, the FIA pass says it all.

The e9 was raced for years on “skinny tires…”

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