Terry Sayther's '72 CSL is up for auction again on BAT

Don, I assume you are referring to the Runway Model Thin cylinder walls. In the early 60's we would have our Chevy 283 cu inch engines bored out to wafer thin walls. And stroked. And a hot cam. And triple carbs and I could go on and on. Those really were the days my friend.
 
CamayroZ said:
What is a 3.6L M90?

Does that mean that it was bored or stroked? So it is at the limit?

Thank you.
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In this case the motor was stroked. In one of the earlier auctions they noted that the engine used the crank from an M30 3.5. The M90 has a bigger bore and shorter stroke than the M30 3.5. If you swap the crank from a M30 3.5 into an M90 you get the 3.6 using the stock M30 3.5 crank. You can use the 3.5 M30 rods but you need custom pistons. If you bore and use the 3.5 crank you can get 3.7 liters, but as sfdon noted the distance between the cylinders is getting small and head gasket issues can arise. Better reliability with an M90 is when you stay with the stock bore. Terry is no dummy, he stayed with the stock bore when they built that motor. Plenty of poke for a lightweight, in this case the extra 100cc aren't worth the potential cylinder headaches (sorry for the bad pun but I couldn't help myself).
 
Wes said:
Boo..... :D Golf carb CSLs are the best. Well, except Colorado..
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Golf is one of my favorite bmw colors as opposed to calling it yellow…I know Terry’s golf e9 well…traveling with Terry in my 2002 Baur Targa.

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Stevehose said:
Golf is so outrageous and perfect for a csl that it transcends the color yellow - love it.
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With my Golf Bavaria, I was told if you refer to it as "Yellow" to always say, "Golf" first as Golf is a very unique color specific to BMW and to some it looks more "Green." So, "Golf yellow.' Kind of like a tennis ball, some say, "yellow" some say "Green." I think it looks more on the Yellow side but that is just me and most people here know by now I am officially "color blind" but still see color, just different from "non-Color blind" people.

It's frustrating sometimes...would love to see how you all see colors but there really isn't any lenses that I know of that deal with this issue to correct my vision. Because there are also different degrees of color blindness and colors that affect people differently. Such as Yellow/green, red/green etc. I could go on and on but at this point I really don't care. I call it as I "see" it.
 
CSteve said:
Some smart people figured out what this exceptional car is really worth. Three cheers!!!
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Steve, I agree, I think someone got a decent to good deal on this and will never regret this purchase with sky's the limit on what they want to do. Even with all the issues everyone pointed out, there are also a lot of pluses and it will be up to the new owner how crazy they want to get taking this back to a more original CSL, but I like the M90 3.6L and Bosch injection for drivability purposes; I get it either way. These CSL's are the kind of vehicles, to me, that should be taken back to original as much as possible.

But heck, drive it as is for a while, dial in some issues that come up, then figure out what direction the new owner wants to go. Does anyone know the new owner? On the board? Seems to be a Dealer familiar in the vintage BMW community but sells mainly Japanese cars on BaT but has bought quite a few diverse BMW's and looks like first coupe on BaT. I get the feeling this won't be a flip. At least not right away.
 
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