ashley
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Okay the blue E34 540i is now safely home in East London, after a quick 1400km test drive. Did some driving around Cape town as well, bucket list items, :rollsmile: Chapman's Peak Drive, Francoishoek Motor Museum, Paarl to Worcester , some wine land routes on the trip home.
It may be 23 years old, but drives nicely. Keeps up with most younger stable mates (certain Red Z4 in the George area, will know what are talking about ) and over takes like a rocket, had to keep an eye on the speed, climbs at a rate in no time plus the sound that V8 makes over 4000rpm, is a sweet sound track, had to set cruise control to control myself from “over speeding”.
Rick540 your mods still working beautifully, with 34000km's plus, that motor is still great, just wants to go!
Fuel usage is heavy in the city - very heavy, but on the open road, we got 12.4 km per litre my modern 1.6 Pug gets, only 13km's per litre at the same speed but does no sound as nice!!
Budliegh and Rick540 thank you for be good care takers.:rollsmile:
Next task, RWC, and then changing front seats, still got the heated sports seats from the silver 540i I sold a while ago, some colour , and these can go into the 535I #race car.
It may be 23 years old, but drives nicely. Keeps up with most younger stable mates (certain Red Z4 in the George area, will know what are talking about ) and over takes like a rocket, had to keep an eye on the speed, climbs at a rate in no time plus the sound that V8 makes over 4000rpm, is a sweet sound track, had to set cruise control to control myself from “over speeding”.
Rick540 your mods still working beautifully, with 34000km's plus, that motor is still great, just wants to go!
Fuel usage is heavy in the city - very heavy, but on the open road, we got 12.4 km per litre my modern 1.6 Pug gets, only 13km's per litre at the same speed but does no sound as nice!!
Budliegh and Rick540 thank you for be good care takers.:rollsmile:
Next task, RWC, and then changing front seats, still got the heated sports seats from the silver 540i I sold a while ago, some colour , and these can go into the 535I #race car.
