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In Reply to: 3.0CSi or CSL ?? posted by Frans de Court on September 27, 2000 at 17:33:09:
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First, if you are considering a car from England, you know that that is NOT a car friendly climate, so finding a very clean no-rust CS/CSi car will be extremely difficult and/or very expensive. I am also sure that you are aware of how bad these particular cars are for rust in structural areas, which could certainly affect the safety aspect of high speed shunts, unless you do an extensive rebuild and add a roll cage (in the States, for club events, no safety cage is required, but your rules may require it).
Therefore the cost aspect must at some point intrude into the decision making process.
Have you considered importing one from the States and converting it to RHD? I am not sure how bad this is to do because unlike British cars, BMWs do not appear to be built to be ambidextrous (with symetrical fittings). Perhaps you could abtain a rusted RHD car from which to scavange the unique parts to fit to a relatively rust-free Western US car?
I know while I would prefer to own and drive a coupe, I'd probably rather race a 2002 from the risk standpoint. CS cars are just too rare and expensive to risk IMHO. The Tii is nice, but they are getting hard to find as well. Are you allowed to modify cars to race them in class? (Bigger carbs/HC pistons, etc.). The Tii HP can easily be bettered with minor modifications.
Bob
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