1999 Z3 M Coupe Hardtop in Silver, 128k miles, $16,500 or best reasonable offer (no trades)

Before I begin describing the M coupe let me say that I started my sports car hobby with a concourse quality 91 Porshce 964 turbo which I turned into a weekend track car where I did about a dozen events over 3 years. Made a bad job choice and had to sell it. After it was gone I had always liked the z3 m coupe cars and then I found this car in Cali on craigslist of all places and he attraction to the car for me was simple; silver and no sunroof... The guy i bought it from was selling it for a buddy, and he's a BMW guy (i think he's on here too) and after shipping it was around $13k in 2009; had 122k miles clean car fax and title and it's been on the west coast it's whole life; there has been some resprayed panels before my ownership but no body rust; only the normal surface discoloration on lower sub frames. He had a handful of receipts like new clutch and various maintenance services. It came with two sets of wheels, the stock ones and the 19" SSR GT3 chrome lip ones that are on it now. It also had a Dinan stage 2 package: adjustable sway bars, front upper shock tower camber plates, tuning, intake, exhaust and springs.

So weeks go by and I finally get the car and it's total crap; it has all of the z3 m gremlins. So I have a good relationship with a shop who worked on my Porsche for the track and I take it to them and here's what was done during the famous blizzard winter the east coast had a few years back (2009-10):

Drop the rear sub frame: fix the broken sway bar mount, weld in the adjustable rear camber and toe brackets, replace all stock sub frame, trans, differential and engine mounts with solid or Ireland engineering, replace all drop links and spring pads, replace upper strut mounts with solid, install bilstein sport shocks, and install a limited slip diff from Dan's Diffs up in Connecticut with the stock ratio(you'll read why later) put on new 19" tires, and front rotors (cross drilled all the way around). I get the car back and it's awesome no drivability problems what so ever; in the meantime I have replaced anything needed, like dipstick O-rings, valve cover gasket, washer fluid pump and lines, driveshaft coupler gruibo or it's called something like that, ignition coil boots, battery, flushed brakes and put in super blue, and anything in need that we forgot at the shop. Drive it for the remainder of the year and decide to turbo charge it because it's quite simply not enough like my Porsche. So the head mechanic at the shop does a compression test and everything was exceptional for a car of this mileage and then I convince him to take the car to his house and begin the project because I wanted to help wrench. He didn't let me do much but what the heck. Anyways here's the turbo build:

Removed air injections, cyclone from intake and plug it (when you turbo charge these cars to avoid pressurizing the crank case you run the front valve cover vent to the ground or open air, crazy sounding but it works), replace ac condenser fan w/ a spal fan, and remove stock exhaust. This car still has the cruise control and AC, and most of the under trays still fit, you could put the main belly pan on if you really wanted.It's essentially an Active stage 1 tune w/ a GT30r ball bearing turbo

active header and waste gate pipe
tial waste gate w/ 8 psi spring you'll see 10 psi with the exhaust set up
single straight exhaust going into a y then splitting into the dinan mufflers
custom fabricated aluminum intake
custom charge pipes
supersonic BOV recirculated via custom pipes
Godspeed intercooler
AEM dry air filter
Stock mass air sensor in a custom intake pipe
30lb red top injectors
walbro fuel pump and new fuel filter
I forget the plugs but you want to run the supra turbo ones
billet oil filter cap w/ output for the turbo and oil cooler lines
oil cooler
custom steel braided lines for oil and coolant
Garrett GT30r .81 a/r turbo
the turbo is again ball bearing oil and water cooled
pulled the oil pan and had a custom return line welded into the pan, new oil pan gasket
all new cam sensors, 02 sensors, and 02 repeaters for the rear cats which are gone.

My mechanic tells me it's faster than the 911 turbo I had and he works on some impressive machines so I believe him. I have never dyno'd it because to be honest and I have driven less than 1000 miles since the turbo build... The 911 put 350 at the wheels so I think this car is somewhere around that but because of the naturally aspirated gearing, it just runs through the gears.

The car will come w/ both sets of wheels, the stock wheels don't have rubber, various spare parts, like plugs and extra interior parts, cat pipe, receipts and service history book. There are rennline floor matts and pedals and a halon exteinguisher from my old car installed; recently the headliner went to crap and I replaced it with a lighter shade of blue (I must be going color blind). The stereo is really nice, top of the line alpine head unit w/ aux plug (sometimes it will recognize your iPod thru it and post data), subwoofer and amp, and sepearte components. Has an alarm tied into the stock remote, the windows are tinted to 20% and if I haven't mentioned it has black side vents and front grill.

It's by no means a concourse car like my previous sports car but it is a great driver which doesn't consume fluids nor leak any that I can tell and it's super super rare. I live 10 miles north of DC and 20 miles south of Baltimore off of 95 if you'd like to come get your heart rate up during a drive. I'll take more picks when it stops raining.

Drew