B12 Restoration Begins - Page 2

Danish · 30th January 2012, 23:30

Finding a 5.7 has become very difficult and/or very expensive due to supply drying out - people seem to hang onto the cars now.

This 5.0 is probably in better basic condition than 90% of the other 5.0's now. Looking forward to following the restoration.

horke · 31st January 2012, 08:27

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Originally Posted by Danish

Finding a 5.7 has become very difficult and/or very expensive due to supply drying out - people seem to hang onto the cars now.

You have also keep in mind that the 5.7 can be very difficult to maintain because of problems with some rarer 8-series features like AHK, EDC and Shiftronic - and the engine uses also much more Alpina-specific parts than the 5.0-engine. They are about 2-times rarer and have much more horsepower ... but you pay a much higher price for that.
For me the decision was clear ... either you have a diva or a car to drive

hythe · 31st January 2012, 13:01

Understand your points, but I still want to have a 5.7 someday...

Manual box, though...