S2 Piston Head Ad

[Knight Rider S4]

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/68137.htm

Seen this while looking at other motor posted ...looks and sounds impressive...bit out my price range though!!

[Jamo]

Asking too much money, seen this car on ebay, at the end of the day it's not an RS2 and wont fetch RS2 money.....

Also it's a Kim Collins conversion.............................

[Knight Rider S4]

Was thinking the same thing .....for all the money he spent on it i dont think he will get allot of that back.........we all now you can spend a fortune doing your car up but at the end of the day it is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it and that is never the same amount that you have spent

[stevieyid]

Whats wrong with Kim Collins?

[Jamo]

I didn't say anything was wrong, IMO value for money to BHP in his conversions are non existant.

[jubjub]

Jamo that is a fair point well made. In the cars defence, or the upgrades defence,it does have the desirable options in terms of the Sportquattro EM the front inlet IM and a SQ type airbox.These prices alone,let alone the cost of the hybrid turbo ( anyone know what spec this is?) would be getting on for a couple of K.Then theres the bigger brakes and uprated suspension....The cost of this conversion - according to the ad is £11.3k. I would imagine taking the car elsewhere for like for like spec it has got to be costing at least £5k upwards...........


The arguing point,IMO,is whether you need the amount of "part changing" to get the 420 bhp.Starting with a stock S2 then you certainly need to start changing EM, turbo, etc.
However from RS2 315 spec for just a remap there are companie out there that are achieving ~360bhp......quite how much further you have to go to get the other 60 is always open to debate.......

Difficult to say what the car is worth. At the current price its RS2 money. What is decent money for a late ABY coupe £6-7K ? I suppose the mods have would like to gain a couple of K so would £9-£10k be a fair price........

Equally look at the spec on Habibs 450bhp S2 that was for sale ( albiet an earlier 3b/5 speed) That had lots of £££ chucked at it, and still struggled to sell.

[Chris M]

He'll really struggle to sell that at that money. Its way over priced.

As Dean stated its up for RS2 money and should be more realisticly at 9k-ish.

To build a car to that spec wouldn't cost you that much if you did most of the work yourself, trust me, i've priced it up

[martinjs]

I agree about 9k.
Did Habib sell is car in the end then?

[Chris M]

Dunno mate, be interested to know if he did or not

[pastures16]

i thought he smashed it up

[Jas11n]

i thought he smashed it up

He didn't smash it up, more like someone ran into the back of him. Not sure what happened in the end tho. see here