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We have had a busy few weeks of late and so much happening over the next few months but that hasn’t stopped us getting out and about and enjoying ourselves meeting up with people at various shows, showcasing our BMW Z4 and the first outing this year was the Ultimate BMW Meet at the British Motor Museum in Gaydon Warwickshire and apart from the traditional British April weather the show seems to be a great success, especially with the Museum open for business which was excellent few hours seeing all of the stunning cars on display.

 

BMW Z4 GT3
BMW Z4 GT3 V8 Street
BMW Z4 GT3
BMW Z4 GT3 V8 STREET
 

With well over 1100 cars on display there was a descent mixture, with more M3’s on display than anything else, we had with 39 Z4 on display all organise by Luke Blanks.

The next show for us will be the AdamCfest show on the 27th of May with Petrolheadonism at Mallory park, in Leicester, this is one show we have been looking forward too, with our BMW Z4 GT3 in the top 25, we hope to get the Porsche 997 GT3R V8 out to the same event, but we still have quite a bit to do on the car so that’s looking pretty unlikely, here is hoping the sun will join us for this event, see you there.



 

It’s been a while since we have had the time to sit and write a post and we have so much to discuss with so many things going on at the moment, it’s been ridiculously busy but we really want to get back to releasing new blogs and what better way to kick things off ...our BMW Z4, yes finally our GT3 V8 Street build is complete and were happy to say all road legal, taxed, tested and MOT.

This build has taken it time, but for all of the negatives this build had along the way is all but forgotten when you’re in that driver’s seat, this car is next level out on the street, we have built some show stoppers over the years, but nothing comes close to the attention this car brings, it’s absolutely crazy, the grin factor doesn’t leave and its sounds like it looks, all we can say if you do embark on a z4 gt3 build then do it properly and install a V8 of choice, you really will not be disappointed.

 
Z4 GT3 V8 Street
BMW Z4
BMW Z4 GT3 V8 Street
 

Our V8 choice was the LS3 and we would highly recommend this option, our engine partners build and supply LS3, LS3 Twin turbo or if you’re after the cubic capacity you can request a fully built 680hp LS7, which they have also fitted in their Porsche C4S 997 R13 demo vehicle, but that is another story.

The weekend will see us join up with the Bilstein UK crew at cars & coffee which is happening at Demon Tweeks in Wrexham and we will then be heading to the “Z” fest in Leicester as well as hopefully heading to Stafford for the Max Power reunion in August, we will also be at the Gravity show at the NEC, so if you see us at any shows come and say hello.

 

BMW Z4 GT3 V8 Street
BMW GT3
 

One thing we have learned with this build is pick the your build team you want to work with wisely, doing the due diligence is key especially if they come recommended, or as we found out Instagram, Facebook, YouTube or any other of the leading media platforms doesn’t show the company in its true light, only what they want you to see, what should of taken us 12 to 18 months to construct has taken 4 years because we said “yes” to working with certain companies along the way for company exposure, all were desperate to work with us on this unique build, but we put it down to experience and enjoying the fruits of our labour and we now do pretty much everything in-house or with our reliable professional partners we now work with.


Now it’s time to enjoy this build and get to as many shows as we can.

It’s been a few weeks since we have been able to get back on to the finishing touches of the Z4, but this is a shop build so it takes the back seat on our day to day business, but perfection takes time, so we are happy to spare what we can when we can which is what is making it such an enjoyable build and with the weather changing it’s not like the car will be out and about any time soon as we have now locked it away for the Winter months.

 

Rear Wing fixings and quick release pins

 

These week has seen us find and locate a brand new front bumper grill which we are thrilled at so that is now on route to us, its also seen us mock up the rear wing which has been a challenge to get it mounted so the boot can still be used, as the race ring is chassis boot floor mounted which is what we didn’t want to do on our own build.

 

Rear wing Assembly Rear Bumper Grills

 

The rear wing as we have previously discussed is the rear deal Gen 2 Z4 GT3 which we can now produce for any further builds, its mounted using the BMW Z4 GT3 race hardware with the quick release pins so to put on and take off is pretty easy, which is why we wanted this set up so badly.


We get customers asking us why our conversion is more expensive than the other companies that also offer this conversion and our answer is very simple, attention to detail, we also offer parts that our competition doesn’t, we are the only company to offer finish bumper grills front and rear with stainless hardware, dual blade rear wing with quick release pins with our conversion for the track or the street, plus the fact we have actually built a street car, so we are not just advertising the parts on a webpage without a clue how to fit them.

 
 

Over the winter months we will be releasing more images of the progress along with some video footage so you get to finally hear this beauty on start up.


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