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Dunno if this is a pearoast but this car has done the rounds, and im sure i can recall it was for sale a year or 2 ago at around half the price!!
http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/sales/873882.htm

Nice but overpriced.

Also a big claim on the BHP?

Its the zoom motorsport one, dunno about the power with that inlet on it though...
must have had serious work if thats right...

were zoom involved in the great mfree disaster ?

They were indeed fuzzy.

i wouldnt touch it then.

Car is nice. But is the BHP and the price realistic?

fuzzy wrote:were zoom involved in the great mfree disaster ?

Excuse my ignorance, but what was the mfree disaster?

check out the zone gold section with the 30 odd page epic from member mfree....
http://www.e30zone.net/modules.php?name ... opic&t=369

fuzzy wrote:check out the zone gold section with the 30 odd page epic from member mfree....
http://www.e30zone.net/modules.php?name ... opic&t=369

Is this all true, or just a fairy story?

i believe its true. i dont know the guy personally to verify but i believe a few on here do or did know him and the car.
did it bring a tear to your eye?

To be fair, he did suffer didn't he?

I would have given up long before.........


Don't know about the tear to the eye though.

fuzzy wrote:check out the zone gold section with the 30 odd page epic from member mfree....
http://www.e30zone.net/modules.php?name ... opic&t=369

When does it get interesting?

oh cheers fuzzy. see you in a couple of hours then

march109 wrote:

fuzzy wrote:check out the zone gold section with the 30 odd page epic from member mfree....
http://www.e30zone.net/modules.php?name ... opic&t=369

When does it get interesting?

theres half a paragraph on page 18 thats mildly interesting.

It's a very interesting thread. Zoom fecked the guy over, used his engine for motorsport and trashed it. I believe they also fecked him over in other ways.

although zoom werent the only company to shaft him. he must be one of lifes victims.
iirc his engine was allegedly ripped out by one of the shysters and used in a race car that the driver crashed and died in.

Rosc0PColtrane wrote:It's a very interesting thread. Zoom fecked the guy over, used his engine for motorsport and trashed it. I believe they also fecked him over in other ways.

ALL - I was asking what page it kicked off, not suggesting it wasn't interesting.

Nath - You better re read it first 4 pages completely disagree with you, it was the companies mfree went to first that did that, John at Zoom was fixing all the bodges! I'm upto page 8 and its still at Zoom, Mfree still seems happy with them although its taking an age, and theres an arguement between Jason at chipped uk (or his alter ego!) and mfree because hes slagging John (zoom) off, at the moment Mfree is defending him so must plainly still be happy with the work!

Fuzzy - Thanks skipping to that page now!

Fuzzy - Thanks skipping to that page now!

dont bother, i was only joking...

Just found that out, anyway, Skim reading the whole thread, Zoom just took a long time, nowt more than that the standard of work was good.

Unlike the other 'specialists' who robbed parts and cash and handed the car back in worse condition than it started zoom seemed quite honest if incapable of managing time effectively.

Worth noting Zoom only got the body and engine sorted, the final finish had to be done by CPC (iirc??), Pacer Pete even seemed to have a hand in the final creation.

And from the thread if I were to guess I would say that M3 cab in the original post on pistonheads is Jason @ chipped UKs or at least his former cab, it was converted by Zoom, who alledgedly fitted the wrong inlet, though once the correct one was fitted Jason apparently remapped it to that silly power figure (BS power figure but not surprising). Jason then alledgedly got a feature in total BMW or something claiming he did the conversion, though the truth on that is never really discovered in the epic.

Frankly search for chipped UK anywhere on this site and I doubt you'll read good things! anyone remember Kos' thread about them?

So many stories, and sub plots, intreque, mystery and skull duggary its an epic read worthy of the top bard of avon himself.

i wonder where they are now...mfree and his car?

If someone unlocked the thread and replied maybe he would get an e-mail?

mfrees car was for sale on ebay a few months ago, dunno if it sold though? looked good in the end

Are there any pics knocking around?

I'd love to see it?

Isnt the cab posted Chip Ducks old one?

WOW that was a monumental read and an investment in time

The saga continues with the mfree car!

Oh and that turd of a cab failed to make 6 bags on the bay last year. In the ebay ad it looked quite tatty.

steerfromtherear wrote:Isnt the cab posted Chip Ducks old one?

chip ducks? thats got to be a made up name?

bss325i wrote:The saga continues with the mfree car!

do you know him or the car? whats happening with it now? it seems to have gone off the radar for a long while with nothing heard.

This was one of the first threads i read when i joined here, can,t help but feel for mfree.

fuzzy wrote:

bss325i wrote:The saga continues with the mfree car!

do you know him or the car? whats happening with it now? it seems to have gone off the radar for a long while with nothing heard.

It was for sale recently.

fuzzy wrote:

steerfromtherear wrote:Isnt the cab posted Chip Ducks old one?

chip ducks? thats got to be a made up name?

ChippedUK, he was affectionally known as Chip Duck and worse on e36coupe a few years back.

*edit because I wrote Chipped UK but it comes up plug*

ok, i got you now

blackcountrybimmerman wrote:Are there any pics knocking around?

I'd love to see it?

Pics on this page
http://www.e30zone.net/modules.php?name ... &start=650