Good idea? Bad idea?

[snakebrain]

I've never seen anything like this before. It's a '96 740i that's had an engine swap for a 2.8 Nissan diesel. Apparently there's an engineer's report accompanying the conversion, so it's presumably been reasonably well executed. I was a bit aghast when I first saw it, but as I thought about it I can see it has pros and cons. It hasn't got a delicious V8 in it any more, but it has got a decent diesel, which should be a lot more pleasant at the pumps. You still get all the BMW build quality, the luxurious interior and so on, but without the ruinous running costs. I know there's a bit of a scene dropping big Japanese motors into E28s in the US - hasn't 'Rusty' got a turbo engine from a Skyline or something like that these days? - so it's not entirely unprecedented...

What does anyone think?

http://belfast.gumtree.com/belfast/91/60480791.html

[no1_jazz]

Different cool and weird all at the same time lol

Different because it is cool because it was save costs with the fuel prices these days and weird driving a 7 without the V8 BMW put in there in the first place.