Rare BRM Lotus Twin Cam Race Engine

[georgethomas]

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/1488984.htm

[Sam_68]

Thread title should perhaps read 'not-so rare BRM cam cover (they're readily available on Ebay or from Tony Thompson) on grossly overpriced Twin Cam engine whose specification has nothing whatsoever to do with the original BRM spec engines and which was built long after BRM ceased to exist'.

Not quite so snappy, though, I admit.

[lewis1]

I was thinking much the same. I have access to a proper brm twin cam, everyone looks very different to that little one i must say. Is it worth 10k though?

[Sam_68]

A genuine (period) BRM Twin Cam is worth nowhere near £10K, anyway. They weren't to that high a spec, by modern standards, and they're too easy to cosmetically 'fake' for people who just want the right look for them to be particularly valuable.

To be fair, it would probably be worth less than the engine on the Ebay ad (which is adnittedly to a pretty high spec and fairly valuable to a racer if he has dyno sheets to prove the 200+ bhp claims). You wouldn't want it in a road car at that sort of power output, though.

I'd suggest maybe £4.5-£5.5K for a freshly rebuilt original BRM Twin Cam, depending on spec and provenance, and maybe £7.5K, to the right buyer for the Ebay engine.