I like the colour of saints DSE, although it is a strange colour, the light blue is nice but there is a darker blue that is really nice, think it maybe Oslo blue
A friend of mine is a ex BMW service tech, he has told me it was a known issue on timing, but interestingly didn't happen to all m51 engines, he said there was never a pattern. Serviced to the book or not serviced at all, it was very random
My manual p38 was rapid and it wasn't chipped, much faster than troopers and shoguns of same sort of age , it did need a heavy right foot but once going was great, only down side was the heavy clutch, I think the engine should of been a 3.0 litre so it wouldn't need to have heavy right foot but...