I got the jump and my torque kept me ahead. I gunned it and he realized what was happening and gunned it too, but it was already too late. The lane was narrowing from 2 to 1 about 200 yards after the light. It was at a red light and he didn't see me next to him. There's one d00d on here who own a E46M and his previous car was a 540i/6 and he says that they're a close race at high speeds. There are numerous stories of 540i/6's hanging within a CL of a E46 M3. yes it has 240hp, but it is MUCH lighter than both the 540i and the E46 m3. The E36 M3 though, you are lacking it's best number, that is the weight. they typically dyno 260-270 at the wheels.Īlso an important number to remember is Torque - where the 540 has a significant advantage (offsets weight difference).
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Then the 540 has it on the highway, but I guess if the road got really twisty it would be a drivers race as the 540 would have the torque out of the turns.Not that I am disagreeing with the E46 M3 winning (at highway speeds don't know for sure?), but the 540i DOES NOT have only 282 hp, they are underrated significantly from the factory. In this case, the 540 has 42 more HP and 100 more ft.lbs of torque. Only thing it will do is get the jump off the line til the S54 gets in its powerband.
A good 50 HP less than the M3 but a good 56 ft.lbs more torque. A lighter car also.Įven with the more advanced 540 engine(M62TUB44) it still has 282 hp with 325 ft.lbs of torque. It's got more HP per ton, more HP period. The E46 is a more powerful car in all aspects. I have no doubt we'll do some more runs in the future and it will have cars like a 2000 S4, 2000 M coupe, and so on. I'm not happy with the numbers but it was def. This is with a passanger and he probably weighs about 180lbs. I also just purchased one of those "beltronics vector fx2" device that records your 1/4 mile time, 0-60 and so on. I must say though, if he didn't have that intake manifold, it might have been a different outcome. Next time we'll have a camera to record all the good times.Īnyways, it was a great time and it was interesting to see how neck to neck our cars were. We didn't have that much time to do more runs but it was a blast. Second run, my launch wasn't as good as the first one where i dropped my nose and he got me by quarter of a car length. First run, we both launch perfectly and we were head to head all the way to 90mph. My car has cai and exhaust and i had a passanger.
My friend is on these forums as well (Mpowr'd). As far as I know he has cai, exhaust, and an intake manifold swap. We discovered this deserted road that seems like it used to serve as an air strip. My close friend who has the M3 and I decided to do couple of 0-90mph runs.
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