RE: Touring Car Battle: E30 Vs E90

[OllieC]

MK4 Slowride said:

OllieC said:

modern touring car racing is st

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Nonsense, it might be governed by a few more rules but it's still quite thrilling. Last weekends race was awesome, how many BMW's!

ah its okay i suppose, but it doesnt do much for me

[minimatt1967]

MK4 Slowride said:

OllieC said:

modern touring car racing is st

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Nonsense, it might be governed by a few more rules but it's still quite thrilling. Last weekends race was awesome, how many BMW's!

Yep great racing, and I was suprised how good the E90 Sounds!

[J16GY]

Garlick said:

MrKipling43 said:

I'm sorry, but that article is total rubbish. Great idea, appallingly executed.

Some of the writing on this website is shocking (errors notwithstanding) and I usually keep my mouth shut, but this is one of the worst examples. It reads like something a GCSE English student would get a poor mark for: it's clumsily written, poorly structured and the language desperately basic. If I was this journo's editor it would have been redone.

2/10

I liked it and those above liked it?

Thanks for taking the time to share your views though, i'm sure a plug for your site will follow....

Great article! MrKipling43 - If you dont like the articles on here then dont bother reading them!

One day I will upgrade to the M3 - it SHALL be mine!

[bionic barf]

Crook said:

bionic barf said:

sim16v said:

The E30 M3 looks like an '89 spec EVOII, a late Sport EVO on modern rubber would give a whole different result.

i think that the motor is a 2.5 ltr s14 and running in endurance spec so it is'nt as powerful as it could be. saying that, i know it is'nt a late model spec motor as it does'nt have slide throttles.
as for the original model year, well, i'm not too sure if it was origially built as a evo 3/sport evo , possibly a 2.3 evo 2

the car was originally built/prepared by zakspeed and as with most race cars, it probably does'nt have matching numbers. i know that when the car was purchased by the current owner (i will keep his name private,but i will say that he is a leading light within the "M" power section of the bmw car club)it did'nt look anything like it does now sporting a different colour scheme and those lovely BBS wheels where asbsent

Is that the same car owner/car as was giving rides at Silverstone when Sabine was there in the M5?
If so, I've been in it too!

yes it si the same owner and a very nice chap he is too!

[Pentoman]

Ahonen said:

I've been looking into the lap time argument a little and found a bit of data from Spa. Current WTCC cars are about a second quicker than 1991 24-hour spec Evo 2 E30 M3s around Spa, but bear in mind that 24-hour spec E30s used 1000rpm less than usual and would've been detuned and somewhat podgy in comparison with sprint spec.

The 1992 Sport Evo, still in endurance spec, was 3 seconds quicker around Spa than a WTCC car. Tyre technology has come on a long way since then, so a WTCC car would be completely blitzed by a fully lit sprint spec Sport Evo on modern tyres. BMW would never admit that though, of course...

Modern touring cars are just ghastly things.

Didn't they change Spa (made it slower I suspect) at the bus stop a few years ago though? Possibly more changes between then an '92 too.

[sniff petrol]

Talking of 3 series touring cars, has anyone seen member Benny C's replica:

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...