A Good Chassis, and a Divisive Engine. The American M3.
Discussion
Ambleton said:
frankenstein12 said:
So buy a nice car and ruin it.. class
Why not buy one that needed tlc and turn that into a track car?
...oh great. Another boring person on their high horse telling other people what to do with their cars...Why not buy one that needed tlc and turn that into a track car?
His money, his car, and his vision. With this attitude everyone would be rolling around in factory standard boring cars.... Some people have no vision...
Seems like a win win win to me!
chuntington101 said:
Ambleton said:
frankenstein12 said:
So buy a nice car and ruin it.. class
Why not buy one that needed tlc and turn that into a track car?
...oh great. Another boring person on their high horse telling other people what to do with their cars...Why not buy one that needed tlc and turn that into a track car?
His money, his car, and his vision. With this attitude everyone would be rolling around in factory standard boring cars.... Some people have no vision...
Seems like a win win win to me!
frankenstein12 said:
Actually what he did was he took a perfectly reliable and serviceable engine (unless there was a serious underlying issue at point of purchase) and drove it with such a lack of mechanical sympathy that it destroyed itself.Not something I would be proud of personally.
We are talking about an E46 M3 built in their 10's of thousands not a 250GTO SWB!!!frankenstein12 said:
Actually what he did was he took a perfectly reliable and serviceable engine (unless there was a serious underlying issue at point of purchase) and drove it with such a lack of mechanical sympathy that it destroyed itself.Not something I would be proud of personally.
Chasing a 458 on track.A decent way for an engine to blow IMO.
frankenstein12 said:
Actually what he did was he took a perfectly reliable and serviceable engine (unless there was a serious underlying issue at point of purchase) and drove it with such a lack of mechanical sympathy that it destroyed itself.Not something I would be proud of personally.
The S54 is capable of throwing a rod when being driven as BMW intended. s
t happens. 
frankenstein12 said:
Actually what he did was he took a perfectly reliable and serviceable engine (unless there was a serious underlying issue at point of purchase) and drove it with such a lack of mechanical sympathy that it destroyed itself.Not something I would be proud of personally.
Wow what a weird attitude to have! What makes you think I'm proud?! It was one of the most expensive, heart breaking experiences of my life.If you knew anything about the S54 at all, you'd know it was a fundamentally flawed engine. You can read an overview here:
http://www.zpost.com/forums/showthread.php?t=96280...
and here
http://www.langracing.com/finding-a-real-solution-...
BMW even tried to fix it themselves on their facelift roll out (they didn't).
In hindsight I wish I'd rebuilt my bottom end with ARP hardware yes, but your post is still way off the mark and also lol at the idea of not driving something like an M3 hard.
Anyway, to end on a positive note; I forgot to post my favourite pic:
Cheers!
exgtt said:
frankenstein12 said:
Actually what he did was he took a perfectly reliable and serviceable engine (unless there was a serious underlying issue at point of purchase) and drove it with such a lack of mechanical sympathy that it destroyed itself.Not something I would be proud of personally.
The S54 is capable of throwing a rod when being driven as BMW intended. st happens. For road cars it is unusual.
AshBurrows said:
Yours has the added bonus of being in a decent colour too OP. Mods on it are excellent, just the right amount of lowering and great wheels.
Looking forward to how this goes.
AshBurrows said:
frankenstein12 said:
Actually what he did was he took a perfectly reliable and serviceable engine (unless there was a serious underlying issue at point of purchase) and drove it with such a lack of mechanical sympathy that it destroyed itself.Not something I would be proud of personally.
Wow what a weird attitude to have! What makes you think I'm proud?! It was one of the most expensive, heart breaking experiences of my life.If you knew anything about the S54 at all, you'd know it was a fundamentally flawed engine. You can read an overview here:
http://www.zpost.com/forums/showthread.php?t=96280...
and here
http://www.langracing.com/finding-a-real-solution-...
BMW even tried to fix it themselves on their facelift roll out (they didn't).
In hindsight I wish I'd rebuilt my bottom end with ARP hardware yes, but your post is still way off the mark and also lol at the idea of not driving something like an M3 hard.
Anyway, to end on a positive note; I forgot to post my favourite pic:
Cheers!
All I was getting at was you blew your engine, for whatever reason, and found a more powerful, more reliable solution.
Sf_Manta said:
Or this..
With a flat plane crank would sound absolutely nuts.
I would love love love to do this. But you're talking £3k and minimal performance gains. As someone said earlier, supercharging is probably the way to go. But at the same time, turbos are real neat. With a flat plane crank would sound absolutely nuts.In reality if it can keep it NA and approach 500hp/ton there's absolutely no need for FI surely?! Haha!
I had a suspicion I knew which car this was upon seeing this post today. I was wondering why it had been sat where it was for quite some time. A friend of mine used to occasionally see it on his road in another part of town .
It makes sense as to why it hasn't moved! It certainly looks pretty well track specced!
.It makes sense as to why it hasn't moved! It certainly looks pretty well track specced!
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