Anyone gone Porsche 996 cab to E46 M3 cab?
Discussion
As the title says. My £500 E30 is so good I'm considering selling the Porsche and getting an M3 cab instead. Has anyone else gone down this route?
I'm thinking about an 02/03 car, manual (have gone off tiptronic, even though I know the SMG is good)
What are they like to live with as a daily driver? Is the hard top rattle free and waterproof? What sort of MPG am I looking at realistically?
I want to know as much as I can before I start looking around in the next month or two.
I'm thinking about an 02/03 car, manual (have gone off tiptronic, even though I know the SMG is good)
What are they like to live with as a daily driver? Is the hard top rattle free and waterproof? What sort of MPG am I looking at realistically?
I want to know as much as I can before I start looking around in the next month or two.
Hehe
Had a Box S and E46 M3 cab at same time looked at upgrading twice to 996 cab c2 and then again to c4 with a few test drive and also got to swap and drive a pal's 996 for some time.
Where to start, the M3 is a grin machine, screaming engine, instant gratification, lower limts, less good but still responsive steering, but amazingly easy to catch for such a powerful car, tons of fun at the track, and amazingly thrilling cab with the noise, handling and performance.
The Porkers have better chassis, steering, but on it's higher limits it's harder to catch hwne you over cook it, harder to control on it's limits, it's fatter torque is nice, but it has more hidden depth and less instant gratification, most "good" drivers would be quicker in the M3 than the porker because its easier to exploit and more forgiving when ragged.
Also the M3 cab is very effective compared to the coupe , I went to a M power day 90 M3s and my fat old cab took many of them and only got taken by a few coupes and only one very well driven cab. One good driver who followed me in his coupe found the cab was faster round 1/3 of the circuit because the cab had more traction and squideged through the chicane and hairpin better than the coupe, the practical track performance being very close despite an amazing 200kg penalty.
For value for money and instant grin M3 it, for a deeper drive you need time to exploit porkker it
M3 Daily drive 21 mpg (26 mpg long trip), amazingly good hood no need for hard top, great high speed cruise more stable and relaxed than porshe in terms of directional stability, porker has better ride (m3 is quite stiff), M3 boot alright space hood up loses a bot hood down but still good shape, porke had funny boot shapes (behind seatsas well) but not quite as practical, M3 can seat 4 adults for short meedium trips , 996 only very short trips .
>> Edited by JumJum on Thursday 12th January 01:45
Had a Box S and E46 M3 cab at same time looked at upgrading twice to 996 cab c2 and then again to c4 with a few test drive and also got to swap and drive a pal's 996 for some time.
Where to start, the M3 is a grin machine, screaming engine, instant gratification, lower limts, less good but still responsive steering, but amazingly easy to catch for such a powerful car, tons of fun at the track, and amazingly thrilling cab with the noise, handling and performance.
The Porkers have better chassis, steering, but on it's higher limits it's harder to catch hwne you over cook it, harder to control on it's limits, it's fatter torque is nice, but it has more hidden depth and less instant gratification, most "good" drivers would be quicker in the M3 than the porker because its easier to exploit and more forgiving when ragged.
Also the M3 cab is very effective compared to the coupe , I went to a M power day 90 M3s and my fat old cab took many of them and only got taken by a few coupes and only one very well driven cab. One good driver who followed me in his coupe found the cab was faster round 1/3 of the circuit because the cab had more traction and squideged through the chicane and hairpin better than the coupe, the practical track performance being very close despite an amazing 200kg penalty.
For value for money and instant grin M3 it, for a deeper drive you need time to exploit porkker it
M3 Daily drive 21 mpg (26 mpg long trip), amazingly good hood no need for hard top, great high speed cruise more stable and relaxed than porshe in terms of directional stability, porker has better ride (m3 is quite stiff), M3 boot alright space hood up loses a bot hood down but still good shape, porke had funny boot shapes (behind seatsas well) but not quite as practical, M3 can seat 4 adults for short meedium trips , 996 only very short trips .
>> Edited by JumJum on Thursday 12th January 01:45
taccy said:
Baz,
what are the costs of adding a supercharger to a E46 330? Presumably the BMW warranty would be invalidated. Do you know how much the performance is improved?
Cheers
Tim
AC Schnitzer supercharger takes it upto 295 bhp, www.acschnitzer.de.
ASA a little more- 320bhp. There are a few chaps on www.evotechnik.net who have gone this route.
Both will invalidate your warranty (AC Schnitzer- will be covered by German warranty, I think)
I'm not sure about the costs
Baz
>> Edited by baz1985 on Thursday 12th January 16:47
Didnt move from a 996 Cab,just a normal 2001 996 Coupe.
The M3 Cab is a far more impressive car than I would ever have given it credit for.
Leaving the 996 was tough but once the M3 cab was in possession it was a
distant memory.
My M3 Cab , pride and joy is unfortunately up for sale.
Grab yourself an absolute bargain
www.pistonheads.co.uk/sales/60699.htm
The M3 Cab is a far more impressive car than I would ever have given it credit for.
Leaving the 996 was tough but once the M3 cab was in possession it was a
distant memory.
My M3 Cab , pride and joy is unfortunately up for sale.
Grab yourself an absolute bargain
www.pistonheads.co.uk/sales/60699.htm
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