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02-28-10 | 12:37 AM
#46
No LED tails means pre-2003.5; those ones have some fun engine issues as well as some other fun things that were fixed mid-cycle. If your friends like to drive their Ms hard and they have 01 - 03.5 I'm not suprised they've managed to brake things.
edit - OP: are you coming to MFest?
edit - OP: are you coming to MFest?
02-28-10 | 02:49 AM
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I love the color of the new car
02-28-10 | 05:53 PM
#49
No LED tails means pre-2003.5; those ones have some fun engine issues as well as some other fun things that were fixed mid-cycle. If your friends like to drive their Ms hard and they have 01 - 03.5 I'm not suprised they've managed to brake things.
edit - OP: are you coming to MFest?
edit - OP: are you coming to MFest?
03-01-10 | 10:31 AM
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She is wild enough as is and with the ZCP package it comes with better brakes steering ratio and suspension. It's a lot different from a regular M3
oh and some Alcantara on the steering wheel/ E brake handel and different 19inch wheel design
Speed limiter is removed with dinan and I got up to 170 and chickened out. but a very stable car thats pretty much set stock
oh and some Alcantara on the steering wheel/ E brake handel and different 19inch wheel design
Speed limiter is removed with dinan and I got up to 170 and chickened out. but a very stable car thats pretty much set stock
03-01-10 | 10:54 AM
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03-01-10 | 10:55 AM
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^ sometimes when you drive your M, you glance down and realize the needle is WAY FURTHER TO THE RIGHT than you thought ... I believe getting cloe to 170MPH, IF you were on a nothing-nowhere road ... at 170MPH you're running out of road really fast
03-01-10 | 12:08 PM
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Second, I have doubts about there being many suitable public roads in the US where 170MPH is even possible. As you said, you'd run out of road really fast.
And even if you WERE on a nothing, nowhere, long, perfectly straight road, it would have to be perfectly-surfaced, almost racetrack like. Any dips, curves, or potholes would have a very good chance of making you wreck out. Hitting ANYTHING (whether it's a bad patch of pavement or a small mammal or rock) could be completely disastrous. There are F1 tracks where drivers don't hit 170MPH.
Also, tires. Even performance street tires aren't going to last more than a few minutes at speeds above 160MPH.
That is why I have to call total BS on his claim. Not 170MPH, not even close.
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03-01-10 | 12:18 PM
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Yeah maybe some of you don't realize how fast 170 MPH is on a public road.....you have to have a serious stretch of highway for one....and pray its smooth....
The car has no speed limiter?
The car has no speed limiter?
03-01-10 | 12:37 PM
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Wow 170...
The most I've ever been on a public interstate is 125 MPH, and even then it was on a stretch where the "technical" speed limit was 75, but the de facto speed limit was more like 90-95, so it was roughly 30 MPH above what other people were cruising at, and even then it was only for a very brief period of time (1, maybe 2 seconds) until I slowed back down to 95-105
The most I've ever been on a public interstate is 125 MPH, and even then it was on a stretch where the "technical" speed limit was 75, but the de facto speed limit was more like 90-95, so it was roughly 30 MPH above what other people were cruising at, and even then it was only for a very brief period of time (1, maybe 2 seconds) until I slowed back down to 95-105
03-01-10 | 01:28 PM
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It doesn't need to be "that smooth or long stretch". Obviously you don't want any astroid belt but about 2mile stretch of straight-ish will do. And you do need some place far away from donut shops. E46 M3 comes with 155mph limiter but only on the 6th gear. If you squeeze 5th to the 8k rpm it will take you to ~165 indicated.
03-01-10 | 01:41 PM
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yep, I did a mere 151mph on a bike...ZX7...its fast! so 170...whoa.
03-01-10 | 06:28 PM
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As for the limiter, I understand you can have those removed for a lovely fee
As a side note: I can't believe how many of you are ok with saying how fast you've been on public roads when this is a public forum.
03-03-10 | 11:01 PM
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and your right gps speed is 167 car says 170 soooo you got me
btw a bmw at 150 compares to a sc at 120 its nothin