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There's a fun little thread over at SocalEvo with a ton of pics sourced from WreckedExotics depicting vast amounts of bavarian carnage. Not for the faint of heart!
My350z member Diesel350 posts some snaps of what appears to be a BMW 335 on the show car circuit sporting some massive chromed (or perhaps its polished) Rotora calipers. We're wondering how well these would hold up in a real world test - like racing a downhill braking specialist in a R34 GTR down the hills of Mount Akina... oh wait.. wrong cartoon.
Remarkably executed, this Active Autowerke E46 M3 Turbo is currently putting down a mind numbing 709hp to the wheels on 109 octane.
Just about any backyard tuner can weld together a manifold, slap on a hairdryer and call it a day. It takes real engineering, however, to come up with a setup this clean - looking as if it rolled off the showroom floor this way.
Click on the picture for more details, dynocharts, and a video.
E90 ecu wizard Shiv from Vishnu tuning takes a mildly modded 335i to the dragstrip and the results are impressive. With upgraded intake, exhaust, ecu, race gas, and drag radials the bavarian dragmeister was able to lay down a 12.399@116mph. Pretty impressive for just a few bolt ons. This is a testament to how much power is left on the table when an OEM turbocharges out of the box.
Only in Germany. DinanDriver on Bimmerpages posts a plethora of snaps featuring our favorite new bimmer gracing the wet asphalt in mass quantities. Apparently if you're a prominent who's-who in the automotive world, you probably received an invite to this event. (They must have sent mine to the wrong address). Multiple lapping sessions on a wet racetrack? Check. Every generation of M3kind out for display? Check. Four liter v8 on a pedestal for all to ogle? Check!
Engine pics after the jump. (tons of images at bimmerpages)
400hp, 4.0 liter V8 - Holy specific output, Batman!
Eight - count 'em eight individual throttle bodies
Equal length stainless headers
It's official - the new highly anticipated E92 M3s packed with V8 goodness are on their way to a dealership near you. The folks over at Bimmerpages have spotted a bevy of said bimmers loaded by the dozen en route to their last stop before your driveway.
Arguably the most controversial member of the tuning community, Shiv Pathak of Visnu Motorsports has managed to extract an extra hundred horses and 126 ft/lbs of torque from BMWs already potent 300hp mill. With just an exhaust upgrade and countless dyno-tuned hours with their new piggyback PROcede ecu setup, the BMW puts down 374hp on 93 octane pump gas.
More details after the jump.
When asked how it drives at this level, Shiv responds:Geezus. Whereas the standard PROcede map would pull hard up to 5500-5800 and then soften up a bit, v2.0beta just rips towards redline. Power never seems to fall off. Drives just like a proper M-motor in the way that it loves revs. But unlike an M-motor, it makes simply staggering levels of low end and midrange torque. Truly an incredible powerplant.
It hasn't been easy for Shiv - upon beginning this project there was a bit of animosity from the established tuning community and the hater-ade was poured on in spades. There were doubts from many that the PROcede could function after the factory ECU attemped to relearn. Others spread rumors that he had blown up several motors during development. At the end of the day, nothing sells product like a dyno graph posting triple digit gains.
In a fit of tuner bravado thats sure to elicit controversy from the well-heeled, F1 loving BMW elite, user Chris007 on M3Forums.com posts of his exploits in a turbocharged E46 M3. Quite aware that BMW already offers another 3 series with positive manifold pressure, Chris solicited the folks at Horsepower Freaks to assemble a setup that lays down 671 ponies to the rear wheels - on a stock bottom end.
After several passes at a conservative 12psi, the little E46 that could laid down a quick-for-a-car-that-turns 11.66@129mph. After twenty or so passes, the clutch gave up the ghost. With those numbers, a new clutch and slicks should put this car deep into the 10s.
Leave it to Bimmer owners to rack up several pages of commentary commiserating about pulling up to, and subsequently getting walked on by a Toyota Camry. Yes, you read that correctly.
A veritable institution of moving families around since 1980, the name Camry has been synonymous with forty-something asian drivers, grandmothers, and sleeping pills. In 2007, Toyota quietly snuck in a 3.5 liter 268hp V6 under the bonnet so that even the most downtrodden wage slave can know the joys of administering an occasional Bavarian smackdown.
Bimmerforums member Monsstr writes:
I don't know about you, but if I just droved several grand on a bevy of Dinan goodness on my v8 sports sedan and got my ass handed to me by a Camry, I'd be changing my nickname from Monsstr to Georgie-boy.
If you by chance read one of my first posts, i was upset about not being able to pull away faster from a Camry. I had a second chance today to redeem myself against another one on the same road. Was a beautiful black car and looked great. On to the story...
So I see the car ahead of me traveling at a pretty good speed. I slowly catch up to him and he moves over to let me by but is able to get ahead of me again after a traffic light stop due to traffic being tied up a little. The road goes down to a single lane and then back into a double where I know a lotof police sit so I just follow waiting for the hill to come up where I know I can open the car up without fear. At the bottom of the hill, it goes from a single to a double lane and we both go into the passing lane with me right behind him. I was able to stay with him at the lower speed. Then a truck moves over into passing lane holding us up for a little but I see the turn signal go on for him to move back over and I get ready. Now I just installed the Dinan Stage 4 software with the exhaust, intake, TB, and MAS so I was hoping for the best.
HAHA My best wasnt near good enough...when the road cleared, I floored it and watched that Camry run right away from me. I mean it wasnt even close. Then by the time I picked up speed, I was moving and went by him feeling like even more of an a%$ because then I felt like I did a fly-by. So now my ego is crushed and once again am disgusted with the power. I would like to think I could have taken him up top but I will never know nor can I guess. But I gave it my best and it is what it is. I dont have to like it though.
Me-0...Camrys-2
StableSpotting is a segment dedicated to showing you life styles of the rich and infamous, the garages of those with copious amounts of automotive street cred, or the collections of those who have nothing better to do than show off (see previous post re: putting on your hater faces).
Before we incite class-consciousness induced fits of rage by showing you pictures of auto-harems belonging to oil drenched Saudi princes, let's start off slow. Member onelove at premier all-things-porsche destination 6speedonline posts pictures of what can be considered at the low end of the spectrum compared to the company he keeps. An M-coupe with TE-37 Time Attacks and a pair of single turbo JZA80 Supras? While he probably has the CGT or F430 owner thinking "awww, how cute", we'd prefer his Toyotas to a half million dollar status symbol anyday.
