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Old 07-04-2020, 10:36 PM   #995
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Originally Posted by Nick M3 View Post
Yes, the flip flop joke cam was unfortunate, but I looked through about half a dozen videos before I found a good video of a not crazily modified BMW with telemetry and a good driver.

Clay does love him some flip flops.

It's a really good demonstration of how well a mildly modified BMW will do high speed transitions. I think that the top of the uphill esses is where the speed delta between the Senna and the BMW was closest around the parts of the track that they ran. SpecE46 allows for coilovers, sways, a diff, and weight reduction. There's a spec tune, but it comes with a low rev limit and is more oriented around turning off error codes, because the M54B30 blows up if you rev it above 6500ish in track use. The rest of what's allowed is durability and safety oriented. They aren't even allowed monoball RTABs.

Don’t you miss out on a lot of the s54 power output if you stop the engine at 6500rpms?
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