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Originally Posted by watrob
At the end of the day some 20% of M3 drivers may track their cars but 100% of us would if the circumstance arose drag or drag off the lights.
I don't see the sense in doing the large amounts of mods to loose 150lbs, not dollar wise or the fact of spending a month of Sunday's putting it back together so to be able to get warranty work done.
A vast number of M3 owners have changed wheels at a cost of around $3,000 with a saving of around 17lbs and also swapped out exhaust systems for around $2,500 with some 33lbs saving but with gains between 10-15 in HP.
So we all can get a 50lbs weight saving on mods that we all do and not cause problems with warranties, we also get 10-15hp gain. You would be better off putting a PowerChip in next to get another 40hp for $1-2k.
So that's 50lb weight saving, plus a total 50hp gain to do what 100% of us may do and that is drag someone and still have something that resembles a M3, comfortable and 99% oem.
If I was going to do ALL the mods to a M3 I would rather wait for a CSL. A lot of BMW dealers from Australia are in Germany this week and my dealer believes their will be a CSL. He's back in 2 weeks, so I will wait until then before I start destroyng the M3 for that extra 100lbs.
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Modding cars isn't supposed to be logical or make sense. It is a work of passion.
BMW said no CSL, maybe one will come, but in the meantime we have what we have.