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Your CarTech results are absolutely incorrect if they don't show this, and I expect you'll find something in that tool that allows for varying rotational inertia. |
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The drivetrain inertia is pretty well unknowable without complete access to the engineering drawings or a full drivetrain disassembly followed by complex measurement exercise. AGAIN hence the "mass factor" is used in vehicle acceleration simulation. And again I'm pretty sure I can test CarTest to see if it uses mass factor. Stay tuned.
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And the predictions from Quarter Jr. then for this 4000/8000 rpm case are? Since that tool does not have control over rotational inertia is must be total crap.... I don't really believe that, but I'm playing your part for you.
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Your diversion in to horsepower to weight ratios is not really relevant. We can all divide the cars' weights into their horsepowers and figure out in our heads that the M3 will win. But peak horsepowers are not what you see in daily driving from 500 to 4000 rpm. Again, no one disputes that stock for stock, the M3 wins the drag races, but the 335i will outsquirt it in daily driving around town in the lower rpm ranges and the mightly M3 will not often have the space to catch up. If you dragrace around town, you will win, but many speed contests are not what you see in your simulations or on TV, they are impromptu, in gear races (ideally with time to shift, but not always). This is where the 335i does really well due to those fast spooling little turbos that produce great low end torque. I don't think I am missing anything about tire size. You confirmed my math, right? 5% advantage for 18s for the 335i over those on the M3. Do we all realize we could go to absurd extremes? Sure. You don't need to make a spreadsheet or simulation to illustrate that point. And I am increasing my gearing slightly by going to wider tires. Even if you did want to go in the direction of absurdity, you would have to do some work to put wheels smaller than 18s on the M3. And I like the 35 to 40 series range for daily driving due to comfort and wheel protection. Any slight change in gearing is a side effect rather than the goal for running wider wheel and changing tires. I was not the one that brought up torque multiplication, claiming that it had to be factored in when determing what car would be faster and when. I understand it, having run 3.15, 3.23, 3.38 and 3.64 diffs on my 99M3. I have also played with the www.diffsonline.com calculator for gearing and rpm everytime I have changed diffs or tire sizes to determine the rpm changes in gears and at certain speeds. And I have compared all this to my dyno plots to determine the advantages and disadvantages (the 3.64 made my car accelerate faster in each gear than the 3.38, but it was less quick in the quarter mile -- across the gears -- because I then needed an extra shift into 5th gear). I actually do this stuff and test it out in the real world on my own car. From what I have read, you went to a dragstrip once, a junior strip of only 1/8 mile, and despite having written countless posts and done countless spreadsheets and probably memorized your owner's manual, you could not get your launch control to work. I will speculate that you probably had not used it much if ever, since that would be abusive to the precious car you had been dreaming about for a year before it was released. You ran an 8.35 at 86.3, which you guesstimated would work out to 12.7 to 12.8 at 110-114. I plugged your actual 1/8th numbers into a calculator I found on the internet (since calculators and spreadsheets are foolproof) and got an estimated quarter mile time and trap speed of 13.0 at 107. Not impressive for an M3. I think you should drive more and simulate less. I am going to go work on one of my cars now. |
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Is this for real? Are there real people driving at 500rpm?
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No way to model this in Quarter, Jr. You get to key in displacement, max power @ rpm, and the shift point. That's it for the engine. Forget torque or any type of power curve. |
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This also tied into your obsession with crank torque and your then graduation to wheel torque. If you can not describe precisely why a tiny remote control car size tire with HUGE wheel torques doesn't really "work" I don't think you still get it. You did not answer this question yet. Quote:
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I am highly flattered that you care so much about my illustrious side career as a drag racer. And care enough to put on your detective cap and dig around on the forum to find the dirt on old swampy. If you really want to dig hard you can find a post where I posted my picture. Maybe then you can also call me ugly . Perhaps obviously I prefer using the car for what it was built for - canyons and road coarse style driving (and the occasional autoX or trackday) - as opposed to the drag strip. Heck, I even use it as a fun commuter and daily driver. Had my buddy in his giant and monstrously torquey Dodge Challenger SRT8 not egged me on I probably would have never gone to the strip in this car. LC is not really designed for the drag strip. From my own use of LC prior I also knew a very good traction surface is ideal to prevent some pretty wild wheel spin (that part is obviously a non issue at a strip). Also the tranny must be suitably warm for it to be enabled. I knew that but also thought it still might be warm enough idling in the queue. It was not, no big deal. I got a killer launch on my 3rd or 4th run sans LC. I suppose you can tell me what is so terrible about a sub 2 second 60' time in a totally stock M3 with street tires? You can use all of the calculators you like, I'll stick to my estimates (calculations) in my post about what I would have ran the full 1/4. If I really cared all that much I would just head to the strip. If you have not validated that particular calculator you used nor know what method it is using to calculate then it is just as believable as about 90% of the crap on the internet. Ironically you even joked about not believing it. By the way I did get booted off the track as well - I was running too fast to not have a helmet as per track regulations... I'm glad you worked on your car tonight. We were thinking the same thoughts. I put on my new big brake kit. There goes your theory about me never getting dirty as well. I think you should simulate more and waste a lot less money on differentials, labor to install them and wasteful dynos for them. In seconds a simulator will tell you PRECISELY how a differential will perform in any car under almost any circumstance. Unfortunately most old school hot rodders like yourself without the knowledge nor capability to use one will continue to be stuck in the dark ages. We can continue ad nauseam if you like, I'd rather get back on topic myself.
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I didn't go through all the pages. The engine specs are not everything. If you look at the test the M3 is also faster then a 335i in high gear pulls at low RPM!
These times are from Sport Auto, very known European magazine. The MT 335i times are the best of 2 which where available. The other one was significantly slower. BMW M3: 80-100 km/h MT (4./5./6./7. Gear) 2,3 s /2,8 s /3,8 s / - s DCT (4./5./6./7. Gear) 2,1 s /2,6 s /3,1 s /4,2 s 80-120 km/h MT (4./5./6./7. Gear) 4,7 s /5,6 s /7,2 s / - s DCT (4./5./6./7. Gear) 4,4 s /5,4 s /6.1 s /8,1 s 80-140 km/h MT (4./5./6./7. Gear) 7,3 s /8,6 s /10,8 s / - s DCT (4./5./6./7. Gear) 6,6 s /8,2 s /9,3 s /12,0 s 80-160 km/h MT (4./5./6./7. Gear) 9,9 s /11,8 s /14,7 s / - s DCT (4./5./6./7. Gear) 8,9 s /11,0 s /12,8 s /16,3 s 80-180 km/h MT (4./5./6./7. Gear) 12,7 s /15,3 s /19,1 s / - s DCT (4./5./6./7. Gear) 11,4 s /14,2 s /16,8 s /20,9 s BMW 335i Coupe N54 (DCT times for EU version with standard N54, so not 335is) 80-100 km/h MT (4./5./6./7. Gear) 2,5 s /3,0 s /3,7 s / - s DCT (4./5./6./7. Gear) 2,2 s / - s /3,3 s /3,8 s 80-120 km/h MT (4./5./6./7. Gear) 5,1 s /6,2 s /7,3 s / - s DCT (4./5./6./7. Gear) 4,5 s / -,- s /6,7 s /8,0 s 80-140 km/h MT (4./5./6./7. Gear) 8,0 s /9,5 s /11,4 s / - s DCT (4./5./6./7. Gear) 7,0 s / -,- s /10,2 s /12,4 s 80-160 km/h MT (4./5./6./7. Gear) 11,0 s /13,3 s /16,1 s / - s DCT (4./5./6./7. Gear) 9,6 s / -,- s /14,1 s /17,3 s 80-180 km/h MT (4./5./6./7. Gear) 14,5 s /17,5 s /21,4 s / -,- s DCT (4./5./6./7. Gear) 13,1 s / -,- s /18,3 s / -,- s Last edited by marcel b; 02-27-2011 at 03:17 AM.. |
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Then you're both wrong, or perhaps guilty of being too simple. Traction is very important as so is aerodynamics. Weight is less important as speeds increase, which is where the importance of aero takes over. BMW has actually done some interesting things with aero on the 1M to decrease turbulence around the wheels. It shows they're paying attention. Back to the "acceleration" quest, it's really so one dimensional it's a shame it gets such attention. I've enjoyed BMWs since the 70s and to me they've always been about cornering and torque at high rpms. Never the all-out quickest on the road, but always with the ability to drive very fast for a long period of time without bad things happening. The turbos are awful at high rpms so it goes against what I like about BMW motorcars. Hopefully BMW will do better with subsequent generations of turbo cars. And perhaps going against the grain, I don't think an engine needs to scream at 8,000+ rpms to be great. I like that they can but I don't visit 8,000 rpms with any great frequency day to day. But when I do, it's generally rewarding (unlike a 335i at redline).
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I suppose you can also tell the enormous community of drivetrain engineers at all of the OEMs that for performance that gearing doesn't matter .
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But wait, wait, what if the 335i guy is in second gear, modified, running high boost and race gas and the M3 guy is in 5th gear in S mode and does not downshift. The 335i will win by a mile. It is such better daily driver because it has so much torque at low rpm...
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Good post. I think both Bruce and I know and appreciate what BMW M is known for. Driving pleasure in the twisties or on the track. However, despite not being any sort of drag racer myself, we both like to get into the details of straight line performance.
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Furthermore, OEM gearing has absolutely nothing to do with it. My point was and is that power to weight wins, either for this instant, or over a longer stretch. As long as the two cars start side by side at the same speed, of course. Doesn't matter if one car is at 6800 in whatever gear while the other car is at 8300 in another gear, as long as they're side by side and the other factors just mentioned by MVF4Rrider (and myself) are similar. The better power-to-weight car will begin to pull away immediately. Over some distance like a quarter mile, the car that makes the best power to weight over that distance (and time span) will tend to win. Obviously, gearing and gear spacing now get important because they will change average power over that distance. Yeah, it's a simplification, but you get my drift. You agree with this. You have always agreed with this - because it's clearly true. You have just been "discussing" this with pbonsalb, trying to help him see the light (which he probably never will). Why switch now? Last edited by bruce.augenstein@comcast.; 02-27-2011 at 10:10 PM.. |
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To understand this fully it pays to look at a simple case. Let's consider the case of a car moving in a straight line first. If you add a passenger to your car does it change the cars power output (crank or wheels)? No, however, it does change it's acceleration. This is simply changing one side or the other of Newton's Law, force = mass x acceleration, F = ma. Change the engine and make more output and you change the left side, change the mass and you change the right side. Both will affect acceleration. Now when we add the effects of rotating bodies we simply realize that rotating bodies translate along with all of the sprung mass of the car and they spin up relative to the translating car. All changes to rotating masses or moments of inertia change the sides of the equations representing the mass (or intertia) and thus bodies resistance to forces or torques. They do not change the "source" the force or torque terms (and thus power as well). However, if you use the "wrong" type of dyno (say Dynojet - inertial dyno) to measure a before and after where a wheel (or drivetrain component) changes its mass or inertia you will get a different number because an inertial dyno simply assumes the same inertial mass for every car. A hub (brake) dyno will not show a power gain from modified drivetrain masses or inertias. These subtleties are certainly worth understanding in detail. Hope that helps. P.S. I see you are in San Diego as well. Ever come to the San Diego e90post.com meets?
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As for reducing weight of engine parts such flywheels and clutches, there you would feel an appreciable difference in how fast the motor builds power. The downside is the power is not stored as easily due to less rotating mass and the power can be somewhat of a light switch, making it harder to apply power in bends. On a Ducati I once had, I replaced a 4 lb. flywheel with a 8 oz one. Power delivery was incredible, and so was the engine braking! Off throttle was like applying the brake. It was also difficult to keep the front wheel on the ground. I had also replaced the clutch with a considerably lighter one. So the rotating mass was incredibly affected.
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