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Lets see a M3 DCT owner put his money were his mouth is. Race for pink slips. C63 vs. M3 DCT, stock vs. stock. Best 3 out of 5 races. |
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I am not sure where the C63 insecurity is coming from? Who is saying the M3 is faster? Also, is your bet for a track with turns ?
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Where is Hans? Someone PM him, he is located in Huntington Beach.
I am sure you can find someone on the other MB forums. It should not be hard at all. If you are serious I will post on their forums for a competitor. Did you ever run against your friends M5? |
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Yes, I ran him, but it wasn't fair, I did not even bother to post. He has 20's and once again there were passengers so I beat him soundly, from the freeway roll and especially from a stop. I have another friend who is still on stock wheels but I think he has carbon filters removed. Either way, it needs to be a one vs. one and when I run him it will be the best representation. |
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Sticky comments on wanting to know the other car is stock basically proves to me how flawed T Bone's insistence of using M5Board video events as proof positive. All their videos prove is that the two cars in question in eah race that there is a winner and that is it, not whether they are stock or anything.
Gustav, even pointed out as much in his on comments. The facts are that all of the C63 is almost every controlled tested (magazine) the C63 is quicker, though as of yet no M-DCT vs C63 has been conducted to the best of my knowledge. The point is that up to the 150mph mark the C63 is over 2 seconds quicker and in the only test I know of where the M3 MT and DCT have been tested together the manual was slower to the 120mph mark but regained the advantage after this point and was quicker to the 150mph mark. Likewise the controlled tests of the RS4 show that though it IS slower than the M3, the gap is in the tenths of a second to the 150mph mark and not in the seconds as the M5Board events videos show. If you were to believe them as gospel then Quattro does saps huge amounts of power but I know from experience that when two pretty equally power cars meet (awd vs rwd) the difference is still very much so driver dependent. Maybe T Bone needs to see pass his BWM bias and live in the real world. |
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lol ...
honestly though i think just race guys ... no pink slips ... was suppose to get a C63 also, and would love to see how the dct fairs against it ...
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I don't think that was really a serious option, racing for pinks. But I would love to see a stock M3 vs a stock C63 (both cars as near standard spec) as possible, just to confirm whether the opinion that the C63 is way faster is correct.
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Footie, perhaps you need help with the English language.... The M5board videos show the exact results of any given race no matter who wins. There is no bias. In the case of the MDCT vs. C63, it is universally accepted that the C63 is faster. The C63 could have lost for a whole host of reasons in the videos. In the RS4 (again you bring up Audi), it loses universally, against BMWs, MBs and even trucks. There are enough M5board videos of the RS4 getting spanked that it eliminates the odd bad run. Just for your reading impairment:
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Hans (our best C63 AMG convert/board participant) and I live within an hour or so of each other and my office is about 20 minutes from her house. I would be down for some race experimentation but would certainly like a safe place not to go to jail doing it.... Hans??
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I ran another friends M5 tonight and got it on video (seems like all my friends have M5's). His M5 is modded, with Dinan gears, software, intake, and exhaust along with HRE C20's. I'll have the video up probably by the end of the week if I am not too busy. I think it will open some eyes as to the M3 DCT capability.
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I take it that from the above comments that your M3 did quite well. |
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I'm looking forward to sampling the LC for myself, but I still will stay clear of any C63s or RS4s for now as I still have doubts if the M3 will win below the 120mph marker. |
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No reason to, with launch control the C63 will be playing catch up and the RS4 driver better know how to launch the AWD perfectly. Even just flooring it out of 1st in MDM is a great way to launch.
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These cars are just too close acceleration-wise. It's a driver's "race" IMO. The only legitimate place to do this would be on a dragstrip. And while I claim a mild amount of skill in launching a manual... I claim no skill with an automatic. I could have a friend of mine drive my car down the strip, but again, I don't know what this will prove beyond what we've already read in the ragazines. The M-DCT is a formidable car in a straight line and I have never claimed the C63 to be faster (unless the DCT is stalling or limping ) If I did line up with one, I would report any results here but it would have to be a chance occurance. An arranged event has way too much potential for 20,000 hits on the thread, 40,000 assumptions about the results and even more publicity about our driving skills/cars than I think either swamp or I would want.
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Although I agree much of any head to head testing would demonstrate more about driver skill than vehicle. However, if we did some rolling starts, timed things well and left both cars in automatic mode we should be able to tell more about the cars than us as drivers. The more empirical evidence the better. I do reiterate that as willing as I would be to do this I am not willing to risk license and jail time. If it was done not at a real strip it would really have to be private property or the middle of nowhere. Have a think about it. I'd still like to, would be fun. We could switch cars again as well, which would be a hoot. |
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