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The reason that it is so much more expensive to wring more power out of the M3 than a VW Beetle is very simple. The Beetle is undertuned (the old aircooled Beetles made 38 to 48 bhp out of 1.3 to 1.6 liters, while Porsche used pretty much the same engine in the 356 making twice that, while the "new" Beetle makes 170 bhp out of the same engine that powers the 400 bhp Audi TTS RS). By contrast our cars make over 100 bhp per liter out of the box without forced induction. That is a serious amount of specific output and is the result of some pretty serious tuning work out of the factory.
I have no gripe with supercharging, but I do have concerns about the impact of such dramatic power increases on already stressed bearings... |
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I would expand on your concern and say we don't yet have enough experience and time with positive displacement SC kits to confidently say the added low-end stress/torque (which the engine is not designed for) has no real-world effect on long-term failure rates. Centrifugal kits are tried and true and actually add a negligible amount of stress to street cars that spend most of their life below 5k RPM.
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Well then you had better tell him he is alive to you again.
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Having to rev the sh$#@t out of a car to get decent power and response is NOT fun. I want some torque, damn it!
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The E9x will not be a classic one day. Sorry. Ain't gonna happen.
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It really bugs me when newcomers get flamed for asking a question that you MIGHT be able to find in the deep bowels of forum history, know how to search really well and know a few E9X / forum buzzwords.
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I don't think this is unpopular opinion. I am pretty sure everyone agrees with you on this except newcomers who don't want to put effort in searching
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I think he was siding with those newcomers who don't want to put any effort into searching, hence the unpopularity of his view.
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Granted I am not of the camp who thinks these things are going to be a classic in the next five years. I am thinking 15-20 years from now these will be extremely cool cars to have. |
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