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Originally Posted by mhabs
Keep the Tarp on! feels like the more details about the new M3 come out, the more that reality seems a lot less enjoyable than the fantasy.
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Sad, but true.
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Originally Posted by m3alabama
Actually look at all the dyno's out there. Atleast 4 or 5 independant's floating around and all are above 330 whp. Clearly underrated per usual for bmw's FI engines. So I that puts the 1M right at 390 crank hp consistently and I am sure bmw designed it to "last"
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Is that stock??? Those are INSANE numbers. That's just under what E9x M3's dyno stock!!! It doesn't overheat at the track either, like the N54 does.
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Originally Posted by bucket328
Im sorry but I do not agree with you one bit. You may, may be able to strip some of the engines right down to the core and find a minor trace of what once was a mainstream engine, but engines like the s54 and euro s50 b32 are not tweaked versions of regular bmw engines. Nowadays they are though.
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Agreed. For all those saying all the //M engines are based on M/N engines, what was the S52 based on?
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