Slightly OT: fast beemer

beepbeep · 07:36 AM

I know that you guys don't like dragracing but I just came home from local "test your car on the dragstrip" event and saw few things that really impressed me. There were many fast cars but one of them really caught my attention:

That is E30 M3 beemer....2.3L four-banger with huge turbo kit and sequential gearboc (no, not Lenco drag-race gearbox but WRC-style sequential box). Rear-axle is more or less stock, independent suspension (no solid drag axle etc.)

Guess how fast it went dow the quarter mile?

9.91 seconds at it's best!!! That's LESS THEN TEN SECONDS quarter mile

... wow! ET was 149 miles as far as i remember...that friggin car accellerates 0 to 150 miles per hour in ten seconds blank, w/o V8, gigantic rear tires or super-tuned drag suspension. It even had decent set of brakes and i bet it could be driven around the track pretty quicky. I'll try to dig out video of it's sub 10-sec run as soon as it appears on internet...

Plain wierd...

(Edit)
Correction, his best run was 9,76sek w/ 238km/h ET!

kepperly · kepperly's Garage

Man, at least there is something German out there,smoking the
ricers. A friend here in Wichita, Kansas has tested three ricers on his dyno this year with OVER 650hp.

Keith Epperly- 87 slant nose turbo look carrera

Eric Mckenna · 06-15-2003, 07:11 AM

I am with you Goran...
THat is ONE BAD ASS! bimmer.. That is haulin ! in the 1.4 mile!!!! it's great to see one set up like that .
Please do post the video if ya track it down.
Hows yer friends SC project comming .. the website hasn't been up dated in a while>.

Eric

beepbeep · 07:26 AM

This 964 RSR 3.8 went really good, but sometihing in the gearbox went wrong while shifting to 3:rd gear so it got stuck there. I tried to talk him into removing plastic shield so he could check if it was just shift-coupler that desintergrated but he believed it was shift-fork in tranny that got bent...car was stuck in 3:rd gear and shifter couldn't be moved sideways.

I believe it got 13.7 sec time while riding on rev limiter into finish:

I snapped heaps of pictures, i'll try to download it from my camera today. Beemer video should be online very soon....it's wickedly fast!!!

It also had most severe shift-backfire i ever heard (sounded like a cannon-fire each time he shifted)

Project is comming along fine...but slow! We got our tranny lock and bought new MIG-weld gear. Mattias wants to convert to coilovers in the back so that's new big part that needs to get done.

bell · bell's Garage

how about a 10 second k-car ? rumor has it this k-car has broken into the 9's

beepbeep · 06-15-2003, 07:39 AM

There is slight difference between 9.76 and 10.41 sec. Also, beemer didn't have drag-suspension in the back... it was fully independent and car had it's original 2.3L four-banger (albeit in ultra-tuned form).

Eric Mckenna · 07:46 AM

WOAH! are you saying that guy pulled off a 13 sec run while in 3rd gear bumping the rev limiter!!! thats still fast as hell..
Sounds like Mattias is really going at it.. this should be a hell of a car once you guys are thru.
Goran, HAHA

tell him to update the website.. tho.. for the guys like me that are following the project

.. I am just messing i am sure you guys are busy working on the car..
I can't wait to see it once it finished..

Thanks! Eric

BTW,
How is Jockes fiends RUF CTR powered 911 coming along? have you heard much about it ? Jockes seems to be pretty busy as he doesn't visit us to much anymore..
tell him I said hey if you see him.

Later,
Eric

bell · bell's Garage

Quote:

Originally posted by beepbeep
There is slight difference between 9.76 and 10.41 sec.

yep.........it's called front drive/rear drive

gary is running a pretty standard suspension on the k-car....but it has been stripped to bare essentials

either way.......anything running the 1/4 under 11's is just fast as fark

beepbeep · 06-15-2003, 08:17 AM

Few more pic's of RSR:

Interesting use of motorcycle tires in front in order to lower rolling resistance on turbocharged E36 M3:

bell · bell's Garage

Quote:

Originally posted by beepbeep

Interesting use of motorcycle tires in front in order to lower rolling resistance on turbocharged E36 M3:

that's pretty slick

beepbeep · 06-15-2003, 02:45 PM

I found a small clip of 9.91 run and converted it to DivX:

http://project911.luminasweden.com/temp/sahlin.avi

bell · bell's Garage

that m3 lauches hard

and it's nice to see a 10 second supra lose

masraum · 10:47 PM

Wow, that's freakin insane!! Very cool. I started in hotrods, so I do think there is something to be said for plant you in the seat straight line accel.

PS what sort of audio codec did you use?? I don't get any audio.

Langers · 06-16-2003, 12:17 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by masraum
Wow, that's freakin insane!! Very cool. I started in hotrods, so I do think there is something to be said for plant you in the seat straight line accel.

PS what sort of audio codec did you use?? I don't get any audio.

I have the exact opposite....I have audio but no video. I have the latest version of Windows Media Player.

beepbeep · 06-16-2003, 03:24 AM

OK. For your convinience, I have converted this clip into plain MPEG which everybody should be able to view...sound is at least as important as video :-)

File is slightly better quality and bigger in size now (5 MB), so it's for DSL-folks only.

Link:
http://project911.luminasweden.com/temp/sahlin.mpg