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Old 05-19-2009, 11:57 AM   #11
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just curious how you plan to obtain over 375hp??

I agree with Jess, this seems silly... there is nothing wrong with our suspension setups...

ive been told by a pure BMW track junky of MANY years (who is sponsered by Amsoil, AST-USA, BFGoodrich, Corbeau, Dr. Vanos, BimmerSpecialist.com, StopTech / Zeckhausen Racing, Vorshlag) that with a proper driver, the 318ti's in near stock form can hussle around a twisty track almost as quick as stock M3's... and the M3 only gets the edge on the straights.
And he has been around the block long before most of us were alive.

And like Jess said anyways, they used this setup for years in the E30's, and in highpowered Mcoupes and ZM's.. I understand the alure of the dualearred diff, but its obtainable without hacking your car up for a setup that might handle like a bag of bricks.

You may be in school to become a mechanical engineer but undertaking this will certainly butcher your car and I almost gaurentee you will end up with 2 parts cars instead of 1.

All I can say really, is that if the BMW engineers of the late 90's decided the normal e36 suspension belonged under this car, thats what we'd have. Not trying to rag on you, but this is just one of those brain-fart ideas that isn't really logically thought out, and even if you figure out the geometry behind it and do this, I bet a regular TI with a few suspension mods would run absolute circles around you....
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