Timed Performance,30-80 and 80-120,etc

[gwells@xxxxxxx]

Anyone here care to establish some benchmarks in regards
to BMW performance among the various models?

I'm going to do some testing this week and thought we all might get a
fun thread going by listing our car's performance by chassis
and model with mods listed...Someone could post this to their website so
new
comers could get an idea of performance amongst the models.  Obviously
the stock and chipped cars would offer the best comparisons.
Verification of times should be made by fellow chapter members so we don't
allow fish stories.

For example,

'87 E30 325is
weight: 2,640lbs (stock 2,850)
engine:  Stroked M50..etc  Authority tweaked chip
tranny:  std Getrag 260 w/ ltw flywheel, M3 clutch/pp
exhaust: custom M3/E30
diff: 3.73 lsd
tires/rims:  245/45/16 BFG R1s
brakes: std E30 M3 w/PF90s

Best 5 runs:
30-80   (in seconds to 1 sig digit)
80-120 (in seconds to 1 sig digit)
120-0 (in feet)

Anybody interested?  O-60 was purposedly left off since we know
how inconsistent launches can be!

Grant
gwells@domain.elided
'87 E30...

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