E34 = win
WARNING! DON'T STREET RACE OR THIS COULD BE YOU!
With that out of the way...
What was a boring day ends in a good note. Namely, the engine note of a straight 6 at 5500RPM...
Without doing into too much detail...
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The Hero:
BMW e34 535iM
Base Price $ 4,000 CAD
Engine Type M30 inline 6-cylinder
Engine Size 3.4 liters / 3430cc
Horsepower 212 @ 5,600 rpm or so... (sharked... and when it was NEW!)
Torque (lb-ft) 225 @ 4,000 rpm
Transmission 5-speed manual
Curb Weight 3,700 lbs. or so
Fuel Requirement unleaded premium, 91 octane
Tires P235/45 ZR17
Brakes, front/rear vented disc Zimmerman/PBR Ceramic, antilock standard
Suspension, front/rear double pivot independent
Drivetrain front engine, rear-wheel drive
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The Contender:
2001 Lexus IS300
Base Price $ 45,500 CAD
Engine Type dual overhead cam 24-valve inline 6-cylinder
with VVT-i variable valve timing
Engine Size 3.0 liters / 183 cu. in.
Horsepower 215 @ 5,800 rpm
Torque (lb-ft) 218 @ 3,800 rpm
Transmission 5-speed electronically-controlled
automatic with "E-Shift" manual shifting
Curb Weight 3,270 lbs.
Fuel Requirement unleaded premium, 92 octane
Tires P215/45 ZR17
Brakes, front/rear vented disc / solid disc, antilock standard
Suspension, front/rear independent double wishbone /
independent double wishbone
Drivetrain front engine, rear-wheel drive
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Rolled up to the stoplight. No one around. Notice a set of HIDs with yellow fogs. A Lexus. Pulls up, eyes the car, thumbs up and revs. Car is lowered, smoked wheels, lip spoiler, skirts. Road is clear. I return growl. Light changes and I drop the clutch at 3k to launch. He takes off, but before two heartbeats, I catch up and pass in 2nd gear. 3rd to 110KPH and slow down as two car lengths ahead and red light ahead (albeit far). No need to push it.
Second light. Thumbs up. It's just three more blocks to my places so I return a growl from the meaty inline 6. This time I rev high and clutch slip. A little tirespin but this time launch nose to nose. I shift as soon as it redlines and inch past him. Near the end of third, I'm about 2-3 car lengths away. I slow down and he barrels past. I turn in to my street and reflect on how overrated the IS300 is. To be honest, there wasn't much of a fight. I expected much more.
The moral of the story?
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E34 = win
11/88 535iA
why bother anyway? i pulled up beside a lancer the other night all riced up..... i remember thinking gee i would like to kill your car but then again.... you probably just make some excuse to save face anyway. so..... why the hell should i flog my car when the oil is not warmed up yet to prove something i already knew and the other guy can never understand.
Its like all the homos in e36 318is' with m3 bodykits and low pro tyres. get bent! your car doesn't even do a sub-9 0-100 kph and plus most of them are probably auto anyway. i just laugh at those idiots.
Germans: Why can't they make everything?
I don't have any problem spanking IS300s
jon you dont have much trouble spanikin anything.
The last picture i saw of your car, it didnt look like it was in a position to race much of anything.Originally Posted by Jon K
Lowered with blue h&r(?) springs, Bilsteins, tint, 19# design 3 injectors, Dual Magnaflow
southwest WA
You will never really know if it was the 'car' or the 'driver' you spanked tho !
Most drivers just never really 'run' their car to its capability, as they simply don't know the limits of the car and daren't find out.
'90 535iSE Auto (AE+EAT) 123k miles
'86 F288 69k miles
'06('89)- PGE 2.0DOHC Turbo
'03 A160LE 19k miles
1914 Stellite E2A (no odometer!)
(+ others I daren't mention here)
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I remember pulling up next to a very clean stock looking 1973 Toyota Corolla about two years back.
It had standard trim, seats, steering wheel etc. but slightly wider steel wheels (about 6") with factory Corolla hubcaps.
However I detected the low rump, pump, pump of a well muffled V8.
At first I simply didn't realise it was eminating from the Corolla until we both arrived at the next set of lights.
I waved at the guy who was about 40 with a Ned Kelly style beard.
I asked him what was it in.
"A 'warm' 302 Windsor" he said.
He drove off very sedately.
THAT was the ulitmate sleeper I thought.
Thou who messed with him in anger would have wound up looking like a real pussy as they disappeared in his rearview mirror!
Last edited by pundit; 08-06-2006 at 06:01 AM.
1990 E34 535iA, 215,000kms (130,000 miles).
Dual Climate, Rear Headrests, Rollerblind, M-Tech Wheel,
Memory Seats, EAT Chip, T-Stars.
Somebody tried to race me just two days ago in fact (I didn't even try) in a 01-ish VW wagon. It was a little beat up.
It had a turbo or something. Mabe more.
I've never seen something fly that fast.
Seriously, in Beaverton OR it's a silver 01-ish VW wagon with no bumpers at all... Look for him, it's ****ing fast as hell.
No joke.
Drove like a moron though, faster than hell in the shrotest time!
God DAYM.
-Charles
EuroLux:. Private Detail
E34 1/'89 ///M20 2.5i: Lachsilber
I think civics are faster than my car....it's soo heavy =x and slow .
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Build Date: 05-1995 /Engine: m50tu /Automatic Transmission /ABS /NO ASC /Open Differential /EAT Chip