My 2005 V vs. My friend's BMW 335d
10-25-2011, 10:36 PM
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My 2005 V vs. My friend's BMW 335d Friend of mine bought a 2011 335d(the diesel one) a week or so ago. Since he can never leave a vehicle alone he immediately installed a Burger Motorsports chip and a K&N drop in filter. Anyway we decided to line them up. My V has the mods in the sig so it's basically stock. We just did one run from a dig. Needless to say that thing is a total sleeper! I spun(and hopped) a bit off the line and into second. Immediately he put two cars on me and held clear until the top of fourth where I finally started to reel him in. I was at 138 in fifth by the time I pulled even and we let off. If I had a better launch I would say it would have been even until the top of fourth where I would finally roll away. Definitely impressive though... a car as fast as my V with the fuel mileage of my wife's '07 Mini Cooper S...
Unfortunately I have no video since we were just BSing after work and that would be incriminating evidence lol...
Unfortunately I have no video since we were just BSing after work and that would be incriminating evidence lol...
10-26-2011, 12:29 AM
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I'm not sure. My friend says it drives like a normal car except he gets nearly 40mpg on the highway and has gobs of low end torque. It's rated at like 420 ft/lbs from the factory. You can barely hear the engine too. Just a hint of the diesel clatter. Unfortunately they don't make a manual version. Too much torque I guess.
10-26-2011, 09:39 AM
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my friend has the x5D its a tq monster and get 26 mpg's highway!!! , i just got a truck for the winter (vw touareg V10tdi) and all i can say is omg the TQ is unreal i feel more comfortable going fast in my truck then the V.
i hate to admit it though, BMW is probably one of the best engineered cars on the road.
i hate to admit it though, BMW is probably one of the best engineered cars on the road.
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10-26-2011, 10:03 AM
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265 stock hp and 425 torque.... 0-60 stock is a hair under 6 seconds. How much does a tune give on these things? What do they run in the quarter?. I would think from a roll you should take him easier.
10-26-2011, 11:28 AM
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Yep, TQ is ungodly.
We have a sponsored diesel race truck that eats Vettes/Stangs/Vipers all day long.
It's funny actually.
It's a white 06 Dodge Ram 2500 Cummins. A few motor mods. =)
Converted it to a short bed single cab.
Runs 10.4's all day long.
Then I drive it back to pits, grab the floor jack, throw the street tires back on, pile all the stuff back in the bed, and drive home.
And it also gets 26 MPG.
Not bad with 1200 ft lbs of TORKS.
We have a sponsored diesel race truck that eats Vettes/Stangs/Vipers all day long.
It's funny actually.
It's a white 06 Dodge Ram 2500 Cummins. A few motor mods. =)
Converted it to a short bed single cab.
Runs 10.4's all day long.
Then I drive it back to pits, grab the floor jack, throw the street tires back on, pile all the stuff back in the bed, and drive home.
And it also gets 26 MPG.
Not bad with 1200 ft lbs of TORKS.
10-26-2011, 11:58 AM
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The Burger motorsports chip claims 60+ whp and 100+ ft/lbs. with the way his car runs I believe it. His estimate is that it runs about a 12.8 with a good launch.
10-26-2011, 12:00 PM
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There is a vid on youtube of one running a 13.0 flat not sure of mods but it looks to have different wheels and tires on the rear. Thats just crazy for a diesel car.
10-26-2011, 07:55 PM
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it was fast in the corners and once we got straight it just walked away from me.
10-26-2011, 09:00 PM
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It's a turbocharged car so a chip has huge gains. We can really only change the fuel and timing but they can add more boost. So it really doesn't surprise me he was able to hang with you. I ran a modded 335i up an onramp and I wasn't able to pull very much on him either. We didn't take it very high though so I would have started to pull away if we kept going past 90.
10-26-2011, 10:27 PM
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His chip only plugs into the injector rail. I think it just bumps up the amount of fuel going through it. the chip itself has a dial inside it to turn it up or down. From my limited understanding of diesels simply adding more fuel makes a huge difference. There isn't much of an aftermarket here for the diesel yet since its only been in the US since 2009, but the 335i apparently has a pretty large aftermarket with several in the 11 second range.
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My son has a Ford turbo diesel pick up that he uses a handheld Predator to tune. The preprogramed tunes are 20, 40, 60, 80, & 100 horsepower (If I remember correctly). The 80 hp tune lights up the tires and black smoke pours out the exhaust like a mother. Obviously they add more fuel and more boost. The bigger tunes give great seat of the pants feel. He bought the Predator used off of E-bag for a hundred bucks, nice power increase for the money. My Z06 in contrast felt like it picks up 5 hp with the Predator tune...waaa
10-27-2011, 09:12 AM
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Funny that I see this thread today. A guy locally (who I do not know personally) has a 335 that I raced in my G8. I saw him this morning while heading to work (in the V). I tried to chase him down through traffic but it was not meant to be. Dude straight hauls *** all the time
Anyways, his has exhaust and some visual mods. Beyond that is anyone's guess. But in my G8, I gave him the jump from about 55 and he put a bus on me in no time. At 120 I let out and was still 2 cars back. I'd had to have hit 150 to catch him. For reference, my G8 raped my V because it was fast. My V beat a stock G8
Anyways, his has exhaust and some visual mods. Beyond that is anyone's guess. But in my G8, I gave him the jump from about 55 and he put a bus on me in no time. At 120 I let out and was still 2 cars back. I'd had to have hit 150 to catch him. For reference, my G8 raped my V because it was fast. My V beat a stock G8
10-28-2011, 09:47 AM
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Thsi should answer a LOT of the "handling" and "road Race" questions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU4f_NwAfUs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU4f_NwAfUs
