Hey guys!
Want to share my yesterday-night experience with my BT on German Autobahn A52 headding from Düsseldorf to Ruhrgebiet.
While me and the car were at relaxed 110km/h with cruise-control doing all the work, a light-grey 335i Coupe (D-JE 1009) passed by quite rapidly.
As soon as I realised it to be a 335i (thanks to second exhaust-tip on passengers side), I put my pedal to the metal and hunted after the BMW. Luckily, he got into traffic, so closing up took less than a minute.
After the car in front of him had switched to the next lane we had about 30km with very few traffic. We both floored it as hell and I was very surprised by the good performance of that 335i meaning that until end of my 4th gear (248km/h) it was a VERY VERY SLIGHT advance for me and I managed to overtake him easily only by hitting 5th-gear at ~ 250km/h, where he must have been slaved by his electronic-speed-limitation.
Though I have won this drive-by, I am asking my self if a) the 335i in general shows such good performances, b) if this was a chip-tuned 335i or c) if something with my BT is wrong.
To start back to front: yes, my BT is a quite high-mileage-car (~ 220.000km), but a very well serviced one (thanks to Frank Sonneborn). Also I have "on-Autobahn"-meetings with other powercars such as E46 M3, Audi RS4 V8, Audi RS6 V8, Porsche Cayman S, Porsche 996 convertible, AMG CLK 55 "DTM" and AMG SL 55, where I could directly compare my BT`s performance...and it performed quite well, especially regarding to the RS4`s :M5launch:
So it might have been a chip-tuned-335i I battled. If it was so, it was a real sleeper, because it looked abolutely bone-stock, including "335i"-badge...most chip-modded cars have also some other sporty-stuff being put on. As I read on German forum www.bmw-treff.de, the chief-engeneer of our BT, Mr. Noelle (noellemotors.com), offers 360HP and 520NM to the 335i by chip-tuning...this performace-data occurs quite familiar to me... hmm, why...:lightbulb: oh, sure, its the same as my BT has!!! This would explaine the duece in Autobahn-performance perfectly, but if a car is chip-modded, isn`t it also unlimited in top-speed? Or is getting ridd of the speed-limiter an extra option?
IF this was a bone-stock 335i, BMW offers the proud owners A LOT more power than the 306HP/400Nm written in the sales-brochures! Quite well done job and really strong runner. By the way: can someone provide a gearbox-diagram of the 335i? I would like to know if it has shorter gear-ratios than my BT. Attached the BT-gearbox-diagram for you!
Want to share my yesterday-night experience with my BT on German Autobahn A52 headding from Düsseldorf to Ruhrgebiet.
While me and the car were at relaxed 110km/h with cruise-control doing all the work, a light-grey 335i Coupe (D-JE 1009) passed by quite rapidly.
As soon as I realised it to be a 335i (thanks to second exhaust-tip on passengers side), I put my pedal to the metal and hunted after the BMW. Luckily, he got into traffic, so closing up took less than a minute.
After the car in front of him had switched to the next lane we had about 30km with very few traffic. We both floored it as hell and I was very surprised by the good performance of that 335i meaning that until end of my 4th gear (248km/h) it was a VERY VERY SLIGHT advance for me and I managed to overtake him easily only by hitting 5th-gear at ~ 250km/h, where he must have been slaved by his electronic-speed-limitation.
Though I have won this drive-by, I am asking my self if a) the 335i in general shows such good performances, b) if this was a chip-tuned 335i or c) if something with my BT is wrong.
To start back to front: yes, my BT is a quite high-mileage-car (~ 220.000km), but a very well serviced one (thanks to Frank Sonneborn). Also I have "on-Autobahn"-meetings with other powercars such as E46 M3, Audi RS4 V8, Audi RS6 V8, Porsche Cayman S, Porsche 996 convertible, AMG CLK 55 "DTM" and AMG SL 55, where I could directly compare my BT`s performance...and it performed quite well, especially regarding to the RS4`s :M5launch:
So it might have been a chip-tuned-335i I battled. If it was so, it was a real sleeper, because it looked abolutely bone-stock, including "335i"-badge...most chip-modded cars have also some other sporty-stuff being put on. As I read on German forum www.bmw-treff.de, the chief-engeneer of our BT, Mr. Noelle (noellemotors.com), offers 360HP and 520NM to the 335i by chip-tuning...this performace-data occurs quite familiar to me... hmm, why...:lightbulb: oh, sure, its the same as my BT has!!! This would explaine the duece in Autobahn-performance perfectly, but if a car is chip-modded, isn`t it also unlimited in top-speed? Or is getting ridd of the speed-limiter an extra option?
IF this was a bone-stock 335i, BMW offers the proud owners A LOT more power than the 306HP/400Nm written in the sales-brochures! Quite well done job and really strong runner. By the way: can someone provide a gearbox-diagram of the 335i? I would like to know if it has shorter gear-ratios than my BT. Attached the BT-gearbox-diagram for you!