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Old 22nd August 2012, 18:32   #1
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Ess Vt2-650 kit footage
Hi gents,

Been away a while thinking of keeping car but can't seem to find any real footage of the vt2 kit versus other cars please post links.

Any issues with kits?
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Old 22nd August 2012, 19:23   #2
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Hi there,
No real issues with the kit. Not for me at least. It has pros and cons, like all things, but owerall a good mod/tune up.
I can't speak for anyone else here, but I seldom see any cars where I live, that's worth racing against. Especially since I drive on the freeway mostly and from 60-80 mph (100-130 km/h) and up, it's gonna take some real monster car to humiliate a 700 bhp M5 . From a standstill, it's another story, but I'm still undefeated. For now...
What are your thoughts around keeping your car or not? Is the VT2-kit the only thing keeping you from getting another car?
If I wouldn't need a family size car, I'd go for a E9X M3, with ESS VT-2 650 or VT-3, with double-clutch gearbox.
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Hi there,
No real issues with the kit. Not for me at least. It has pros and cons, like all things, but owerall a good mod/tune up.
I can't speak for anyone else here, but I seldom see any cars where I live, that's worth racing against. Especially since I drive on the freeway mostly and from 60-80 mph (100-130 km/h) and up, it's gonna take some real monster car to humiliate a 700 bhp M5 . From a standstill, it's another story, but I'm still undefeated. For now...
What are your thoughts around keeping your car or not? Is the VT2-kit the only thing keeping you from getting another car?
If I wouldn't need a family size car, I'd go for a E9X M3, with ESS VT-2 650 or VT-3, with double-clutch gearbox.
could you tell us more what is pro and what is con? i only know pro: fast, con:$16k lol that is all i know
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Mine are all pros,
-Price is great compared to the Gpower kit (dollar to HP gain)
-Power is very linear, you do not feel it coming until you look down and see what speed you are doing
-Very easy to look after and maintain
-Kit is made very well and fits nicely in the engine bay
-I have no reliability issues thus far so no cons there
-Tune took a few days to become stable as it stalled on me twice at a stop but that was on day one only
-No heating issues with the heat exchanger in the front grill

Only con I may have is the more power you have the shifts slow down a tad but nothing in life is 100% the way you want it, if it was then we would never mod any cars we ever purchased
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thank you for responses, another member and myself were borderline selling unless this kit could keep us happy. My car has now done 90XXX kms and I am wondering whether I should use the vt2 650 kit as I honestly cant find a car that I enjoy more than my M5. I have been driving a RR Vogue as a daily for last few months whilst I have had the M5 on the market but 2 totally different worlds.

I have no idea how quick these kits are compared to exotics and would like to see how they compare. Keeping the car is pretty much solely on how this kit performs as I want more from it.
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You should search the thread I made on Vbox 60-130 times, a member posted other cars times to compare to.
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yeah but ACG made all others run up hill while he ran down hill...j/k ACG's stuff looks pretty legit man peep it out.
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thank you for responses, another member and myself were borderline selling unless this kit could keep us happy. My car has now done 90XXX kms and I am wondering whether I should use the vt2 650 kit as I honestly cant find a car that I enjoy more than my M5. I have been driving a RR Vogue as a daily for last few months whilst I have had the M5 on the market but 2 totally different worlds.

I have no idea how quick these kits are compared to exotics and would like to see how they compare. Keeping the car is pretty much solely on how this kit performs as I want more from it.
From Tom C and then mine added for comparision.
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From Tom C and then mine added for comparision.
Paul get the performance gears done. Seems like from those times your car runs awesome but with gearing it should do alot better. Mods for thought eventho your probably already on it lol
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Paul get the performance gears done. Seems like from those times your car runs awesome but with gearing it should do alot better. Mods for thought eventho your probably already on it lol
Are you talking about the 3.91 gears? If so it would not speed up my times as then I would require 2 shifts instead of one. I have other ideas on how to go faster
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