Dont know if this is a repost but this 335i ran 11.9x @ 114mph with a few mods.
http://www.youtube.com/v/31GYfuHV_Zs&rel=1

 

Talk about a sleeper

 

So what kind of engines are in those cars?

I am not familiar with the BMW cars. They all look the same to me.

 

Nice..

 

I love those cars!!! A local buddy of mine who owns a Mexican rest. has one that is sick looking. It's all blacked out, I love it!!! M'fer also has a modded C6 Z06, built motor vorteched Saleen, and a badass tahoe. BTW that wasn't a Cobra in the video it was a Mach 1.......

 

I'd like to know the breakdown of his time slip an if it was an auto or not. I ask because 11.9 is pretty impressive, 114 trap is not.

 

The N54 Twin turbo is a nasty motor. Best thing BMW has done for the 3series to make it dominate the segment. With a simple chip you can gain from 40whp to 60whp easy.. and there are other chips that gain more. Sick motor really. And if that is the same guy that ran 11.9 when i was reading on the bmw forums, the trap speed is a little low for that speed because it was all in the launch. He ran like a 1.6 60ft or something.. that with the addition of max torque starting from 1400rpms gets that car off the line QUICK. No such thing as turbo lag with those little turbos.. but nonetheless impressive time.

 

other vehicles forum...we have had much faster and cooler cars post vids here and they were moved or REmoved totally

 

your point is

 

The point was that this is in the wrong section.. but I don't care.

BTW interesting fact
Auto 335s are supposedly faster based upon the fact that they have shorter gears and / or a shorter final drive. They also hold boost when shifting, creating a faster car. I believe the only time a manual can out run an automatic 335 is from 4th gear or 5th gear. I forget..

 

the trap speed is low because the car makes a lot of torque but not THAT much top end, they usually have more tq than hp

 

One fact of the quarter mile is; no matter how slow or fast your car is, the mph multiplied by the ET will pretty much be the same number every time. Before the NHRA changed the way that speed is measured in 1989, the product of speed and time was around 1400. Let's calculate some easy examples of this. A 14.00 et usually resulted in a trap speed very near 100 mph. A 10.00 et meant around 140 mph. A 200 mph pass usually takes around 7.00 seconds. These are still good rules of thumb to remember, but now the product is more like 1380 on average.

Remember, most everyone focuses on ET so much that they'll even optimize a car for slower mph if it gets them a better ET. (Rear-end gearing is one way to do this). Those guys tend to have a product closer to 1300. Our Z's tend to be 1380 to 1400 because they shine in the high end.

11.9 * 114 = 1356.6

That also assumes 11.900@114.00, since it's not given. But assuming the highest...

11.999 * 114.99 = 1379.77

(those decimals DO matter after all )

So it's close to the norm (1360-1400), but the average between them (1368) shows that the lower end is where it made the best time. (i.e. good torque, lower gears, etc..)

 

135i > 350Z

 

Ya that cars is nuts. Too bad its ugly. And 35k starting price? I'll take a 335 thank you... and its only 1xxlbs lighter..

 

Thats what I ran in my TN kit-with 1.7-1.8 60ft's. I also trapped 116mph. Very nice cars for the money.

 

Yeah, but too bad it's uglier than anything I've ever flushed down a toilet...

 

 

I found out that the 135i's have the same engines in the 335i's which is a dual turbo'd inline 6.

IMO, the 135i does not look bad. It seems pretty fast too. I wonder how much they cost out the door...

 

There is nothing underwhelming about 114mph trap speed in a luxury car. The fact it ran 11s is mind boggling though. But 114mph is fast for a street car, especially a luxury car.

 

oh...and the 135i can go to hell. It's ugly as sin and is really not that much lighter. If it weighed 2900-3100lbs it would be something special. But the fact that little ugly POS weighs 3300lbs just makes me shake my head.