All good points. The reason is that many M3 drivers, unfortunately, lack genuine car knowledge. The car itself is more focused than its rivals but its good looks and undeniably more marketable name attracts the wrong 'boy racer' crowd.
Track times don't lie, and the gap is very close. M, S/RS and AMG are all good at what they do.

AndrewAZ- there's a difference between a 12 second quarter mile and a quarter mile time in the 12s. A stock M3 can achieve the latter, not the former.

 

 

yes I know I ment it will do 12's high 12's to be precise.


This who is faster argument is always funny to me when it involves the M3 C55 SLK 55 and especially the S4. Depending on what forum you are in the winner varies... You go to the M3 forum and they have kill stories about walking C55 and SLK 55 and S4's... Go here and the SLK >M3 &S4. Go to audi and the S4> M3 & AMG. I thought people would be better at each forum lets not be like the civic forum who brags about trashing AMG's M's and S4's.....

 

but you see, the trolls from SA won't believe you regardless, and they are going to try very hard to convince you otherwise.

 

ROFL ....

What I fail to see is why would SB, who owns a SLK55, professes how much he got walked on by a M3. Is it really his SLK55 or another person?

Or are Pitzi, SB, and M&M the same person? The plot thickens .

 

Try it with a Euro spec M3. More torque everywhere & more hp where you need it.

 

yeah right, we all the same people. **** man this is getting lame, check the numberplates on the CSL Pitzi-NC. get the administrators to check our IP addresses. Check our BB at www.petrolheads.za.com you will find me, and Soulblade there as well. And many people there have met M&M in person. I owned a Subaru Impreza GT (modified), a Subaru Impreza WRX STi, a red E46 M3, blue E60 M5 and last the CSL. can post pics of all of them if you want proof.

 

WTF. I'd commit suicide if I looked like Pitzi. I'd never get laid again

 

LOL!

 

Hmm, so in two separate posts, you implied, falsely it turns out, that your mods didn't make your car any faster?? Interesting: over at m3forum.net, you were bragging about the gains, very proudly proclaiming that the diff alone had gained you 0.2 in the 1/4 mile and 1.4 mph:
http://www.m3forum.net/m3forum/showthread.php?t=119367
Oh, no, those mods made no difference, did they, M? It was all the inferior Mercedes. Busted again.

People can watch the video and see for themselves, and it's audibly and visually clear that you jump on it first in the video that was being referred to.

Busted again. Twice in one post. One more to add to the list.

 

I said it didn't make any more power, I didn't say it didn't make it faster. Check my quotes. you just posted them

BUSTED DUMBASS!

Anyway, 0.2 is not significant as most of my colleagues were saying. It's better than nothing.

Say what did my alleged bosses have to say?

 

Pop quiz idiot. Did I say it didn't make it faster. What a crunt. Now you add this onto my list of alleged lies.

Go back to school & learn that power & faster are 2 different words p0es.

 

Was that the video where the SLK was in auto mode and took half second to kick down.

POES!

 

Amper van my stoel af gebliksem toe ek daai laaste woord lees.

Bwuhahahahahaha

 

here we go again with the E46 M3...


the car is mid 13's car on every single respectable magazine.


The SLK55, is a high 12's car with a higher trap speed on every single respectable magazine.


This video is just one example of a possible outcome. Let's take it for what it is.

 

I agree wholeheartedly, especially against a US spec M3.

 

Hey M&M. Can you tell me what exactly your "ACS backbox" and "4.1 gears" mods are? I've asked this m3forum, but you haven't replied.

Sorry if this is common info, but I want to know what you did to your car to allow it to pull away so fast from from a stock SLK55.

 

My C32 is "stock engine-wise" and I have four E46 massacres (the races lasting longer than 10 seconds involved bus-lengths), including my neighbors Dinan E46.

Oh, BTW, although my "engine" is stock, the supercharger pulley is not, nor is the ECU, nor are the spark plugs, nor are the wires, air intake, filters, Optima battery, lightweight wheels, etc.

I just thought that, since we are splitting hairs on definitions, I would get with the program.

Let's call this whole thread what it is. . . A couple of cool videos reflecting a biased race and 1/2 truth description of the E46 involved. I find it highly unlikely that the very carefully chosen words of "stock engine-wise" were "just coincidentally" used by the poster without any intent to deceive. I know that if my "faster on paper" $60K SLK55 just got beat by a "slower on paper" car, I would be asking the owner of the car that beat me a million questions about what mods he has done. The claimed ignorance of the poster is disingenuous. While Improviz is a little "over the top," he is more right than wrong in his assessment of the "honesty factor" of the original post.

My personal perception of the vids was that, without the second passenger in the SLK, the runs would've been dead even. This makes sense, if you think about it. M&M's E46 with the mods that it has should be running a high 12 in the 1/4 mile, just about the same as a stock SLK55.

Stock v. Stock, the average stock SLK55 should walk the average stock E46. However, I could see a "ringer" stock E46 running with a slower-than-average stock SLK55, or a talented E46 driver pulling on a SLK55 piloted by a retard.

 

If the SLK55 was 1 up, I think it would have been a bit closer.

PC, ACS backbox is the AC Schnitzer backbox BMW sell which you can buy & have fitted off the showroom floor. More for sound that anything else.

4.1 gears means you replace the stock ring & pinion (which are 3.64) for ones which work out to 4.1. What you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts, so when you in the sam gear you pull a stocker, but when you shift he's in the lower gear & catches up a bit. Overall I believe it does make the car a bit quicker, up to 0.2 seconds gain on the 1/4, but these were not tested side by side on the same day so it's impossible to tell exactly what the gain is.

 

I havnt read threw the whole thread but I have a few points I want to add on why the us M3 is weaker than the euro specs.

First the c32 will beat the m3 almost everytime here in the states.Sorry guys I have lost almost everytime(STOCK)

When I was visiting my cousins in Greece I got to drive one of there buddies 01 e46 m3 and was suprised on how much more low end punch it had.After searching around I have found out that the usa cars have cats in the headers and a whole different mid section than the euro specs.

there is a good amount of power to be made if you install the euro specs headers,mid on our cars.I think its some where of about 20ft lbs across the whole power band.

Second believe it or not are cars are tuned slower now than they were when they first came out.

I remember seeing bone stock 01 m3's putting down 280-285 whp and now brand new M's are putting down 265-270 whp.

The reason is well known that these engines were tuned to the max and were blowing up left and right when they first came out.These engines with the latest updates and recalls done have updated software with a less aggressive tune.

there were plenty of people complaining that there cars felt slower after the recalls done back in the day.

I remember the first specs of the m3 were in the 4.6-4.7 0-60 and were all trapping 106-107 in the 1/4 even the CSL M3 is now where near that now.

so if you guys want a true ballz out race try to find a 01 ticking time bomb M3 that has never had any updates or recalls done and have him throw on the euro spec headers and mid pipe and see how that race turns out(If the M3 dosnt blow up lol)

 

Switching from a 3.64 ring gear to a 4.1 makes a HUGE difference in the quarter and to 60. HUGE.

 

ive raced 2 m3`s (euro spec) im my 3.6 996 and whipped them.
raced an slk55 and he pulled 2 cars on me 2 sixty (i fluffed the start)

Based on this slk will have no probs with a euro m3

the vid shows the m3 pulling almost straight away - his car must be heavily modded or the slk was rigged

 

Holy crap more b.s.
Does it matter which car is faster? The E90 M3 is coming out soon and the W204 should be here soon as well.

Less lies, more time slips and high resolution pictures of the cars!

 

[QUOTE=skratch77
Second believe it or not are cars are tuned slower now than they were when they first came out.

I remember seeing bone stock 01 m3's putting down 280-285 whp and now brand new M's are putting down 265-270 whp.

The reason is well known that these engines were tuned to the max and were blowing up left and right when they first came out.These engines with the latest updates and recalls done have updated software with a less aggressive tune.

there were plenty of people complaining that there cars felt slower after the recalls done back in the day.

I remember the first specs of the m3 were in the 4.6-4.7 0-60 and were all trapping 106-107 in the 1/4 even the CSL M3 is now where near that now.

so if you guys want a true ballz out race try to find a 01 ticking time bomb M3 that has never had any updates or recalls done and have him throw on the euro spec headers and mid pipe and see how that race turns out(If the M3 dosnt blow up lol)[/QUOTE]

Another out of the *** statement... Some of the early M3's had defective rod bearings.... They where replaced problem fixed some of the early M3's didnt get this done... This is the first time of anyone complaining about the car being slower after having a rod bearing replacement... I have been an M3 fanatic my whole life my dad has had every M3 since the E30 M3 and I have driven all of them and am lucky enough to have an E46... So far the only update I have had done to the car that made it felt slow for a few days was an SMG update which flashed the SMG system so it forgot how I like to drive.


Again with the C AMG VS M3 you are not going to pull a bus length unless the M3 driver gave up... You can find the videos of the C55 vs M3 racing from 0-125 and doing rolling starts and at most the C55 barley walked away for the M3 and at 125mph the C55 was no more than 5-6 feet ahead of the M3. I still dont get it you go to the M3 forum and they all beat C55's come here and its the opposite.

 

'01 M3= Spun Crank Bearings all day.