UPDATE 4/21/12 12 GT vs 07 335i
After reading the road kill forum for an hour or so tonight I realized that less than half of the threads are about actual races so I though I would throw this up.
My buddy has a 335i that is pretty much stock except for a dual intake of some kind. He took it to our local dynojet and put down 276hp and I can't remember the tq number.
I've been car shopping for a while now and finally picked up a 12 GT. I come from a pretty much all import background, so I heard a lot of crap from friends when I got the Mustang. My response was "hey I like it and I think it's a pretty good platform".
From day one he has been trying to race me and I said I wanted to wait till I got some miles on the car. I haven't dyno'd my car but I would assume it would spin the rollers somewhere around 350-365whp.
My assessment went something like this.
BMW 276whp @ 3450lbs (according to the owner)
GT 350-365whp @ 3660lbs ( I weighed it on the scale at PAP )
I figured I'd pull him pretty hard. He tells me "no, we'll be dead even". I'm pretty sure he was counting on brake boosting to overcome the power difference?
Anyway the day finally came last weekend and we did some rolls from 60mph. I pulled like a freight train. It wasn't even remotely close. I say lets go from 20mph and see what happens and he agrees with "thats where all my power is anyway". When we hit it from 20 he was hanging on to my rear wheel and I was only inching on him for a second but then I started pulling like a train again. Not sure if 20 was just that much better for him or I left it in 3rd.
He was looking at downpipes and tuners the next morning.
We are getting a track day together soon with some good cars. Tuned 1 series and 3 series BMWs, E55 AMG, couple of GTs and some other cars. I'll get some videos.
After reading the road kill forum for an hour or so tonight I realized that less than half of the threads are about actual races so I though I would throw this up.
My buddy has a 335i that is pretty much stock except for a dual intake of some kind. He took it to our local dynojet and put down 276hp and I can't remember the tq number.
I've been car shopping for a while now and finally picked up a 12 GT. I come from a pretty much all import background, so I heard a lot of crap from friends when I got the Mustang. My response was "hey I like it and I think it's a pretty good platform".
From day one he has been trying to race me and I said I wanted to wait till I got some miles on the car. I haven't dyno'd my car but I would assume it would spin the rollers somewhere around 350-365whp.
My assessment went something like this.
BMW 276whp @ 3450lbs (according to the owner)
GT 350-365whp @ 3660lbs ( I weighed it on the scale at PAP )
I figured I'd pull him pretty hard. He tells me "no, we'll be dead even". I'm pretty sure he was counting on brake boosting to overcome the power difference?
Anyway the day finally came last weekend and we did some rolls from 60mph. I pulled like a freight train. It wasn't even remotely close. I say lets go from 20mph and see what happens and he agrees with "thats where all my power is anyway". When we hit it from 20 he was hanging on to my rear wheel and I was only inching on him for a second but then I started pulling like a train again. Not sure if 20 was just that much better for him or I left it in 3rd.
He was looking at downpipes and tuners the next morning.
We are getting a track day together soon with some good cars. Tuned 1 series and 3 series BMWs, E55 AMG, couple of GTs and some other cars. I'll get some videos.
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