0-130mph vid in 325iT

[windnsea00]

Got bored last night so I figured I would go give an "Autobahn" run for the the wagon. Quality of vid isn't great but I ran right up to the limiter and just held it there. Interesting in Sport on steptronic that it wouldn't go for 5th gear unless you manually do it. Granted the car shouldn't have an auto in the first place.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3795111303253477135

[unknown01]

Wow that was pretty cool. How did you drive and hold the camera at the same time? I'm surprised how quick it got up to 60 then it started slowing down a lot.

[windnsea00]

Wow that was pretty cool. How did you drive and hold the camera at the same time? I'm surprised how quick it got up to 60 then it started slowing down a lot.
Small camera I rested in my right hand fingers while the palm of my hand was on the steering wheel, pretty easy. Right at about 80mph and when it hits 5.5k rpms you can see/hear the second part of Vanos come on. Then eventually 184hp pushing through the wind can only be so quick. Still not bad IMO for what the car is.

[unknown01]

WHat is Vanos? How do you know if it comes on? Does my car have it (e46 330ci)?

[windnsea00]

WHat is Vanos? How do you know if it comes on? Does my car have it (e46 330ci)?
Yes, speaking for US cars, E46's have dual vanos which varies the timing on both the intake and exhaust valves. A similar idea is VTEC by Honda. It's much more seamless on E46's but the first stage seems to come on ~4.5k rpms and second stage at ~5.5k rpms. In my 325is where it's single vanos just on the intake valves you can't help but notice it at 4.5k rpms. It's much louder and quicker when it comes on. When I had my S50 in my E30 with stock tires for a little bit, the tires would chirp sometimes when Vanos hit in 1st/2nd gear :buttrock

[unknown01]

Dang the vid of your 318 0-120 doesnt work! My dad was ready to buy one of those ti's as a little around town car.

[windnsea00]

Dang the vid of your 318 0-120 doesnt work! My dad was ready to buy one of those ti's as a little around town car.
I took it off since the quality was really bad because 2 of the lights in the gauge cluster are burnt out. It's not very quick anyway, haha. Go to 318ti.org for more info on the cars. They are fun but they were built as the "cheaper" BMW so the interior isn't as nice as E36's and they have an E30 rear suspension for instance. The interior can be changed to an E36 coupe/sedan interior though. There was also other more minor cost cutting measures throughout TI's.

[pioneer416]

good job on the 1 man operation...and wtf were you listening too...porn?

[bostongreen328i]

Cool vid, pretty quick as well.

[windnsea00]

good job on the 1 man operation...and wtf were you listening too...porn?
Daft Punk- Face to Face on the alblum Discovery.

[dawgeatdawg]

haha...yeah daft punk rules..nice run, are we talking e36 325it? or what?

[windnsea00]

haha...yeah daft punk rules..nice run, are we talking e36 325it? or what?
Yea Daft Punk is sweet. E46 325iT btw. The E36 never came here, the car is in my sig of "present" vehicles. Granted it's the family car so I'm not the primary driver (hence the automagic).

[samg]

Yeah I agree Daft Punk are v.cool but I have to agree on the Vid recording it sounds like a old school Swedish porn movie backing track haha!! Classic!!

130... pretty sweet.

[NOCTURNAL]

That got up there pretty nicely.

Youre nuts for taping that while you were driving!

[takem2church]

my favorite part was when you pressed the turn signal by mistake haha i loled. good job though that was sick

[Jetter2]

We have a straight 2 mile bridge here in rockwall..about 2.5 miles between stoplights across the bridge. I could only get to 120 before I had to slow down. I'm impressed how much faster the E46 is.

[windnsea00]

my favorite part was when you pressed the turn signal by mistake haha i loled. good job though that was sick
I actually was changing lanes but I realized no one was around me so I just did 1 quick blink.

[windnsea00]

We have a straight 2 mile bridge here in rockwall..about 2.5 miles between stoplights across the bridge. I could only get to 120 before I had to slow down. I'm impressed how much faster the E46 is.
Yea the E46 really keeps pulling in the triple digits, I lend that to good aerodynamics (facelifted model), dual vanos and good gearing. I wouldn't be suprised if it could out pull my 325is in triple digits even though the M50 feels decently quicker below 100. BMW always impresses, I mean it is only rated at 184hp but I've driven cars with easily 20-30hp that fall flat on their face in triple digits.

[jvit27]

haha, man daft made that the chillest 130mph run ever.