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    Denofas engine trouble

    I just watched rad dans "whats make you drift" with chelsea denofa.
    Chelsea was talking about the problems he had in the e46(?) with the m50s blowing up.
    He said something like: as silly as it sounds, the engines blew because of poor cam choice.
    Anyone have anymore insight on this?

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    Also from what I understand a lot of it was his quest to make as much torque as possible out of them. He was running a very nice twin scroll manifold with a heap of nitrous oxide to hit some pretty nutty torque numbers at very low rpms. This was actually twisting the block and creating stress cracks throughout the engine causing a whole host of failures. Myself and a few other have thought that if he were to run an engine midplate between the trans and the engine and a floating front mount that they could have held up much better.

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    I heard it had to do vanos timing of the cams and cylinder pressure.


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