Christ what am I like, went out to do a bit of tyre kicking and ended up putting a deposit on a new car!!!! :headvswal

 

decided I cant buy the 911 I want for another 12 months so I got a nice little run around for the meantime...

 

'95 4door (family man) M3 :D

 

not quite as quick as the zed but not too shabby either.

 

bit of a crap pic on the phone but you get the idea,....

 

the dealer I got it from was amazing, had about 15 M3's to choose from as well as a rather nice F355...

 

I know its got too many doors but can I be in your club steve-o ? :D

did you chop in your Z for it??????

nope, still got the zed for the moment, anybody want to buy it? :D

Christ what am I like, went out to do a bit of tyre kicking and ended up putting a deposit on a new car!!!! :headvswal

 

decided I cant buy the 911 I want for another 12 months so I got a nice little run around for the meantime...

 

'95 4door (family man) M3 :D

 

not quite as quick as the zed but not too shabby either.

 

bit of a crap pic on the phone but you get the idea,....

 

the dealer I got it from was amazing, had about 15 M3's to choose from as well as a rather nice F355...

 

I know its got too many doors but can I be in your club steve-o ? :D

 

Hehe of course mate ;) lol

 

Looks nice from the pic, have to post up some more when you get here home and clean :) techno violet by any chance? and it looks like an EVO? is it?

 

First thing you want to do is get rid of that cat section! give you an extra 12hp, more torque, revs better and weighs about 20kgs less lol. If you want to know where to get a good one from I can send you the link :D

 

Also combine that with a good copy chip and your looking at around 30hp more :D, don't go for the AC Schnitzer ones etc on ebay tho, I heard they actually make the car go worse :S

 

I actually had a race with a guy I know who has a Z the other day, hes running a bar of boost (14.5psi for those who don't know you should!), kept up with him nicely upto a ton, but after then he started to pull away :(

 

I noticed the M doesnt feel as fast as the Z as you dont have the kick of the turbos, but when you actually race a few cars you will be very suprised! Try getting someone else to give it a good thrashing when your in the passenger seat it does seem a lot more quicker and scarry lol. Bear in mind tho the M is over 100kgs lighter, has more power than a stock Z as standard, does a quicked 0-100 and 0-60 time! A Z with 16psi would defo toast us after 80mph tho.

 

That said, good motor :). I went for the 3.0 coupe and one without aircon etc cause I wanted it to be as light as poss. The 3.2's have a little more low end torque, but the 3.0 is a bit stronger and takes better to breathing mods (because of only the out-take vamos control and not intake and outake like the 3.2's)

 

If you already knew all of that, sorry to bore u! if you need any advice mate let me know, I seem to have learnt a fair bit about them in the past few months!

 

All the best and happy M-Powering!!! :D

lol hadn't even got as far as thinking about modding it! :D will certainly consider it though! Its not an evo, and to be honest I dont even know the difference! :) I honestly went along to kick some tyres and I ended up buying it! its the 3.0 lump with the 5 speed box, which to be honest I preffered to the 6 speed one, dunno why just seemed nicer. The convertible I tried was dreadful, couldnt believe how "floppy" the whole car felt!!

 

Im sure once I pick it up I will have squillions of questions, dont have a bloody clue about the damn thing at the moment! :D

lol hadn't even got as far as thinking about modding it! :D will certainly consider it though! Its not an evo, and to be honest I dont even know the difference! :) I honestly went along to kick some tyres and I ended up buying it! its the 3.0 lump with the 5 speed box, which to be honest I preffered to the 6 speed one, dunno why just seemed nicer. The convertible I tried was dreadful, couldnt believe how "floppy" the whole car felt!!

 

Im sure once I pick it up I will have squillions of questions, dont have a bloody clue about the damn thing at the moment! :D

 

Hehe, only mods im making are mechanical, not doing any asthetic, otherwise it would not look like an M any more ;)

 

3.0 good choice mate, the Evo lump has a dual vanos, which controls intake and outtake valves. These arnt anywhere near as reliable as the 3.0 which has a single vanos on the exhaust side. Never heard of the 3.0 vanos going, but heard of tons of 3.2 ones failing, and it's a 2k job alone to put them right! Although they are spec'd at having over 30hp more, in reality they are not much quicker, differently tuned engines, 3.0 loves to rev, the 3.2 does too, but is made for better low down torque, like driving around town etc. When thrashing them both there is not much diff. Like I said a cat pipe and chip will take you to evo power anyway but with the benefits of the 3.0 lump :) There is a green Evo Cab in my town that I have raced and pulled probably 8 car lengths on upto 120 (bearing in mind I have a couple of mods and mine is loads lighter).

 

Convetible is lovely, but no where near as tight on the handling like you said, and very heavy in comparison to normal M's.

 

The five speed is similar ratios to the 6, it's just the six has a final drive of like .8 rotations per wheel rotation I think, so it's more for fuel economy. The Five speed you wil find does rev high, 3k revs is around 70mph! That said, at a steady 70mph you will return 30-35mpg. Round town changing at 2k or under (thats all that is needed!) and the ocasional thrash or higher reving will return around 22-26mpg, pretty fooking amazing really. I put 25 in last friday and done 188 miles on it, thats with half journey round town and half on a stretch.

 

The backend compared to the Z is lovely mate, the slip diff is spot on, you can let the back end go and its really progressive and feels natural than the harsh kick of the Z.

 

Anyways let me know how u get on and good choice of car :duffer:[/