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Originally Posted by Driftster
of course, but my figures were based off of global averages..
The US e36 M3 is also substantially lighter than the european m3 although making less power..
the ES e30 M3 is also substantially heavier than the standard global e30 m3..
making their weight differences much much much smaller..
The suspension on the e30 m3 although fantastic was still not set up from the factory to deal with the changes that took place under the skin for the US market..
Unlike the e36...which was..
And as far as the "we didn't get the nice engine"
Call me crazy but i prefer the engine with less problems and slightly less power..
I'll take a much much less problematic vanos system, hydraulic lifters and a ridiculously easy ability to make power....
Over a constantly variable, constantly leaking, constantly out of sync vanos system that was all but thrown out within the first year and retooled from the ground up..
a solid lifter system that required valve lash adjustment after every track day
and a cam profile exhaust and intake setup that was pushed so close to it's power production limits you'd be lucky if you could squeeze 5HP out of the thing using less than 6,000 dollars...(without doing port work..which at the time no one would do)
So if you really want to cut it down to "the cars that were availible in...spokane washington on july 8th 1988" or some crap..then we're talkin
a 190HP 170ftlb m3 weighting just a few lbs under 3000lbs only being sold with all weather radials (as decent summer tires were a $$ option)
to a 240hp 230ftlb m3 wight just over 3200...and i mean JUUUUUUST over 3200...with nice summer tires standard
but as for my choice..
Give me a 1986 BMW 335i....best of the bunch.
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Oh, I agree, the engine we got is a much more practical solution. It's just worth putting that information out there.
And did you mean 635? Loved the e24. It just exudes "landshark".