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Chickenbackside

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My previous SAAB experience is also the same - SAAB 95 with 185bhp can be upgraded to 220bhp. After the ECU upgrade, the higher power is there, but compromising the smooth delivery.

If anyone reading this is on BSR tuning on their Saab 9-3's, there is a free upgrade that smoothens out this problem.

 

Prior the upgrade, the torque comes in a huge wave, but sacrifices the smoothness of partial throttle openings.

 

Now, during partial throttle opening, it does not suffer from the slight jerkiness any more. Torque is more spread out throughout the rev range, although it doesn't feel as ferocious anymore.

 

I think it's a good compromise for everyday driving. But at certain times, I do miss the head snapping thing before the upgrade.

 

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Windchoco

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the Saab 9-3 is really an underrated car....

 

anyone interested in this car???

 

it's retailing for $138,888.....

 

2.0T 150bhp Sedan....

 

badge not appealing.

 

in that case a lot of cars also can be in contention like Passat, Insignia, etc...

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Ferraricalifornia

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you can say so,

 

especially when 'Premium Marques' have reduced their prices by quite a bit....

 

i mean even the Opel Insignia 2.0T 220bhp now costs $157,888!!!

 

and you can now get a BMW 318i for $126k,

 

Audi A4 1.8TSI for $150k....

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Viceroymenthol

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yes i know bro but

 

the gains for any hardcore mods are not worth it for NA.

 

unless you're driving like a C63.

 

A C63 on the M156 AMG V8

 

gains 60RWHP from a simple tune!!!

 

thats crazy gain.

 

With Long tube headers, decat/sports cat and other mods (eg. carbon fibre Gruppe M air intake) it can go up to 600bhp+++++++ crank.

 

waaah... really ah... [laugh]

 

gain so much power for what... it will still do 4 seconds or so, at best. C63 is still an overweight sedan.

 

they should look into why pagani cars are very very fast despite using the same heavy 6.2 L AMG engine and tweak the SLS into something like that.

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Sony

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the Saab 9-3 is really an underrated car....

 

anyone interested in this car???

 

it's retailing for $138,888.....

 

2.0T 150bhp Sedan....

 

 

Is it still available?

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Sony

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badge not appealing.

 

in that case a lot of cars also can be in contention like Passat, Insignia, etc...

 

 

Badge is just a badge. There's a lot more than a badge but having said that, I would agree that majority in our buying market places high priority on badge.

 

For me, I was cultivated from young, esp when I had both the prefect and libriarian badge.

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Cerano

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waaah... really ah... [laugh]

 

gain so much power for what... it will still do 4 seconds or so, at best. C63 is still an overweight sedan.

 

they should look into why pagani cars are very very fast despite using the same heavy 6.2 L AMG engine and tweak the SLS into something like that.

 

really because 451bhp is really detuned.

 

the same engine like in the E63 or S63 gives >550 i believe.

 

so modding potential is awesome.

 

Apparently powerchip offers a max upgrade to like 685bhp?????? crazy s--t since its impossible to prevent wheelspin past 500bhp.

 

C63 isnt that heavy i think. just abit of 1.5T?

 

nah with full tune and pretty much every imaginable mod, LSD,Slicks i believe a 3.3s has been recorded.

good enough to give a gallardo/murci a good run for its money.

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Viceroymenthol

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http://www.mycarforum.com/blog/myautoblog/...emotion-wheels/

 

M3 gets 707bhp from Emotion WheelsDate posted: 07 Jun 2010 | Posted by: Rigval

 

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Performance tuners are here for a reason. The reason is that people who have extra money lying around can have fun in making performance cars have even more performance. Now whether that is a good thing is another question as the same people with money that wanted more power in their already powerful performance car may not actually be able to drive even their performance car when it was stock. But this does not stop enterprising tuners from adding even more obscene power to already fast rides. As if it were so, the world will actually be a boring place and enthusiasts who think they can improve on a standard car's performance will not be able to do so anymore.

 

So we now have a basic performance car like the BMW M3. It already has a beautifully made normally aspirated 4.4liter V8 that produces 414bhp and this car basically does 0-100km/h in 4.6seconds. It already handles pretty well and oversteer is on demand. IF you have the skills to control it, but if you feel the need for more power, to try take on the neighbour's F458 at the traffic lights then 414bhp won't do. What you need is a vast increase in horsepower and to get that extra bit you end up at a performance tuner and make your M3 into the car in the picture above and below.

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Germany based tuner Emotion Wheels have decided that the stock 414bhp V8 won't do and have taken another 4.4liter engine from the BMW engine stable and plonked it into the E92 M3. The engine is that 4.4liter twin turbocharged V8 that is found in the X5 M and X6 M totally pointless, ridiculously fast SUVs that BMW makes. In those SUVs, BMW has tuned them to produce an already respectable 547bhp. But Emotion Wheels have bumped up the boost, tuned the ECU, added some other mumbo jumbo (like an exhaust system) and the engine now makes 707bhp. This equates to an increase of around 70% over the stock engine and is more than adequate to beat any Porsche 911 Turbo, any 599GTB, any Lamborghini Murcielago into submission. Unless the rear wheels get shredded from all that power first that is.

 

So in order to help transmit all that horses, Emotion Wheels have added 19in matt black alloys as well as the usual suspension tuning to try cope with the extra and actually excess power. The actual problem I see in this car is not the car itself but the person who drives it. He or she can afford the power, but can the power be harnessed? So that would be the weakest link in this very fast BMW.

 

But anyway, Emotion Wheels have decided to add a lightweight carbon bonnet to balance the additional weight of the turbos and its plumbing. This matches the already carbon roof of the M3 and it would be another bragging point for the owner of this car. "My car's got carbon fibre this and that" says the proud owner of the 707bhp M3. And then adds "Did I forget to tell you that it only has 707bhp?"

 

At least the bodywork is subtle, with only slightly different side skirts.

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Viceroymenthol

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really because 451bhp is really detuned.

 

the same engine like in the E63 or S63 gives >550 i believe.

 

so modding potential is awesome.

 

Apparently powerchip offers a max upgrade to like 685bhp?????? crazy s--t since its impossible to prevent wheelspin past 500bhp.

 

C63 isnt that heavy i think. just abit of 1.5T?

 

nah with full tune and pretty much every imaginable mod, LSD,Slicks i believe a 3.3s has been recorded.

good enough to give a gallardo/murci a good run for its money.

 

wow.. sounds good... but you still have to tune the suspension to handle that power around the track

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Watwheels

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the C63AMG using the same 6208cc engine as the E63AMG right???

 

however, the C63AMG only has 467bhp whereas the E63AMG has 525bhp....

 

why MB detuned the C63AMG???

Give room for future upgrades mah. Next new model up 20bhp and call it the C63AMGG. Next next new model up 30bhp and call it the all new C63AMGGG and so on.

 

Very typical of car manufacturers. Next "new" model up abit BHP and call it the all new model with all new engine.

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Cerano

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Studio Brabus has extended the first official photos and the information on the new working out which has been created in honour of the 30 anniversary of the company and has received name Bullit. Such car is constructed on the basis of Mercedes-Benz C-Class and represents the most powerful updating of this model. According to representatives of tuning studio compete to it of cars can some known спорткаров.

 

The novelty is equipped new 720-strong 6,3-litre by the petrol engine with two turbines which is aggregated with the modernised five-step automatic transmission. The maximum twisting moment makes 1320 Nanometers, however it was artificial is limited on a mark of 1100 Nanometers. With such power-plant from zero to hundred kilometres per hour заднеприводный Bullit it is capable to be dispersed for 3,1 seconds, to 200 for 10,49 seconds, and to 300 for 24 and a half a second. The maximum speed makes 360 kilometres per hour.

 

Besides it, Brabus Bullit has received the aggressive aerodynamic weather-cloth which separate elements are executed from карбона, and also new final system, an adjustable sports suspension bracket and more effective brake mechanisms with 380-millimetric disks in front and six-piston with 360-millimetric disks behind. Besides, for such car are offered 19-inch легкосплавные wheel disks with tyre covers Yokohama dimension 265/30 on a forward axis and 285/30 on back.

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