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      08-26-2007, 10:50 PM   #16
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Im still trying to figure out how in the world you were running as low as 104.xx mph the other day, and then gained like 50 HP!, I know you said you had a bad start, etc. However, terminal speed indicates your horsepower. You can spend the first second spinning for 20 feet, but at the end of the 1/4 mile, that 20ft passes by so fast, that the lost distance doesn't even give you that much time to accelerate as far as MPH is concerned. So thats why I wanted you to run a test again. But since you verified it again, I guess it wasn't a fluke. I wish you had a GTECH graph of what your car was doing stock. I mean if you were getting 107mph stock, then I would say something is wrong. The strip in which you run is pretty flat? No up/down undulations? Well, all you need to do is validate it at the drag strip, and those mph are phenomenal. The extra few hundred lbs should be a couple MPH, and the parasitic loss of the AWD adds to that. So theoretically, if your engine were in a lighter RWD 335i, you could be running 111-112mph. Pretty impressive.

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