simple race, one run, from about 75mph we went @ it... all through third gear i was dead even, remained even in the beginning of 4th then i called it quits....

i was pretty happy to hang w/ a new m3

 

that's a quick race if you're in 3rd @ 75mph. You said all the way through 3rd from 75mph, right? 3rd jumps to 4th ~80mph.

 

no normally i can take 3rd up to around 100 or so....

the highest speed u can downshift into 3rd is @ 80mph and that puts u right @ 4800 rpm in VTEC

 

right. that's what I usually do when I want to get on it. Haven't done it in a while, though.

 

If you drive in SS, you can take 3rd up to about 108mph before hitting the rev limiter. When I run 1/4's I shift into 4th almost exactly the same time I cross the quarter line.

Nice run and good thing you stopped racing when you hit 4th...

 

yea in 4th i woulda been meat, dead meat

 

Dude I wouldn't call that much of a race... If the M3 was really racing he'd kill you from any speed Sounds more like you took off, then he punched it and you hit the brakes...

 

which generation m3?

 

E46; 01+

 

I played with a '01+ M3 on my way to NJ one day and every time I tried to open it up from 55 to ~100 he pulled right up to my bumper. This was with S/C and the stock kit pulley.

 

nah thats not how it went down.... in the past i've raced newer gen M3's and had similar results, or had the m3 pull a little bit... u see, i wont race unless i'm @ the right speed 50mph (2nd gear) or 80mph (3rd gear) where our cars have the most pull.... as for this race, we paced eachother @ 75 we were right next to eachother... i got the jump and he followed immediately and we stayed even

 

Sorry but I think the driver in the M3 must have been a bad driver. An M3 01+ should seriously eat a CLS pretty easy. From what my friend's M3 proved to me when racing against a CL Type-s With Intake, Exhaust and Headers.

 

so you are saying from 50mph to the end of 3rd which is ~110mph, an e46 m3 can't pull on you with I/H? I find that hard to believe unless the driver sucks.

 

who knows what the case was, all i know is we were even and the driver WAS racing....

 

dream on

 

 

ok what ever