Comparing 2 RWD turbo cars to each other is like comparing a FWD econobox to an AWD supersedan? Now that's truly ridiculous.....
And set up?? Pardon me but I dont think any of us have x-ray vision on here. Why don't you share the setup of the S14?? From what I can tell, the only thing he needs is a LSD, or a something better than a blown VLSD.....
Talk smack on BMW all you want though, you cant take away the IMSA trophies, ALMS trophies, BTCC trophies, SCCA, F1, FIA GT, WTCC, ETCC, TOCA, Australian Touring CC, Asian Touring CC, USRRC, USTCC, GT3, GT2, LMP1...... +dozens more
An that's just off the top of my head. And I don't know that because of owning a BMW, I know that because I love racing. And I own a BMW BECAUSE of my love for racing.
This thread didn't start as a BMW vs Nissan thread though so I'm not really trying to make it that.
It just as well could have been a cluless guy in a open diff 328 and then a Skyline GT-S and it would have been the opposite. Your comments were just silly and show way too much bias to Nissan. Anyone should experience both before trying to trash one.
I think a lot of you guys on here think bad of BMW's because Harri's 535i broke quite a few times back in the day. What people never remember is that Harri took a 200,000mile STOCK BMW engine and boosted the living shit out of it and drove the wheels off of it. That engine finally died December 4th 2004 after seeing over 30psi many times when the HKS boost controller decided to take a cigarette break. So what did we do? We installed another engine in less than 12 hours so Harri could take sponsors for rides the next day. But someone installed the thermostat backwards( I know who it was, but he didn't know any better and was a HUGE help that night swapping the engine). The 'new' engine had something like 150,000miles on it...... Well the car overheated like crazy the next day, but Harri kept beating on it all day long anyway and the next week we took the head off and sent it to be ported and machined..... the porting guy messed up and hit a water passage but never told anyone. That head lasted maybe 2-3 events before becoming a problem and dropping so much water in the motor that it bent a rod. Swapped some rods, still on block number 2, still tock BMW pistons, rods and head with a cam, headgasket and mild porting.... This motor broke some rocker arms in Lousiana with Hannu driving and probably revving to about 35,000million RPM.... so the rocker arms were replaced with more stock ones, and reinforcement was welded in them.... then the car went to the 2006 IRL demo in St. Pete and hotlapping became an issue with the stock radiator.... car overheated pretty bad, massive blowby... turns out detonation killed ring lands on think 3-4 pistons.... and caused some cylinder scoring... So now for block number3 (a BMW 635 engine with 180,000miles) and this one lasted through the end of 2006. Early '07 Harri finally had some money to spend on the car and since the engine needed a new cam (old cam torn up by bad installation), he just decided to rebuild the whole thing with aftermarket parts. It is still on block3 I think making over 700hp and 700lb-ft at roughly 20psi with built internals. The motor has seen over 30psi surges, and the only issue has been cometic gaskets cant seal properly so we went back to old turboF1 style 'cutting ring' gaskets. With the big power and strong valve springs the rockers became a problem again in California so the head has aftermarket rockers now. Only problem now is the car make so much torque and the 3plate tilton clutch engages so hard that she likes to break halfshafts, but you guys can call me when 240sx parts hold that power and torque...
Oh and it will be on the New York Times front page when a KA or any other NA Nissan engine holds 20psi.....
