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Justin51784
Justin51784
“Most of” doesn’t count. It has to be entirely behind front axle center line. If “most of” counted... many cars would fit into this category. My 540i only has 2 cylinders of its V8 forward of the front axle center line. It is front engine, not front-mid.
Washer fluid has solvents in it. 5L is more than the oil capacity of that engine. As you mention oil floats on “water” so the oil pump pickup likely sucked pure washer fluid for much of that 10 minute ride. If that engine is “salvageable” I doubt it will last long after and probably already has wounded main/rod…
The explanation is pretty simple. The RS6/7 uses an automatic with a torque converter. It multiplies torque when launched (look up what a stator does in a torque converter) up to 2-3 times so long as the engine is spinning faster than the input shaft of the transmission. The GT-R uses a dual clutch transmission. A DCT…
Unless you’re comparing different cars numbers from the same dyno, it’s stupid to even compare them. A “similar” dyno isn’t the SAME dyno and therefore can be calibrated very very differently.
Lol @ the guys with mk5/6 cars chiming in... the MQB platform is a very different animal in many ways. I have many mk7 R and GTI customers and the maintenance is very similar. If you do a downpipe and a tune in either car... it will need an uprated clutch. It’s amazing the power potential these cars have compared to…
I guess it isn’t...
Is gearing and maximum engine rpm not an issue?
These are the reasons I want to put the V10 in my E39... love the engine, hate pretty much everything about the rest of the car. It’s stupid jack-o-lantern face, bad dash, worse idrive, ugly door cards... the bangle-butt has actually become one of the attributes I hate the least.
I’ve always wanted to drop a B3.9C in an XJ, sounds like it’d be more reliable than the 2.5 lol.
Nope. You’re probably thinking of the garbage 4.2 in the B6/7 S4. The RS4 is a different animal with chain guides not made of silly putty.
This article should be called “I buy 13+ year old neglected BMWs and wonder why I can’t maintain them like a civic”. I’m a mechanic at a well known European performance and maintenance shop and personally own a 2003 540i 6-speed with 170,000 miles on it. Sure I have done the valve cover gaskets and the upper timing…
Yeah... I'll be keeping my old 20valve turbo wagon with a Torsen center and a locking rear diff. Bigger than an allroad, faster and only a few mpg less. But I like to live dangerously in the past lol.
E39 BMW of any sort, preferably 540i/M5... The 530 is amazing but that V8 torque is just perfect when coupled with a pretty much flawless chassis and timeless interior.
My buddy owned one, it was fucking awful. Transmission lost upper gears due to a failure of a small spring in a valve. The fan was not electric or a pulley/viscous clutch... It had its own hydraulic pump and motor... And lines, fluid, etc. why? Who the hell knows. It was ok when it was perfect but it wasn’t ever great…
I’ve replaced 5 sets of chains/guides on Audi 4.2 (B6/7 S4) at 85, 65, 130, 95, and 155k. The parts are $3500 and labor is about 22 hours (chains at rear of engine so it has to come out)... So $6k every 65-150k miles, more if the guide completely breaks and the valves get bent. A chain does not automatically mean…
Any enthusiast is going to reflash either car, compare them then.
I’m not sure if you are being serious... Any chain system with plastic guides has a service interval, people just tend to push them longer.
The chain vs belt argument is only as good as the design and guide material for the chains. Many VW/Audi engines (5v 4.2 in B6/7 S4 and VR6s) have chain guide issues by 90-150k and the chains are at the back of the engine requiring engine or transmission removal. Their belt engine have 75-90k change interval and take…