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Originally Posted by 1SerieStud
I don't think you understand the fact that there is nothing you could type that would possibly get anywhere near to hurting my ego 
What I'm saying is that you are trying way to hard to make a 135i comparable to a 1M, and it is obvious by the way you type. I've owned both, and I can tell you that the cars are not as close as you think they are in performance.
There is another parallel thread of someone with a 135i that averaged 1:49's on the same track. Sure, you can change this, that, blah blah blah and get close to a 1M, or possibly beat it, but tires are a relatively cheap upgrade on any car. Throw some RE11's on the 1M and you've just found yourself in the same hole trying to figure out how to catch up again.
Unless you follow HPA's path and spend a pretty penny (at which point you may as well get a 1M), $2000 are not going to make a 135i 1M-worthy. |
Trying to hard? We had 3 135i's come out. One was a beginner that has never tracked his car in his entire life. The other was me who has done 2 track events prior at different tracks but has never been to this track at all. And the third one has been to this track once before. Did I go in there doing research about 1M times and hoping that we would beat them? No. I saw the final times today in the morning and while I was looking at registering for another track event I saw them post times from their last one which included a 1M and his best time. After seeing that I realized that a 135i beat his time.
This obviously hurts your ego because in this article they favored the 135i and you came in here defending it saying how it could never come close to a 1M unless you spend 20k+. So your trying your best to defend how a 135i can't touch a 1M unless they spend ungodly amounts of money. And how you've owned both so it obviously makes you can expert in both because you have pushed both to the limits on a track and modded your 135i extensively right? Obviously not.
The 1:47 time was the 135i that has never tracked his car in his entire life. Why do you think I asked if the 1M owner has tracked his car previously? If he hadn't then I wouldn't have even made this post because being new to the track and having some track time is a huge difference.
Do you not understand the concept of this thread? The article is comparing a stock 1M vs a modded 135i. Which is what is being compared, if you want to say "oh I can go throw a tune and start modding my 1M with tires and coilovers and be better" then that is obvious. I'm just providing an example of a modded 135i with less than 2k in mods beating a stock 1M's time and getting close to a professional reviewers time on this track.