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I completely agree. 19/20 mixed isn't bad for what the car is.
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I don't independently check my mileage, my 128i reports an average of 24 miles per gallon. That is HOV lane at 65-80 mph to work, county parkway (50-70 mph) around my neighborhood and doing as many local errands as possible in my wife's Volvo XC70. Mostly use Shell 93 Octane.
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Most of my car's miles are from my commute to work and I'm getting 20mpg driving mostly city streets + rush hour stop and go highway. Not terrible but definitely not good by today's standards.
Edit: this is by measuring both at the gas pump + noting mileage and by looking at the trip MPG. I find it to be pretty accurate so far.
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25 MPG: 95% highway between 70-80 and usually accelerating decently hard to 3k, occasionally 4-5k, rarely 7k.
Modded as per sig: 26MPG same conditions as above. Around town it drops quickly to 20 if i'm lucky. I have a heavy foot and typically shift at 3k rpm when i'm driving casually and higher than that if i'm driving spiritedly. I get about 280-300 miles out of 3/4 tank(i always fill up at 1/4 tank) regardless of how i'm driving. I don't have the opportunity to hoon around constantly so my mileage usually stays pretty good. Surprisingly good for a NA 3.0 6 cyl if you ask me. I can imagine seeing 30+ if you do 55 and are easy on the skinny pedal.
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I gotten around 20mpg the last two fill ups. This is mostly stop and go during awful rush hour traffic. I've changed my route to all highway now so we'll see how my MPG goes on my next fill up
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05-30-2014, 07:56 PM | #299 |
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Drove my dads 08 335i n54 and my god, i never noticed the turbo lag until today. I haven't driven it in forever and i drove it right after getting out of my car so it was a pretty fair comparison. The throttle response is certainly a less crisp and going WOT results in IMO significant lag. It's not as bad as my old turbo diesel jeep by any means, but it's very noticeable coming from an N52/NA car.
That being said, once the boost kicks in its quiick. Not my style though.
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I come from a turbo diesel jeep(that i ran 20PSI on) where boost lag was extremely prominent, it's not like i'm not educated.. Boost is fun yeah, but its pretty fuckin useless in most real world experiences(high PSI with bigger turbo's at least. Not counting tiny little 4 banger turbos on most cars. Even though i still notice boost lag on my moms VW 2.0T). Ever try crossing a 4 lane road in a rush between a bunch of city traffic? yeah boost lag isn't very fun then. Ever try rock crawling? Yeah boost lag isn't very fun for that either. Boost is fun, i get it and i don't disagree. It's just not for everyone. And just because something is NA doesn't mean it's slow. My old 600cc streetbike would shit on any of these cars 0-150mph. And in the twistys, all these guys with FBO n54/n55 have no advantage on my little n52, I've proven that up at bear mountain already(twisty mountain roads FYI). The funny part is right out of the corner's i'd gain distance while all of those guys are waiting for their boost to build I prefer turbo's on my diesels and superchargers on my gasoline engines. edit: and touching on throttle response like the stig mentioned, it's not even close. Tap the throttle on n54 and tap the throttle on n52 and it's immediately apparent that the n52 is much more crisp and quick revving. again, not bashing the n54 or n55 like everyone always assumes, it's just not for everyone. a high horsepower vehicle does not necessarily equal a fun vehicle. That is why i sold my street bike and got a 400CC 30HP dual sport.
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The N52 does have liners but they are aluminum and the magnesium block is cast around them making them unremovable and essentially part of the block itself. So I do question the validity of the IG post. Even if it were valid mixing magnesium and steel would be a bad idea. The coefficient of thermal expansion for magnesium and aluminum are very similar, probably why BMW made this choice. The coefficient of thermal expansion for steel is half that of magnesium. When you get materials with drastically different CTE values going through heat cool cycles you get cracks and failures. Overall even though it looks nice the IG engine is a fail in my opinion.
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