One word: Excellent (archive)

My car is a daily driver. I sit in sanjose/silicon valley traffic almost every day. The shifting w/the pretranny chip setup, the shifting was smooth and precise but not as smooth as my previous car (Camry). (With the camry you couldn't tell it was shifting, but thats a "comfort" car and not a "performance" car). With the dinan tranny chip, the shifting is more abrupt (as if you put a physical tranny kit on it), and quicker (you don't feel the engine disengage and then re-engage a bit later, (ie: gear2-pause-gear3 its now gear2-gear3).

I don't race it, nor track it. I bought it for how it handles and how much of the road I can feel (which is true for all M3s). I recently had the car dyno'd at it puts a max of 200hp and 200ftlbs of tourque at the rear wheels. Not bad for an automatic which some say loses 15-20hp at the tranny. I love it, no problems which are related to the automatic. Tires are expensive (no more 50k mile tires...), change the oil every 5k, had a prob with the a/c which was covered under warrentee. I drive her like an old lady would, but sometimes you gotta take those highway entrance ramps at 65mph...

-Growler

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Sounds great, I'm in! Tim325i 16:57 12/25/2001 (0)

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