Re: Is there a decent chip for a '93 850 GLT that is worth buying? (james wilson)
Hey James, thats nice and all, but thats for the Turbo, these guys have GLT's, no Turbo there. hehe, sorry, I am being an A$$.<p>Ok, so I know I have a turbo, and I have never driven a GLT, so I dont know how slow they are, but I will sugest some things that might help. First off, the Koni Shocks and TME springs made a huge difference in the drivability of the car. The car ride is harder and a little harsher, but the handeling is amazing. I just love driving turns and twisties. The car has basicly no body roll, hold very well, I was beating out cars on the track that I never could before. <p>I shouldnt say this, but I will, just dont tell anyone. The road up to my school, I drive in, is very twisty, and its a steep hill. The hill is known to have a lot of accidents, I had even mentioned here about one that resulted in a death recently. However in the summer time I like to take the twisties hard, not like squealing tires dangerous hard, but hard. A few of the Ricer boys like to follow me up, and many of them could easily out handle me through these turns. Now I absolutely kill them, they cant keep up, and if they do, they are squealing and sliding around those turns. I have amazed many a ricer. Example two came at the track. I was given some track time with the BMW club, and raced against those guys. This included old and new BMW 325's, 328's, 323's, 330's, 330xi's, 525's, 540's, and many M3's and a few M5's. These guys have always just killed me in the past, I even faster than a lot of those cars mentioned, but they just outhandled me by far, and I couldnt keep up. This last time at the track I was keeping up and beating many of them. I finished are little practice race 6th overall, only beaten by two brand new M5's and 4 brand new M3's. If I managed to beat those guys it would have been an F'n miracle. <p>Basicly what Im saying is that the Suspension upgrades made the car faster around the track and a whole lot more fun to drive. Now I just wish I had a 4 or 5 point harness to hold me, I dont like sliding around those seats into the doors and central column there. Hehe, I also dont want to get pulled over by a cop with a 5 point harness on and try to explain that I never speed, I dont think he would believe me. Its sorta like the radar detector thing.<p>As for getting more power, I would bet that a real full blow cold air intake, which I believe that Eurosport offers one, would make a difference, as would an exhaust. But how about headers and that sort of thing. How about all those things people did to muscle cars to get power, instead of turbos, superchargers, and juice. That would also be an option, but not really a great one, Juice. You could probably safely add nitrous to that engine and use a good computer controller to control the flow of juice. However I believe its illegal on public streets everywhere in the US, and you have to refill the bottle all the time. I keep considering adding juice to my car, then I remember all those ricers with there burnt up engines, bent rods, cracked pistons, etc. Then I think, ah, so I cant beat them on the strip, I can always beat them on the twisties.