[OpenFlash]

Hi guys,
Just got back from southern california. So if you've sent me a PM in the last few days and I haven't responded yet, hang tight. I should be caught up by the weekend.

European Car magazine tested our car for an upcoming cover story. The test consisted of a bunch of road driving and dyno testing at Eurosport (Anaheim, CA).

I don't know how much I can or should say about the results but here's some info:

1) The car put down 345-346whp and 391-392lbft of torque (SAE corrected) on Eurosport's dynojet. By comparison, immediately afterwards, a very nice VF Engineering supercharged E46 M3 put down a healthy 390-395whp and 275-280lbft of torque. It sounded really sweet.

2) The Senior Tech Editor said, after driving the car, "The only shame about this car is that more people can't drive it to see how turbo cars should be tuned." He then said that compared to our approach, chip tuning/reflashing seemed to be an incomplete solution.

3) The Senior Editor has similarly positive feedback. Something to the extent of "Holy Sh#t" and "absolutely perfect drivability"

Needless to say, I was happy to see our first product for a european car to be so well received by a magazine with a long history of testing tuning products for european cars. The magazines should hit the stands in April or May so look out for it!

Cheers,
Shiv

[topher04r1]

Congrats !!

[SoCal335i]

Impressive

[Straz M3]

Congrats Shiv, looking forward to meeting you in April

[lawdude]

Wowsers! Can't wait.

[max boost]

shiv, i'd say that was a positive test!

[cheluto2]

Excellent! Congratulations, Shiv. Can't wait to read the entire review when it comes out. And can't wait to have my PROcede installed!

[e90335i]

congrats!

[mayanh8]

Cool, glad to hear it went well.

[SpiralOut]

Sweet. Can't wait to read the whole review.

[imolazhp_ci]

was this les?

[CoralRedPlz]

Originally Posted by ismithnc

Sweet. Can't wait to read the whole review.

+1.

congrats shiv!

[DrDomer]

Awesome. Did they like the name? Just kidding. Can't wait to get it in my car.

[CASHBY]

Good stuff shiv!!!

NOW GET A RACE GAS FILE !!!!!! ahahahaahah

jk...well actualy..

[Juggs]

awesome! do you have your standard lines ready when bmw calls you up asking " sooo... tell me more bout your little product you got there..." * in a thick german accent*

[stressdoc]

Any predictions regarding how BMW AG is going to receive this?

[NaViT]

Good job Shiv ur on fire!

[bnj]

Originally Posted by stressdoc

Any predictions regarding how BMW AG is going to receive this?

The test being so positive, they need to build more production capacity to be able to meet the increasing demand.

BMW AG -> STRONG BUY!

[Juggs]

Originally Posted by stressdoc

Any predictions regarding how BMW AG is going to receive this?

probably happy as hell. do you know how many warrenties they will be able to void free and clear? :rocks:

[Jonn335]

BMW will be very happy with this, it cant do anything but help them sell more 335s

[LJ35DRVR]

Originally Posted by Jonn335

BMW will be very happy with this, it cant do anything but help them sell more 335s

or less M3's

BTW, can somebody smarter than me shed some light on how the Procede 335 would compare with the S/C M3, given those numbers? It seems that the higher torque would afford faster 0-60 and maybe 1/4 mile times, but the higher HP of the M would give faster top-end #'s. Is that an overly simplified correlation? My little head is thinking that the 335 would feel faster in acceleration, but the S/C'd M would actually pull with more umph at highway speeds.

Anybody?

[bnj]

Originally Posted by LJ35DRVR

or less M3's

BTW, can somebody smarter than me shed some light on how the Procede 335 would compare with the S/C M3, given those numbers? It seems that the higher torque would afford faster 0-60 and maybe 1/4 mile times, but the higher HP of the M would give faster top-end #'s. Is that an overly simplified correlation? My little head is thinking that the 335 would feel faster in acceleration, but the S/C'd M would actually pull with more umph at highway speeds.

Anybody?

S/C M3 accelerates faster due to higher hp. Accelerating in low speeds on 6th the higher torque of 335 has the advantage. But you are not really too much interested in the seconds in the latter case, since you are not in a hurry if you are driving slow at 6th... Sometimes it's just nice to have no need to change gears and still have the responsiveness of high torque.