first, my car is comparable performance wise with a Mk V Golf GTI, without having as much torque but acceleration and top speed are pretty much the same.
Last time I dynoed the car (before the mapping) it had 201 bhp and 235 Nm of torque ( I think thats 173 ft pound) and I can rev up to 6900 ( 2.5 liter inline 6 M52B25, rev limiter moved from 6300 to 6900)

officiall numbers are only 167 bhp but 245 Nm of torque, as I said, the actual numbers are before the ECU got mapped. Now I think I have a little more torque, next dyno day is in August.

I have no LSD.

brakes are upgraded in the front from 286 mm to 300mm, but only basic disks and pads from the Z3 3.0. They start to fade very fast.

so far for the excuses xD


The Saturn Sky is called an Opel GT in Germany and like the Nissan S14 there are no N/A versions of this car available, so its turbocharged and fully equipped by factory (nothing like a Redline package available, only thing you can order is the color)

stock it has 256 or 261 bhp, not sure. Top speed is a little lower on the paper (230 kmh, my car can do 237 kmh)

since it is turocharged, no guarantee that it was stock, plus the driver is from the area (MYK license plate --> Mayen Koblenz) and seemed to know the track much better.

I'm ok with that.


except for the MkI Elise and the Porsche 944 I had the least powerful car on the track.

to that bike with the passenger....long straight after the finish line and experienced driver. To keep up with a bike I need a very twisty and narrow track without long straights.



stock BMW sport seats, no LSD and fading brakes are the biggest let down tbh. as for the seats, since the car is my DD I'm struggling with putting racing seats into it.

I run Continental Sport Contact 3 tires, 225/45/17 on 8x17" Team Dynamics Pro Race 1.2, these are 9kg light British touring car rims. offset 35mm plus 5mm spacers on the rear.

Z3 was running the same tire model but 18" and wider on the rear.