I dunno. I'm sure someone will do it. You can't aggressively port this head otherwise you will break into the water jackets and possibly compromise the integrity of the head. However, I agree. I doubt it will be a limiting factor until 800 > hp, the VW EA888 and Honda K20C1 both use headifolds...
I don’t get why people say its so similar to the BMWs. The vents and upper dash are totally different, the gauges are different. The buttons are different. The car only has the older idrive and ac controls.
I have spent a lot of time looking at this from different BMW technical articles and part diagrams on RealOEM.
From what we can see, the Supra uses the BMW B58B30M1. This the same 3.0L inline six, however, it has an integrated "headifold" meaning there is not a seperate exhaust manifold. The...
Oh my apologies. I thought it was a single clutch. The first auto Porsche for me was a 997S with the PDK.
However, I would argue they are terrible. All the cars I’ve ever ridden in/ driven with one were terrible, Maserati GT, F430, Gallardo, E46 M3, E60 M5, etc. All of them have excessive...
Tiptronics are the crappy old automated single clutch manuals. They are all terrible. Plus 200 milliseconds is not very long especially when you consider how long a human takes to shift a manual.
It is not 59k, it is 64.5k if you add autopilot. Also, the quality on most of the 3's I have seen is pretty horrendous, not to mention the fact that the 300 mpg is on a good day only. I personally really like the Model S, and understand that 300 is way more than necessary for daily commutes...
I am not willing to pay a cent over MSRP (not including tax + registration). If they don't give it to me, I'm going to my old BMW dealer and picking up a M2 Competiton with a 6MT.
I am on one dealer list. I haven not received any official paperwork, but they have e-mailed me several times and the most recent info is a delivery some time around July.
This is so annoying. I have a white launch edition on order and the dates have gone from May/June to now July. On the internet, I have heard dates ranging from May to September for US deliveries.
Another thing, we have seen the launch edition Supra's on trucks being shipped. So if we assume...
From what I've heard, the B58B30M1 has tweaked tables from prior B58's which means the tuners will have to create new tunes for the cars running this engine. I think that the actual encryption protocols and such are the same, however.