What is "Fast"?

iaind said:
Is mike on crack?
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I think so.

MikeHiow said:
Do you even know what you're arguing any more?

You were telling me an E46 M3 wouldn't be down on power, I used that M3 in question's current situation as an example that it is perfectly plausible for one to be down on power without the owner being aware of any problems.

I also notice you've ignored the other examples (and accompanying reasons) of cars that lose power as they age/wear.
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And I'm still adamant that the M3 won't be down on power as it's a car that will have been looked after, indeed when the head gasket went, it was fixed as you said. So any issues will have been and will be sorted, nobody will be letting them go completely to the dogs and it's not hard to maintain a car anyway, which is what will keep it at it's guestimated (because dynos lie according to you) by maker's power.

As I have said as well as others, over age and wear it's actually quite possible and plausible that engines GAIN power. This was backed up by a conversation with scubascorpion who works with cars day to day and knows about these things.
 
DRZ said:
So they had the head off, discovered the problem and then just.... put it all back together again?
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No, a compression test was done, and two neighbouring cylinders were obviously down on compression, with no evidence of oil in water, vice versa or cylinder to oil or water.


InvaderGIR said:
And I'm still adamant that the M3 won't be down on power as it's a car that will have been looked after, indeed when the head gasket went, it was fixed as you said. So any issues will have been and will be sorted, nobody will be letting them go completely to the dogs and it's not hard to maintain a car anyway, which is what will keep it at it's guestimated (because dynos lie according to you) by maker's power.

As I have said as well as others, over age and wear it's actually quite possible and plausible that engines GAIN power. This was backed up by a conversation with scubascorpion who works with cars day to day and knows about these things.
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Are you even reading the thread? The M3 was never fixed.
 
MikeHiow said:
Do you understand the problem you're telling me makes no sense, or are you using your acquired internet knowledge of the more common HGF (oil, water, cylinder) being huge issue?
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Do you ever tell the whole story straight up from the beginning?

If you tell people a car has had headgasket failure, the logical conclusion is not that the engine was just fine afterwards.
 
Kenai said:
Do you ever tell the whole story straight up from the beginning?

If you tell people a car has had headgasket failure, the logical conclusion is not that the engine was just fine afterwards.
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Except I told you it failed between two cylinders, and that it was still running?


InvaderGIR said:
I'm sure you said it was. So they killed the headgasket and it's still running fine?

It's quite irrelevant anyway as you raced it a year before the gasket failed.
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I'm sure I didn't, but by the very nature of internet forums, you can easily go and check.

You're really clutching at straws here, aren't you? I proved something you basically told me was impossible, but that is now irrelevant?

And you've still not answered my explanations on other engines that quite commonly lose power with age/wear.
 
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MikeHiow said:
I proved something
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You have indeed but I'm not sure its what you think it is :D

So how come they did a compression test if the car had no visible symptoms?

It really does seem like at least one of your friends owns an example of every performance car ever made :D No matter what we are arguing about, you've always got a friend with the car in question you can call up to support whatever point you are trying to make.
 
MikeHiow said:
Except I told you it failed between two cylinders, and that it was still running?
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Well no, you've drip fed bits of information that just seem to counter whatever someone last questioned.

To start with you only mentioned it had HGF, then you took another couple of posts to reveal that apparently despite this, it still works and the new owner doesn't even know there is an issue after you were questioned about it.
 
I do not know why one was done, presumably because they had tried everything else, and it was just a matter of course.

Oh, and actually,

Tim said:
Tell Cory to slow down:p
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Tim knows the said M3 owner after he bought his EK9 off him, and he's well aware that he is a friend of mine, too :)

Like I've told you before, belonging to a reasonable sized local motoring club, is it really that surprising that I know so many people with fast cars?


InvaderGIR said:
Hey me too! Lets be friends.
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Are you never going to address my points about engine wearing, or are you going to continue to rely on your dyno result to prove that no engines ever lose power with wear/age?
 
MikeHiow said:
I do not know why one was done,
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How odd, surely the first question you ask when your mate tells you his 340bhp car has suspected HGF is 'Why do you suspect that?'

presumably because they had tried everything else
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For what purpose? If the car was running well enough to dupe the lucky new owner (I see your friend has the same morals as you when it comes to business, eh!)?
 
Well yes, I asked him why he suspected that, and he told me a compression test was done. He didn't tell me why a compression test was done.

As I've already said in another post, it felt 'a bit down on power' and appeared to be suffering from what he thought was 'pinking' very occasionally.

His morals are intact, it was priced accordingly.

Now that you are presumably done trying to find flaws in my posts (come on, picking up on my generalisation of time was pretty crappy, wouldn't you agree?), and finding out my life story, can we put this to rest?
 
MikeHiow said:
Are you never going to address my points about engine wearing, or are you going to continue to rely on your dyno result to prove that no engines ever lose power with wear/age?
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:/

Every time I mention this you just ignore it so I don't see why I should bother. Read my posts, R092382oasdLA's posts and a few others. ;)
 
HI there

Mike your car does 60-100mph in the region of 8s, not 6.7s which the M3 does it in.

You claim your car is nearly as fast as the RS which does it in 6.9s, yet the Montune Focus or whatever its called which I believe is inline with yours does it in 8s, so what makes your different to make it nearly as quick as the RS model?


Infact whats the point, its clear your car is the Millenium Falken. :D
 
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