Ginger Prince
Registered User
A story and a question for everyone,
I was on the way to the gym the other day with my mate when a brand spanker of an M3 appeared right behind me at a roundabout. As this monster was right on my tail I decided to open up the little S3 (8P) out of the roundabout and to my surprise, it started to pull away! We started to approach some lights when it began to close the gap. At the lights the gleaming white M3 with 2 lads onboard pulled up alongside me, game on
Red, amber, greenâ¦.all hell broke loose! Now I knew my S3 was a machine but the little fella pulled away again and started to go in front!! Iâm not going to say the speed but eventually the £60,000 kicked in and it went past but at the next set of lights the 2 lads wound down their window and said âthatâs quick, is it mapped and whatâs it running?!â
Thatâs the story (it was an excellent experience!!) but here is the question,
My S3 has a Neuspeed Induction Kit and a Milltek (non res) cat-back exhaust fitted. It was good to beat the M3 away from the lights but it would have been even better if it hadnât eventually passed me! This got me thinking if I went to a stage 2 remap (with all the extraâs that requires) how much extra power would this give and is it worth it?
I estimated the further upgrade (which would require some serious saving as a service is due around Xmas) to roughly as follows:
Milltek Large bore downpipe + high flow cat - £640.14
Forge Twinintercooler - £660.18
Revo Stage 2 software - £50
Labour - £198
Total = £1548.32
Cheers,
Mike
I was on the way to the gym the other day with my mate when a brand spanker of an M3 appeared right behind me at a roundabout. As this monster was right on my tail I decided to open up the little S3 (8P) out of the roundabout and to my surprise, it started to pull away! We started to approach some lights when it began to close the gap. At the lights the gleaming white M3 with 2 lads onboard pulled up alongside me, game on
Red, amber, greenâ¦.all hell broke loose! Now I knew my S3 was a machine but the little fella pulled away again and started to go in front!! Iâm not going to say the speed but eventually the £60,000 kicked in and it went past but at the next set of lights the 2 lads wound down their window and said âthatâs quick, is it mapped and whatâs it running?!â
Thatâs the story (it was an excellent experience!!) but here is the question,
My S3 has a Neuspeed Induction Kit and a Milltek (non res) cat-back exhaust fitted. It was good to beat the M3 away from the lights but it would have been even better if it hadnât eventually passed me! This got me thinking if I went to a stage 2 remap (with all the extraâs that requires) how much extra power would this give and is it worth it?
I estimated the further upgrade (which would require some serious saving as a service is due around Xmas) to roughly as follows:
Milltek Large bore downpipe + high flow cat - £640.14
Forge Twinintercooler - £660.18
Revo Stage 2 software - £50
Labour - £198
Total = £1548.32
Cheers,
Mike
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