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General Topics / Febi Guibo's Excellent Adventure...

« on: August 16, 2006, 09:37:43 AM »

Hey Febi how do you drive your car in Manhattan or better yet where the heck do you park it. I used to live on Long Island, having recentley moved to Florida and I used to drive to the city on weekends sometimes and it just sucked trying to find a park and my driving style progressively changed the closer I got to the city for the worst. Sorry off topic.......

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General Topics / Febi Guibo's Excellent Adventure...

« on: August 16, 2006, 06:51:24 AM »

Sam's motor is probably pushing close to what a regular M42 with a DASC is putting out. I'm just saying even with his high compression a DASC with even 6 pounds of boost installed on his motor would be awesome and it wouldn't change the character of the car just magnify it. He'll probably start braking stuff though. Oh and offset grinding a crank is the cheaper way of making a stroker crank cuz a custom made crank cost big money. That stroker 2.1 that Hartge or Alpina made years ago costed a fortune to make as they not only made custom forged crank, rods and pistons they also glued a plate to the top of the block to make it taller, then installed liners just to not upset the precious rod length to crank stroke ratio. This also included installing a longer timing chain. $$$$$$$$$$$.

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General Topics / Febi Guibo's Excellent Adventure...

« on: August 15, 2006, 12:23:17 PM »

I just looked at the video of your car on the Metric Mechanic site. WOW very impressive. I've never seen or heard an M42 like that before. Awesome, simply awesome.

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General Topics / Febi Guibo's Excellent Adventure...

« on: August 15, 2006, 11:34:19 AM »

I read about a guy in one of many mags, I think it was Grass Roots, he had an E36M42 with a DASC & a 4 into 1 etc and he used a 3" MAF and tuned it with a piggy back controller like the one sold by BMP and was able to get like 215 WHP. There is always NickG's software tuning. He does all the DASC kits but I'm sure he can do one for your application. Imagine your engine with a DASC with all the goodies. Probably good for 300 WHP. Oh I hope you realise that a bambino is probably next after the fience and that your priorities will change weather you like it or not. Your family will come before the car and the funds for the car get less and less. It'll all be worth it though especially when the little one smiles when ever he or she sees you. Hope I'm not scaring you......

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General Topics / Febi Guibo's Excellent Adventure...

« on: August 15, 2006, 10:22:30 AM »

Hey Febi Guibo, I just signed up to this forum guz of your whole story. What an adventure man. I was just wondering if the crank your using is an offset ground OEM crank or is it custom job. Also are you going to continue to use your stock AFM or a custom MAF setup oh and one more thing are you using the stock BMW header or a Superprint 4 into 1. I'm sorry if I'm asking too many questions but I'm a detail freak I've been waiting for somone to do this conversion for a long time. I always loved the M42. I think its a well made motor that deserves way more R & D than it gets compared to its big brother the M50. Congrats on the engagement also........