Hey so my sister and I each have an 85 318i e30. The only difference is that hers is a coupe. While I prefer the practicality of the 4 door, the way it runs is much different. The main difference in that the coupe revs a lot higher than mine, once I hit 3000 or so revs my engine is screaming to change gears. I understand that the coupe is the sports model and tuned differently and lighter cause 2 doors less, but is there any way that I can have my engine tuned to rev higher similar to the coupe?
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You can pretty safely push a stock M10 to about 6700 all day on stock valve springs.
If you uprate the springs, 7500 is pretty reasonable.
If you uprate the springs and rockers, 9k is probably about the limit.
You have an engine problem, or your tach's reading wrong.
In an E30, you can let it hit the rev limiter between shifts and you won't hurt it.
It should be making 'best power' from about 3500 through 5500, all else being the same.
Oh, in Oz, are you sure you both have the same engines? You guys got M40's and M42's
before we did.
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Originally posted by jeffnhiscars View PostI'm not familiar with all the m10 variations down under but when I dropped the valve clearances on my m10 from .010 to .008 it may an enormous difference to my top end.....As in I actually a had one :D
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Originally posted by TobyB View PostYou can pretty safely push a stock M10 to about 6700 all day on stock valve springs.
If you uprate the springs, 7500 is pretty reasonable.
If you uprate the springs and rockers, 9k is probably about the limit.
You have an engine problem, or your tach's reading wrong.
In an E30, you can let it hit the rev limiter between shifts and you won't hurt it.
It should be making 'best power' from about 3500 through 5500, all else being the same.
Oh, in Oz, are you sure you both have the same engines? You guys got M40's and M42's
before we did.
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