I spent the whole day at the Simota UK distibutor (Sanspeed) making up a kit to fit the MC. We have finally mocked up one that will fit and it will be produced for early December.
We did 3 runs with a standard airbox and a Simota. Graham (Sanspeed owner) himself was very surprised to see a 10 KW minimum increase in power without any loss in torque or low end power.
I couldn't get a print out so we decided to visit Bexley Motorworks who are next door. Their dyno is another one which is pretty accurate and has had loads of dyno days. So we knew what a normal Z3M and E36 M3 evo puts out there.
Out came the Simota and in went the standard airbox again.
We recorded 308 bhp highest result. They were very surprised to see this sort of power from a 3.2 M engine until we told them it was remapped. They normally do around 290 on this dyno.
On went the Simota, they were not expecting any real gain themselves but were open minded as they'd never tested one back to back themselves.
We did 3 runs the lowest output reading which was 318 bhp. Our highest recorded figure (which was the 1st run) was 325bhp.
So a minimum gain of 10bhp with no loss of torque anywhere but no real increase in torque until higher up the rev range.
Very consistent with the dyno we had at Sanspeed aswell.
All this was dyno earlier today.
Here's the dyno graph:
The BMW airfilter we used was brand new.
Also, the noise was very nice. No additional intake noise on part throttle unless under load and a very nice induction noise on full throttle. Didn't sound over the top in any way. I will post up some video clips when I have time, probably at Santa Pod.
Throttle response was much crisper and there is a definate increase in top end pull.
We did 3 runs with a standard airbox and a Simota. Graham (Sanspeed owner) himself was very surprised to see a 10 KW minimum increase in power without any loss in torque or low end power.
I couldn't get a print out so we decided to visit Bexley Motorworks who are next door. Their dyno is another one which is pretty accurate and has had loads of dyno days. So we knew what a normal Z3M and E36 M3 evo puts out there.
Out came the Simota and in went the standard airbox again.
We recorded 308 bhp highest result. They were very surprised to see this sort of power from a 3.2 M engine until we told them it was remapped. They normally do around 290 on this dyno.
On went the Simota, they were not expecting any real gain themselves but were open minded as they'd never tested one back to back themselves.
We did 3 runs the lowest output reading which was 318 bhp. Our highest recorded figure (which was the 1st run) was 325bhp.
So a minimum gain of 10bhp with no loss of torque anywhere but no real increase in torque until higher up the rev range.
Very consistent with the dyno we had at Sanspeed aswell.
All this was dyno earlier today.
Here's the dyno graph:
The BMW airfilter we used was brand new.
Also, the noise was very nice. No additional intake noise on part throttle unless under load and a very nice induction noise on full throttle. Didn't sound over the top in any way. I will post up some video clips when I have time, probably at Santa Pod.
Throttle response was much crisper and there is a definate increase in top end pull.
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