[Shotimes] 2006 BMW 330i replaces SHO

[Hartberger, Jason M. AT2 (AW)]

So I guess you could say then that the harder you run a car in the
beginning, the faster it will run but the sooner it will start dying?
Like speeding up the metabolism of the car, almost... at least, that's
the way I see it. I could be wrong!

   	 V/R

      AT2(AW) Jason Hartberger
      USS Theodore Roosevelt CVN-71
      AIMD/IM-3/SHOP 8 (CASS)
      "If you treat smart people like they're stupid, smart people will
treat you like you're stupid. And they will usually be right."

-----Original Message-----
From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net
[mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Ron Porter
Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2005 2:40 PM
To: 'Carl Prochilo'; shotimes@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: [Shotimes] 2006 BMW 330i replaces SHO

Screw the 4500 limit. Subaru has a 4K limit for the first 1K miles.
Drive it
like you stole it to break it in right.

There are always break-in discussions on forums about that. The take by
many, including myself, is that the mfr will always be conservative, and
if
you have to read the manual to see how to break it in, you deserve the
slow-running car that n overly-conservative break-in will produce.

I have had a my new cars since the late '70s broken in right, and IMHO
they
have all been good-running examples once they were broken in, including
the
current LGT. Another current example is Ryan Dudek wit his new Hemi
Charger.
He broke it I right, and turned a best of 13.84 on a factory stock car
at
the strip yesterday equaling the factory-tweaked 300c that turned the
13.8s
in the original magazine test.

Ron Porter

-----Original Message-----
From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net
[mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Carl Prochilo
Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2005 11:59 AM
To: shotimes@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] 2006 BMW 330i replaces SHO

Thanks.  This is a good start into this world.  The only issue I have
at the moment is getting the car up to the 7000 RPM redline because
apparently you're supposed to honor a 4500 RPM limit during the first
1250 miles.  Fortunately the car has a low of low end torque to
compensate for the other urge.

At some point there should be an E90 based version of the M3 with SMG
that might be worth a try if I want to go fast, or the 545 if more
room is needed.  BTW, over on the BMW message boards I read there was
quite an outcry when BMW first refused to bring a manual version of
the M5 which I understand has now been corrected.
-- 
Cheers,
Carl Prochilo
92 Ultra Red Crimson

On Sat, October 8, 2005 19:28, Ron Porter said:
> Congratulations! Very Nice!
>
> The seat heaters will still come in handy for cool, damp evenings.
>
> I found the interior space to be surprising. It's not as wide as the
> 5-series, but head/leg room are quite good.
>
> Ron Porter
>
> Carl Prochilo <gr8sho@prochilo.myserver.org> wrote:
> Well, not quite replaces since I still have the 92, but I decided to
> go for the bimmer as a daily driver. As some of you know, I've been
> debating this car, the G35 and GTO.
>
> The car is a black on black 6-speed "true" manual transmission (as Ron
> would say) with premium, sport and cold weather package. While it may
> sound strange to get the latter here in South Florida, I didn't want
> to wait for a new order car and this one came off the boat in Sept
> this way. Plus the heated seats actually are nice for a sore back.
> Nothing has changed in consumer buying habits and manual transmission
> 330i's are hard to come by on the lot.
>
> This car is incredible to drive. Everything people say about them and
> car mags write about is true but hard to put into words. This car
> doesn't break a sweat driving hard into curves.
> It is physically smaller than the SHO by a lot and yet feels roomier
> inside. There a lot of other toys as well.
>
> The new car now has window tint that you won't see in the pics posted
> in the link below, so the car looks even sharper. If you plan to try
> this with dial-up, grab a coffee as these picture are large. A high
> res display helps too.
>
> http://users.adelphia.net/~prochilo/BMW/2006_BMW_330i.html
> --
> Cheers,
> Carl Prochilo
> 92 Ultra Red Crimson
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