F80 m3

[Mike R]

Originally Posted by lawsy

not something you would want to live with, dedicated track car, being completely gutted and stripped out

I agree, but what it the does to the speed of the car is phenomenal - just look at the Japanese CSL that Digi posted up clips of - it has just done a a 58s lap of Tsubuka (a short 1.2 mile circuit) - albeit with changing from the SMG to a Quaife sequential 'box (and stripping every single thing out of the car and adding loads of aero - similar to what Schirmer does to their cars ). To put that into perspective, a standard CSL does 1:06

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ngfp...t8YeR4zYNpW3Xw

The point I was making is that when you do such drastic mods to a car, it is not unexpected for them to be faster than the full weight cars that the manufacturers can produce.