CSL engine - advice sought!

[The Gorilla]

Hi,

NZ_M3-

The Mader development was carried over into
the Renault F1 Lump, although strictly speaking
its not a S62 Cast block as such.

All the development work that Mader carried
out on the S62 V8 Block project which they more or less
got for free when BMW dumped the project,
evolved into much of what Renault now run in F1.

No, it was not so much a cost consideration by
BMW, but the firing order of a Flat Plane Crank
V8 is different to a Cross Plane, and as such it
creates much more vibration which would have
to be dampened out for a Road based Car.

BMW missed a trick there, they should have released
a BMW M3 V8 but with a Flat Plane Crank, a
Transaxle, as they now run in the ALMS, and called
it a CSL, and at 130k plus, they would have been
queing up to buy, for sure.

Ferrari V8 to a point, get away with Flat Plane Crank
as the engine is in the rear, but on the Maserati V8,
basically same engine, except they revert back to a
Cross plane Crank, as the engine sits up front.

Listen to a proper M3 GTR just hitting the sweet spot
and there is no mistaking a Flat Plane Crank V8.

This is how to drive one-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2Q4MBAjL7Q

Regards,

The Gorilla.