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Old 02-13-2008, 05:39 PM
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For Those of u Who Has Measured His Car Accelerating To 60 can write it here.
I Had Mine After The Tires Change for wider one i got it Between 6,6 and 7,6

And By Theway dose The AIR Filter Makes Any difference in the accelerating ?
if there is then how much time it differences ?

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Not bad... how does it perform on Mars?
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Originally Posted by A-R-H' post='531182' date='Feb 13 2008, 09:39 PM
For Those of u Who Has Measured His Car Accelerating To 60 can write it here.
I Had Mine After The Tires Change for wider one i got it Between 6,6 and 7,6
Got 5.11 for my 2005 545 step and 4.96 for 2007 550 step using Gtech. Both seem to be overly optimistic to me.
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I put a K&N filter in. Not a big difference.
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Wow, reached 60 in second gear.
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Originally Posted by Freewilly' post='531299' date='Feb 14 2008, 02:09 AM
Wow, reached 60 in second gear.

as i sawd the short gears in all 530 reach the 100 in second gear ( Thats Why The New Generations Of BMW Have Powerfull Acceleration Comparing to the old one ) .
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Originally Posted by SergeyM' post='531284' date='Feb 14 2008, 01:17 AM
Got 5.11 for my 2005 545 step and 4.96 for 2007 550 step using Gtech. Both seem to be overly optimistic to me.

You Know What , Try To measure it the old way, and better if u fillmed it then measure it,( FOR Your safety ) , I Don't Believe in GTECH PRO .
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It's a 2005 car.

N52 (2006, 2007) should do quite a bit better.
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hes on D mode so it starts on 2nd gear, and reached 100 in 3rd..
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Originally Posted by UUronL' post='531386' date='Feb 14 2008, 10:19 AM
It's a 2005 car.

N52 (2006, 2007) should do quite a bit better.

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I Got 6.7 in this test sometimes i got flat 7 or litle more than that .



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