Dinan Stroker ///M5 vs RDSport ///M5 vs RPI ///M5
12-29-2008, 09:31 PM
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I had the pleasure of picking up Darren (aka Darren_Dallas from M5board) at the airport this morning and taking him to Dinan's facility in Morgan Hill to pick up his stroker M5. The car had been at Dinan's shop for over a month while they were troubleshooting some issues that caused the stroker motor to lose power. Once there, we witnessed Darren's car on Dinan's Dyna Pack (sp?) dyno. I think they did 3 runs, once with the fan turned off but I only remembered the number for the first run; 555rwhp.
While there, we had some very interesting conversations with Steve Dinan one of which I remembered him discussing the topic of rarefraction and how it's crucial in the development of the right type of equal length headers to maximize power. Of course Steve talked at length about how they troubleshooted Darren's car and what the root cause was for his power loss but that's a longer story posted on M5board which I won't go into here.
During this time, Glock-357 (John) also met up with us at Dinan and once they released the car to Darren, we took off for Mexicooo!! Of course, with the magnificent power under our beasts, we were there in no time.
The first set of runs:
Darren had a passenger in his car but he also had his stock headers and luggages in the trunk. I had John as the camera man in my car. We did a total of four runs ranging from 2nd gear, 30mph rolls to 3rd gear, 50mph rolls. I would say Darren had about 8-10 car lengths on me by the time we shut down.
Darren was happy with his results and with me with my tail between my legs, we went back to Dinan to pick up John's car. Right when we got there, I realized I was in P500, S5 the whole time and did not hit the M button.
Of course, we had to grab our passports and head back to the border.
This time, with the M button properly engaged, we captured the video below. (also added some pics)
In closing, I like to say I respectfully bow down to Darren's Dinan Beast!
And a pic of my new Brembos.
While there, we had some very interesting conversations with Steve Dinan one of which I remembered him discussing the topic of rarefraction and how it's crucial in the development of the right type of equal length headers to maximize power. Of course Steve talked at length about how they troubleshooted Darren's car and what the root cause was for his power loss but that's a longer story posted on M5board which I won't go into here.
During this time, Glock-357 (John) also met up with us at Dinan and once they released the car to Darren, we took off for Mexicooo!! Of course, with the magnificent power under our beasts, we were there in no time.
The first set of runs:
Darren had a passenger in his car but he also had his stock headers and luggages in the trunk. I had John as the camera man in my car. We did a total of four runs ranging from 2nd gear, 30mph rolls to 3rd gear, 50mph rolls. I would say Darren had about 8-10 car lengths on me by the time we shut down.
Darren was happy with his results and with me with my tail between my legs, we went back to Dinan to pick up John's car. Right when we got there, I realized I was in P500, S5 the whole time and did not hit the M button.
Of course, we had to grab our passports and head back to the border.
This time, with the M button properly engaged, we captured the video below. (also added some pics)
In closing, I like to say I respectfully bow down to Darren's Dinan Beast!
And a pic of my new Brembos.
12-29-2008, 09:49 PM
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Originally Posted by EuroCarFan' post='755662' date='Dec 29 2008, 10:31 PM
I had the pleasure of picking up Darren (aka Darren_Dallas from M5board) at the airport this morning and taking him to Dinan's facility in Morgan Hill to pick up his stroker M5. The car had been at Dinan's shop for over a month while they were troubleshooting some issues that caused the stroker motor to lose power. Once there, we witnessed Darren's car on Dinan's Dyna Pack (sp?) dyno. I think they did 3 runs, once with the fan turned off but I only remembered the number for the first run; 555rwhp.
While there, we had some very interesting conversations with Steve Dinan one of which I remembered him discussing the topic of rarefraction and how it's crucial in the development of the right type of equal length headers to maximize power. Of course Steve talked at length about how they troubleshooted Darren's car and what the root cause was for his power loss but that's a longer story posted on M5board which I won't go into here.
During this time, Glock-357 (John) also met up with us at Dinan and once they released the car to Darren, we took off for Mexicooo!! Of course, with the magnificent power under our beasts, we were there in no time.
The first set of runs:
Darren had a passenger in his car but he also had his stock headers and luggages in the trunk. I had John as the camera man in my car. We did a total of four runs ranging from 2nd gear, 30mph rolls to 3rd gear, 50mph rolls. I would say Darren had about 8-10 car lengths on me by the time we shut down.
Darren was happy with his results and with me with my tail between my legs, we went back to Dinan to pick up John's car. Right when we got there, I realized I was in P500, S5 the whole time and did not hit the M button.
Of course, we had to grab our passports and head back to the border.
This time, with the M button properly engaged, we captured the video below. (also added some pics)
In closing, I like to say I respectfully bow down to Darren's Dinan Beast!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9zsl3Cv2PU
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And a pic of my new Brembos.
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While there, we had some very interesting conversations with Steve Dinan one of which I remembered him discussing the topic of rarefraction and how it's crucial in the development of the right type of equal length headers to maximize power. Of course Steve talked at length about how they troubleshooted Darren's car and what the root cause was for his power loss but that's a longer story posted on M5board which I won't go into here.
During this time, Glock-357 (John) also met up with us at Dinan and once they released the car to Darren, we took off for Mexicooo!! Of course, with the magnificent power under our beasts, we were there in no time.
The first set of runs:
Darren had a passenger in his car but he also had his stock headers and luggages in the trunk. I had John as the camera man in my car. We did a total of four runs ranging from 2nd gear, 30mph rolls to 3rd gear, 50mph rolls. I would say Darren had about 8-10 car lengths on me by the time we shut down.
Darren was happy with his results and with me with my tail between my legs, we went back to Dinan to pick up John's car. Right when we got there, I realized I was in P500, S5 the whole time and did not hit the M button.
Of course, we had to grab our passports and head back to the border.
This time, with the M button properly engaged, we captured the video below. (also added some pics)
In closing, I like to say I respectfully bow down to Darren's Dinan Beast!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9zsl3Cv2PU
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And a pic of my new Brembos.
Attachment 68074
12-29-2008, 09:53 PM
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Originally Posted by EuroCarFan' post='755662' date='Dec 29 2008, 10:31 PM
I had the pleasure of picking up Darren (aka Darren_Dallas from M5board) at the airport this morning and taking him to Dinan's facility in Morgan Hill to pick up his stroker M5. The car had been at Dinan's shop for over a month while they were troubleshooting some issues that caused the stroker motor to lose power. Once there, we witnessed Darren's car on Dinan's Dyna Pack (sp?) dyno. I think they did 3 runs, once with the fan turned off but I only remembered the number for the first run; 555rwhp.
While there, we had some very interesting conversations with Steve Dinan one of which I remembered him discussing the topic of rarefraction and how it's crucial in the development of the right type of equal length headers to maximize power. Of course Steve talked at length about how they troubleshooted Darren's car and what the root cause was for his power loss but that's a longer story posted on M5board which I won't go into here.
During this time, Glock-357 (John) also met up with us at Dinan and once they released the car to Darren, we took off for Mexicooo!! Of course, with the magnificent power under our beasts, we were there in no time.
The first set of runs:
Darren had a passenger in his car but he also had his stock headers and luggages in the trunk. I had John as the camera man in my car. We did a total of four runs ranging from 2nd gear, 30mph rolls to 3rd gear, 50mph rolls. I would say Darren had about 8-10 car lengths on me by the time we shut down.
Darren was happy with his results and with me with my tail between my legs, we went back to Dinan to pick up John's car. Right when we got there, I realized I was in P500, S5 the whole time and did not hit the M button.
Of course, we had to grab our passports and head back to the border.
This time, with the M button properly engaged, we captured the video below. (also added some pics)
In closing, I like to say I respectfully bow down to Darren's Dinan Beast!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9zsl3Cv2PU
Attachment 68071
Attachment 68072
Attachment 68073
And a pic of my new Brembos.
Attachment 68074
While there, we had some very interesting conversations with Steve Dinan one of which I remembered him discussing the topic of rarefraction and how it's crucial in the development of the right type of equal length headers to maximize power. Of course Steve talked at length about how they troubleshooted Darren's car and what the root cause was for his power loss but that's a longer story posted on M5board which I won't go into here.
During this time, Glock-357 (John) also met up with us at Dinan and once they released the car to Darren, we took off for Mexicooo!! Of course, with the magnificent power under our beasts, we were there in no time.
The first set of runs:
Darren had a passenger in his car but he also had his stock headers and luggages in the trunk. I had John as the camera man in my car. We did a total of four runs ranging from 2nd gear, 30mph rolls to 3rd gear, 50mph rolls. I would say Darren had about 8-10 car lengths on me by the time we shut down.
Darren was happy with his results and with me with my tail between my legs, we went back to Dinan to pick up John's car. Right when we got there, I realized I was in P500, S5 the whole time and did not hit the M button.
Of course, we had to grab our passports and head back to the border.
This time, with the M button properly engaged, we captured the video below. (also added some pics)
In closing, I like to say I respectfully bow down to Darren's Dinan Beast!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9zsl3Cv2PU
Attachment 68071
Attachment 68072
Attachment 68073
And a pic of my new Brembos.
Attachment 68074
Great write-up, Tony. That was the Blue M5 I saw this morning when I dropped off my car - it was driving in as I was leaving.
It would've been great to have been a 'fly on the wall' during your conversations with Mr. Dinan...
That thing's a beast -- glad everything worked out for Darren.
12-30-2008, 05:24 AM
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Originally Posted by radz550i' post='755667' date='Dec 29 2008, 10:40 PM
great stuff!! but the run on the vid wasn't even close! Dinan ruled over RD?
but the run on the vid wasn't even close! Dinan ruled over RD?What would be awesome would be a contest between the Dinan stroker and the RDSport stroker.
BTW, Darren's car is the Interlagos Blue one.
Rex, wish we could have had you along for those runs as well. Looking forward to hearing your impressions of your Dinan mods on another thread.
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wow! awesome post Tony.. great vid and pics!! you M5 guys and your hella fast cars driving to the border.. must be nice!!