Launching - United Bimmer Community

**Numark318i** · 05-09-2007, 12:01 PM

so very very very early this morning i was coming home, being an ass and taking my feelings out with my driving. anyway...I stopped at a stop sign and some truck pulled up next to me. Since i pulled up to the sign sreeching im sure they were like wtf?

Revved it to 3000 and slipped the clutch flawlessly...was at 35 before i even got across the small intersection. Guess my 318 has more balls then i thought.

either way..had to share my perfect launch experience. I usually wouldnt do that..but was in the mood i guess.

i then almost ran the next stop sign(a block later) and slammed the brakes like never before. she stopped on a dime.

**dinan540** · 05-09-2007, 12:34 PM

Sweet. Bimmers are meant to be driven!!!

**celsdogg** · 05-09-2007, 03:07 PM

that is sweet. i have never launched like that tho. any tips for a first timer?

nick_318is · 05-09-2007, 03:47 PM

Hell yea the little m42 is great! You want some real stopping power get some hawk hp+ on it and be prepared to go through the windows!!!! I have them on now they are ment to be my track pads but I haven't gotten a replacement, once you forget about the horribly loud noise they make (goes away when they are properly heated up, unfortunatly in the city they dont get much of a chance).

Cels, just get to know the car go out and stomp it.

**MTurboPower3** · 05-09-2007, 04:03 PM

i didnt know a 318 could be launched like that

drz · 05-09-2007, 04:19 PM

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Originally Posted by MTurboPower3

i didnt know a 318 could be launched like that

That doesn't make any sense. Any car can be launched like that. (Some are slower than others, of course)

**stevo** · 05-09-2007, 05:47 PM

talking of launching reminds of an incident few weeks ago, I had taken my wife to work and was driving home around 8.15 in the evening.
I noticed a taxi in my rear view riding my bumper, now I'm on a dual carriageway (2 lane highway) with a speed limit of 40mph and this guy in the taxi is trying to push me, we come to a set of traffic signals they are at red , so i'm thinking i got to lose this guy, the lights go green, i stomp on the gas, and in about 8 seconds Im doin 65mph and the taxi is rapidly dissapearing in my rear view.
What got me is, I didnt know my car was capable of accelerating so damn fast, i was amazed, and very happy, for a 318 tourer she can sure as hell shift.

**Numark318i** · 05-09-2007, 05:50 PM

ye ai got hawks on the 318. very good pads. not to much noise either.

yea cels just experiment. Its the first time i launched it like that...amazing. Its an instantaneous start.

heh stevo 318 ftw.