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Originally Posted by Arxangel
I am starting to get the feeling that most people in this forum don't know how to spell anything else than "why don't you just get an M", "thread fail", and "get an M, end thread" when other people start talking about swapping engines, ECUs, etc. Well ladies and gentlemen M drivers, let me tell you something using some of the words you understand: "Some of us do NOT want to get an M" (if we did, we would have). I do understand that upon reading the words "NOT" and "M" in the same sentence some of you M drivers would faint or go into an uncontrollable rage, but try to keep it together and read on. Some people simply do not want to get an M, either because they do not have the money, or because, as in my case, think that another model would be more practical and comfortable. Those of us, just want to do some mods, I repeat we do NOT want to get Ms no matter what the cost of the mods. And often when we ask for opinions on mods we clearly note that we do not wish to be advised to get Ms. Yet YOU do it anyway. If I had to guess I would say that half the posts in this forum consist of some variation of the phrase "just get an M". For your information, I would put twice as much money towards, for instance, and engine swap rather than buy an M. And I would even try and do it myself, maybe not on my Z4, I could get a 116i and do the engine swap myself, or get a 120i and tune the hell out of it, and I would still not get an M. I just like the idea, try and wrap your heads around the fact that some people prefer to do that rather than go for the M. This is exciting, its different, especially when none have done it since most of you have taken the easy way out and gotten an M.
I am not angry, I am not pointing fingers, but try and use your imaginations outside of the M box once in a while, because when I ask for help in the forum I want opinions and ideas on the tune in question, not advice on getting an M.
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lol dude you rock!
but on a serious note, I used to see this all the time back on the mini forums, people putting all this money in a non S and people where like what the hell, but some liked the NA engine of the cooper better than the forced induction variant.
to each their own, but I like my "I" and as such want to make it the best "I" it can be, even though it suffers from a multi-personality complex as of yet with SI parts and M parts......but hey it’s fun to make it my own.
and an "M" is not for everyone, had a friend of mine who owns many nice cars and drives an exige on a daily basis drive the "M" and really liked the non "M" way more, I found that interesting, but the he said the non "M" had handling characteristics he liked over the "M" so again to each their own but let’s try to be a fun and informative community that offers help and problem solving in an interesting manner that can help the community grow and become stronger and more knowledgeable about our cars we drive and enjoy not just tell its community members to get a different model car!....
so anybody that has any ideas on a shopping list of what’s needed let me know.