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      04-28-2020, 08:15 PM   #27032
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Drives: 2015 BMW i8, E63 M6, 328d
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Originally Posted by Maynard View Post
I kind of miss the days when an afternoon changing plugs and cleaning/setting points would add noticeable power and driveability (or swapping in $500 worth of headers/carb/manifold would almost double output). Then I realize that I'm now driving a car with tech that only the race teams had back then, with >125hp/liter, so it's a pretty cool trade off to let the computer fire the coils.
Yeah, you're so correct.

They are tuned to run optimally under nearly all conditions. The strangest thing I've noticed is that the M6 runs so much better after a fresh oil change and I only go 3-4K miles between oil changes on this new engine vs the original engine.
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