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Originally Posted by David70
Interesting opinions about the sound. I love the sound of the S54 and I have never heard a N/A 8000 rpm redline that didn't sound great, maybe because of the engineering that went into making it happen. No it doesn't sound like a V-8, V-6, or flat six and that is part of what makes it great.
There is nothing worse that a muffled (not saying all are) turbo engine where they pipe the sound through the stereo because Engineering/Marketing agree that the sound isn't what it should be.
So far, turbo's improve the performance and track numbers but we are missing something with the sound and performance characteristics (flat torque from idle then the engine dies off at lower rpm than the non turbo).
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Depends on the car. Sounds great on the Z3+Z4M's. But the E46 M3 just has that really annoying rasp (to me) at certain RPM's.
Like I said, fixeable, so I'm not going to dock it points. But the cracked subframe and VANOS issues were enough to steer me away (for now).
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