RS Racing Team M3 M3/BMW CRT: Comparison Tuning M3 Series Against CRT

The RS-M3 weighs nearly 200 pounds less than an M3 series. Is that enough to also be facilitated and also strengthened BMW M3 CRT on and off the track to overtake?


Club sports at the highest level - the company that advertises RS-Racing Team. Translated means race car with road permission. No half measures, not just sports tires, turbo lush and thick pipes at the rear. The racing team is going on in his conversion, like trying to build a track car. Only that can be bolted to the end plate with TÜV stamp. The first project is a white M3 sedan. IMAGE AUTO SPORTS CARS, the dull gray CRT soda already been tested extensively and concludes: Better, faster M3 sedan, there can be no really. The comparison is hard to explain it to the track now. Before the motors have reached the optimum temperature for the second fight, before we put the two rivals closer.

RS Racing Team M3, we start at the Tuner. For years to build the RS-maker Christian Goebel and Sven Rau, race cars and put them successfully in an endurance championship at the Nordschleife. Your skills will enable the two now transferred to road vehicles, tuning is finally out of the motor sport. Thus, the RS-Racing team has also started the first candidate, the RS-M3, classic. First, we dissected an M3 sedan into its component parts, then became a certified DMSB, welded safety cell of Wiechers used. The bottom panel is a Bilstein B16 PSS10 installed (ten times adjustable). The original brakes refined the tuner with Ferodo DS Performance brake pads and steel flex lines. The standard 4.0-liter V8 engine mounts have been added to hydro.



BMW M3 CRT CRT is an abbreviation for Carbon Racing Technology. The name says it all. Bonnet and the front seat shells are made of a novel carbon-cellulose honeycomb mesh. But the hood is already fifty percent lighter than the normal Aluminiumpendant M3. The RS-M3 ahead of CRT has 30 hp and 40 Nm. This increased performance he draws from an enlarged from 4.0 liters to 4.4 liters V8. A rigid rear axle, and a screw-threaded suspension are also part of the CRT concept such as the high-performance brakes with larger discs in weight-optimized compound construction, including six-piston fixed calipers. Both M3 promise plenty of driving pleasure so - confirm what is already the first performance tests. As the comparison emanates ultimately, you will learn in the gallery.

Price test car (rated) 130 000 Euro 105 800 Euro

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