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Originally Posted by Tag
How else would they come out with a Competition model if they N55 was tapped out for power? It's not just BMW saying that, even turners such as Dinan and others said there was little to no overhead to get more power out of the N55 without adding bigger turbos, intercoolers, etc. Sure some tunes can bump the power, but they don't have to warranty the car like BMW does.
Care to expand on what parts on the M2C show CS? That's something I haven't seen or heard of.
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Maybe they were not going to do a Competition model at all. Internally it seemed they had the base f87, and the CS. The CS became the Competition when they had to drop the base model because n55 wouldn't meet emissions. At that point they had to either
#1 only sell s55 CS model in limited run and that's the end of the f87
#2 sell the s55 CS model in a non limited run
#3 spend the money to update the base model with the very very old n55 engine. They were never going to do this
#4 spend the money to develop a b58 engine base model M2 in a short period of time.
#5 Do what they did which was take the M2CS with the S55 which they already had developed and just call it a Competition model, develop a marketing strategy for it that leaves room for an actual CS model (just throw the aftermarket parts on with a tune for CS), remove the planned CS body pieces to lower the price, then sell those planned CS pieces as after market parts.
They didn't need to tune up the n55 engine for a competition model because there never was going to be a competition model in the first place. If there was they could have just thrown the M Performance parts bin stuff at it and the M3 seats. No need for a tune.