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      07-03-2013, 10:39 PM   #8
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Two questions on this topic:

1) I ran into three people (one of which claimed to have worked for BMW NA) that said that the actual power output on the stock M5 F10 can easily be north of 600hp. True?

2) It sounds logic that, at 0-60 tests, the initial torque and grip balance decides on the best time. I haven't been playing around much with launch control yet. But with all this said, wouldn't it make sense to manually adjust the launch control initial RPM down a bit. The standard 3000 rpm always makes the wheels spin at launch control. It is my understanding that finding the exact power-torque point where wheels barely spin and grip kicks in as soon as possible would be ideal for fastest 0-60 times.

Thoughts?

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