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Originally Posted by Blaxwil
So you're saying Troy Jeup is doing what BMW couldn't do? Build a powerful yet reliable platform. Wow. That's saying a lot.
Wonder if you can save time and money by giving Troy an engine that's running versus waiting on the inevitable.
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When you say "BMW" you should understand the difference between the BMW engineers and the BMW bean counters.
Basically, an engineer is reflected in what a concept car looks like. A bean counter is more reflected in what actually gets produced. If it were up to the engineers as to how the engine would be in production, it would be over engineered to the hilt because that's how they think.
Unfortunately when a design has to come to fruition and goes through the process of manufacturing, some things have to be reworked to meet the target price and audience.
So, to say that person X is doing something BMW couldn't do is a bit short sighted. It isn't that BMW couldn't make the engines more reliable. They just built it to a set of requirements.
Any engine builder can make the S63 bulletproof. Just because BMW puts a bunch of plastic parts around their engine doesn't make it holy and infallible.
Steve Dinan's company rebuilds these engines right now as a service to what they should have been from the start.