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Old 10-18-2012, 09:15 PM   #194 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by gabe3d View Post
This is good news and hopefully fairs better than BMW's valvetronic (the exact same as VVEL but on the market since 2001) for aftermarket performance tuning. The tuners over at BMW have been mucking around with this for some time now and have had decent results, nothing amazing.

It's interesting to note that both Nissan and BMW decided to not use this technology on their high performance models, M series and GTR. However I think BMW started using this on their M trim Xseries and on some future normal Ms.
I suspect we won't see it around for long.

Funny how one of the first thing on the grand-am rulesheet for allowed modifications for the z34 is the z33 HR head swap
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