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Read the WELCOME ALL BMWFANATICS post.
My (hopefully not a project) Z4M
- Thread starter Benji
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Congratulations, Meneer. A well maintained specimen and an absolute blast. Drove my 1st one in 2013, and a decade later, I settled into one.
It's definitely an underrated ///M
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It's definitely an underrated ///M
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Bernard///M3
BMW Car Club Member
Congrats Benji.👏🏻👏🏻
S54 is awesome!!
So now u can join the Race Series with the M5 and Track the Z4M.
U sorted 😜😂
S54 is awesome!!
So now u can join the Race Series with the M5 and Track the Z4M.
U sorted 😜😂
Benji
Well-known member
Thank you gents 🙏 I found myself sitting in the garage last night, staring at the beautiful lines and details of the car. As a good design, it gets prettier the longer you look. Besides the fundamental low-slung shape, particular highlights are the "shark underbite" of the front bumper and the "Z" on the fenders punctuated with the BMW roundel. This was a car designed in peak BMW years for car fanatics.
Now I need to get out and drive it some more!
Now I need to get out and drive it some more!
Benji
Well-known member
I think a track day is required for further punishment of my Vitour tyres for being so rubbish 
Benji
Well-known member
This weekend saw my first proper use/enjoyment of the Z4, it regularly brings particularly goofy grins to the face.
I attended the waterless skid pan event on Saturday. Compared to my (heavier, less powerful, longer wheelbase) E34 M5 reference, the Z4 is much more spikey and harder to control, but also much easier to get the tail out and more satisfying when you do string the corners together. An exceedingly well-driven black Z4M took the fastest time of the day. It was pretty spectacular to witness how little throttle he was applying, his slides were significantly less lairy than my slides, but I was on a mission to punish the Vitour tyres which again proved to be very deserving. After memorizing the track layout (I feel I am getting a Wrong Route reputation), I need to work on reducing the throttle inputs to have tidier laps.
I also had a bit of a close moment with the barrier in front of my insurance broker, but the less said about that, the better!
Thank you @MR_Y for this pic:
On Sunday I joined the Z breakfast run to V8 roadhouse via satellite road. This was the first time I pushed the car on public roads, some limiters were reached, a lot of fun was had even though the pace was more sedate that some other runs I've been on - blame it on the roadster guys 
I had a few pulls with an immaculate (and sorted) red Z4M and there was nothing in it, confirming the healthy status of my engine I am loving the friendly community of Z4 and S54 owners, it says something about the car when the owners are generally so great!
A new issue was uncovered during the skidpan day, there is a hesitation/stumble when one blips the throttle, it makes it impossible to rev match and made it look like I had delayed reaction times at the start. I'm pretty sure it is a bad TPS which seems to be fairly common on these cars and it has not been changed in the last 80,000km, so probably due. Will dig around behind the couch again, see if I missed any pennies!
I attended the waterless skid pan event on Saturday. Compared to my (heavier, less powerful, longer wheelbase) E34 M5 reference, the Z4 is much more spikey and harder to control, but also much easier to get the tail out and more satisfying when you do string the corners together. An exceedingly well-driven black Z4M took the fastest time of the day. It was pretty spectacular to witness how little throttle he was applying, his slides were significantly less lairy than my slides, but I was on a mission to punish the Vitour tyres which again proved to be very deserving. After memorizing the track layout (I feel I am getting a Wrong Route reputation
), I need to work on reducing the throttle inputs to have tidier laps.I also had a bit of a close moment with the barrier in front of my insurance broker, but the less said about that, the better!
Thank you @MR_Y for this pic:
On Sunday I joined the Z breakfast run to V8 roadhouse via satellite road. This was the first time I pushed the car on public roads, some limiters were reached, a lot of fun was had even though the pace was more sedate that some other runs I've been on - blame it on the roadster guys
I had a few pulls with an immaculate (and sorted) red Z4M and there was nothing in it, confirming the healthy status of my engine
I am loving the friendly community of Z4 and S54 owners, it says something about the car when the owners are generally so great!A new issue was uncovered during the skidpan day, there is a hesitation/stumble when one blips the throttle, it makes it impossible to rev match and made it look like I had delayed reaction times at the start. I'm pretty sure it is a bad TPS which seems to be fairly common on these cars and it has not been changed in the last 80,000km, so probably due. Will dig around behind the couch again, see if I missed any pennies!
Sabretooth tiger
///Member
Congratulations Benji. This is such a bucket list car for me as well.
