BMW E90 M3 vs. Lexus IS-F | Driver Battles

[Music] [Music] [Laughter] welcome back to another episode of driver battles we are at chuckwalla valley raceway one of our favorite tracks in southern california and we are here with two of my friends and two very special v8 powered cars behind us scott and will e90 bmw m3 versus isf that's right isf on driver battles v8 sedans it's kind of funny because the isf is like a japanese car they're not used to putting big burly v8s in their cars and then the e90 bmw chassis they put a very rev-happy v8 which is really not kind of what bmw does it kind of torque you build so these two cars kind of blended each other and now they're out here at driver battle but enough about me talking about them scott tell me about your car it looks pretty dang tame it looks really nice walk me through what's been done to it yeah so this is a 2011 bmw e90 m3 i specifically wanted a red one because i'm trying to match all my cars and red is racing so to find a four-door red m3 yeah and this is the last year they made the four-doors uh was super hard i ended up going all the way across the country to virginia road tripped it back home wow and it's been my daily driver so all it has is an exhaust stock suspension with lowering springs camber plates wheels and tires yikes wow so it's a pretty simple build what about transmission six speed uh no this is the dual clutch dual collector yeah okay so i know a lot of the purists are six speed or bust um but the moment you drive a car where you don't have to worry about a clutch and shifting yeah and the dual clutch is a really good transmission it does exactly what you ask it to yeah it lets you focus so much more on the driving it's uh i think it's a little faster around the tracks nice yeah i've heard that before yeah uh will yeah you have something pretty similar yeah but also totally opposite in the same regard yeah bigger engine walk me through this isf and also you have tracked in isf's before right yeah so i own one this isn't my car this is a friend of mine shawn's he actually bought it because of mine so i won a car in a raffle for like 120 bucks my eyes yeah and was like i'll take it to the track see what it's about took it the track and was immediately blown away i was like this thing is so much fun it's so different than everything i'm used to because i'm used to driving hondas with no power and this thing's got torque you'd be in any gear and pull out of a corner yeah and paddle shifts just like scott was saying i you know turned into an isf salesman that was like my my second job so i brought it over to the shop and let all the guys drive it and sean is just like dude i'm buying one and he literally bought one like a few days later which is which is this one right here yep so do you know what's been done to it yeah it's got um it actually has my old coilovers on it because mine is now getting this crazy build this is like the mild version so this is my old coilovers it's just got kws it's got some just two bushings in the front and everything else is basically bone stock he did some uh cooling mods which these need very little but you do those and you're set you could just drive it looks like some mild air aero work yeah yeah the hood and then elf ago hood and just some wheels and obviously the tires nice and so tires what tires are you want nto ones from nitto the best tire to set up a car on honestly like i set up all my cars in those tires yeah and you're also in the m201 yeah yeah i think we're both on the same size so we're running yeah 275 35 18 square setup wow so the cars are pretty evenly matched yeah as they sit so very closely matched cars i think when these cars came out everyone was ragging on the isf like it's not pure enough it's actually a really good car so they came with like 225 front tires the first thing you do is you just put fat tires on it it solves almost all the problems wow and then you change one bushing and it's done the best part about these cars is the reliability is there like you could run this motor mine has 200 000 miles on it and i track it like i don't care and you know you just get in it start it go rip transmissions are fine they're super good on track just like scott's saying yeah it's not a bmw it'll break so with the reliability the bigger tires and you owning an isf yeah and tracking it do you feel confident in beating this german piece of perfection hold on this is the ultimate driving machine right do you think you can share it i think it i think it's a good battle i think it's close and i think and scott's a good driver but i think we could edge it out for sure it's got ultimate driving machine yeah i mean the conditions are working against us here um oh here we go hold on i get the dealership on the line you want to order the vanos now yeah i was actually going to just tow it back and do rod bearings after this right you already scheduled your service appointment yeah track day sure makes sense so with all that you're feeling confident against isf yeah i mean i'll do my best okay i know will's a fast guy so uh i think will edges me out as like a pure driver but i think the m3 might edge out the isf current setups here so it's going to be neck and neck and you guys have driven on chuck walla before right oh yeah yeah this is my favorite track i think in socal for sure i actually had the frontal drive record here in my crx oh wow very familiar with it okay he oh he holds the front wheel drive record on this very track naturally aspirated natural okay we have to add that right naturally aspirated front wheel drive record in a honda crx look it up internet trolls yes crx's are fast and now you have the ultimate driving machine so can your ultimate driving machine beat the ultimate time in a front-wheel drive crx today we're gonna have to find out we'll see that's right just use your blinker so i know which side to pass you on no that that that doesn't work on the i didn't think so can you show me where that is for those of you just watching we run these tam attack style these guys have all day long to get the fastest lap time they can keeps everybody safe uh keeps less cars on the track and it really just puts the drivers against themselves to see how fast they can go are you guys ready to run these time attack battles do it okay may the best man win let's see [Music] so so [Music] hmm um um so all right guys the day is done you had some time on track all day long we're tired we're sweaty you got a bug on your shirt it's off now did you guys want to find out who won yes first of all before we get into that how do you guys feel about the day how was it being out in chuckwalla me through today scott you go first uh it was hot it was hot first and foremost hot yeah i got a lot of i have a laundry list of excuses though he's ready yeah so i'm down before you in case i lose i got a lot of excuses yeah what if i win it's because you know i came in the better car i was the better more prepared driver today um you know i got a lot of stuff for that too yeah well you heard a lot from scott just now in fact i don't remember any of it what how do you think you did today uh pretty good i mean the car is pretty stuck and they're closely matched so i honestly have no idea yeah yeah no idea okay i it felt good it was a little loose the whole time but that's fun it's not necessarily fast but it should be fun and the cool thing is these are basically your round-of-the-mill everyday cars right we just put a really round set of tires on them and said how fast are they around the track there was these aren't race cars these aren't you could daily these both of them yeah these are big sedans big power big v8s that's really what they were and the funny thing is these two cars get compared to each other a lot online so let's put them in the track and see who won but it is driver battles after all and there has to be a driver who won so you guys ready to find out what who was the faster driver today yeah yeah i'm building on this fence because it's like it's big news if i was uh more certain that i won there'd definitely be a wager you have no idea wait how many cars do you own again four and you own seven okay so maybe there'll be a car swap between the two here i'll swap any car of mine with any car scots all right uh civic for nsx right now oh damn nevermind oh oh all right before we get into it here we go final drum roll please with a time of 2 0 6 3 5 0 will oh he's he's questioning why i have two zero six i thought it was faster oh my gosh that was really the best i see the wheels are turning scott you think you're better than 206. have you ever taken the e90 to uh chuck walla before uh i've only taken this car to streets have you taken the e-90 on n201s before i have not all right yeah so it was uh like completely new territory for me yeah but uh your boy jeff helped me out a little bit and figuring out what to do with the tires so um i don't know i i thought i went fast i thought i ricky bobbied it but we'll find out so you did go fast in fact you won with a time of two zero three five four three [Music] winner [Music] well how did he beat you going on you go through a list but you know i got a clipboard honestly that i i drove scott's car yeah and i would say that that thing is that thing is super fast and scott's a very capable driver so i mean all congrats to the things it's awesome yeah all joking aside like this was so much fun and it's even more fun when you get to do it with cool guys yeah yeah totally true we're all buddies on and off the track so it's like to see any of us succeed at anything it's like it's a win for everyone even if you're now trading an nsx for civic it's still a win yeah not it's a pretty cool civic so it is cool all right well that's it for this battle if you guys like what you saw and you want to debate these two cars in the comments go ahead and do it if you think you're faster than these two in an isf or an e90 or any car that you have drop us a comment like and subscribe let us know what you got we want to see you on the next driver battles these guys want to race against you and we will see you on the track [Music] you

Channel: Driving Line

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Length: 13min 11sec (791 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 19 2020