Does the M44B19 have any potential

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That I would have to disagree with you on. I have driven 1 and ridden in another downing atlanta car. One was a z3 and the other was a 318. Both feeled slower than a stock e36 328.

Bolt on DASC's suck without some modification...you're right.

It should bring you to about 215 crank hp and I will let you know that the tuning Downing did on their blowers was crap. With a different pully, alcohol injection and a good tune you could expect more like 200-220whp.

.... I looked into it some and my numbers were off slightly, more like 180-210 whp on stock interals my bad.



Anyway to O.P...they have some potential a Bf.c member has a nicely tuned Z3 1.9 with pully, tune, alcohol etc. and it was really light and relatively quick. My advice is buy an S52 unless you want to be different.