Madison - E39 M5 - Thread

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Glad to have you here!
@tehraydarlover here also has an M5 and could share your pain with cam sensor replacement
@REKIII also has one which is seeing some pretty extensive modification

We should have at least 1 or 2 meets/drives this year in the madison area, hope to see you around at one of them

[P_Roloff]

Glad to see you made your way over here! Looking forward to seeing the progress you make over this winter.

[vbhargava]

P_Roloff said:

Glad to see you made your way over here! Looking forward to seeing the progress you make over this winter.

Unfortunately, no garage space to work on it so everything will need to wait until the snow melts and the salt is washed away. That E30 should be an interesting change from M5 but let's see if things work out.

[patsbimmer1]

Awesome!  Nice to see you made it from the Madison C&C group!  I have a set of B14 PSS on my 335i and I love them!  The style 65's are one of the best looking wheels BMW made IMO.  I don't get up to Madison C&C as much as I used to but I hope to see you around some time!

[TehRaydarlover]

Looks nice! Yeah, cam position sensors are a pain! Let me know if you need any help when you decide to tackle rod bearings haha.

[REKIII]

Nice add!  Good to see other e39's showing up!

[i_love_cars]

Every time I see these cars I want to buy one. E39 M5 looks so good.

[YoungCR]

^me too especially since the price is right. Welcome again and it was nice meeting you yesterday!

[Jdesign]

Welcome! I love the E39 M5's. Im also in the Madison area and will keep a look out for you!

[vbhargava]

TehRaydarlover said:

Looks nice! Yeah, cam position sensors are a pain! Let me know if you need any help when you decide to tackle rod bearings haha.

huh...at what point should I consider doing the rod bearings?

[vbhargava]

i_love_cars said:

Every time I see these cars I want to buy one. E39 M5 looks so good. 

Now is the time. Nice ones are becoming harder to find and more $$$. Plenty of project version available cheap too.

[TehRaydarlover]

vbhargava said:

huh...at what point should I consider doing the rod bearings?

You're probably okay for a while at 100k. just something to keep in mind if you ever have the upper oil pan off for some reason. These were mine after 154k:

Old bearings are all out and new WPC treated ones are in 🖒

Cylinder 8 bearing definitely looks the worst, but minus the first two cylinders they all look pretty worn, very glad I decided to change them.

[vbhargava]

Jdesign said:

Welcome! I love the E39 M5's. Im also in the Madison area and will keep a look out for you! 

Looking forward to seeing you around Madison. I just bought an E30 that I'll post about shortly.

[vbhargava]

Finally got around to getting the car paint corrected and detailed. 

[patsbimmer1]

I love it!

[YoungCR]

Paint looks great!

[vbhargava]

Minor update: Went to install a shark injector tune to find out that it already has a tune on it. Not sure what it is but certainly explains the excessively sensitive throttle response

[Jdesign]

vbhargava said:

Minor update: Went to install a shark injector tune to find out that it already has a tune on it. Not sure what it is but certainly explains the excessively sensitive throttle response

Well thats a nice surprise!

[SteelBlue]

This is still probably one of the best cars BMW ever made

[vbhargava]

Finally got both Bimmers out at the same time