Official-look-what-i-found-thread (craigslist, other-forums, etc)

REKIII

That is sexy! Congrats!!

Jdesign

REKIII said:

That is sexy! Congrats!!

Thank you!

Bassboy3313

I'm jealous for sure!!!!

YoungCR

Congrats man! Can’t wait to see it

straight6pwr

do you need the inspirations?

36c5193da33274a121cca2b5b0d79997--bmw-cl

REKIII

Seems like Jdogg needs to make a new thread for this.

m42b32

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/2010-bmw-335d-2/?fbclid=IwAR2jjQLRglibOfpZ1XklV8j60tmPVS_-P5FcsDjfMyCOFyLo2zM1z0hGnHw

335d wagon!

straight6pwr

m42b32 said:

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/2010-bmw-335d-2/?fbclid=IwAR2jjQLRglibOfpZ1XklV8j60tmPVS_-P5FcsDjfMyCOFyLo2zM1z0hGnHw

335d wagon!

"454 horsepower and 732 lb-ft of torque"

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Jdesign

m42b32 said:

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/2010-bmw-335d-2/?fbclid=IwAR2jjQLRglibOfpZ1XklV8j60tmPVS_-P5FcsDjfMyCOFyLo2zM1z0hGnHw

335d wagon!

OH MOTHER. I want.

Boris3

That 10 to 110 mph video...oh my.

KaiserRolls

This one is local to me:

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/2002-bmw-m5-50/?utm_source=transactionalemail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=bat_listing_started_user

I’ve never seen the car in person

REKIII

KaiserRolls said:

This one is local to me:

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/2002-bmw-m5-50/?utm_source=transactionalemail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=bat_listing_started_user

I’ve never seen the car in person

Bleh. Carbon black AND an RK SC kit. Boo. They should be taking bids for how much the seller would have to pay for a new buyer to take it off their hands.

patsbimmer1

REKIII said:

Bleh. Carbon black AND an RK SC kit. Boo. They should be taking bids for how much the seller would have to pay for a new buyer to take it off their hands.

Not to derail the thread but for my own knowledge what's wrong with the RK kit and what's superior to it?

HipMF

This M5 only came in black but has no SC kit. Not sure about the price given the mods, but it could be a nice driver.

https://madison.craigslist.org/cto/d/middleton-1988-e28-bmw-m5/6935418321.html

Heavy, underpowered go-kart:

https://madison.craigslist.org/cto/d/lodi-1991-suzuki-cappuccino/6923075615.html

My inner old man wouldn't mind getting back into a fine executive automobile such as this. Sadly, the same inner old man thinks the price should be $1000 lower.

https://madison.craigslist.org/cto/d/waunakee-1994-bmw-525i-manual/6928808728.html

REKIII

patsbimmer1 said:

Not to derail the thread but for my own knowledge what's wrong with the RK kit and what's superior to it?

The RK kit is a crappy copy of some other older kits. That doesn't make it inherently bad (as there are only so many ways to SC an S62), but the owner is a giant D-bag and isn't interested in supporting the project or fully developing it. The oil cooler for instance shown in the ad. We all told him it was a crappy core and a poor place for mounting and his junction block was shitty and mounted in a bad spot, yet he went to market with it anyway. It might be perfectly fine, but it probably isn't.

There are few other kits out there, mostly from larger companies that claim less hp increase, but are more accurate and better tuned.

Fact is, with the e39 M5 being such a tiny market car, no one has really put the time and effort into tuning one properly. The car was NA from the factory, therefore the ECU simply does not have the correct parameters to be tuned with positive displacement. What they do, is take out all the sensor inputs and create a fuel table with math, throttle position, RPM etc. Since the SC turns at a specific speed given RPM, the intake air pressure can be calculated. Sadly, this doesn't take into consideration, air temp, intake air temp, ambient pressure, driving load etc etc.

I could go on with this subject but.....you are probably bored by now, lol.

Jdesign

HipMF said:

This M5 only came in black but has no SC kit. Not sure about the price given the mods, but it could be a nice driver.

https://madison.craigslist.org/cto/d/middleton-1988-e28-bmw-m5/6935418321.html

Heavy, underpowered go-kart:

https://madison.craigslist.org/cto/d/lodi-1991-suzuki-cappuccino/6923075615.html

My inner old man wouldn't mind getting back into a fine executive automobile such as this. Sadly, the same inner old man thinks the price should be $1000 lower.

https://madison.craigslist.org/cto/d/waunakee-1994-bmw-525i-manual/6928808728.html

Ive seen the E28 M5 in person. The owner use to drive it all the time.

Thats the third Cappuccino I have seen listed in this region in the past two months. What is going on?!

patsbimmer1

REKIII said:

The RK kit is a crappy copy of some other older kits. That doesn't make it inherently bad (as there are only so many ways to SC an S62), but the owner is a giant D-bag and isn't interested in supporting the project or fully developing it. The oil cooler for instance shown in the ad. We all told him it was a crappy core and a poor place for mounting and his junction block was shitty and mounted in a bad spot, yet he went to market with it anyway. It might be perfectly fine, but it probably isn't.

There are few other kits out there, mostly from larger companies that claim less hp increase, but are more accurate and better tuned.

Fact is, with the e39 M5 being such a tiny market car, no one has really put the time and effort into tuning one properly. The car was NA from the factory, therefore the ECU simply does not have the correct parameters to be tuned with positive displacement. What they do, is take out all the sensor inputs and create a fuel table with math, throttle position, RPM etc. Since the SC turns at a specific speed given RPM, the intake air pressure can be calculated. Sadly, this doesn't take into consideration, air temp, intake air temp, ambient pressure, driving load etc etc.

I could go on with this subject but.....you are probably bored by now, lol.

That's actually really interesting, thanks for elaborating!