BMWM5PowerV10

Hello everyone! Always wanted to join these forums but never really got around to it until now. A little about me.

I've always been into cars for as long as I remember. I had a few used cars when I was young but my first Brand New car was a 2000 Acura Integra GS-R. The first car I really started modifying. I had TONS of mods. The mods would be too long to list but the boosted project had the car pushing over 500wHP in a 2500lbs car. You can imagine how scary fast it was.






(Pics before it was Boosted)





I had spent so much $$$ into the Integ, I realized I could have bought my dream car (at the time) E46 ///M3 for all the money I spent. So that's exactly what I did. I put the car back to almost stock, sold the car and all the parts. Put a huge down payment on a Brand New 2005 BMW E46 ///M3 in Alpine White and fell in love with BMW ///M cars forever.


Mods:

- K&N 63 Air Charger Intake
- StreamLine Engineering Filter
- ECIS Custom Fiberglass Heat Shield
- Supersprint Race Exhaust
- Eibach Pro-Kits, Bilstein Shock
- UmNitza Predator ICE LED Angel Eyes
- Prolumen D2S 6000K HID headlights with auto-leveling
- Prolumen 6000K HID Fog Lights
- Shadow Black Kidney Grills
- Shadow Black Side Gills
- Front & Rear BMW Carbon Fiber Roundels
- BMW Carbon Fiber Steering Wheel Roundel
- Smoked Corner Lenses
- Alpine White Front Bumper Reflectors
- Alpine White Key Hole Cover
- ACS Fucy Carbon Fiber Lip
- ///M Black Out Kit































After 5-6 years of ownership, I decided to sell it and get something bigger for the family to be. I went out and test drove a lot of 4 door Sedan beasts available. E63 AMG, ///M5, RS6, CTS-V, Panamera Turbo, etc. It was a tough decision and it pretty much boiled down to the E63 AMG and E60 M5 in the end. AMG is a torque monster with gobs of it down low and excellent mid range power. Really gets the thing moving in city driving. Very comfortable and easy to drive too. You don't have to think at all. Just gas and go. These were all great but lacked the crisp handling, road feel, top end power, transmission was not for me, and kicking the tail out with control was out of the question. E60 ///M5 lacks torque down low but makes up for it big time in the Top End. LOVED the All Motor V10 with 8,250rpm redline. Some people hate the SMG transmission but I actually loved how hard each gear shift snaps you back like a bucking bull. Very similar feeling of Ferrari. Great sensation and love the mechanical feel.

(Test drove the new F10 M5 and just didn't love it. I'm an all motor guy at heart although boosted applications can be tuned very easily and push crazy HP. I just love high strung Naturally Aspirated motors that rev sky high.)


After a lot of test driving back and forth (my local BMW & Mercedes dealership is right next to each other), I went with the E60 ///M5 in my favorite color Interlagos Blue. Only 28k miles!

I added some tasteful mods after the purchase. ~560HP+, 8,600rpm Redline, faster shifts, straight pipes to really hear that V10 scream, etc.

Mods:

- RPI Ram Air Scoops
- RPI Intake Block Plates
- RPI ST Pulley Kit
- BMC Racing Air Filters
- Straight Pipe Exhaust w/ 3.5" Tips
- Meisterschaft SS Section 1
- ESS SMG Tune
- EVOLVE Alpha-N Tune
- Ice Lite H8 Angel Eyes
- LCI EURO Tail Lights
- Bruce Miranda V6.1 Cables
- License Plate LED Lights
- Blacked Out Front/Side Grills
- Hamann Carbon Fiber Lip
- DCTMS ///M Stitched CF Sports Steering Wheel

























A video of the car in action. Watch in HD!



I might Supercharge it down the road. Can't wait to see how that will feel.


Pic of my newly acquired daily driver:

2003 BMW E39 530i. Got an awesome deal on a one owner, clean title, no accident flawless one with only 80k miles. It's a fantastic car.




















And the wife's car.


2013 Mercedes C250 Turbo w/ AMG Wheels





Thanks for looking!

StormTrooper

Wow, all nice rides. Congrats on the V10 beast.

turboawd

wow, and congrats!

7_rocket

Awesome cars and write up, as much as I love my E60 that E46 M3 will always be one of my favourite cars ever.. Very nicely done

KyleB

Really like that GS-R. What a great time period for Honda that was; they were really on a roll back then. A couple of my friends had champ white Type-Rs - one of the greatest street cars ever IMO.

Nice M5 too! (of course)

alexbaldy

Nice choice of cars! My first car was Honda as well. Loved it!

My two cents on why I like Euro cars now...

I visited autoshow last winter and sniffed at every car they had on display. In my humble opinion, it felt that right now, most Japanese car makers got stuck on this hybrid/electric technology ideas so much they don't grow in terms of design as automobiles used to be. Today most cars don't have character, they simply carry their users to work, malls, etc.

BMWM5PowerV10

Thanks for all the kind words!

Kidduce

Nice cars. That interior on the e46 m3 is flawless.

iamafreak

Nice collection.. M5 E60 forever!! I would love to buy a M5. But don't think that I can afford the maintenance, fuel etc.

BMWM5PowerV10

Yea, all these European cars are expensive to maintain... but ESPECIALLY the E60 M5. Maintenance, parts and repair cost is still for a $100k dollar car. I'm hoping I won't have to do anything major for awhile since the car is healthy with only 30k miles. If a few bad things go wrong, you're going to end up spending a fortune... enough to purchase a new car. But the performance and that V10 is so worth it!

On a side note... I'm absolutely loving my new daily driver. The E39 530i is an extremely solid car.