Correct! And from my experience i never seen an e60 fitted with rear M5 bumper and then modded to quad exhaust. Don't think it has enough clearence for the piping because of the spare tire. It's too difficult and not to mention if it's that much functional or performance wise.

 

YES, if you buy all the necessary parts along with the bumper and if you cut a little the under the fender plastic domes.
The stock bumper is wider compairable to the M at these points (in front of the wheels, where the bumper's mounting points are)

Take a look at this post
http://forums.e60.net/index.php?s=&showtop...ndpost&p=104926

 

That's the mtech front, not the M5 bumper

 

Well, I don't know if you're still interested in puting an M5 front bumper on or not, sounds like the general opinion here is that it's a bad idea. I personally think it could look bad ass. There's actually another post about the front bumper that I saw. It's by Luminati. It's not an exact replica of the M5 but it's pretty close. As for the rear bumper, I have no clue, the bumper that Luminati makes looks nothing like the M5 rear bumper other than it has cutouts for 4 pipes. I'm not sure what the M-Technic would run you, but this one cost $759.99 on StrictlyForeign.com. Either way, good luck.

http://www.estrictlyforeign.com/asp/produc...02003%3E5SERIES

 

Well I actually like that bumper do you have any more pics by any chance? The only problem I see is that it doesn't have the holes for the PDC system.. If I can get a version for the PDC I'd buy it. Thanks for that link heiss.. I don't want to do an M5 conversion like everyone thinks I just wanted the front bumper and then I would have probably done the M tech skirts and rear. But if I have to change a whole bunch of stuff it's not worth it.I've never heard of "Luminati" does any one know how the quality is?

 

The Luminati car looks

 

I don't have any other pics sorry. I'll try and look some up for you later. I have no idea how the quality is, I had never heard of Luminati either until I saw that kit when I was looking for body kits for my car. I would definitely go with another kit for the sides and rear though like you said. I think the Luminati sides and rear look pretty hideous. Try e-mailing Strictly Foreign to find out what it's made of, that should give you some idea of the quality.

 

Go with the M Tech front bumper it will fit without problems...its well documented.

 

This is the only other pic I could find of the Luminati kit, still not a very good pic, but this one looks like it has PDC. I've heard rumors that this kit is made of fiberglass though, which is cool if there aren't any speed bumps in your area. And if you didn't have PDC I'd say you would have to worry about curbs too, but since you do I guess you don't need to worry about those. Honestly, going with a fiberglass kit wouldn't be a half bad idea since you have PDC. Fiberglass is more rigid than most other body kit materials so all your lines would look cleaner, not too mention a body shop can always add more fiberglass if needed, they can't add plastic. But hey, I don't need to explain the ups and downs of body kit materials to the people of this forum, we all know them.

 

Thanks Heiss ya that has PDC I may bite the bullet and try it. Just for the hell of it thanks now one more issue is the plastic trim on the inner wheel wells I wonder if it's going to look funny.hmmm. we shall see thanks again bro.