Benz5656

Sooo....I'm on my way to Charlotte, NC and I'm on I-85 outside of Salisbury, the highway here opens up to 5 lines and its about 3 miles straight. So i'm thinking wth. I drop down to 3rd and floor it, redline comes up I click to 4th. I run up on a BMW 540i, looks to sitting rather low on some aftermarket wheels, with exhaust. I see the exhaust come out as he "tries" to catch up. Buy this time i'm at 125mph walking away. Immediately I run up on 130......and we can all guess what happens, he begins to close in (ever so slowly) Good thing traffic was coming up, so I played it off and tapped the brake. I'm so frustrated right now, I'm gonna sit down.....and think about calling VELOCE in the morning..... this is some

S-Clusiv

off topic, but do you have pics of your tail lights?

Benz5656

Here u go

jfendis430

werent you selling or sold your car...I saw a few weeks ago your were selling your wheels?

Benz5656

That because orginially the rims would not fit, but we stretched the fenders and had the back of the wheels shaved to clear the calipers.

Benz5656

Can't get the pics to upload, pm me your e-mail address and i'll send some to you

Gondon

Use ImageShack.us to post the pics

benz_addict

What model 540i? E39? The M113 5.0 owns all those 4.4L bimmer engines...

Benz5656

http://img515.imageshack.us/my.php?i...sc00456ry5.jpg


It was an E39

Benz5656

http://img523.imageshack.us/my.php?i...sc00462is8.jpg

S-Clusiv

thank you! looks great!

K-A

I wouldn't beat yourself up about it too much. You do have a much heavier Car which offsets the extra HP. I got out of the speed game along time ago, it's really a pointless (and dangerous) obsession which at some time or another will make you depressed about the Car you drive....'Cause there's ALWAYS someone (usually many someone's) faster. I mean, for example, and E550 is a powerful car, with 389 HP, but when you think about all the cars that come out with 400++ HP, it makes that Car seem like a turd....I dunno, I fortunately have for the most part gotten rid of my itch.

Now going 130 heading into traffic is definitely

Timeless

I'd recommend you do some research on your ECU tuner. Powerchips (link in my sig) is a great company.

Benz5656

Finally got it to work

cjwheeling

You're only talking about a 10HP advantage over a stock E39 and about a 500lb disadvantage. I'm actually getting ready to sell my 540i, and just picked up an S500 to take it's place.

A 540 will spank an S500 in most "performance" categories, it's a lighter, almost equally powerful and better suspended for sporting activities. However, the dated interior/exterior really takes away from it. My best friend has a DINAN 5 and it smokes the S500. I look better in my car than he does though.

S-Clusiv

Why are we comparing a midsize to a full size luxury liner?

cjwheeling

Good point, a better comparison would definitely be a 750/760, however, the OP started talking about how a 540 was catching him over 130MPH.