Jspeed

Was driving to town with my girlfriend to have lunch last week when I pull up at a red light next to a silver 5 series with quad exhaust. Another poser trying to pass off his 520i as an M5 i thought to myself (we have loads over here by the way) ...

No WAIT, I look again and it had M5 side grills and aero mirrors with blacked out indicators! So now its either a good fake or a real M5. He sees me too and must be wondering the same thing to himself. Btw, he was alone. Well, only one way to find out! I put my transmission to 'M' and waited anxiously ... Never ran an M5 before and have been waiting a long time

1st Run:
When the lights turn green we both roll off slowly then nail it almost simultaneously. That thing was #!$%@$ fast, an M5 for sure! I edged ahead initially but then botched my gearchange as I hit an uneven surface during shifting and traction came on big time. During that split second the Bimmer caught up and even though I regained power in time, he had the momentum and I feared the worst. Luckily the massive AMG torque came to my rescue and I managed to hang on side by side through 2nd. By middle of 3rd I was about 2 cars ahead and he backed off as we were approaching a bend. We stop again side by side at the next set of lights and give each other the thumbs up.

2nd run:
Lights turn green again, we both turn right and as soon and he straightens up he guns it and I follow suit. No mistakes this time and I pull on him through 1st, 2nd and 3rd gears. By end of first he was at my bumper, by end of 2nd he was about 2 cars behind and by middle of third about 3 cars behind. I think we hit about 100mph before slowing down for traffic.

The M5 looked stock and I was very impressed with how fast it was. I know its very hot over here and heat might have had an effect on the outcome, but at least its still a win

cicbenz

cool torque FTW
nice kill

E55 RUSS

Good race...

I see you have lots of mods...including Cams, TB and ASP pullies...How much power does your car make ???

x-tian-230k

Twisties.... :-)

x-tian-230k

I am being sarcastic by the way before some starts to flame on me! Great kill..

Jspeed

Russ:

I dynoed the car on a notoriously conservative dyno and got only 529bhp and 807Nm of torque. A 360 Challenge Stradale dynoed only 340bhp on the same day. We all believe the dyno is using the wrong correction factor and it is always off by around 10% so I believe my car should be putting out around 580hp ATF.

X-tian:

Last time I raced an M-car on a twisty, he flipped the car so no more twisties for me!

Coalman

Good kill, but not as impressive as I would have thought with all those mods.

Vic55

True... its time to get an M5

305-E55

Well to his credit he said the M5 looked stock doesn't necessarily mean it is stock. Good kill in my book

Cylinder Head

iTrader: (1)

Its pretty easy to tell if an M5 is stock, it sounds like a diesel in stock trim.

Modded, it sounds more like an F1 car.

coolcamden

I think the most impressive thing about this story is they got to 100 mph in Singapore.
I am assuming it's Singapore. There's NO WAY to run 100 mph in Central London :-))

305-E55

Point taken but exhaust is not the only mod that can be done to the M.

Cylinder Head

iTrader: (1)

No, but in 90% of cases, it's the first. After maybe the charcoal mod.

TopGun32

humidity and heat are not good friends of the 55

no matter how many mods it has..

I would give the slight edge to the NA cars under those conditions.

Jspeed

Not saying the location but you can do so in Central London with the right car. I remember doing so a couple of times on Park Lane at night

Jspeed

Yes, I thought I would be faster than that. But having said that, the car is definitely faster at night when its 5-6 deg cooler.

E60noless

yup, I think without your mods you wouldnt have had a chance

vader

and then you woke up....

Vic55

But the problem is the looks IMO, I just dont get a good feeling and when spending that much on a car its too much to overcome. But then I realized the M5's are seriously dropping in value (not to say the 55's arent but they have been around for almost 5 years). Check out these sales (auction but you get the idea):

2006 M5

05/03/07 MANHEIM Regular $70,000 8,085 Avg BLACK 10G Yes
05/03/07 MANHEIM Regular $69,000 1,954 Avg BLUE 10G Yes
05/03/07 MANHEIM Regular $65,500 19,513 Avg BLACK 10G A Yes
05/02/07 ATLANTA Regular $68,700 4,298 Avg BLACK 10G M Yes
05/02/07 BAY CITI Factory $67,750 3,224 Avg SLVRSTON 10G A Yes
05/02/07 BAY CITI Factory $62,500 12,791 Below TITNSLVR 10G A Yes
05/02/07 BAY CITI Factory $61,000 19,546 Below TITNSLVR 10G A No
05/02/07 MANHEIM Factory $69,750 2,238 Avg SEPANG B 10G Yes
05/02/07 MANHEIM Factory $65,750 8,295 Avg BLKSAPPH 10G Yes
04/26/07 RIVRSIDE Regular $69,000 13,428 Avg SILVER 10G A Yes
04/26/07 RIVRSIDE Factory $63,000 10,494 Below SLVR STN 10G T Yes
04/26/07 RIVRSIDE Factory $59,500 12,817 Below INTLGBLU 10G A No
04/25/07 NADE Lease $72,500 1,322 Above BLACK SA 10G A Yes
04/25/07 W PALM Regular $68,000 21,615 Avg GRAY 10G A Yes
04/19/07 NEVADA Regular $69,000 9,637 Avg SILVER 10G A Yes
04/19/07 NEVADA Factory $66,500 7,721 Avg SILVSTON 10G A Yes
04/17/07 DFW Regular $63,000 24,714 Below BLACK 10G 6 No
04/11/07 MILWAUKE Regular $68,500 7,928 Avg SILVERST 10G A Yes
04/11/07 W PALM Regular $63,000 12,828 Below MAROON 10G A Yes

coolcamden

Vic, how are "factory" and "regular" rated on a scale of 1 to 10?

Benzito11

what would happen stock for stock

305-E55

I think stock for stock it's a drivers race

E60noless

M5 no doubt

vader

And then...you were asked to wake up again.

Benzito11

I would say 0-100, 20/40 -100 the e55 will win but at higher speeds the m5 will win.