Wolverine55

Here's a couple of vids from last week's fun here in MI. Met up with BTPower last Saturday and we ran our grocery getters. The weather was perfect, about 64 degrees with sunny skies.

We ran twice against each other. The first race I got him on the light and finished with a win by .38. The second was much closer. We were within a tenth of a second of each other off the light and he edged me out by .07.

The last race was my best 60' at 1.83 on stock PS2's and hence was my best time. BTPower was consistently running high 11.9's to 12.0's. He has some light mods which I'll let him talk about if he wants.

Here's the first video...

http://www.youtube.com/v/tHqeVZJ3D_M

The second...

http://www.youtube.com/v/nXNNmfcQUtQ

and finally one last vid of BTPower.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJU5lsciji0


It was cool getting a chance to meet up with BTPower. BTPower, you have quite the machine...no problems whatsoever hanging with (and beating) the beast. Hope to see you in the spring on a road course!

SL55_Forever

Nice numbers on both cars. What exactly are the "light" mods, cheater tires?

Jrocket

Nice trap speeds from the M5.

Wolverine..what was your 60ft and 1/8 mile et's?

TopGun32

M5 is moving at 119!!

very nice

OXOJE55

Nice VID

Rock

BTPower has a very sweet ride but I'm not sure I'd call his modifications light. Dinan TB, SuperSprint Headers, SuperSprint exhaust, ECU tune and suspension upgrades is not what most would consider "light".

Congrats on keeping up with him on the track. It goes to show you that anything can happen at a stoplight. I'm bet that on a open highway things may get ugly fast.

Jrocket

Rock,you ever take the RS 4 to the strip?

Rock

Yes, one preliminary run but I'm in the middle of putting a little video together to show it running against a couple of cars including the E55.

I will post it soon.

Wolverine55

Rock,

Any further and it definitely would have been ugly. I was able to pull through second, but that was it. BTPower's ride pulls up top like crazy! Still amazing to see what our cars can do stock...

Wolverine55

JRocket,

I'll have to look at the timeslips again, but my best 60' was 1.83 on PS2's most others were in the 1.86 to 1.88 range.

TopGun32

those are "light" mods?

than I have feather weight mods.

c'mon.. that is a stage 2 or 3 car in any car club circle.

all he need are cams and a different rear end.. and he would have a fully modded M.

BTPower

Wolverine,

Thanks for the vids and a great time. Your car is a monster right out of the box. No, I would not consider my car "lightly modified" as it has SS headers, SS exhaust, Dinan Throttle Bodies, and a Dinan 3.91 rear end. I currently do not have an "ECU" as my dealer wiped it out a couple weeks ago when they had to do some service work. It certainly says something about E55's when I have to mod my car like this just to keep up.

I do not have any timeslips in front of me but I think my best time of the day was 11.91 @ 119.xx with a 60' time of 1.83.

Again, thanks for the invite and your car is absolutely stunning. I still need to figure out how to launch the beast better though....

BTW, you had asked about road courses next year and boy do I have a treat for you. We have a private rental set up for Mid-Ohio raceway in the Spring. If you are game, let me know and I will fill you in on all of the details so we can hit the twisties....

Thanks again and tell your Dad he needs a new hat.

Brian

Cylinder Head

iTrader: (1)

Wow that thing is a monster!!! Keeping up with an E55, and beating it, in its natual habitat is an amazing feat. Did you get a lot of power out of those TB's? They must have been quite a pretty penny, TEN throttle bodies.

BTPower

I did a pre and post dyno pull with the TB's and got a ZERO gain. I have the dyno sheet on my other computer so I will try to find it and post. Maybe with an intake it will help but I am done modding this car.

And yes, there are TEN.


Brian

Rock

Brian, I'm up in Cleveland...... any other openings for the Mid-Ohio day?

BTPower

I will check next week but I am assuming yes. The details are not quite done yet but it looks like it's going to be around $250 / car. I will PM you next week and let you know....


Brian

Sunny55

zero gain??? hmmm.....that's not good....

MB_Forever

Definately very nice traps from M5

Looks like it was about to open up even more by the end of the run

Great videos, thanks for sharing.....

7 speed SMG

BTpower you should get BMC airfilter's, Evosport Pulley, RPI ram air intake, 3.91 diff and cams! i bet that with a good launch -11.5sec is possible.

your car is very fast, congrats...

SSM AMG

Good run Is these runs on stock tires?

mpx220

nice videos.

BTPower

I had the Evosport pulleys a while ago but took them off after having serious heat issues while tracking the car. The RPI ram air intake looks like it would work and is pretty cheap so I may try it. I would LOVE the cams but that is some serious labor expense.

IMO, it is going to be very, very difficult (if not impossible) to get into the 11.5 range with this car....even with cams, pulleys, CAI's, etc.


N/A + low torque + low displacement + heavy car = tough to mod.


Brian

Jrocket

As much as I like the M5,I really dont see them running mid 11's on the motor. One thing they will do is run very hard from 40-200 with those kind of mods.

BTPower

I agree. Most, if not all mods for the M5 help in the mid - high rpm range. Getting into the mid 11's will take a 1.6xx 60' time and that is not going to happen.

Now NOS on the other hand.....


Brian

enzom

Nice runs, Brian!

I found your 1.83 60' time to be very impressive. You've shaved some serious time off of your run by doing that. The first 60' (really, the first 5,000 rpm) is the M5's achilles' heel, but a 1.83 is excellent.

NOS would shave some more time off, I think.