2001 BMW M5

[Quattro Pete]

Originally Posted By: Vikas
seriously, today 300hp means run of the mill grocery getter;

Trust me, your 300 hp grocery getter doesn't stand a chance against his 11-year-old über grocery getter.

 

[OVERKILL]

Originally Posted By: Vikas
what? "only" 400hp in that beast?? Are we talking about that number to the rear wheels or at the crank?

seriously, today 300hp means run of the mill grocery getter; OK those are fighting words but you gave me the opening


Crank

400HP/390tq. And the torque "curve" looks like Utah.

 

[Vikas]

My 1990 SHO used to have a split personality i.e. some day all of the horses were ready to play but on many other days quarter of horses were just missing. I had that car for 10 years but never figured out what clicked it. I used to take the ECM fuse out like every other day. I did not have any diagnostic tools.

 

[OVERKILL]

Originally Posted By: Vikas
My 1990 SHO used to have a split personality i.e. some day all of the horses were ready to play but on many other days quarter of horses were just missing. I had that car for 10 years but never figured out what clicked it. I used to take the ECM fuse out like every other day. I did not have any diagnostic tools.




This is a semi-common problem with these cars that is usually the MAF's or CPS's. My CPS's are all original save for the one that actually threw a code, and my MAF's test out perfectly.

BMW has a revised CPS that eliminates the problem. Problem is there are 4x of the buggers!

 

[ARB1977]

Nice looking M.