What did you do to your M5 today?

[Dankrupt]

Originally Posted by Blaxwil

I've had most of the parts for over a year now. 2nd set of CarboTech 1521's. Super low dust compared to the stock pads. Plus they have good bite.

You selling your HRE's ?

[Blaxwil]

Originally Posted by Dankrupt

You selling your HRE's ?

Yes. Getting them prepared to send to HRE for a full correction. Although they're in great shape, I had them on the car for 2 years and I want the new owner to have a fresh set of wheels.

[EMETREE]

Originally Posted by Blaxwil

All wasn't done today but I've held off from updating to this thread for a few weeks.

Replaced the 20" HRE 300 Classics with a set of 21" BC Forged HCS21's and wrapped them with Michelin's Pilot Sport 4S's 275/30/21 in the front and 325/25/21 in the rear. Went with a brushed gold tint face and polished deep lip.

Replaced the stock springs with a set of KW V4 coilovers and lowered the front about 1.50 inches and the rear about 1 inch. The drop is proper in my opinion.

Dinan Mono Balls installed along with brand new competition control arms.

PSM Dynamic Carbon Fiber Aero Kit. Went with the side skirts, trunk spoiler and the 3 piece rear diffuser. Didn't go with PSM's front splitter as I have a Vorsteiner one in the mail. All CF parts received 2 coats of Armor Shield ceramic coating.

Brand new front and rear rotors with CarboTech 1521 pads on all four corners. Brake fluid flush and replaced with Motul 600 RBF racing brake fluid.

Looks nice! Drop looks good too, glad my old coils went to a good home

[M5_Raz]

Originally Posted by Blaxwil

All wasn't done today but I've held off from updating to this thread for a few weeks.

Replaced the 20" HRE 300 Classics with a set of 21" BC Forged HCS21's and wrapped them with Michelin's Pilot Sport 4S's 275/30/21 in the front and 325/25/21 in the rear. Went with a brushed gold tint face and polished deep lip.

Replaced the stock springs with a set of KW V4 coilovers and lowered the front about 1.50 inches and the rear about 1 inch. The drop is proper in my opinion.

Dinan Mono Balls installed along with brand new competition control arms.

PSM Dynamic Carbon Fiber Aero Kit. Went with the side skirts, trunk spoiler and the 3 piece rear diffuser. Didn't go with PSM's front splitter as I have a Vorsteiner one in the mail. All CF parts received 2 coats of Armor Shield ceramic coating.

Brand new front and rear rotors with CarboTech 1521 pads on all four corners. Brake fluid flush and replaced with Motul 600 RBF racing brake fluid.

Wow! Looks amazing!

I'll be looking into those brake pads, I'm tired of constant brake dust.

[vafan13]

Packed it to the gills, mostly with baby stuff, to take my 5-month-old up north for the first time. Only got yelled at by my wife twice for acceleting too fast and once for taking a corner too fast.

[Doctor_X]

Came back in to take another look. Car goes hard man!

[JG_Coupe88]

Originally Posted by some_idiot

Where did you find it? I've been thinking I'd like one.

I got the alcantara M perf wheel on Ebay, some user was selling his for 700 bucks. And the US dual stage airbag from an EBay seller "theairbagsquad" used for just over 200 bucks and it looked new. The red buttons from mod bargains and the Paddles from ECSTuning. So I say I lucked out the way it worked out.

I took the steering wheel apart and swapped the buttons and paddles, really really easy, and did the steering wheel swap with battery disconnected. Direct plug and play for those who've asked.

Totally changes the feel, and I love banging through gears with those aluminum paddles. Worth it for me as I like alcantara wheels (3 last vehicles have had them, I track pretty much every performance car I own,and I just clean it good with Sonax once every couple months), and it'll be nice when I put this big girl on the track.

[Blaxwil]

Originally Posted by EMETREE

Looks nice! Drop looks good too, glad my old coils went to a good home

Yes thank you EMETREE they went to a great home. The car rides like it did 4 years ago. Tight but not bouncy at all.

[Barry_S]

Originally Posted by Blaxwil

All wasn't done today but I've held off from updating to this thread for a few weeks.

Replaced the 20" HRE 300 Classics with a set of 21" BC Forged HCS21's and wrapped them with Michelin's Pilot Sport 4S's 275/30/21 in the front and 325/25/21 in the rear. Went with a brushed gold tint face and polished deep lip.

Replaced the stock springs with a set of KW V4 coilovers and lowered the front about 1.50 inches and the rear about 1 inch. The drop is proper in my opinion.

Dinan Mono Balls installed along with brand new competition control arms.

PSM Dynamic Carbon Fiber Aero Kit. Went with the side skirts, trunk spoiler and the 3 piece rear diffuser. Didn't go with PSM's front splitter as I have a Vorsteiner one in the mail. All CF parts received 2 coats of Armor Shield ceramic coating.

Brand new front and rear rotors with CarboTech 1521 pads on all four corners. Brake fluid flush and replaced with Motul 600 RBF racing brake fluid.

Looks like a pretty tight fit with the 325's on the rear. Any rubbing?

[707M5]

Installed some dinmann carbon fiber👌🏾👌🏾

[Blaxwil]

Originally Posted by Barry_S

Looks like a pretty tight fit with the 325's on the rear. Any rubbing?

No rubbing. Like Doctor_X says, it's all about the offsets.

[Doctor_X]

^^the new wheel setup is gorgeous. Your car is one of my favorites!

[BBONG]

Originally Posted by 707M5

Installed some dinmann carbon fiber👌🏾👌🏾

where i can buy that center CF console piece?

[M5Rick]

Originally Posted by Droner

mans dropping the big money.

carbotechs gonna keep those rims clean.

So long as they don't eat the rotors more.

[707M5]

Originally Posted by BBONG

where i can buy that center CF console piece?

DM dinmann on Instagram.

[Neilb76]

Fitted today. That's near ready for a stage 2 tune next week

[vafan13]

Did a great, ~2-hour loop around the beautiful Leelanau Peninsula in northern (lower) Michigan. I mapped it out painstakingly last year on a rainy day and tweaked it after a few runs. Great route with good scenery. My hands and forearms were sore from the copious turns.


Edit: and today found a great, shorter loop. One road in particular I originally thought was dirt is paved. Beautiful series of curves through a wooded area going up and then down a decent hill.

[M5_Raz]

Got my new carbon fiber lip installed and put PPF on it.

Also bought some carbon fiber trim to cut up and install along the bottom to prevent scrapes. Read bad reviews about the slip-lo style protectors so made my own

[M5Rick]

Ceramic polish just applied, it's more work than normal polish.(bit of a gap in front arch as on steep incline.

[Noggie]

It's been ongoing for a couple of weeks now, since the car came back from the paint shop.

I got a gloss black diffuser, gloss black vinyl roof, gloss black custom side skirt vinyl and customized license plate holders with a discrete ///M logo all done in vinyl.

Got a gloss black Maxton front lip ready to go on, but I will need an extra hand for the install so it may be a few days before I can get it on the car.

Just hope I didn't go overboard with this.
Had some inspiration from the F90 LCI launch car that is the same color as my car.

[M5Rick]

Originally Posted by Noggie

It's been ongoing for a couple of weeks now, since the car came back from the paint shop.

I got a gloss black diffuser, gloss black vinyl roof, gloss black custom side skirt vinyl and customized license plate holders with a discrete ///M logo all done in vinyl.

Got a gloss black Maxton front lip ready to go on, but I will need an extra hand for the install so it may be a few days before I can get it on the car.

Just hope I didn't go overboard with this.
Had some inspiration from the F90 LCI launch car that is the same color as my car.

Just curious Noggie why you blanked out the close up of reg plate and left it exposed in another pic.

[Noggie]

Originally Posted by M5Rick

Just curious Noggie why you blanked out the close up of reg plate and left it exposed in another pic.

I was expecting that question.

It was simply to draw the attention to the plate holder, not the plate itself