95 M5 touring 3.8 engine upgrades ? - Page 2 - The Unofficial BMW M5 Messageboard (m5board.com)

jrturbo · 10th October 2002, 16:27

Hi there

In theory you are requiered to declare any modifiacations that alter the original especifaction of the car, otherwise your insurance could rendered uselles, In reality there is no way your insurance co is going to know that the car has non standard cam it, since the only way they are going to find is by stripping the engine to check, and since the engine would retain its standard appearence there would be nothing to make them suspect otherwise.

One of my previous cars that was highly modified, I only declared the obvious and visible mods, and had no problems with the insurance co, when some kind soul decided to ram his ford sierra in the back of my car at the entrance of the blackwall tunel.

regards

Joe Rubido

M5 powered · 10th October 2002, 19:14

As the UK has now become a claims orientated society, Both Insurers and warrenty firms are putting alot more effort into finding non-standard components post crash / breakdown and therefore I would personally always declare even if a cam is the last thing they could possibly find.

To be honset though, there are a number of quite good insurers that allow ECU, airfilter and Cams to be fitted without a hike in premium as long as the overall BHP gain is not more than 15% which is quite fair i thought.

If you do go ahead with the CAM change Mmm-Five I will be very intrested in the real world results. My only concern is the effect to bottom end off-the-line performance which due to the powerband isn't great already!

regards

M5 powered

rcalvin · 14th October 2002, 06:07

Try this link

http://www.robertlevinson.com/M5_Touring/

If you contact UUC Motorwerks they might be able to help.
Rob has been doing some mods on his for a while, however, not just on the engine.

Let me know how it goes, I too have been looking for upgrades for my '93 3.8L M5 Touring

Rick