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Old 28th March 2005, 04:06   #1
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Full Supercharger Report....

Before anything, I must say thank you to both Bill/Sean/Will and all those in the Discovery Auto family as without them, my car could not have been completed.

Secondly, as the driver for most of the trip back from CA to TX (except for a 8 hour stint late at night) I do not have any video/pictures of the car but my buddy from florida does and will be making an edited video to take a look at. Sean has been nice enough to say that he would host such a thing.

Fine already..jesus, you people are pushy...the driving experience.

The first sight of her I could hardly hold back my excitement (ala the picture that was posted). From all the pictures that I saw of mine next to abduallas car, mine always looked a bit thin on the aerodynamic side of things but after seeing it in person and by itself...its flat perfect. I actually got a 2 hour drive home in my m3 while my buddy drove the m5 home from San Antonio back to Corpus. She looks great.

The sound....the closest thing that I can think of is honestly a jet in the front half of the car and a NASCAR in the back. Absolutely amazing and it gets TONS of attention. The whine of the supercharger outside with the exhaust note makes people look. Imagine driving through Beverly Hills with a NASCAR, thats exactly what i did. Extremely funny. Yet for high way cruising below 80, its actually alot quieter than I ever would have imagined. Very livable.

Power...well i must say that i had a slight bit of a problem with the car but nothing that anyone could have known about. The day that i picked up the car on tuesday it was raining the whole day and i ran through one of those larger puddles and from what I can figure sucked a bit of water up to the MAF's. So from about 3500-4300 I had a stumble as the MAFs read improperly and tried to enrichen the mixture too much....but after about 4800-----HOLY GOD. The car is very very streetable below about 3000 but after that it is an absolute monster. The mafs were attempted to be cleaned in LA (thinking it might have just been some dirt on them) but then I had some cold start issues and when i reached Phoenix I had the car put up to the G1 on Chapman BMW's lifts... (Great guys there). Talk about the looks of "F--- ME!" Everyone there was flat out impressed with the car and many of the techs even looked at the quality and commented on how clean and professional it was.

As has been stated by Sean, in one of my late night runs across the desert I came across a 996/997 (couldnt quite tell from the quick look I had) C4S but I guess this person was unaware of what my car held and came up fairly quickly on me, hesitated as if to look and see what it was and then passed on the left hand side. So in doing so, I decided that this was the first challange I had had. So I decided to slowly catch back up and pass him on the left in 6th lugging it by him just so he could hear what he was about to get. He decided to speed up as well. At that point I down shifted to enable him to hear the car spool up, and then went back into 6th and got ahead of him. Once infront of him, I down shifted to 5th and mashed the throttle and blew soot all over his precious porsche while he became a HID colored blip in my rear view mirror. I then slowed down after reaching 150 (it takes no less than 4 seconds from 80---honest! And thats with a mandated Max rev of 6K while the engine breaks in)

So other than some dead mafs that I could not wait to be fixed, and having to drive straight 24 hours back to texas, the car is wonderful.

Ill post more in a few .
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Old 28th March 2005, 04:37   #2
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Re: Full Supercharger Report....

Congratulations on the completion of your super-M5. I am eagerly awaiting the pictures and video. If it was a C4S, then it had to be a 996. Not even a challenge for your new car!

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Old 28th March 2005, 04:37   #3
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Re: Full Supercharger Report....

I cannot wait to see your car it sounds great, once again congrats on your awesome project, looking forward to hearing more about it. How many miles till she's fully broke in? Josh
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Old 28th March 2005, 04:39   #4
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Re: Full Supercharger Report....

thats awesome! congrats on the car man!
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Old 28th March 2005, 05:13   #5
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Re: Full Supercharger Report....

Rob,

Congratulations for the final completion. It has been a long road.

Now you can cover those long road trips in half the time.

Great job. Enjoy in good health, both physical and mental.

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Re: Full Supercharger Report....

Congratulations! Congratualtions! I look forward to seeing more details and pics. Now you're just going to have to take a bunch of road trips all around the country to show us your car

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Re: Full Supercharger Report....

congrates!!!!!
its been along time coming. Now tell me, are these videos you got gonna make me sell the Porsche and ship my car to Discovery???

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Re: Full Supercharger Report....

Very cool to read Rob.
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Re: Full Supercharger Report....

Glad you finally have her back in your possession. All the time (and some of the pain) of the last year will melt away everytime you mash the go pedal. Only questions is: now, will you change the oil or the tires more often!!! Enjoy your new toy!!!
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Re: Full Supercharger Report....

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I then slowed down after reaching 150 (it takes no less than 4 seconds from 80---honest!
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Good luck
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