New Ringtoy!! - Page 22 - The Unofficial BMW M5 Messageboard (m5board.com)

RussRamz · 29th March 2008, 22:01

Anyone familiar with Uwe at Ring Racing? He was highly recommended...

I need to get my rig corner balanced for Monday.

Frits · 31st March 2008, 10:00

Great guys! Hope to meet you all again in the afternoon!!

@Mark: better luck next time. There will be plenty more Ring trips this year.

MarkQC · 1st April 2008, 12:42

I was DYING yesterday, the weather was nice, wished I was there..... SO....how did it go??

Frits · 1st April 2008, 15:24

Well, apart from a weird noise coming somewhere from the left rear wheel, everything went great!

10 laps, car feels very good, very solid. The seats are a huge improvement, I can concentrate on the track, instead of on staying in my seat

After a few laps, the weird sound got worse. Will look at that later today.

Getting in and out of the car takes a lot more time than it used to...

Frits · 2nd April 2008, 11:00

Yesterday, we disassembled the rear axle. Removed all the partially worn bushes, and replaced with Powerflex bushes where available. All other bushes are ordered at BMW, and will be delivered tomorrow morning.

We discovered a few very weird things. Maybe some of you already noticed, but my car was a bit lower on the right rear side. Well, the springs don't have the same height anymore. They are not broken, but they're just not of equal length

I already thought about getting a Bilstein PSS9 kit, so I ordered it right away.

The car has no rear stabi

I've never driven a car with better grip, road contact etc than this car. And it has no stabi... I bought the car last year, brought it to BMW Belgium for homologation, they said it was OK. Then went to the Belgian technical inspection, they said it was OK. Then I started modding, did 70 Ring laps, went to the technical inspection again, they said it was OK again. Modded a bit more, did another 10 Ring laps, car felt great again. And now we notice the rear stabi hasn't been there the whole time. Very weird. Is this stabi really needed? I've had passengers being surprised about the huge amount of grip of the car all the time. Can someone explain this?

MarkQC · 2nd April 2008, 16:27

You can fix that - if you add more power, you'll get less grip

Fart · 3rd April 2008, 13:14

maybe someone stole your stabi..

I would have thought the car would be undriveable without them.

For example the suspention in an E60M5 has softer dampers/springs than E39M5 but the Stabis are much thicker..

Fart · 3rd April 2008, 13:16

One other thing.

I would have left the center console in place since it weighs almost nothing. Then you could mount switches on it and guages and keep the power window buttons in the original place.

Frits · 3rd April 2008, 15:11

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Originally Posted by Fart

I would have left the center console in place since it weighs almost nothing. Then you could mount switches on it and guages and keep the power window buttons in the original place.

Another thing that cannot make noise anymore

RussRamz · 3rd April 2008, 20:51

stabi? Is this the same as an anti-roll bar?