I miss my continent! I miss Europe! I wanna go home!
Fantastic writeup Gustav...pretty exotic locations (common for europe) for a M5 drive.
I hope within 2-3 years I will be back home!!!!
No more to me, NO MOOOOREEEEEEEEEEE ..............
No more stop signs every 100 feet (within the city limits)!
No more bumpy roads!
No more 55-65 MPH speed limit - it's really amazing to drive a 400 and up HP BMW M5 at 55 MPH speed limit (until today I had not the chance to use the 6th gear on my M5) (I'm thinking about a M5 Diesel but is not available yet LOL) - with cops everywhere acting like "a hunter - and if you had done something bad (not using the seat belt for example) - trying to pull you over using their lights, sounds, guns, helicopters, military jets or everything else - just to stop you - sometimes even to shoot you ***** - no matter to them ... just you must stop and pull over if they want you to stop!
That's the law ... YOU MUST STOP - if you don't stop - for any reason - just taking your license plates number and sending your ticket by mail IS NOT enough for them ... they will make you to stop and pull over at the end using their "unique in the world procedures"!!
They must see you face by face two times (one when you got pulled over and the second time at the court in front of the judge!!!
- By the way, Gustav ... did you ever see a POLIZEI car in Europe sitting beetween the AUTOBAHN lanes (on the grass) while using their RADAR to take your picture? I saw a lot of signs here in the US saying - "KEEP OFF THE GRASS" - N/A for cops (the fine print!!!!)
Is this safe for them? In the US it looks like this is safe, but ... if I will be a cop I will not do it - trust me! Not even if they will pay me $1.000.000 / month I WILL NOT DO IT!
NO MORE DRIVERS obstructing other drivers by NOT watching their mirrors, jumping in front of your car while changing lanes on freeway and not using their turn signals, not keeping right if they drive at low speeds (always keep right rule), etc.
One more thing ... I forgot ... did you ever see a 80+ years old driver while driving using a oxigen canister
(not for the car but for himself?)
I gotta go back home! I'm so sick today after I saw your post! I MISS MY CONTINENT! I MISS MY EUROPE!
wow.. awesome writeup Gustav.. Supersprint pics bring back a few memories.. They used my car to prototype the first righthand drive supersprint headers.. Alessandro and the guys were awesome..factory was brill!
Very good writeup Gustav! That's a long way driving from Stockholm - Monoco, non-stop !
How did you manage to drive from Stockholm to Helsingborg on only 4,5 hours?
I drove from St. Tropez to Copenhagen (1966 km) non-stop this summer, in our E60 530dA, with a average speed of 144 km/h to from St. Tropez to Puttgarden, and the fuel consumption was 7,3 l/ 100 km !
I was thinking of taking in the F1 race there either this year or next. Since I'm trying to go to Hawaii this year and the F1 race in Indy, I guess it'll be next year.
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2002 Carbon Black ///M5
Eisenmann exhaust
Beastpower swaybar brackets
Kelleners Pedals
Bimmian oil cap
Bimmian Matte Black Kidney Grilles
xenon-type foglights
Now I watched the videos and can not wait until my green beast will awake from winter sleep.
@Gustav:
Congrats - your beast has a very strong basic.
I am very surprised your beast has 411 hp in oem configuration (accept limiter). Is there any other beast which outmatched the 400 hp in standard configuration?
Next question:
Is the dyno run in 6th gear (and if - why it was done so?).
I ask, because it takes a long time (in my feeling) from low rpm to limiter -
maybe I remember wrong, but my green beast (in 5th gear) did the dyno run in a shorter time (of course its possible that it seems shorter when you sit in the car watching the dyno run)!
Interesting for me:
at my dyno garage (its a BOSCH dyno), they never tie the cars!
mods:
CAI, IATS relocation, air income insulating, optimized SW by BMW, steel brakelines, catback custom made exhaust system with x-pipe, only rear silencer and 4x90 mm tips, 8,5 + 10,0x19 onepiece-forged lightweight wheels with 245 + 285 Michelin PS2, front axle lowered 35 mm, Hamann carbon front lip, ACS carbon roof spoiler, carbon M-tech diffusor, carbon emblems hood, trunk, wheels, steering wheel, 8000k xenon, US-taillights, LEDs for: flasher front, CAI, each open door, interior trunk and rear license plate, door handle (inside and outside), free tv, dvb-t, dvd
latest mods: Euro spec clear headlights with LED sidemarker, HID foglamps, Bi-Xenon headlights with clear lenses
coming up:
headers (maybe new SW), highflow cat, mp3 changer + radio unit
Well they are definetly lod, but that is more contributed to the cats and exhaust. It revs much faster and the character is somewhat changed and you cna feel there is more power, definetly.
Did you guys see on the videos how restrictive standard headers where? Power stealers
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Thanks for very interesting comments, pictures and vids.
Very nice trip! I am also thinking on making a spring-trip to Monaco!
Some details to Lady Moura:
- 108 m long (357 feets)
- the dining table is 20 m long (66 feets)
- there is a sandy beach on board
How are you satiesfied with the Supersprint?
Was there a change of loudness after coming home?
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