Skidwagon

[Sentry]

Owned this thing for a year and decided to keep it a little longer so what the hey, let's make a build thread.

Mods when I bought it:
AFE Intake
H&R front springs
Bilstein shocks

Current mods:
Exhaust a little louder, did resonator deletes
Welded diff
Switch to manually raise/lower rear air suspension
NITROUS

Future mods for this summer:
M5 front bumper
More low
20mm spacers

Had the E60 M5 19"s on it for a while last summer

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In July of last year I decided to add some sneaky horsepower.
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Sold the 19s and ran my style 32's for winter
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In December I welded the diff for, um, increased winter traction. :D
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And then just recently picked up some style 162's off an E90! I like the look but they're sunken battle ships right now. Needs spacers and more low.
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And now some videos.

First road test with nitrous. I was lazy and just wired the solenoids to the horn. :poosie:
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Dyno. These are rated at 280hp, it put down 220whp on motor and 300whp on 100 shot of nitrous. For comparison, my M5 made 330whp on this dyno through a manual trans.
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It's really good at doing this.
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And this
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And this
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[HiSpec]

I think I see the 740i often around the Beltine area.

[Sentry]

Probably a different one, he lives in the dirty south. :D

[Ca_Silvia13]

Super cool project. I always regret not going this route with my old Stagea

[90_Shelby]

:thumbsup:

[Sentry]

Finishing off my winter tires. :whipped:

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[TomcoPDR]

Cool build

[G-ZUS]

:bigpimp:

How did you fit those style 162 on there? Doesn't the e39 have bigger hub bore than the other BMW's?

Is that wagon a 6 speed?:drool: :nut:

[Sentry]

Bored them out, same to put Weds wheels on my M5. 5 speed automagical. :D

Probably gonna stay automatic, keeps me from going too bonkers with it, I do enough dumb shit in it as it is.

[Chester]

Nice! I miss my 540i..but I def do not miss it blowing up every month:D

[Sentry]

Got spacers about 6 weeks ago, and today I installed some SoloWerks coilovers on the front and lowered the air bags in the rear. :D

http://i.imgur.com/Xq7Esdb.jpg

[G-ZUS]

This thread makes me miss my 540 :guns:

[Sentry]

Took it to Castrol Friday night to see how quick it is.

Ran a whole bunch of 13.7s at 97-99mph depending on bottle pressure. Most impressively, it kept cutting 1.8 60fts on these garbage tires I trash-picked from the pile at work. This automatic wagon launches harder than most "fast" cars.

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[90_Shelby]

:thumbsup: Not bad. What does the M5 run?

[Sentry]

Last year, pre-supercharger it did 13.4@103 with a 2.0 60ft

[Sentry]

Got an M5 bumper for it and got it painted, installed it today. :clap:

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[nismodrifter]

Lovin it!

[Sentry]

My summer tires were down to cords and Environment Canada says there's a shitstorm blowing in tonight. Mounted up my winters, ready for battle. If the forecast turns out to be bullshit I can drive the M5 and save these tires from getting annihilated.
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EDIT: Very happy with that decision lol


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[Sentry]

I'm getting new facelift headlights for the M5, so I installed the M5's lights in the wagon. Hand me downs! Huge improvement in looks.

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[Hallowed_point]

Nice to see it being winter driven as well. Man points without a doubt! Keep on with the updates!

[Chester]

Looks great.

[Sentry]

Big things are happening. I needed more cargo space so I am removing the power adder (bottle) from the cargo area and am installing a power adder in its butt.

Built my hotside today. The chain is temporary, still have to build hangers. First big step complete!

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EDIT: Bonus! The hotside and turbo also tuck up further than the stock exhaust so the wagon can stay slammed.

[brucebanner]

:clap: :clap::clap: :clap:

[flipstah]

Much turbo such fast <3

[Sentry]

More progress. Made tailpipe and wastegate tube, mounted the scavenge pump and plumbed oil drain to it. Next weekend I'll have the oil lines all done and can run the car with the turbo on it. I'm excited to hear what the exhaust sounds like, rear mount cars have very pronounced turbine sound. :D

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[90_Shelby]

Awesome! What will you use to tune it? Since you winter drive it, are you planning to build some sort of shield for the air filters or will they be good like that?

[Sentry]

Yeah I'm going to box in the filter at some point, low priority since summer is around the corner. For tuning I'm going a bit ghetto. Rising rate FPR to spike fuel pressure under boost for enrichment. For ignition timing I'm gonna just let jesus take the wheel. :D Worked for nitrous, and hitting 100 shot at 2000rpm is way more cylinder pressure than 5psi of boost coming on at 3000.

[90_Shelby]

That takes me back, I previously ran a Cartech FMU on my Turbo Shelby Daytona. It had a distributor though so I could dial back the timing. The Paxton supercharger kits for 2003-2008 Vipers also ran an FMU and they worked decent enough.

[Sentry]

Yeah that's my theory. Vortech sold how many foxbody mustang kits with FMUs that ran fine? Seems to work well enough for a "little" bit of boost. And I think the BMW electronics and knock sensors kept it alive with nitrous so it'll retard timing with boost as well.

[Sentry]

Finished oil lines, installed and wired scavenge pump. Also put on a turbo blanket I had lying around. Oil feed out of the filter housing, oil return into the valve cover.

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[CRXguy]

Nicely done!

[Darell_n]

For a case of beer I can sell you my old SMT-6 piggyback controller. I used it with my old butt-turbo setup on my truck.

[Sentry]

Ah yeah I remember your Ram, ran 11s didn't it? I might take you up on that if plan A doesn't pan out for me.

Here's this weekend's update. Built all my charge pipes under the car and up the firewall. Also built a nice tube and flange for the MAF. Just need to connect the two and charge pipes are done.

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[Sentry]

I'll post a proper update a little later on, but for now I'll leave you with this video. Engine bay is filthy from winter so I'll give it a wash so it looks less disgusting before showing the finished product.

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[infamous]

wow!!! that looks amazing!!!! definitely an awesome wagon!!!

[T-Dubbs]

I'll post a proper update a little later on, but for now I'll leave you with this video. Engine bay is filthy from winter so I'll give it a wash so it looks less disgusting before showing the finished product.

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how does it feel compared to the stock m5?

[gretz]

How much boost are you planning to run? How are the tranny's in these for holding a few more hp?

[Sentry]

I think on 6psi it'll match a stock M5. Auto trans held up to 2 years of 100 shot of nitrous, if it dies the car gets manual swapped.

[Chester]

Awesome. Had a good laugh when you floored it at :10 seconds, thought you were going to take it easy.

[Sentry]

Here's the finished engine bay. I've been driving it about a week now, put 400km on the setup.
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Also I did shield the intake a little better. Just in time to test it out with our disgusting weather.
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[Sentry]

https://youtu.be/WBCvhNeSR8s
295whp 390ftlbs at 5psi. Basically same as it made on nitrous and exactly what I wanted.:clap:

The real test will be see what it does at the 1/4 mile.

Also if rage2 picks up an E400 wagon we must race.

[never]

Nice! How do the curves look compared to the spray?

Wanna race another turbo car? ;)

[Sentry]

Nice! How do the curves look compared to the spray?

Wanna race another turbo car? ;)
The same but 1000rpm later lol. Because it's a baby turbo there's a big torque mountain that tapers off. He rolled into it and went WOT at 3000.

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[Darell_n]

If you haven’t already, wrap the exhaust all the way back to the turbo. It will reduce the lag significantly and hit the turbine with more energy once its moving.

[Sentry]

I might do that if I'm bored one weekend, I don't feel it's laggy enough for me to bother at the moment.

Gonna intercool this bitch with some ebay crap.
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[ryanwalker]

My love for the M5 has just been amplified. Cool project, brother

[Sentry]

No updates, still not intercooled, here's a burnout. Enjoy.

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EDIT: Burnouts with a rear mount turbo have a hilarious side effect.

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[Sentry]

SOLD

Had some good times with this car. :D

[03ozwhip]

SOLD

Had some good times with this car. :D

Why did you sell it?

[Twin_Cam_Turbo]

SOLD

Had some good times with this car. :D

Did you Waffle it?

[brucebanner]

SOLD

Had some good times with this car. :D

It didn't take long for someone else to be the owner, went quickly.

[Sentry]

I did waffle it. I have car ADD, so 3 years is actually pretty long for me to have a car. Also just picked up a Subaru and 4 cars is too many for me to have as a renter.

2019 I will be turboing my Mustang in the spring and in later summer turboing my Subaru.

[ExtraSlow]

I did waffle it. I have car ADD, so 3 years is actually pretty long for me to have a car. Also just picked up a Subaru and 4 cars is too many for me to have as a renter.

2019 I will be turboing my Mustang in the spring and in later summer turboing my Subaru.

Turbo all the things. That's how you win at life.