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






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



In December I welded the diff for, um, increased winter traction.


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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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[Sentry]

And now some videos.

First road test with nitrous. I was lazy and just wired the solenoids to the horn.


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.


It's really good at doing this.


And this


And this

[HiSpec]

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

[Sentry]

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

[Ca_Silvia13]

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

[90_Shelby]

[Sentry]

Finishing off my winter tires.

[TomcoPDR]

Cool build

[G-ZUS]

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?

[Sentry]

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

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

[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.

[G-ZUS]

This thread makes me miss my 540

[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.

[90_Shelby]

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.

[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.



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.