Far from an E30, E39 M5 Racecar

[jrhaile]

Dude...I recognize your screen name from TehDriven. I take it that you've kept a low-profile on the interwebs lately?

Pretty much, yeah very low profile. Just been busy building race cars and having a real life outside of the interwebs. I've mainly been running the nwbmwclub forums online lately.

[airkhin]

looks amazing! wish i had a possibility of doin this. keep it up!

[Bimmerista]

Dude...I recognize your screen name from TehDriven. I take it that you've kept a low-profile on the interwebs lately?

[jrhaile]

Nice! You made it down to Portland

It was a last minute decision to race as we were trying to get both Hard Motorsport cars out onto the track for the first time. Sadly, that never happened :(

Ahhh so that was your car. I checked it at PIR out but didn't see anyone around it. See you at 5erfest.

We were next door a lot chatting and learning from the Bullet Racing Porsche team. Catch you at 5erWest.

[Keith M]

Ahhh so that was your car. I checked it at PIR out but didn't see anyone around it. See you at 5erfest.

[cbouchez]

Nice! You made it down to Portland

[jrhaile]

Some new pictures from this past weekend at PIR.





and my favorite...

[jrhaile]

I love the M5 man! I can't believe you made this happen!

The car is looking great.

BTW: Great to hear you are doing what you want!

Thanks Christian! Hope to make it to your side of the state one of these days for a meet or something.

[cbouchez]

I love the M5 man! I can't believe you made this happen!

The car is looking great.

BTW: Great to hear you are doing what you want!

[Vivek]

Damn this is really awesome.

[Luis325]

I want his car..... Really nice !!!

[318isbmw]

Are you running stock exhaust as well? There is probably a decent amount of weight to be lost there.

The exhaust isn't even close to factory, just has 2 decent mufflers at the back, the rest is straight flow through with an x pipe.

[325ix]

Are you running stock exhaust as well? There is probably a decent amount of weight to be lost there.

The only gripe I have with my 540 is the steering is slightly less precise than the E30 or E36.

[eurotrash]

If uve got the 8" can u run the irs 8.8 out of the 4x4 explorers?

[jrhaile]

IMO the M5 is not made to be a fat touring highway car. You did right by her props man.

Thanks dude. Been in an E36 M3 Racecar and my car, I can for sure feel the extra weight and especially length of the M5 but it's very manageable, just have to be quick to get the back end in check sometimes.

Also the suspension from factory is a notch about the E36 in some aspects. It has true rear coilovers, front and rear subframes are tubed, thick factory front swaybar, etc.