Alot of you may not know me i used to hang out on this forum pretty regularly at one time. It has been a long time since I have posted or even looked at this forum so where have I been? Two years ago I took a fancy new office job so my work day went from 4-6 hours/day to 10+ hours per day and it's in a different city than I live in so any free time I had to work on my car was pretty much gone. But let's skip that and talk about the car.

For those of you that don't know me I started down the FI road in about 2006 with a JWT 530bb kit and that kept me happy for awhile. Then I needed more I went with a built 3.8L sleeved block and a JWT 850bb kit. I won't go too deep into the build but I ended up have a local guy rebuild the engine after a head gasket issue. It had pauter rods, cosworth bearings, Aries pistons 100mm based off of a Subaru piston. I had a Dynosity billet girdle added JWT C2 cams with JWT springs ferrea over size intake and exhaust valves with the heads ported/polished and ARP fasteners through out. I obviously had a long list of supporting mods that I won't get into but no corners were cut any where. I did the build myself for the most part with the help of a couple friends.

When I got the car tuned it made 625whp on 91octane fuel the tuner said it was begging for race fuel and he said an easy 750 and possibly 800whp he said the 625 was very conservative timing. My goal was right in the 600whp pump gas and 700whp range with race gas but I was happy with 625whp pump at the time and didn't bother with the race gas tune. When the tuner first asked me what i wanted out of i honestly told himmit makes what makes i told him 550 or higher would make me happy. So when he was done and said lets do a race gas tune, I thought I had better not push my luck I wanted to drive the car and I figured the 625whp would keep me satisfied until the next season when I would go for a race gas tune. After I had got used of 625 and a few trips to the track a race gas tune would give me something to look forward to.

It was late in the fall when I got the tune I took the car to the track on street tires on the first run the carbon fibre end cap on my cosworth intake blew clean off. Anyway I never got the slip but someone that saw it said I rolled to an mid 11sec with a turbo smoking like crazy I assume it needed a seal it smoked for awhile after full boost pulls was the only time I noticed it.

Anyway in the spring I pulled the car out of the garage looking forward to a good summer of driving the car I planned on daily driving it since I now had an office job I could drive it every day. I went to change the oil and I noticed oil leaks every where and a power steering line rubbing the turbo. I tried moving the line and it snapped leaking PS fluid every where I also noticed a motor mount was toast causing the steering shaft to rub a turbo :suicide:

Anyway I was pissed off and pulled the car back in the garage and thought about it. At the time I had less free time than ever and couldn't stomach taking it to or knew of any shops that I would trust to do the work so I decided to get rid of my head ache. Instead of suffering months and trying to sell it as is I decided to part out and put it back to stock. The whole parting out and selling everything was less than two months from start to finish I sent a few messages to guys I know and posted a few things on a small local Facebook page. I had guys waiting in my garage for parts as I pulled them off the car.
























Tear down






New owner taking it away, I never did get it running again the new owner got a pile of stock parts and a shell.







In the mean time I had bought my wife an X5 diesel that I really liked. Of course with nothing of my own I started modding it I had it tuned it was around 359hp and 525ftlbs it was lowered and some other minor mods.




Well I had a 6.2L GMC Sierra Z71 crew cab all terrain edition to daily drive and I put a leveling kit on it and tuned it as well I soon realized it was stupid modding it and my wife's X5d.









I went on the hunt for something for me. I wanted something already fast and with limited aftermarket support....I thought I could stop or at least slow down my modding addiction. I looked at Ford Raptors and Jeep SRT8s until I was with a friend that was looking at X5Ms we went for a test drive and I was hooked. My wife thought it was stupid if we had the same vehicle...I told her we could sell hers and get her something different and her tune changed so I picked up this..

They come with a twin turbo 4.4L V8 with 555ho and 500ftlbs my tuner let me drive his with down pipes and a tune it was insane he said 700hp so naturally a tune is coming in the spring and i gutted the OEM cats/down pipes no one else has tried this yet so its hard to say how effective it will be. I have lowering springs in the garage already. It has 22" HRe and an Eisenmann exhaust already.








I started modding I wrapped the lower diffuser in matte black, tinted the tails, changed out the emblems (i laughed with a buddy that I now consider changing emblems modding a vehicle) and you can also see the exhaust in this picture with the factory wheels back on for winter they are actually at the powder coasters now getting powder coated gun metal.






I will say I do regret not getting a race gas tune so I could see the cars true potential and I wish I would have got a good run at the track with a pump gas tune and a race gas tune with some decent tires on it.

 

What is the new owner doing with the car??

 

I heard he tried to sell it already, I am not sure how mechanically inclined he was. He is a student and his plan was picking away at it in his garage over the year.

 

Bet your wife's a bit jealous of your racecar X5 in comparison to hers lol

 

Once in a while I take hers to work with my for a week and she hates to give mine back.

 

Glad to see you're doing well and still kinda hanging with us.

 

This had to be the most interesting read ever posted on Driver
Especially after what's been floating around here lately, pretty cool to read about a true, quality build.

 

I don't think I ever had an all encompassing build thread, I should make one of all of the mistakes I made and screw ups that others caused me. This was novel like enough that I figured people might zone out part way through

I also had a close friend red35 that had a JWT 700bb kit on his red G. He sold his as well and picked up a RR





I had a couple pictures of our cars together from local meets/shows but they are on my computer and none in photobucket :-(

 

I see you all the time on the Book. Had I been present for the part out, I probably woulda grabbed something. Anywho, since I already knew of your X5 glory, it's kinda redundant to say good pick up again, but good pick up. lol

 

Nice upgrade. I'm considering replacing my FX with one. Picked up a 335 earlier this year and with the tune, downpipes, Eisenmann exhaust, it's a lot of fun. I can only imagine how the V8 responds. A friend just got one recently and it's stock but even so, it's kind of ridiculous.

 

My tuner let me drive his X5M with a tune and down pipes...it made mine seem very slow after they gain 100hp and 150ftlbs of torque pretty easily.

 

Many changes I see..had no idea you parted out

 

was the slotted rotors installed the wrong direction or at the end of the day it doesn't really matter and can go on any way? I jus installed slotted rotors that why and starting to notice, from others pics, a lot of it is installed going a diff direction that wat I thought theyre supposed to be

 

They were installed correct, it's actually the inner veins that you have to look at not the outer slots/holes.

 

I left out the best part, I was in Edmonton in the fall at a Friday night car meet. On the way home I came up behind a pack of local cars that were at the at the drag strip. I was talking on the phone with one of the guys in the group there was a 350z in the group I wasn't familiar with it was a TT with a built engine he claimed 550whp. Anyway I was cruising at about 20km/hr over the speed limit I think it was about 2-3am and we were the only vehicles on the road. Anyway I was chatting my buddy up when two of the cars started driving side by side and slowed down to 10km/hr under the speed limit. I was trying not to be a ***** since they were local and my buddy knew them but they kept this up for about 10min blocking the lane and they would speed up and slow down. I was getting annoyed so I got behind the Z since he was in the passing lane anyway I crowded his bumper a bit to let him know I wanted by but nothing doing I gave him a quick flicker of my brights I was done playing games. I decided to give the ///M button a push just in case finally he pulled ahead of the other guy and as I got close to him I heard the down shift and the exhaust come alive I put my foot to floor and it was on he pulled about a fender on me and we kept pretty close until I am not sure if he shifted or let off and I pulled ahead by 1/2 car. I was on the phone with my buddy that was behind us the whole time. He laughed and said that was close...I was blown away my stock X5M just hung with a built TT Z I doubt it had 550whp I guess that why I never inflated numbers so I didn't get embarrassed if something else fast came along. My unit is at the tuners getting my gutted down pipes and a tune. I will be hunting FI G/Zs for sure come spring time.



A couple pictures with the OEM 20s powder coated