"Battery Tender Unnecessary" (carac)
06/13/2016 at 09:28 • Filed to: None
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"Battery Tender Unnecessary" (carac)
06/13/2016 at 09:28 • Filed to: None | 3
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Thanks BMW, for welding the E39 exhaust from headers back...and to whoever cut the center silencer off my M5 for the previous owner in a way that made it more trouble than it’s worth to try and re-weld it back on.
vondon302
> Battery Tender Unnecessary
06/13/2016 at 09:33 |
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Ugh that looks like its gonna ship by freight. Inspect the hell out of that thing when it gets to you.
Ash78, voting early and often
> Battery Tender Unnecessary
06/13/2016 at 09:37 |
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One piece? Is it safe for me to call this an engineering FAIL? That should be at least three pieces for basic serviceability, but I've long held a theory that German engineers secretly hate German mechanics...or maybe they're just colluding to make repair bills higher.
bingham123
> Battery Tender Unnecessary
06/13/2016 at 09:37 |
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boooo quiet, straight pipe FTW. also cheaper and easier to fit
Aaron M - MasoFiST
> Battery Tender Unnecessary
06/13/2016 at 09:37 |
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BMW doesn’t like exhaust modularity for some reason. To install the BMW Performance exhaust onto a 128i, you have to *cut* off the old muffler...which is ridiculous.
Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
> Battery Tender Unnecessary
06/13/2016 at 09:46 |
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I’m curious what about the old exhaust made it more effort to weld back together vs buying a new one.
S65
> Battery Tender Unnecessary
06/13/2016 at 09:58 |
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Why not just buy a new exhaust?
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Battery Tender Unnecessary
> Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
06/13/2016 at 09:59 |
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There is a 100+db drone at cruising RPMs if you remove the center silencer. You get 90% of the noise you want and none that you don’t if you just don’t run a muffler and weld four tips out the back.
And for the most part, the E39 M5 was almost perfect from the factory. Everything people do to them just makes them worse.
I bought an ‘03 in 2013 from California. The owner threw in the OEM 18's, the stock suspension, the original resonator and mufflers (the silencer was cut in a way that prevents reuse), a shark injector, etc. I’ve since removed the Coilovers, the 19" BBS RS-GTs, the shark tune, the short throw shifter and aftermarket knob, etc that came on it. Everytime I get closer to factory the car gets better. M5's weren’t meant to be track cars.
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> S65
06/13/2016 at 10:05 |
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I’ve got another project I’m focusing on. I just want the M5 to not give me a headache for the time being....and I got the whole thing for $399 including shipping. I’ve already got both the Magnaflow mufflers that came on it and the OEM mufflers the previous owner provided...but I may just go with pipes from the silencer back.
kanadanmajava1
> Battery Tender Unnecessary
06/13/2016 at 10:45 |
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It’s interesting to see if you are going to get it delivered intact.
I have an E34 M5 with an exhaust system that’s going to fall in pieces soon. You can split the original exhaust system in five pieces. There’s two separate headers, two catalytic converters that have been welded together (to share a single lambda sond), the middle muffler and the rear muffler.
For some reason the mufflers are separate pieces but they share a single part number so they can only be bought together with a very high price. Even the used ones go for €500.
I’m pretty sure that I’ll fix it with a non original exhaust system. The rear muffler is already a non original stainless steel (Eisenmann) muffler but everything else behind the headers look very rusty and in the need of replacing. I think I’ll also replace the catalytic converters with some universal model “racing versions”.
finn's arm
> Ash78, voting early and often
06/15/2016 at 17:31 |
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Crazy. My E36 & E39 (both I6's) are in 3 parts: 2x 3 to 1 Headers, midpipe, muffler. Midpipe and mufflers are both about 4 ft. in length (and both excessively heavy).
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Ash78, voting early and often
> finn's arm
06/15/2016 at 17:47 |
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Make much more sense.