The gearbox was changed at 30k, the engine has to be set up to run correctly. The steering box has been replaced, and the heating system is crap, no air coming out.
It goes like a rocket, with the limiter off I've been 168mph and it's got more, the engine has been tuned by Munich ledgens. I mock any sad fool in a Cossie with my 380 bhp and that's not from a crap Superchip.
A Superchip is a Superchip, they all do the same job, which is to de-restrict the manufacturers factory settings for enviromental emissions. And a Superchipped Cossie, Impreza or Mazda RX7 would all easily see off the 3.6 M5.
The 3.8 is the better tuned engine of the two, which is what you would need, and it would have to be tuned to see off a tuned Cossie.
A standard Cossie will do 0-60 in 5.8, the M5 takes 6.4? Where are you getting your info from? Plus a Cossie is only 2 litre... me thinks you should take a little more time and research your put downs...
The Cossie with a correctly put together engine will churn out 380BHP for 40,000 miles where as the BMW will do it all day everyday up to 150,000. I have full respect for the Cossie, but the M5 is a different class of car!!!!!
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The standard 1991 M5 is a 3.6, and has 315BHP - so care to explain how on earth you are coming up with the figure of 380BHP?!?!
I would be impressed to see you get 325HP, with a SuperChip from a 3.6.
I also doubt the 3.6 can go up to 168MPH plus, the 3.8 Possibly, but not the 3.6.
Get your facts straight mate...
The 3.6L M5 will run to 60mph in 5.6 seconds and 120mph in 21.0 seconds, I have a CAR&DRIVER (America), SCI (America) which proves this. The manufacturers rating is 6.4 seconds which most know is conservative.
Of course M5 beats every Ford or something like that... And the standard M5 has 340 hp IMO :) ). Is the 3.6 a limited edition or something like that (I've only heard of 3.8 engines)??
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Hmmm, turbo'd ford boy racer junk verses german motorway muncher? Joking! The ford is a good car when kept standard and is sooo fast for a 2 litre four cylinder engine (T3 asides) but these boys who wind theirs up to 380bhp will spend more on clutch/gearbox/turbo/engine rebuilds in 12 months than most BMW owners would in 10 years of hard driven miles. The BMW is seen as a tart trap by some, but in comparison to what the average well maintained "tuned" cossy owner spends fixing his car, the M5 is actually quite good value...Don't get me wrong though, there's little more exciting than been behind the wheel of a Ford Seirra when the T3 hits 20psi of boost!!!
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Speaking as an owner of both a Cosworth Sierra tuned to 330+, not just one, but I owned two of these cars - AND I have owned two M5's - and currently own one, I can safely say this:
The Cossworth's were both tuned to above 330hp - weighed around 1400kg. They were a whole lot of fun, BUT very unreliable, crappy interiors, no top end power.
The M5 beats the Cossies, on most points, except the rush of the turbo on full blast. But remember once that has expired the M5 's wonderfully noisy 3,8 flat six - just keeps going and going...
Doesn't the M5 of this vintage have a STRAIGHT SIX... not a Flat six as mentioned above...
Starting to doubt the posters experience with the cars...
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