M3 Guy's 2012 Monte Carlo Blue X5M Journal

[Cattivo]

Whats up brotha, did you ever sell the truck yet and get the new one?

[m5 guy]

Originally Posted by Cattivo

Whats up brotha, did you ever sell the truck yet and get the new one?

No one wanted to buy it over here so it is getting traded in. Today actually. Took the morning off work to do it.



Btw I still have the brembos for sale.

[Cattivo]

Originally Posted by m5 guy

No one wanted to buy it over here so it is getting traded in. Today actually. Took the morning off work to do it.



Btw I still have the brembos for sale.

Will the Brembos fit on the new truck? I know you're not leaving it stock

[m5 guy]

Originally Posted by Cattivo

Will the Brembos fit on the new truck? I know you're not leaving it stock

I think they might fit physically, but the piston sizes are different and not matched for the f15. They will match perfectly with the f85 though.

[perrymaxima]

Just checked this car out in person and it looks well taken care of. No scratches, dings nada!

[m5 guy]

Originally Posted by perrymaxima

Just checked this car out in person and it looks well taken care of. No scratches, dings nada!

Thanhs for the compliments! Sent you a reply to your pm.

[badm3]

How do they look

[m5 guy]

Originally Posted by badm3

How do they look

They look sick on your beast! How do you like them? Offsets perfect?

Edit: What tires did you go with?

[Revnato]

Originally Posted by badm3

How do they look

Originally Posted by m5 guy

They look sick on your beast! How do you like them? Offsets perfect?

Edit: What tires did you go with?

+1 especially the offset question

[m5 guy]

Originally Posted by TreyB

+1 especially the offset question

Offsets are in the teens. I think 14 and 16 if I remember correctly.

[Revnato]

Originally Posted by m5 guy

Offsets are in the teens. I think 14 and 16 if I remember correctly.

Thank you brother! We were actually messaging earlier about offsets and you told me 14 and 16 as well.

Already placed an order to have some forged wheels cut with those offsets!

[badm3]

Offsets are perfect rides great, I had H&R springs installed before I put the wheels on. Tires are Altenzo Sport so far they seem to be working ok. I have some Dunlap on order in case they don't work out.

[UnicornM]

Nice!

[gixxerboy63]

Originally Posted by badm3

How do they look

Looks awesome!

[Naz24]

Originally Posted by badm3

How do they look

Where'd you get the double slat grilles?

[Revnato]

Originally Posted by Naz24

Where'd you get the double slat grilles?

I believe ebay is the only place to get the double slat grilles that fit the e70

[Naz24]

Originally Posted by Revnato

I believe ebay is the only place to get the double slat grilles that fit the e70

Any feedback on quality/fitment?

[cmyx6go]

Originally Posted by Naz24

Where'd you get the double slat grilles?

Already?!?!?!? OMG! You crack me up. Are you going to sleep a wink this week?

Sorry for the hijack guys....

[Revnato]

Originally Posted by Naz24

Any feedback on quality/fitment?

I think BaggedX5 has some from ebay and they look great

[davissusana]

Originally Posted by m5 guy

No one wanted to buy it over here so it is getting traded in. Today actually. Took the morning off work to do it.

Brother you have an epic transformation here with the E70! flawless!! congrats on the tasteful conversion, wish i had more time (and money of course) to make the same to mine specialy the led headlights! those make the X5 look mean and updated! its a shame to get to this journal now that the X5M is gone! but we have to move! i just have a year with mine! hope to do some 4-5 yrs more! here's a pic of mine!

[coolmayank]

M5Guy,

Firstly I appreciate the nice post and such good pictures. Do you think putting PTP turbo blanket is worth it . Also it seems you installed the blanket on top of the OEM heat shield. I dont have the tools and expertise to remove the shield. I have a BMW 2010 X5m, would you recommend putting it on top of the OEM heat shield. Any guidance you can provide in installing this blanket in my X5m 2010 is very much appreciated.

#Mayank

Originally Posted by m5 guy

Mod update: Exhaust time at 45k miles

Well exhaust time finally arrived. Only took 45k miles to get to it, but nevertheless it was a success. Install took place this past Saturday at my friends shop. All the pipes from the three companies fit together well as did the turbo blanket so that was good. Tune loaded easily too. Then had the cats welded in on Monday, though I don't have pics of that.

Don't really want to comment performance wise as we ended up needing new O2 sensors, which are getting put in tonight. The gauge is also not showing as much boost as it should so we still need to hunt that down if the O2 sensors don't fix it. Basically I murdered the O2 sensors so new ones were needed. The O2's were the only thing I did not get fresh replacements for so of course that would happen. With that out of the way it's pic time.

Parts on a blanket. What you are looking at are the following:

1. AR Design Ceramic coated catless downpipes
2. Supersprint straight piped section 1. These are the pipes I had the milspec cats welded onto.
3. Supersprint x-pipe sectin 2.
4. Eisenmann Sport muffler black series with 90mm rolled tips
5. PTP s63 turbo blanket.
6. Velos stage awesome tune





The view outside of his shop. Very Hawaii:



Removal:









Pic showing the bolt/slip connecting pipe next to the Supersprint section 1:



Install:











Full system pics:





PTP blanket. It actually sits on top of the oem metal heat shield. So I now have a heat reducing sandwich. Ceramic catless, metal oem heat shield, PTP blanket. I can literally rest my hands on the blanket afterwards. The heat reduction is amazing with this combo. Plastics and hoses should actually survive past 25k miles now.






Now lets finish this post with some teasers as you guys all like those:









IND did the caps. That is monte carlo blue and white in the center with high gloss clear over everything. Wheels will hopefully get put on tonight.

[coolmayank]

Originally Posted by m5 guy

Mod update: Exhaust time at 45k miles

Well exhaust time finally arrived. Only took 45k miles to get to it, but nevertheless it was a success. Install took place this past Saturday at my friends shop. All the pipes from the three companies fit together well as did the turbo blanket so that was good. Tune loaded easily too. Then had the cats welded in on Monday, though I don't have pics of that.

Don't really want to comment performance wise as we ended up needing new O2 sensors, which are getting put in tonight. The gauge is also not showing as much boost as it should so we still need to hunt that down if the O2 sensors don't fix it. Basically I murdered the O2 sensors so new ones were needed. The O2's were the only thing I did not get fresh replacements for so of course that would happen. With that out of the way it's pic time.

Parts on a blanket. What you are looking at are the following:

1. AR Design Ceramic coated catless downpipes
2. Supersprint straight piped section 1. These are the pipes I had the milspec cats welded onto.
3. Supersprint x-pipe sectin 2.
4. Eisenmann Sport muffler black series with 90mm rolled tips
5. PTP s63 turbo blanket.
6. Velos stage awesome tune





The view outside of his shop. Very Hawaii:



Removal:









Pic showing the bolt/slip connecting pipe next to the Supersprint section 1:



Install:











Full system pics:





PTP blanket. It actually sits on top of the oem metal heat shield. So I now have a heat reducing sandwich. Ceramic catless, metal oem heat shield, PTP blanket. I can literally rest my hands on the blanket afterwards. The heat reduction is amazing with this combo. Plastics and hoses should actually survive past 25k miles now.






Now lets finish this post with some teasers as you guys all like those:









IND did the caps. That is monte carlo blue and white in the center with high gloss clear over everything. Wheels will hopefully get put on tonight.

Those detailed pics and mod information is really awesome. I have a quick question for you regarding the PTP turbo blanket install.

I noticed that you installed it on top of the OEM heat shield. Shouldn't it be installed underneath the heat shield.

If its effective on TOP, I may order one myself. Thanks again for your input on this in advance.