BMW E46 V10

[warsteiner///M3]

stevesingo said:

As you seem to be the expert...

how much work is it to fit a 6sped manual to an E60/61 M5. I love the idea of a M5 touring, but despise the SMG gear boxes.

anything / everything is possible.
as already said, everything is available 'off the shelf'

the software would probably need a small change....to us. spec (as they got the manual gearbox)
I believe the 'manual gearbox' map is already in the dme....it just needs switching over.
there's a different rpm limit when its in neutral (7000rpm)

[RDMcG]

Here are a couple of pics I took in 2006 at Hartge.- they had stuffed a V10 into the 3 series, and added manual............

[RS250_Steve]

I wonder how hard it would be to replace the SMG with the DCT? Mechanically reasonably simple I'd guess. Software might be an issue.

[Dan_M5]

RS250_Steve said:

I wonder how hard it would be to replace the SMG with the DCT? Mechanically reasonably simple I'd guess. Software might be an issue.

BMW did it with the e60 m5 csl concept

[ss1977]

RS250_Steve said:

I wonder how hard it would be to replace the SMG with the DCT? Mechanically reasonably simple I'd guess. Software might be an issue.

There's a long thread on M5 Board about this with plenty of info. Like you said, hardware seems reasonably straightforward, coding and software less so:

http://www.m5board.com/vbulletin/e60-m5-e61-m5-tou...