VIDEO: PH Classifieds Challenge - Over 200mph For £50K

[J53maximus]

Certainly not a good choice.
A Mercedes Benz SL55/65 AMG would have been a better choice. prices ranging from 12k to 35k and with the extra cash left over some serious tuning could be done by CKS performance which will result in these cars doing somewhere near 220mph

[irocfan]

or buy a Corvette and then get Ed China (seeing as he doesn't charge for labour <grin>) to drop one of these in

http://www.lingenfelter.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Scree...

[Gavin0478]

How about delimiting an m5 or rs6 I thought they could crack 200 in theory?

[slipstream 1985]

erm 54000 is more than 50000.

[0a]

Video didn't work here for me - had to go to the PH TV section instead.

Only 10% over budget as well!

[t4thomas]

slipstream 1985 said:

erm 54000 is more than 50000.

Well quite.

I think the title should be updated to a less catchy - VIDEO: PH Classifieds Challenge - Over 200mph For £54K.

[rassi]

A 15K delimited E60 M5 would do 205 mph...

[CraigyMc]

rassi said:

A 15K delimited E60 M5 would do 205 mph...

This is the correct answer

[j_s14a]

MKIV Supra would be ideal for this. Pick up a good running auto twin turbo for £5k, fit a 6 speed diff and now it is geared for 220+mph.

Spend the remaining £45k (ish) tuning it to circa 1000hp with an aftermarket auto gearbox, and an easy 200mph.

[P4ROT]

rassi said:

A 15K delimited E60 M5 would do 205 mph...

Yes, the power figures for these were very conservative...Get some G-Power mods as well!

[CraigyMc]

P4ROT said:

rassi said:

A 15K delimited E60 M5 would do 205 mph...

Yes, the power figures for these were very conservative...Get some G-Power mods as well!

£13495 - http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/b...

I've found talk of DMS remapping and delimiting E60 M5's for £1600 or so. I take with a pinch of salt the power gains, but the delimit I believe.

[Lefty]

Easy, I'll sell my 700bhp MRC stage 2 v10 RS6 for much less than £50K!

[Happyjap]

John you are a cheat, you over spend without permission,shame on you!

[mike746]

bentley continental gt with a simple re-map

[Xpuffin]

Not many std cars can hit 200 GPS.
Even fewer in this country legally.
All of them super exotic, and way more than £50k

[K2MDL]

I've got mine for sale - GT Speed, same year as featured in the vid but only 12,500 miles!!! It's mint and exact same spec as the video but with turned alloy dash etc.

[ZesPak]

J53maximus said:

Certainly not a good choice.
A Mercedes Benz SL55/65 AMG would have been a better choice. prices ranging from 12k to 35k and with the extra cash left over some serious tuning could be done by CKS performance which will result in these cars doing somewhere near 220mph

First poster got it right imho.

Huge engines with great potential. Delimited, they should do 200mph easily.

[CraigyMc]

Xpuffin said:

Not many std cars can hit 200 GPS.
Even fewer in this country legally.
All of them super exotic, and way more than £50k

Depends what you mean by "std". The E60 M5s we are talking about have a 155mph limiter, so removing that is turning it into a non standard car, but it's not a mechanical change of any sort.

The E60+ M5's use GPS for their speedo by the way.

[ZesPak]

CraigyMc said:

The E60+ M5's use GPS for their speedo by the way.

I didn't know that, what do they do in a tunnel? Guess?

[Lefty]

CraigyMc said:

Xpuffin said:

Not many std cars can hit 200 GPS.
Even fewer in this country legally.
All of them super exotic, and way more than £50k

Depends what you mean by "std". The E60 M5s we are talking about have a 155mph limiter, so removing that is turning it into a non standard car, but it's not a mechanical change of any sort.

The E60+ M5's use GPS for their speedo by the way.

Remapping isn't usually a mechanical change either.