F10 M5 Tuning

F10 M5 Tuning

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278 months

Tuesday 3rd October 2017
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just out of interest and as a result of a thread we were chatting on about V Max 200 recently on the Supercar forum, does anyone know much about the F10 M5 that managed 207mph there recently, and what sort of £££ was spent to get that sort of performance out of it?

this was from the results
DME F10 M5 207mph
it was up in the top ten cars overall, along with a few tuned 997 turbos etc, value for money wise it may be one of the performance bargains just looking at top speed alone. I dont know much about them in terms of tuneability or performance, was it a time bomb waiting to go off? :-)

High flier

1,089 posts

177 months

Tuesday 3rd October 2017
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These guys by the looks of it! https://www.facebook.com/dmetuning/

PHOENIXUK

2,198 posts

201 months

Wednesday 4th October 2017
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I had mine done (in 2013) by Rob @ DMS, about a grand if I remember correctly,I only had it 6000 miles but never missed a beat and was rather nippy.

PixelpeepS3

8,600 posts

142 months

Wednesday 4th October 2017
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Am i missing something - they're rated at 205mph in standard form if the limiter is removed ?

TartanPaint

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139 months

Wednesday 4th October 2017
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You're missing the fact that it did 207mph in a measured mile from a standing start. The standard car might take a 45 minutes on an oval to wind up to 205mph.

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Wednesday 4th October 2017
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exactly it was rather stunning! bearing in mind a brand new Ferrari managed the same speed.

whats the cost of getting one of these to that level of performance then roughly, anyone know?

PixelpeepS3

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142 months

Wednesday 4th October 2017
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TartanPaint said:
You're missing the fact that it did 207mph in a measured mile from a standing start. The standard car might take a 45 minutes on an oval to wind up to 205mph.
Right. in that case... wow...

that is pretty impressive!

EmilA

1,520 posts

157 months

Wednesday 4th October 2017
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From what I hear, both the M6 that is posted as doing 198 and that M5 are running methanol and downpipes, exhaust etc

HoHoHo

14,987 posts

250 months

Wednesday 4th October 2017
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PixelpeepS3 said:
TartanPaint said:
You're missing the fact that it did 207mph in a measured mile from a standing start. The standard car might take a 45 minutes on an oval to wind up to 205mph.
Right. in that case... wow...

that is pretty impressive!
According to fastestlaps the standard top end is 190mph when derestricted on the F10 M5 (from memory I also heard it was 186mph some time ago, so neither being 200mph+ if true).

rassi

2,452 posts

251 months

Wednesday 4th October 2017
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HoHoHo said:
According to fastestlaps the standard top end is 190mph when derestricted on the F10 M5 (from memory I also heard it was 186mph some time ago, so neither being 200mph+ if true).
There is a secondary limiter on the DCT gearbox at 186/190 mph, hence that top speed is quoted if the Drivers pack is optioned.



M5 London

259 posts

101 months

Wednesday 4th October 2017
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Most likely parts :

Upgraded Turbo chargers (likely Pure Turbos Stage 1)

Uprgraded Downpipes with cats removed

Methanol Injection

Uprated Boost Sensors (or not if very smartly mapped)

Remapped for boost higher and fuelling than standard remaps (Standard remaps only allow a max boost of circa 22.8psi, which all F10 M5s can actually achieve even with stock maps when conditions require it to achieve the maximum advertised HP/Lb.Ft.(Standard remaps simply call for this 22.8 psi more often to achieve higher than stock HP/Lb.Ft. at all given scenarios)) Proper remaps, given the right fuelling and cooling, usually cured with Methanol Injection and sometimes race fuel, can boost to 27/29 psi.

Possibly combined with JB4 box for good methanol injection control and crucial data logging.

Upgraded clutch packs, perhaps.

Upgraded intake system (but not really necessary from what I understand).

So about £10K or thereabouts....pretty cheap to be honest.







Edited by M5 London on Wednesday 4th October 13:59

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Wednesday 4th October 2017
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M5 London said:
Most likely parts :

Upgraded Turbo chargers (likely Pure Turbos Stage 1)

Uprgraded Downpipes with cats removed

Methanol Injection

Uprated Boost Sensors (or not if very smartly mapped)

Remapped for boost higher and fuelling than standard remaps (Standard remaps only allow a max boost of circa 22.8psi, which all F10 M5s can actually achieve even with stock maps when conditions require it to achieve the maximum advertised HP/Lb.Ft.(Standard remaps simply call for this 22.8 psi more often to achieve higher than stock HP/Lb.Ft. at all given scenarios)) Proper remaps, given the right fuelling and cooling, usually cured with Methanol Injection and sometimes race fuel, can boost to 27/29 psi.

Possibly combined with JB4 box for good methanol injection control and crucial data logging.

Upgraded clutch packs, perhaps.

Upgraded intake system (but not really necessary from what I understand).

So about £10K or thereabouts....pretty cheap to be honest.







Edited by M5 London on Wednesday 4th October 13:59
very interesting. cheaper as a package then than the 997 Turbos *(say £50k car plus £20k mods) to get 200+mph out of.
how reliable have these sort of mods been though, you can imagine quite a large bill for blowing one of those engines up, again as you would with a modified porsche turbo engine.

stunning if reliable power! do they need meth (always a risk needing methanol to control inlet air temps and det)?

w8pmc

3,345 posts

238 months

Thursday 5th October 2017
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rassi said:
There is a secondary limiter on the DCT gearbox at 186/190 mph, hence that top speed is quoted if the Drivers pack is optioned.
As above, although i think the secondary limiter is closer to 200mph, albeit 198/9. This limiter is hard coded into the M-DCT ECU & is quite a task to remove, however the regular ECU limiter is pretty straight forward to code out.

Mine was DMS Stage 2 tuned & although i didn't get the opportunity to hit 200mph, several times she achieved well into the 180's & a couple of times close to 190.

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Thursday 5th October 2017
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w8pmc said:
As above, although i think the secondary limiter is closer to 200mph, albeit 198/9. This limiter is hard coded into the M-DCT ECU & is quite a task to remove, however the regular ECU limiter is pretty straight forward to code out.

Mine was DMS Stage 2 tuned & although i didn't get the opportunity to hit 200mph, several times she achieved well into the 180's & a couple of times close to 190.
are they generally raising the boost/fuelling tweaks then plus better exhausts /downpipes etc within these stages? My friends 997 turbo was still running cats , and a stock engine for 206mph, just better turbos, plenum, filters and a proper 9e map.

S800VXR

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200 months

Saturday 20th January 2018
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All of the above minus the turbos. If you want big power don't use DMS and ignore their Dyno figures!
Mines now Evolve tuned and a SRR 750hp. Getting JB4 and meth after March when the updated box goes in so hopefully about 820ish as only a toy. 🐌

w8pmc

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238 months

Monday 22nd January 2018
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S800VXR said:
All of the above minus the turbos. If you want big power don't use DMS and ignore their Dyno figures!
Mines now Evolve tuned and a SRR 750hp. Getting JB4 and meth after March when the updated box goes in so hopefully about 820ish as only a toy. ??
Why's that?? Mine ran on a local DD Dyno & was within 6bhp & 4lbsft of the 748bhp & 700lbsft DMS achieved on their Dyno & to be fair, it was a warmer day.

KeithBlueK3

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68 months

Wednesday 29th August 2018
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Hello guys, I have been watching this forum and as I am currently awaiting a build date for my new Alpina B5 Biturbo Touring I have been looking out for tuning information to increase the power from its current 600 bhp! I received a recent message from GAD Tuning saying that currently the B5 Biturbo has the MG1 or the MGD1 ECU and currently there are no communication protocols available. Is this true? I thought that as the car is based on the F10 M5 the ECU would be similar and as that ECU has been modified accoprding to your posts are there other tuners that DO have the equipment?

theboss

6,913 posts

219 months

Wednesday 29th August 2018
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The current B5 is based on a G30 550i surely? Certainly not the F10 M5 although the engine is fundamentally similar. Alpinae have never been based on the equivalent M model as far as I’m aware. Nice car in any case!

JMBMWM5

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198 months

Wednesday 29th August 2018
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KeithBlueK3 said:
Hello guys, I have been watching this forum and as I am currently awaiting a build date for my new Alpina B5 Biturbo Touring I have been looking out for tuning information to increase the power from its current 600 bhp! I received a recent message from GAD Tuning saying that currently the B5 Biturbo has the MG1 or the MGD1 ECU and currently there are no communication protocols available. Is this true? I thought that as the car is based on the F10 M5 the ECU would be similar and as that ECU has been modified accoprding to your posts are there other tuners that DO have the equipment?
WHY are you looking to tune a car "You do not yet have" and throw away the warranty ?.