I've always envied your M5, it's a gorgeous and very impressive car. This however is just
tragic, hard to beleive that a car of that sophistication can just self destruck itself like that.
I'd expect this from a 80s rolls royce or a jaguar but BMW makes good stuff. As you said
however their expertise has always been in INLINE-6 motors.
hope your rear bumper did not get too scratched up when he pushed you off the highway,
but at that point I guess it's colateral damage. So now since you thinkit's related to VANOS
do you see the point of stuborn asshoes, like me complaining about needless complication?
it's too bad that a motor like that got destroyed, best of luck with whatever course of
action you take.
FYI: If i was you (just a hypothetical) I'd buy that LS2 and have painless wiring hook me up
with a custom wiring harness, they will do that... you tell 'em "1999 BMW M5 donor car" &
"LS2 out of a totalled '05 Corvette" and they have some CR4ZY electronics engineer work
out the details. Look inot it, PAINLESS WIRING makes good stuff... and even if you had to
rip out the eintire wiring out of a Corvette/GTO and redo your gauges, it would still be worth
it for the bragging rights alone!!!
I'd love to have someone hit the Q45 bad enough in the grille to smush in the radiator
support & somehow f*** up the block but still have it be just a few $$$ shy of totalling the
car, I would drop in either an LS6... or perhaps a Northstar out of a totalled (RWD) STS or
more likely a sick, greasy, GMC blower equiped 383 stroker with a set of shorty headers &
a thirsty, old school carburator & snorkel sticking out of the hood. I'd paint the car flat black
and throw a set of Torque Thrust IIs under it with a Muncie M22.... sweet jesus I'd confuse
every car nut from here to Phoenix.