🔧 BUILD Supercharged C5

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[chapter]Goodbye 335, hello C5[/chapter]

Traded the 335i a couple weeks back and picked up a 00 C5. It was to good of a deal not to, honestly. The Bmw had a rebuilt title, and booked for $9k with a clean title, so i could have probably sold it for around 6 or a tad higher. i traded the car plus $3k on my side.

Car is a 2000 C5, 112k miles, auto, A&A V3 supercharger kit, JBA headers, Magnaflow catback, summit racing balancer, BTR dual valve springs, plugs, msd wires, kenne belle boost a pump, all 4 stabilizer links new, glass targa top and painted top.

Car was dyno tuned in oct 2016 at 498whp at weaponX in OHIO but the car felt slow. drove it home and had my tuner pull the file and it's extremely low on timing so that has me worried, as to why they pulled so much timing out of it. best case scenario, they pulled a lot of timing just to be a safe daily and to save the trans (supposedly it's built, but no proof makes me assume it's stock) worst case scenario, the engine is hurt so they pulled a lot of timing to try and hide it, so i changed the oil tonight and am shipping off a sample to blackstone Labs.

Also, the owner in which i got the car from, paid a shop to install the new summit pulley, but the shop did not pin the pulley to the crank. the previous owner (not the guy i got it from) was the one that modded the car, and initially the pulley was pinned, but the shop did no re pin the new pulley, so now i've got to take care of that sometime soon. other than that, car doesn't have any major issues, speakers sound like shit, and i have to order a new wiper motor. overall, i think i came out like a bandit on the trade, since the SC kit alone cost almost what my car was worth.

sorry for the shit pics, working 2 jobs currently has me very limited for time.

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[chapter]Blackstone Results[/chapter]


[chapter]Water Pump Failure[/chapter]



[chapter]Windshield Tinted[/chapter]


[chatper]BT Cam Ordered[/chapter]


[chatper]Tear down Begins[/chapter]



[chapter]Built 4L60 Acquired[/chapter]


[chapter]She lives![/chapter]











[chapter]New Blower - TiV1 / New Fuel Rails[/chapter]




[chapter]Money shots and vents[/chapter


[chapter]New heads - PRC 2.5 243 [/chapter]


[chapter]Slight problem with the diff[/chapter]


[chapter]Putting everything back together[/chapter]

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ldyzluvdis06

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You best have a bunch of open nitrous bottles in front of the car

we‘ll see. the shop said people have complained about their dyno reading low but it reads within 20-30Hp of their hub dyno. Obviously I’m strictly basing my number off of other peoples similar builds, but near 1k shouldn’t be too far fetched.
 

Shawn1112

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we‘ll see. the shop said people have complained about their dyno reading low but it reads within 20-30Hp of their hun dyno. Obviously I’m strictly basing my number off of other peoples similar builds, but near 1k shouldn’t be too far fetched.
The real numbers are at the track anyway. But would be cool to say this thing puts down XXXX to the wheels
 

ldyzluvdis06

Supercharged C5
Sep 30, 2008
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That thing sounds excellent! Are there any drag strips still open around there?
one Of my best friends now manages and runs the drip in Havana. Hes been on my ass about getting it done, but honestly, I’ve lost a ton of interest in the car and it’s a last priority for me. If I have spare time and nothing better I can do, then I tinker with it.
 
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ldyzluvdis06

Supercharged C5
Sep 30, 2008
6,349
1,896
Jacksonville, IL
Real Name
Danny
No hassle TCG price for the car- $15k (I’ve got that much in it just in the past two years of parts)

It is having some sort of fueling issue which I have not diagnosed, as you all can tell I’ve lost motivation in this car. But anytime it starts to see ANY boost, it starts cutting out and drops fuel pressure. Could be a simple Hobbes switch, could be a shit in tank pump, could be something more. Has a 450 in tank and magnafuel750 on a Hobbs switch, return setup with a boost regulated regulator.

I haven’t posted it for sale publicly yet, and I may never post it for sale as it just sits in the garage, but figured I’d throw this out there. Hell, battery has been dead for a few months and I haven’t even bothered to swap it out even. Lol
 

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