🔧 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

Supercharged C5
Sep 30, 2008
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Jacksonville, IL
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Danny
had purchased a ls2 pump instead of the ls1 pump bolted up obviously, then my supercharger bracket wouldn't fit, had to send it back and order ls1 pump. finally got everything back together after 3 weeks (2 jobs, 2 kids, and a wife doesn't leave much spare time to wrench)


put the car back together, new water pump, new thermostat, new belt, fixed boost leak that i didn't know i had, new license plate lights, new reverse lights, and my plate finally came in "CHRGD C5"

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ldyzluvdis06

Supercharged C5
Sep 30, 2008
6,349
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Jacksonville, IL
Real Name
Danny
work has commenced on the ole turd. unfortunately i have ZERO time to do the work, so i outsourced it to a very good friend of mine. this will be the first time i've ever paid anyone to work on any of my cars, but he is giving me a good price and i trust him very well. on top of the cam/converter/trans cooler, he talked me into buying a badass fuel system he had laying around and ditching my boost-a-pump.

should be completed in a week or so, then have to arrange time for the tuner. hoping to have it back in my possession on a couple of weeks.

tearing apart for the cam install:
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converter mounted:
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ldyzluvdis06

Supercharged C5
Sep 30, 2008
6,349
1,896
Jacksonville, IL
Real Name
Danny
That is awesome you picked up a fuel system as well. 700whp here you come.

with meth or e85 700 is very achievable, but im still running on stock trans and bottom end. lol. i would need larger injectors for e85 and i'd prefer a way to swap tunes, so that's probably out of the question. but there is a good chance ill order a meth setup at some point in the year, but not at this moment.
 

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