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Welcome! Yeah I remember that conversion- I'd think it would be way easier to build a turbo system for the 5 without using the Speed3 hardware and then use a piggyback ECU setup like AEM FIC to manage it. If it was my primary I would have done it already. I didn't expect it either- the calipers...

I don't know that I ever saw it discussed, but here it is. I overboosted the brightness and contrast on the pictures so that you guys could hopefully see things better. Apologies for the night time pics and lack of additional clearance photos- but we were doing this outside in the snow at 1am on...

Junkyard?

Congrats! Watch those rear shocks and front brakes....

Did this with mine a while ago- 215/50-17 corrects the factory speedometer calibration to be pretty much dead on with GPS speed too.

Both Bosch and NGK are BMW OEM plugs. :p

Upper strut mounts?

Acorns ARE round seat... cone seat is the flat slant interface.

Looks good!

Uhhhh... one is not better than the other. Bosch is a German company- they probably make quite a few of the OEM applications for BMWs. NGK is a Japanese company. They make OEM spark plugs for many Japanese cars. Both make applications for cars from other countries too. It all comes down to...

I haven't had many issues with Bosch Platinum plugs in an OEM application (wife's 5), but I did kill a few tips in really high compression engines. Not fun.

I used Mobil1 in the stock weights, had no issues- but had no crunching before either- and I'm in Texas vs your QC. I saw your post in the other fluid thread. Redline is good stuff. Give it a try.

Took me about 4 hours in the driveway with no lift and no lights in the middle of the night, with two engine mounts dead (thought it was only one) so I ended up supporting the entire engine on one elbow while replacing the clutch one-handed through a 3 inch gap. Fun. I bought an Exedy OEM...

I used the ASWC-1 on mine. There was supposed to be a way to program it to use the arrow buttons to go to the next preset, but I never bothered to figure out how- the wife drove the 5, not me. I only used it for volume.

This didn't pan out. Interested?

Nah, Texas parking sucks. Too many of us drive humongous trucks. The spaces keep getting larger, but then the trucks get even bigger.

Put a noise filter on the 12v power? Use 1:1 transformer isolators on the audio outputs?

Bad engine mount? Your sound clips are pretty hard to make out...