Vehicle Owner

Member ID: Bimmerhead

Location: Philadelphia, PA

Vehicle Info

1997 BMW 7-Series

Bragging Rights

  • 1/4 Mile0 sec @ -1 mph
  • 0-600sec
  • Top Speed170mph
  • HP550
  • Weight4400lbs

Major Upgrades

  • turbo
  • nitrous
  • bore increase
  • port and polish
  • supercharger
  • extrude honed
  • stroke increase
  • engine swap

Modifications

Performance Parts

Interior

  • Custom Gauges 
  • B&M Shift Knob 

Exterior Styling

  • Bosch Lighting 
  • Pirelli Tires 
  • Fikse Wheels 

Car Audio & Video

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    • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.

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Bimmerhead's 1997 BMW 7-Series

Bimmerhead's 1997 BMW 7-Series

Foreword

This is a story about a car and the modifications an enthusiast, that would be me, made to it. So what, you say? Many people have done performance and cosmetic modifications to their cars. The modifications to this car are extreme for this particular model. Not extreme in the outlandish, add on wings & spoiler sense, but extreme in the sense that no one, to my knowledge, has ever replaced a stock 5-speed automatic transmission with a 6-speed manual transmission, added a supercharger and the related chassis dynamics control systems on a long wheelbase BMW E38 7 Series until now. My claim that Baby is unique is reasonable but not absolute. There may have been others before me of which I am unaware. Please forgive my error if this is the case.

Bimmerhead's 1997 BMW 7-Series

Buying a 7er is not a momentous event in the scheme of things per se, but Babys story seems to have evolved through a series of decisions and events that at the time were innocent, yet when I consider them as a group, they seem to be destiny. What has come from of all of this is my concept of the Ultimate Driving Machine.
Here is Babys story.

TABLE of CONTENTS

1. Foreword
2. In the beginning. The disease.
3. First mods. The DINAN Program
4. Frustration. The VAC Mods. George Lawton. One Lap of America. The manual transmission, ESS SC
5. Tony the Racer. VAC Motorsports transforms Baby with custom 3.15:1 Limited Slip differential. ESS Supercharger install
6. Picture Page Interior OLoA Pictures TEAM S B D
7. Dyno Data Page

Bimmerhead's 1997 BMW 7-Series
VAC Motorsports.....
When you are serious!

Bimmerhead's 1997 BMW 7-Series

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Vehicle Owner

Member ID: Bimmerhead

Location: Philadelphia, PA