sunrunner_pei
01-03-2008, 12:10 PM
Filed under: Aftermarket (http://www.autoblog.com/category/aftermarket/), Tuners (http://www.autoblog.com/category/tunertuesdays/), Sedans/Saloons (http://www.autoblog.com/category/sedans/), BMW (http://www.autoblog.com/category/bmw/)
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Coaxing more power from an engine as finely-tuned as BMW M-division's 500-horsepower V10 is no easy task. But that didn't stop German aftermarket tuner G-Power, which managed to get total power output up to a staggering 730 hp for its Hurricane M5, claiming the hotly-contested mantle of the world's fastest and most powerful street-legal Bimmer.
To extract that kind of juice, G-Power fitted not one, but two superchargers - one for each cylinder bank - with stratospheric spooling redlines of 100,000 rpm. They've also fitted an overhead intercooler, swapped in a bigger oil cooler and tinkered with the M5's notoriously intricate electronics. The result: half a second off the M5's already supercar-like 0-60 time, now down to just 4.2 seconds. With all that extra power and the electronic limiter removed, the aptly-named Hurricane is claimed to hit a top speed of 340 km/h - that's over 211 miles per Autobahn-storming hour.
More after the jump (http://www.autoblog.com/2008/01/02/g-power-claims-mantle-as-fastest-bmw-with-730hp-hurricane-m5/), including all the specs and G-Power's official press release, and be sure to scope out the photos in the gallery below.
[Source: G-Power]
Gallery: G-Power BMW M5 Hurricane (http://www.autoblog.com/photos/g-power-bmw-m5-hurricane/)
http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/01/gphurricane01_thumbnail.jpg (http://www.autoblog.com/photos/g-power-bmw-m5-hurricane/556035/)http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/01/gphurricane02_thumbnail.jpg (http://www.autoblog.com/photos/g-power-bmw-m5-hurricane/556034/)http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/01/gphurricane03_thumbnail.jpg (http://www.autoblog.com/photos/g-power-bmw-m5-hurricane/556037/)http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/01/gphurricane04_thumbnail.jpg (http://www.autoblog.com/photos/g-power-bmw-m5-hurricane/556038/)http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/01/gphurricane05_thumbnail.jpg (http://www.autoblog.com/photos/g-power-bmw-m5-hurricane/556036/)
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click above to view more high-res images o fhte G-Power Hurricane M5
Coaxing more power from an engine as finely-tuned as BMW M-division's 500-horsepower V10 is no easy task. But that didn't stop German aftermarket tuner G-Power, which managed to get total power output up to a staggering 730 hp for its Hurricane M5, claiming the hotly-contested mantle of the world's fastest and most powerful street-legal Bimmer.
To extract that kind of juice, G-Power fitted not one, but two superchargers - one for each cylinder bank - with stratospheric spooling redlines of 100,000 rpm. They've also fitted an overhead intercooler, swapped in a bigger oil cooler and tinkered with the M5's notoriously intricate electronics. The result: half a second off the M5's already supercar-like 0-60 time, now down to just 4.2 seconds. With all that extra power and the electronic limiter removed, the aptly-named Hurricane is claimed to hit a top speed of 340 km/h - that's over 211 miles per Autobahn-storming hour.
More after the jump (http://www.autoblog.com/2008/01/02/g-power-claims-mantle-as-fastest-bmw-with-730hp-hurricane-m5/), including all the specs and G-Power's official press release, and be sure to scope out the photos in the gallery below.
[Source: G-Power]
Gallery: G-Power BMW M5 Hurricane (http://www.autoblog.com/photos/g-power-bmw-m5-hurricane/)
http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/01/gphurricane01_thumbnail.jpg (http://www.autoblog.com/photos/g-power-bmw-m5-hurricane/556035/)http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/01/gphurricane02_thumbnail.jpg (http://www.autoblog.com/photos/g-power-bmw-m5-hurricane/556034/)http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/01/gphurricane03_thumbnail.jpg (http://www.autoblog.com/photos/g-power-bmw-m5-hurricane/556037/)http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/01/gphurricane04_thumbnail.jpg (http://www.autoblog.com/photos/g-power-bmw-m5-hurricane/556038/)http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/01/gphurricane05_thumbnail.jpg (http://www.autoblog.com/photos/g-power-bmw-m5-hurricane/556036/)
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