smoking M5

[shogun]

Forum a Swedish M5 driver. I think it is just from the cold weather in Sweden and not from smoking tires?

Anyway, "Bimmer fog" time has begun again. I like that.

[jrgibb]

Mine does that . . . . . although being a TD the smoke tends to be coming from the exhaust :-)

[granit_silber]

Anyway, "Bimmer fog" time has begun again. I like that.

I once got a "chirp" from my tires. Of course I pulled into traffic a little fast and the drive wheel caught a frost-covered manhole cover.
-ashley

[Badkrma]

It is smoke from a burn out. You can see smoke coming off the right rear tire also. Plus the driver is wearing a helmet and a lot of people are standing around watching.

[jrgibb]

Guess which of the three posted replies above were tongue in cheek

[Alexlind123]

In wet weather, i can spin my tires to my hearts content (not that i would ever want to, of course) and in the dry the tires will spin and get a nice screech when pulling out of a corner...but not when going straight on dry pavement.

[BM-BOY]

GET A MANUAL!!! I can spin my tires all day long! -SHMOKIN'-

[Jon K]

hes also in the water strip... at a drag track.

[AllGo'n'Show]

Rain, Snow, Ice, Corners, I've done those so far, no luck in a straight line although it is alot easier to do a burnout when you have a working rear suspension, mines shot so once i fix that I could probably pull it off, not to mention I'm putting my chip in sometime.

[Alexlind123]

I often think that something is wrong with my torque converter, because if i floor it from a dead stop it pretty much rolls forward about 15 feet before it comes alive. If i floor it while going 10mph, however, i get the full effect Its also nice following someone driving slow at just the right speed so that when you go to pass it double downshifts and you get an instant surge of 5000-6000k acceleration. Also, on my brother's 535i, which is a manual, the tires dont start spinning instantly with full throttle from a slow roll with the clutch fully engaged, they start spinning as the revs climb in first or second gear. Of course one can feather the clutch in a manual with the throttle pinned to keep the revs up and the vehicle speed down to get the most tires spinning (although probably very hard on the clutch). With an automatic, one can use the brake to, again, keep the vehicle speed down and the revs up to spin the tires. I think if we were too intereste din this sort of thing, we all probably would have purchased late 80's to mid 90's mustang 5.0ls with the smoothness of a stampeding hippopotamus. While on the subject of burnouts, i found this video along with a couple of others of the same car, i think it is either a 525i or a 535i, probably 535im as it does not have the "m" spoiler or wheels: http://servo.postverket.us/alex/BmwBurn002.avi