driving over to the woman's house on 495 and heard a pretty loud exhaust note coming from behind. glanced in my mirror and saw a blue colored M5 coming up in the fast lane doing a good speed, probably 85 or 90. this thing was quite loud, I heard it a good 1/4 mile away coming up on me.

passed me doing at a good pace, I attempted to catch up and give a wave, but my exit was coming up.

anybody know any blue M5's on the board? was it a member?

it was a really loud exhaust, body looked stock otherwise.

so really loud.....like f1 style loud? probably an eisenmann exhaust??

did you see the wheels? hartge maybe? HRE's? if so, that's Jed.

PM him for his number, he loves to give people thrill rides on 495 and drift offramps. he's that crazy!

no, not a member, but a friend/past customer. The car now actually has the full DINAN S3 supercharger kit now (621hp)

http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=255731&highlight=Dinan+M5

^Hmmm, it could've been that car. It was muscle car loud.

The wheels appeared stock from what I could tell and I didn't see a Dinan badge anywhere :dunno

Any other pictures?

By the description in the linked thread, I think I've seen the same guy several days ago on Centreville Rd, Herndon. He was racing a 996, IIRC, from a red light. Pretty loud. Stock wheels, though.

Was it avus blue? Sounds like it may have been Armo.

Was it avus blue? Sounds like it may have been Armo.

Yes, I believe it was Avus Blue. Stock wheels.

Like this picture. And I believe it was a 2000 because it didn't have angel eyes, they were xenons. It was damn mean-looking, too, much more aggressive than the stockish look, although cosmetically it looked stock.

http://www.jimmy540i.com/e39h.jpg

Sounds like it may have been Armo; PM him to find out. User name is Armo.

Paging Armo...

Ha, yea, that was me :D

I didn't even notice your car, I just wanted to get home :rofl I took the woman to D.C. that day(the entire day and I was exhausted), she hasn't been there before. I think I was going ~80/85 for most of the way. I never drive too fast with her in the car, or anybody for that matter.


Looks-wise, I am pretty much stock.

However, my car has an aftermarket smoked headlight assembly, smoked sidemarkers, and gunmetal grill. And it is dropped with Dinan's Stage I suspension (springs/shocks).

And yes, it's loud, especially on WOT- people say they can hear the car for a good mile away if I'm accelerating HARD through the gears. Even cruising, you can hear the car very easily from a good distance. I run about 117-120dbs on WOT, which, to me at least, is extremely loud for a street car.