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Some shots of my and another member's (NUSTAD) E39 M5's Taken at the June Coffee and Cars meet.

Id prefer the e34 mounts with cups if I were to choose from the factory options. My 2c.

The cocoon is awesome.

OK. So after a few emails and text messages with the engineer, I was ready to just go buy that lovely looking TTV racing all steel single mass flywheel from the U.K. Anyway, after basically telling the bloke what I needed, and he telling me every other option bar the easiest one , I said look, use the steel machined ring gear from the Auto I provided. It will be oem strength and finish, proven and it will fit. Add whatever blank bit of steel, with the appropriate dowels and machine the flippin thing to suit the E36 M3 97+ pressure plate and E34 M5 Clutch disk. How hard can it be? (not that anyone I have seen anywhere in google land has done it) So I wait a few days thinking, o.k, I am either going to get a nice surprise, or a fricken P.O.S. Well I picked it up, and low and behold, it is as ordered. I think he did a great job. The brilliant thing about it all is that, the easiest option was the best. He was going to buy a suitable ring gear then blah blah blah, which was let's say cost prohibitive. Then he was just going to machine the whole thing which was even worse! Not only is this easier, if it all goes pear shaped I can get Auto ring gear's easy, having it in 2 parts means I could machine another flywheel to suit another clutch kit down the track (Cause I love this sh*t) Well I guess the proof will happen when its in and running... I thought it might be wise to take some images and weigh the thing, and see how it shaped up. The original 530i sachs pressure plate at 5.5kg The new E36 M3 97+ sachs pressure plate at 4.7kg (they look all but identical) New pressure plate and Clutch disk at 6.2kg Old pressure plate and clutch disk at 6.6kg Old original dual mass flywheel at 12.5kg New custom flywheel and old Auto M60B40 ring gear at 10.7kg Old M60B40 auto ring gear (from donor motor sans flex plate) and new machined flywheel that fits like a hubcentric hub (and to think I didn't even have to tell the engineer that either!) A great image of the new flywheel, notice the huge recess, to fit the sprung hub side of the clutch disk...well in theory the bloody thing better work! I didn't bother to bang the pressure plates down and pull out the vernier calipers but the stack heights look pretty close, and I did get that point across to the engineer, so heres hoping I don't have to measure anything. I was thinking about getting it all balanced, but think nah, it should be good to go, I don't want to be too rangi...but lets face it, sometimes the moths that fly out of my wallet are trying in vain to tell me something? Oh, so my maths tells me, the old reciprocal mass comes to 19.1kg, the new at 16.9kg. A miniscule 2.2kg saving, not that weight savings was the priority, strength and longevity was, the weight loss is just an added bonus, it was also cheaper than any of the aftermarket flywheels, and the clutch disk and pressure plate were below the new costs of the originals, so wins all around. The car has done over 300k so the flywheel life left was mmmm anyway, the 4.0 was just going to get it to the grave a little bit quicker. It was just an added insurance really doing all of this. I could really have just changed the oem clutch disk. But on that note I could have just left the 3.0l in there too, and who the heck would support me on that one on this forum?ha.

You want to get rid of the rasp?

never thought I found find one of these ....benn looking for a long time and just found 1 in chch perfect for my race car.