Welcome back everyone it's Mark with ExoticCar PlayPlace today to talk
about the BMW e60 m5 s85 engine that we have right here in my e60 m5. What
makes this engine the best engine that BMW has ever produced? Well, we want to
talk about some of the specifications, and I will give you that in a moment, but
before we get started, make sure that you stick around. You want to make sure
you subscribe to the channel as well as hit your notifications because very soon
in one of my following videos, I will be including the reason that BMW gave up on
the s85 V10 and why they abandoned this engine design. They went with a twin-turbo
v8 thing, down that path. In 2005, BMW created the S85 V10 engine, which
happened to be an F1 inspired engine from with the Williams F1 team. This
actually won (in 2005) several engine awards, best performance engine, best
performance engine under 4 litres, as well as best new engine. It received many
awards year after year for the duration of its production run. So what kind of
engine is this? Well what this is is an all aluminum, aluminum head, aluminum
block v10 engine, with four valves per cylinder, double overhead camshaft,
independently operated cams, actually on the exhaust and the intake at a 90
degree angle for maximum balance, and a 5 litres displacement. The engine, also
known as S85 in the BMW world, basically produced 507 brake horsepower,
383 foot-pounds of torque, had a maximum horsepower peak at 7750 rpm and a
redline at 8250 RPM. Some other interesting facts. Did you know that this car holds
nine and a half quarts of oil? This is mainly because it has a quasi-dry sump
setup. It doesn't have a standard wet sump system like many cars. It utilizes a
semi, what they call a quasi dry sump system, which actually is a sort of a
separate tank, which is electrically pumped from one side to another and
provides oil for the rest of the engine, lubrication, and cooling. Also the
engine, apparently by design, was created with a life span in mind
about 200,000 kilometers, or about a 120 000 miles. We
know a lot of owners are eager about extending that life of that car, and so
there's a lot of things that we can do, like for example the rod bearings, and do
the proper maintenance. We can repair parts when they wear out, but by design, the engine
was designed only to get about 2000000 kilometers on it.
Also a very unique thing to this engine, you know if you look at some of the
other models of the same generation, you had the Lamborghini which had double
throttle bodies that actually had one per "V".
So you had one on the left bank, one on the right bank, you had two
throttle bodies, That's it. This car has ten individually controlled
throttle bodies supplying air and fuel to this hungry monster. This car also
happens to have a very, very, very, high static compression ratio, up at about
12.0 to 1. Most cars would never run that high, you'd need race fuel.
If you ran any regular fuel or even a premium fuel, you would probably have a
high chance of detonating the engine. So in a lot of the modern day vehicles
today, utilize knock sensors. Well the e60 m5 is unique in that way, and there's
another piece of technology it does not utilize, knock sensors in this engine. As
most other cars with high compression ratios would, or turbocharged cars would
use knock sensors, this does not use knock sensors. This uses an ionic current
system which measures misfire and knock simultaneously, and provides utilizes a
small output voltage across the plug,
almost immeasurable really, but shortly after the actual ignition of the spark
plug during normal combustion, and normal ignition, and that in itself is there to
protect the system from knocking or detonating. It keeps the engine together,
and therefore these cars generally don't have a detonation issue. So let's do a
little bit of a quick tour on the engine. Right here here's the illustrious e60 m5
s85 v10 motor. As you can see, v10, you have your dual plenums here. Spectacular
piece, this is just magnificent. You have dual air filters, one on this
side ,one on this side, dual air filters. You have your vanos systems here which
operates your cam timing, again for your intake and exhaust variable valve timing.
That's what that's all about. Okay now as we scroll over here underneath, you can
have a quick look. It's very difficult to see, but there's the ten individual
throttle body underneath the plenum here. There's five on this side, five on the
other side, making it a very unique engine in that regard. And of course the
filler cap that every e60 m5 owner is very familiar with to fill up your
engine oil right here is something you're going to be doing on a very
regular basis, because these cars consume some oil. So that's all I can offer you guys
today. I just want to share with you why I believe truly this is the best engine,
the finest engine that BMW has ever produced.
There is some certain amount of crudeness to it, and that's only strictly
because BMW, in my opinion, didn't fully refine the engine. They didn't really
extend the development of the engine out enough to get it more refined, but it is
a very, very crisp engine, with a lot of superior engineering technology going on
there. And in my mind this engine truly is a masterpiece, and will likely
never be replicated again by BMW, or likely anybody else. It is truly a
masterpiece F1 design engine, and as I said before guys, I hope you enjoyed the
video. Make sure if you want to hear more but why BMW let this engine design
go, and they gave this up for the v8 twin turbocharged, v8 engine, that you find in
the s10, and now of course in the F 90 M5's,
Find out in my next video, I'm going to share with you why I believe this
actually happened. Why they gave this engine up, and why they moved on to these
other engines. Make sure you subscribe to find out, and turn on your notifications.
That's how you're gonna know that next video shows up, so of course that will be
my next video. Make sure you come back to see it. There should be some very
interesting things to talk about there. So thanks again everybody, glad you joined
me Mark again with Exotic Car Play Place, signing out and I love to
see on the next one. See you soon.