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IND | Fall Line Motorsports F90 M5 Oil Cooler Guard
The F90 M5 cars are incredibly well sorted from a cooling standpoint. Even in a road course environment with extremely high ambient temperatures, the F90 engine tends to operate beautifully, with consistent oil and water temperatures. BMW M invested a great deal of time, money, and effort into designing a cooling system that worked in nearly every condition. Although excellent ducting, good core design, strong fans, and other factors all play in to how well a cooling system works, there is one ultimate factor which cannot be circumvented- you must have enough heat exchanger surface area, and you must have enough heat exchangers. When examining the front of an M5 then, we see the hard work of the M engineers in packaging the various cooling components of the car. Everything had to be accounted for, and given ample space, surface area, and ducting. Unfortunately, this leaves the S63 engine’s oil cooler precariously exposed. A direct impact to the oil cooler can have catastrophic effects, draining the S63 of all of its oil in seconds, a fact that more than a handful M5 owners have had to learn in a painfully direct way. Having seen that this was a critical need for the F90 M5 cars, IND worked with Fall Line Motorsports to develop a robust oil cooler guard, specifically designed to shield the S63’s oil cooler from large road debris and prevent disaster. The new Fall Line Motorsports oil cooler guards will be constructed from thick stainless steel plate, and will fasten directly to existing frame members on the F90 M5 cars, spreading any impact across strong structural components. Special care was taken to ensure that the opening in the oil cooler guard matched the shape and size of the existing BMW oil cooler air outlet, ensuring that proper air flow is maintained. Installation is straightforward and uses all existing mounting locations, and also retains the factory BMW plastic shield and associated outlet ducting. Installation hardware is included. The Fall Line Motorsports F90 M5 Oil Cool Guard may be viewed at the following link to our online store: https://ind-distribution.com/product?sku=FLM-F90-3FSKID Please contact IND by phone or email for more information or to place your order. 866.963.4520 | info@ind-distribution.com
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I'm going to get this mod this week. Better safe, then sorry.
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Let me know if you want it.
I got a few sets on the way. I can get it install for you too.
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Those pictures are from the bottom, where hot air exits. It is protecting the oil cooler from incoming debris from the front on the car. So, you won't see any of the stripes from the top.
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They had a close call, luckily the oil cooler guard the one who take the hit.
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I find this classless. How can you do this on IND's post? start a new thread of your own if you are going to offer their parts for sale.
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First of all, this product is made by Fall Line Motorsports. IND is the distributor and I am an installer. Secondly, I am helping others to understand how it actually work and function, not selling it. OP doesn't mind about it since it also benefit them. Am I guilty? "Officer"???
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I have a lift at home and put my M5 up since I plan on using another car the next few weeks. Here is a picture of the oil cooler guard after 6 months of daily driving. I abuse my daily so this is very bad but just want you to see how much abuse the guard takes to protect the oil cooler. I might have been on engine 6 at this point without it! |
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We keep the FL F90 oil guards in stock at all times.
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Zero issues with warranty since the oil guard does not alter any emissions items. Also I see that you are local. I've taken the iND M5 to Patrick and MW service with no problems.
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Living in SOCAL and having a stock F90 I sometimes have to cross some of the aggressive dip intersections on an angle to keep the front lower bumper from making contact with the roadway. |
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Anyone have a BMW dealer install one of these???
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Definitely a worthwhile upgrade. You can see that the factory oil cooler is not very recessed compared to the front bumper and hence, incredibly prone to impact (however serious) on these road undulations you speak of, even at stock ride height. Our F90's oil cooler guard looked to be in similar shape as the photos above, so we were eternally grateful to have run one of these Fall-Line oil cooler guards from the onset. You just never know what crazy road debris will pop up out of nowhere.
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