BMW 650i - 750i - Getting the best 0 - 60 MPH performance 

Basically, you just like hammering your BMW down the road as fast as possible and providing chit chat about what you found. Bravo!

Well you comprehensively answered my comment on the previous video. Another great informative video for 6 series owners and fans who f greatly appreciate your work. 👍🏻

Regarding the Sport button: I found with my 2011 335is with the DCT that the Sport button served to quicken the throttle response a bit, raise the shift point a bit and quicken the shift a bit. With this in mind, your selection of the Sport button would serve little purpose for a 0-60 test with only one gear change. The Sport function noticeably enhances the overall driving experience which is the way we drive usually. Taking this a step further, turning off the DTC would probably hinder a 0-60 time with less tan perfect traction but it improves the overall power delivery and predictability in most every other respect. Just my dos centavos, Timm. Love your channel!

Nice to see the range across the board 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

It was the best video I have ever seen on youtube. Thank Timm, I really start to feel you are one of my brother at the abroad.

Love these videos, Timm. Not much info available out there on the 650s, and I love my 2007 E63 650i so it's great to be able to get more insight. Thanks for sharing!

Great video Timm.

My favourite is in sports mode and the gearbox in manual shift. When you are going flat out the car will change the gear for you when you hit the limiter.

Thank you tim, for your great advice with bmw repairs and information i followed all of your instructions step by step i love your videos. Your awesome my brother.

Awesome. I do this in my 545i and i shift better now.

These videos are really outstanding Tim. This subject is very engaging. I always felt the Sport button was for the suspension damping only and the D/S mode was for alternate agressive transmission shift point gate. I will say I tried the Sport mode on and off to see if it affected fuel economy in cruise on a 700 mile trip. Amazing, with the Sport mode off the fuel economy went from 20 to 22 mpg with the cruise at 75 mph on my E70.This appears to indicate the Valvetronic increasing fuel economy from eliminating pumping losses in the intake? That is 10 percent increase in fuel economy in cruise.

I have an e39 540i. Regular driver for 8 years. Manual shift it all day, everyday. I maybe put it in sport mode once in a blue moon when I just want to keep both hands on the steering wheel. Love how far it keeps the gear. Much better for the twisties.

Another great video Timm, as always a lot of time and thought gone into it clearly. There could be one caveat to the method of reading from the rev counter - the effect of torque converter slip. A given rpm might not always correspond to the same road speed. I don’t know if the lockup strategy varies between the modes.

Thank you mate

Timm live a little my friend. Turn the traction control fully off.

Did you not attempt a run in DS Auto? I.e shifter over to the left to engage DS but with the ‘sport’ button off ? This is my favourite mode by far

thanks for all the time and work you put in the video. i have a 645ci 2005. i love the car and had a 325i conv. 1987, had it 5 years and had to sell it Anyway, i am interested in getting all i can out of my 645ci. is automatic 6 speed like yours. were is the best place to get bmw upgrade bolt on stuff for my car? Thanks for and info and or links you know of. Is a 74k miles on my car. All the best, happy holidays.

From a racing perspective, Sport-sport- manual looks like you made an early gear change. It doesn’t even change that early in auto and sport auto (check 5.2 & 5.08 second run). Also when you did the nonsport- manual gear change, you changed at 6500 rpm, not 6000 rpm like you did in sport-sport- manual. In my opinion that’s what made the difference.

Hi Timm, love the videos and thanks for you advice on bimmer forums in the last year or so. I have always liked starting in 3rd gear in my 2007 650i, in normal Drive but manual (no sport button). Sometimes I wonder if the 0-60mph isn't almost as good starting in 3rd with no gear changes than starting in 1st or 2nd. Would be great to see if that is just a perception or not. Starting in 3rd is cool I think - it shows off the raw power/torque without spinning the wheels or racing the engine. The other thing I enjoy is pressing the traction control button once - it gives you nice small slides round corners. Holding the traction control button down for a few seconds give you the full non-traction-control mode where you learn the most but have to be most careful :)

Manual transmission 645Ci owner here. I always drive in sport, as it makes it easier to rev-match more precisely, and I don't have any issues putting power down, even in heavy rain. Maybe the sport mode is calibrated differently in the automatics?

Hi, You appear to be taking to 6000 Rev. What about speed? Should you not have stopped at 60Mph? Apologies if I missed something🙂 Great video. I got 0-60 in 5.2 using a timing app. That was sport sport in my 4.8L. Will try the steptronic. I certainly drive differently since watching your videos. Keep it up👍

Did you try with launch control on?

Got my manual transmission 645i for 5800 I love it 165k miles no issues

Is it possible to install paddle shifter from the LCI sport gearbox? This is the only mode missing and as an F1 simulator gamer I'd love that in the real car as well :D

Never got used to the manual shift positions which is counter intuative going up and down the gears.

Hi tim, i just bought a 2006 650i for $8500 at 108k. The transmission is going out but the valve seals were just replaced, and i was wondering what i may need to do to fix it. The reverse just stopped working the other day but it started working again today, and the shifting is not very smooth. Also, there is an abnormal amount of engine break sometimes. Any thoughts on what may need to be done?

Hey Tim, Have you tried flashing Bosch DME with a custom map? On my E63 I've gained about 8% torque and 10% HP (with higher octane fuel I am able shift at a higher redline which tech at the dyno tells me is why I gained a bit more HP than torque). Besides coding the exhaust flap to open in manual mode, running xHP on the ZF transmission and deleting the charcoal component from the intake (still running an air filter obviously) the car is basically stock as far as mechanical componentry is concerned. I'd be happy to take a delta of my car's tune from stock and apply it to your one if you send me a dump of you DME. All you need is a KESS V2 clone to read and write to your DME which are about $70 USD online.

What about same with traction control off? I guess my 645 will get some testing soon :D

Does the same number of revs correspond with the same speed throughout the different modes?

\\\\\\\\\\sport button activates faster throttle response and stiffens the suspension if you have dynamic drive so IT IS valuable.

Did you have traction control completely disabled or was it activated?

Hi Timm, did you know you can enable digital speedo in ncs expert via 1 line of code, it displays in the lower dash where you normally get mpg and range, you can cycle through the displays as normal. Additionally you can link this and your normal needle to GPS derived speed too. In my older nav unit you can also display GPS speed on the nav screen, but i think its the version before yours - might still be available. No more parallax errors when testing.

Achieving 4.92 sec's 0 - 60 is equivalent to a 2009 Porsche 911 0 - 60 specs! Suggest you try the launch control mode of taking off!

Which transmission had problems in the e64 650i?

Hi Tim, do you fix other peoples cars?

Definitely short shifted when in sport, sport and manual! We are talking 3 tenths of a second between all modes….hardly a difference in it, especially as tyres will be warmer/cooler and road surface will change depending on stretch being used. Basically, the car is as quick in all modes, it just depends which you prefer to drive as it alters the driving feel, not the speed.

Wow, even the road rage in Britain sounds polite.

BMW Website Say For The E64 Is 4.7 & 4.9 Seconds

Hey mate you have to turn the traction control completely off hold the traction control button for like 5 seconds then make another video no power lost

Tim where would you find a m6 v10 cheap

I feel some drivers listen to the engine note and this may feel the car is faster than it actually is.