I done did it now... A new toy!
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yup this thing looks pretty solid in person. I wasn't sure how it would look with the diffuser because that thing really fills out the back end of the car, but I think with the wheels that are on the car it fits pretty well. The sideskirts don't overpower it either. All in all I think Pat's car now looks like a very classy, understated BMW. Not like my car which is loud and obnoxious in every respect like an unruly kid lol.
also Pat did a primo job rolling my fenders. I haven't rubbed once with my +45 wheels since. Not surprising cuz he got a full 5mm of clearance which is exactly what I lost going from the +50 wheels I replaced. I'm now excited to get back to the track. I had mad rubbing at RA before the roll so now I can look forward to blackhawk.
I think this is the nicest thing you have ever said to me lol! Thanks man! I must say that your loud and obnoxious unruly kid is one of my favorite cars.
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Well it's been awhile since I have updated this. A lot of plans that I had for the car are put on hold due to the amount that I had to spend on repairing a misfire.
The misfire:
I had a severe misfire under load. At first I thought it was tune related since the misfire seemed to have started right after I switched from an e85 mix map to a regular map. I tried reloading the tune, resetting the tune, etc. This did nothing. I turned off the auto clear function and drove the car for a bit until the SES light came on.
-According to procede there was still no code besides the exhaust flapper so I tried scanning with my Autel and only had the flapper and catalyst efficiency codes (both due to mods). I used my work scan tool to try and pull BMW related codes and received the same.
-From here I ran some data logs. What I could find from the data logs is that I had a misfire (duh) but unsure of what cylinder it was on. Procede does not have a misfire pid or smooth running value. I utilized STFT's to determine I had a misfire and it was primarily on bank 2.
-At this point I started the physical inspection. I started by checking any and all connections as well as performing a "wiggle" test on all components. The wiggle test is a technical term of course. With the car running I wiggled any and all connections I could find to see if this made a difference in the way the car ran. Nothing.
-After that inspection I started to disassemble and inspect parts. I started with the obvious, spark plugs. As I pulled each coil I inspected it for any signs of cracking in the boot or discoloration inside the boot and ohmed each one looking for consistency. All coils tested fine.
-Each spark plug was pulled and showed no signs of failure. (less thank 10k miles on them)
-Each injector was pulled for a physical inspection and showed no physical signs of failure.
-As I had each injector pulled I reconnected them to the rail without putting them in the cylinder and left them unplugged. I cranked the car to add rail pressure and hoped to see an injector leaking but had no such luck. At this point I was looking for a 100% guarantee that the injectors had gone bad before I ordered them.
At this point I had a bad feeling that my injectors had failed due to the drivability symptoms and the physical inspection of other components. I was able to try another set of coils and this did nothing to resolve the issue. I ponied up and bought the updated injectors (index 12) for about $1537 from ECS. For those who don't know, BMW essentially has 2 "styles" of DI injectors. They have index 1-10 which is the old style and they have 11+ for the new style. 1-10 can be mixed and 11+ can be mixed but you cannot mix the two styles. This means replacing all of them at once. The injectors are also coded to each cylinder. This is done because the ecu is sensitive to the differences in impedance in the injector.
-Installation of the injectors is extremely easy. If you can change your spark plugs you can change the injectors. The only thing you need to do is write down the values that are on the injectors before you install them so you can code each injector to that cylinder.
-Coding the injectors is also very easy... once you have the program working. From what I can gather, BMW has basically used the same program for years now and just updates it when they add new vehicles. Unfortunately this means that the program has to run on 32-bit windows and nothing newer than Vista. I tried 3 different lap tops before I was able to get it to work on my laptop with Windows 8. Do not ask me how because I honestly have no idea. I have never had so many problems trying to load and use a program. It works for the most part now but is in about 95% German. I am still trying to work with this program so I can code functions but as it stands now I can only code injectors.
After coding the injectors the car sputtered for a minute at idle then smoothed out. I took her for a drive and she ran perfect. This whole ordeal has never had me so frustrated with any car. It seriously made me consider selling the car and buying anything else. Now that it has been over a month and nothing else has come up then I would say I have calmed down and I am again deeply in love with the N54 but i'd be lying if I said I wasn't still a little nervous.
Jordan (i_love_cars) put it in perspective for me once we went over every common fail item that I have replaced since I bought the car a year ago. Every common fail item has been replaced on this car now and it should be smooth sailing and regular maintenance/upgrades from here on out!
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clearly time for bigger turbos and more boost.
2011 E92 M3 6MT ZCP - ESS 625 supercharged
2007 Z4MR
2003 E39 M5
2002 E46 M3
2021 X5 40i -
clearly time for bigger turbos and more boost.
Yes. I keep eyeing up the Vargas Stage 1's. Maybe next year... For now I am looking at dropping procede and going into MHD. I like what I am reading so far.
Did you have to buy the software off eBay like TIS or ETK? Didn't think of this when we talked but maybe running a virtual machine with windows XP via VirtualBox would make running the program less of a hassle.
I downloaded it for free via this link http://www.e90post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=645844. I tried running a virtual machine and never got it to work. Like I said, I have no idea why but most of it works right now. I can't get the software to work to code functions but I can pull/clear factory codes and program injectors. I haven't played around too much since I am not too fluent in German and going between the program and google translate is a pita.
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Great couple of updates. I need to do all 6 injectors at some point as well. Pretty sure I have a leaky one because I get a slight misfire when it sits overnight in colder weather. Goes away after a minute of driving. I've been trying to put off the $1,500 job. It's been hard for me to resist pulling the trigger on some Hexons, but I'm in the middle of buying a house. Probably a good decision that I leave the car alone for a while.
Your car looks great with that diffuser and side skirts!
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Great couple of updates. I need to do all 6 injectors at some point as well. Pretty sure I have a leaky one because I get a slight misfire when it sits overnight in colder weather. Goes away after a minute of driving. I've been trying to put off the $1,500 job. It's been hard for me to resist pulling the trigger on some Hexons, but I'm in the middle of buying a house. Probably a good decision that I leave the car alone for a while.
Your car looks great with that diffuser and side skirts!
Thanks man! I've gotten a few people approach me at shows about producing the rear diffusers so I think it's something I may start doing soon for the e9x platform and eventually the e82. I had a guy at Cars and Coffee ask me to make one for his e60 M5 on Sunday but i'm not sure there's a ton of people looking for it on that platform.
Yea, let your bank account recoup a bit before pulling the trigger on the Hexons. I figured out later that my misfire was from injectors 4 and 6 and I can tell you that it was extremely noticeable under light to heavy acceleration in the lower RPM range. If you can get a scanner to measure the smooth running values then you can pinpoint where the misfire is and verify it is the injector. Buying injectors was the most painful $1500 I have ever spent lol.
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I downloaded MHD and have been having connectivity issues. Once I can get it to connect I will follow up with a review.
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The connectivity issue I had has been with my One Stop Electronics cable. I contacted Martial at MHD and he helped me work through it to figure out that my cable is the issue. It seems as though nobody else has issues with these cables so I reached out to One Stop Electronics and they have instructed me to mail the cable back and they will ship me a new one... from China.
I helped a friend figure this out and he ordered a cable off of Amazon for $20 that worked for us. He is bone stock on an 09 335xi 6mt. The car is smooth and very driveable with the stage 1 93 oct tune on it with just more oomph. It has transformed his car and is a lot smoother than the stage 1 procede tune I ran on my car. I haven't had a chance to log on his car at all but once I do I will report back.
I will say, for the $160 he spent +$25 for the cable and otg cable, it is definitely more worth it than any of the other current options for an entry level tune. I say entry level because there is not enough out there yet on FBO to really say otherwise for the current stable of options available but it is promising.
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I installed MHD Flasher and just got my first log done. I'm really happy with the way the log looks and feel pretty comfortable with it. The difference between the MHD and Procede isn't quite night and day but the MHD feels a bit smoother and my logs look better. For some reason my AFR's never sunk below 13-12.5 with Procede but with MHD I am under 12 in higher RPM's. Not sure how to explain that because Snap and I just logged on his Father in Laws 335i with my old Procede and we were hitting much safer AFR's. Either way, I feel a lot better with this set up and look forward to adding more power.
http://datazap.me/u/patsbimmer1/log-1446424934?log=0&data=4-16-17-20
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stop wasting time trying to be like every other 335i bro stuck in purgatory of " OMG GUYZ 400+....but it stops at 5k rpm
" purgatory and upgrade your fucking turbos already.2011 E92 M3 6MT ZCP - ESS 625 supercharged
2007 Z4MR
2003 E39 M5
2002 E46 M3
2021 X5 40i -
stop wasting time trying to be like every other 335i bro stuck in purgatory of " OMG GUYZ 400+....but it stops at 5k rpm
" purgatory and upgrade your fucking turbos already.Haha! You are a cranky son of a gun lately! I'm working towards upgrading the twins and can hopefully do so next year but in the meantime I am pretty content with my "335i bro status" as you so eloquently put it.
My wife wants to get rid of her 2010 altima and get an SUV of some kind(Volvo or BMW) and that'll take precedence over my turbos along with other life plans.
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I installed MHD Flasher and just got my first log done. I'm really happy with the way the log looks and feel pretty comfortable with it. The difference between the MHD and Procede isn't quite night and day but the MHD feels a bit smoother and my logs look better. For some reason my AFR's never sunk below 13-12.5 with Procede but with MHD I am under 12 in higher RPM's. Not sure how to explain that because Snap and I just logged on his Father in Laws 335i with my old Procede and we were hitting much safer AFR's. Either way, I feel a lot better with this set up and look forward to adding more power.
http://datazap.me/u/patsbimmer1/log-1446424934?log=0&data=4-16-17-20
Have you thought of getting a pro tune from PTF, Wedge, etc.? I think you and the car would be happier since you've got some pretty serious timing corrections in that log
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Haha! You are a cranky son of a gun lately! I'm working towards upgrading the twins and can hopefully do so next year but in the meantime I am pretty content with my "335i bro status" as you so eloquently put it.
My wife wants to get rid of her 2010 altima and get an SUV of some kind(Volvo or BMW 1996 Blazer) and that'll take precedence over free up plenty of money for my turbos along with other life plans. an LSD.
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2011 E92 M3 6MT ZCP - ESS 625 supercharged
2007 Z4MR
2003 E39 M5
2002 E46 M3
2021 X5 40i -
Have you thought of getting a pro tune from PTF, Wedge, etc.? I think you and the car would be happier since you've got some pretty serious timing corrections in that log
I really haven't put too much thought into it until recently.
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This is a bit better. 91oct map with 93 oct fuel. Smooth timing.
http://datazap.me/u/patsbimmer1/stage-2-45-degrees-f-91oct-map?log=0&data=4-8-9-10-11-12-20
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This is a bit better. 91oct map with 93 oct fuel. Smooth timing.
http://datazap.me/u/patsbimmer1/stage-2-45-degrees-f-91oct-map?log=0&data=4-8-9-10-11-12-20
I replied to you on e90post
Off topic but what are your thoughts on the h&r race springs? I can't stand the front wheel gap with my eibachs, which is worse on an xi. I'm thinking of picking up some race springs but I fear I'll be hitting the bump stops non-stop.
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I replied to you on e90post
Off topic but what are your thoughts on the h&r race springs? I can't stand the front wheel gap with my eibachs, which is worse on an xi. I'm thinking of picking up some race springs but I fear I'll be hitting the bump stops non-stop.
I love the way they look and handle but you will sacrifice ride quality. I am looking at going with Koni FSD shocks and struts to combat this. I use the wife test for comfort and she hates them lol.
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I love the way they look and handle but you will sacrifice ride quality. I am looking at going with Koni FSD shocks and struts to combat this. I use the wife test for comfort and she hates them lol.
Yeah, aftermarket shocks are a must if you want anywhere decent ride quality. I have bilstein b8s and would definitely recommend them. Aren't the FSDs made for stock ride height?
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