For all the usual people, we are heading to Smagons (Murrhardt) on Sat 6th Dec.

Details:

Vorderwestermurr str 3-5
71540 Murrhardt Deutschland
Tel: 071 92 86 96

For an easy map use this:
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The following is planned for my car:
Samco hoses (turbo only),
Change Downpipe,
new air splitter,
xenon (HID) upgrade kit installation,
side skirts back on (now blue).

Steves car:
Samco hoses both air and water.
new air splitter,
side skirts back on.
check brakes - perhaps change to Race pads.?

Gruß,
Neal

 

I would love to have changed the Crank Pulley aswell but I don't think it will arrive in time.

 

Ohhh looks like one I may be able to make... Possibly... maybe. Shame I wont have all my exhaust bits ready by then.

 

Can't come guys Visitor from the UK!

Good luck with the downpipe fitting...

R

 

I'll be there... need to wash the car and its illegal to do in on the streets in this backward country

 

What time are you guys heading down tomorrow?

 

So Neal, how's life without a cat? What are the xenons like in the sh1tty weather?

Al.

 

Hi Al,

everyone said changing the DP would be horrible, and I would break bolts etc etc... but with a 20cm ring spanner I managed to single handedly remove the old pipe and mount the new one within 1/2 hr! While there I also changed the old pipes from the intercooler to black Samco ones.

The new side skirts are now on and look very nice (coloured blue), and we also fitted the new air splitter - which seems to work (as you could see the mist one both the front and rear of the intercooler after driving for a bit in the fog) - where previously only the rear half received this.

The Xenons went in quite well too - a fit of fiddling to find a good postion but now it is magically different!

well what a change... with the decat downpipe I noticed a small reduction in torque low down, but on the autobahn back to steve´s the needle split the number 260 right down the middle - subsequently scaring myself silly I then retuned to a nice normal 180kph.-

Pics to come....

Neal

 

I didn't I went BMW baiting

Great game to play on the Autobahn

That tunnel an the A81 is just mental when you rip through it at 220kmh, sounds like a jet going through it

 

<Waiting for other MY99/00 cars to go bang at high speed...>

 

I really don't want to rain on your parade guys, but running decat systems with a standard ECU (no re-map) on a MY99/00 at very high speeds is just asking for a meltdown...

I realised this too late... although with the PPP I was safer than you guys .

Just warning you, hate to be a propheseer of doom! Because Beemer-baiting is such fun

R

 

Not only that, but if you get a re-map, you'll get more power and torque too

R

 

Richard, you sound a little bitter mate (or should that be bitten?)!!! I also have a new theory for why your engine went bang... its the non-standard quick shift meant that you've been changing gear too quickly and therefore not letting the engine cool down enough between gear changes (average higher revs) thus engine bang! You should have gone for the Prodrive quickshift that takes 0.000000001s longer and protects your engine! ....maybe!

Steve, I though the speed limit through that tunnel is 120 Still, you motor sounds better in the tunnel at 220 ...not that it sounds at all bad at 120 either

Neal, have to agree with Richard about a re-map and a fruity back box would also be nice... can you not convince some of your nice collegues to do a bit of tuning work on a real car for a change!

 

the limit in the tunnel was 100 kph, he blasted through at around 220 odd and I was behind at 180. the bmw didnt know what hit him!

or went past him I should say.

 

BMWhere?

 

Now I dont think we went through at 100km/h either though :-)

 

My speedo must be reading wrong then!

 

Rich if you can find someone in Germany that can do a remap I would be first in the queue!!! I only know of one place and that is Koch Engineering down near Friedberg near the Swiss border! and there is no way I am paying the rip off exhabitant price in the UK for one.

[Edited by Wurzel - 12/13/2003 7:22:33 PM]