S54 wiring harness and DME flashing services

[318isbmw]

Bimmerworld's tune is furnished by Epic Motorsports. The standalone tune is $1600, but also allows you access to pretty much the highest output tune available. If you check out their Facebook page you can see that they've gotten over 350 SAE-corrected whp from stock internals, Supersprint headers, CF airbox, and a 3.5" exhaust.

I don't think anyone else understands double VANOS as much as Epic does.

I just read through bimmerworld's info and it's kind of misleading. Basically you pay the 1600 for them to get it ready, but in the fine print the tune isn't included. So if you wanted an Epic tune, it would be over $3000.

[DesertBMW]

I'll stay away from desertBMW, I really want real work.

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Thanks. I don't do any map work, I just make the stock DME work properly for a swap. And I have a E36 with S54 to test my work.

[Asbradley21]

Hmm, according to bimmerworld, alpha/N tunes must be verified by dyno. That might be difficult to arrange.

[Asbradley21]

Epic also has an interface cable that allows you to flash a tune at home.

Well, that takes care of that then doesn't it.

[FredK]

Epic also has an interface cable that allows you to flash a tune at home.

[Asbradley21]

Bimmerworld's tune is furnished by Epic Motorsports. The standalone tune is $1600, but also allows you access to pretty much the highest output tune available. If you check out their Facebook page you can see that they've gotten over 350 SAE-corrected whp from stock internals, Supersprint headers, CF airbox, and a 3.5" exhaust.

I don't think anyone else understands double VANOS as much as Epic does.

Very interesting. Not a bad price either.

Just emailed Evolve and will email bimmerworld to check them out too. I like that they can do the harness too at the same time. But I like the user-changeability of the evolve tuning, although you have to go through them anyway I would guess, but you don't have to ship.

[FredK]

Bimmerworld's tune is furnished by Epic Motorsports. The standalone tune is $1600, but also allows you access to pretty much the highest output tune available. If you check out their Facebook page you can see that they've gotten over 350 SAE-corrected whp from stock internals, Supersprint headers, CF airbox, and a 3.5" exhaust.

I don't think anyone else understands double VANOS as much as Epic does.

[Asbradley21]

you buy a cable with the tune. he reads your DME and makes changes to the binary, then you flash it.

I'll be able to do the same thing but I'm not providing a tune. I think evolve will be around $1k.

http://www.evolvetuning.us/bmw/3-series/m3-e46-2001-2006/engine-c446/ecu-c623.html

EWS/DSC/SAP/etc. deletes are basically just a checkbox, the value is in the tunes.

the harness I've studied extensively but I haven't tried to adapt one to an E30 yet. I'll have one that's going into a well known car running DTA S100 pretty soon though, which should be basically the same other than the DME connection.

Oh wow that's pretty awesome right there, now I just need someone to make me a harness.

[nando]

you buy a cable with the tune. he reads your DME and makes changes to the binary, then you flash it.

I'll be able to do the same thing but I'm not providing a tune. I think evolve will be around $1k.

http://www.evolvetuning.us/bmw/3-series/m3-e46-2001-2006/engine-c446/ecu-c623.html

EWS/DSC/SAP/etc. deletes are basically just a checkbox, the value is in the tunes.

the harness I've studied extensively but I haven't tried to adapt one to an E30 yet. I'll have one that's going into a well known car running DTA S100 pretty soon though, which should be basically the same other than the DME connection.

[Asbradley21]

Definitely going to talk to Evolve, could you PM or post some contact info? What about full harness, I'd rather pay to have it done than have to do it myself 3 times and risk frying things.
My timeframe is 4-6 months. As far as tune goes I'd like to see what is possible to squeeze out of the MSS54 reliably. How does remote tuning work...?

I'll stay away from desertBMW, I really want real work.

And holy shit if I can get out of this for under 3K that's just icing on the cake.

[nando]

there's lots of options for flashes now. Also look into Evolve. I've been talking to Sal for a while, he can do all the E30 specific stuff, plus the tune, and the price isn't that bad considering the quality of the tune. it's all remote, no shipping your DME to him.

what's your time frame? If all you want is a stock or mildly tweaked tune, the cost goes way down. You definitely won't need to spend $2000 on a flash though. If you just want the basics, Sal at evolve can add a tune to it later. he does remote dyno tuning as well.

DesertBMW.. man, I really don't want to go there. This guy was selling cloned chips a while back. He's also been leaching off the group that's hacking the MSS54, but shared almost nothing. I've banned him here like 4 times, but was trying to give him a chance.

I'm kinda stuck right now as one of my MSS54s is being lent out and the other appears to be bricked. But you'd be surprised once you get into it how simple most of this stuff is. The guys charging $2k to remove DSC, EWS and the e-throttle (with no tune) were taking advantage of a small window where nobody else knew how to do it, but I think that is gone now..

[Asbradley21]

So as my S54 swap is getting under way, I need to sort out the wiring details. As I'm terrible at wiring, I've decided to dish out for a plug and play harness and dme flash, preferable with manual throttle, no sport button or dsc and Alpha/N tune for MAF-less and hopefully cat-less. (and possibly tune for CSL airbox).

Now what I need to know, is who can do this and the specifics of tuning possibilities. From what I gather, there is Turk, Bimmerworld, MarkD(at least for the flash) and maybe DesertBMW now. I'm looking for solid work and don't mind paying for it, but would like to avoid issues with international shipping and crappy exchange rate. Are there other options out there that I don't know about?