Where is everyone mounting their s54 swap ecu?

[diesekte]

Bump, why are my wires so short?

[diesekte]

I flipped the rubber part and I can fit all the wires through the hole in the firewall, but a few of the connectors are super short. Some of them only protrude into the cabin by a few inches. Definitely not nearly as far as in bmwfanz picture. And that's with the cables draped directly over the engine, not in the black plastic cover for wiring some people use that sits above the engine (which i bought and would like to use). What gives?

[BMWfanz]

Actually effect of braking depends on master cylinder, not on booster. Bigger booster make pedal softer, with less volume booster its stiffer than stock so for good braking you need more pressure on pedal. MK2 booster works fine for me. But you need some calculations for brake balance to exclude rear wheels blocking

[Staszek]

VW golf MK2

How do you like it, I heard that is good, and also the 2002 booster, how is the feel? I will be going to E46 M3 brakes so that should help the feel a bit but curious how it runs.

[BMWfanz]

Nice job! What brake booster is that?

VW golf MK2

[Staszek]

https://drive.google.com/folder/d/0B...ZQRVktU28/edit

Nice job! What brake booster is that?

[gpeterson]

If so then your the only person that has done it, got any pics?

I did it as well, worked for my E36 swap. I didn't get pictures of flipping part of the S54 harness to make it reach, but here are a few others.

Gutted E36 harness:




E36 and S54 harnesses merged together:




Running wires for throttle/sport button & light/etc. through un-used pins on E36 connector:




(almost) final product. Ignore the messy O2 wiring, disconnected SAP, and few bits that still need to be re-loomed:

[jink0619]

https://drive.google.com/folder/d/0B...ZQRVktU28/edit

Fantastic! you won't be the only one anymore lol

[BMWfanz]

That's very clever BMWfanz. :up:

Thanks, Andrew!) I would prefer your plug and play wire, but previous owner of my car ruined the harness , so there was no idea how to do it except custom work)

[Andrew325is]

That's very clever BMWfanz. :up:

[anaphe]

I extended mine and mounted it where the glovebox was

AK

[BMWfanz]

https://drive.google.com/folder/d/0B1CgXok2-6IAQTY5N1ZQRVktU28/edit

[jink0619]

From Z3M s54 nothing is needed to extend. I've used M3 E46 wiring from totaled M3 and i have no idea why you thinking this way. My car is running perfect on E46 wire

If so then your the only person that has done it, got any pics?

[BMWfanz]

From Z3M s54 nothing is needed to extend. I've used M3 E46 wiring from totaled M3 and i have no idea why you thinking this way. My car is running perfect on E46 wire

[jink0619]

I've just extended only MAF connector, other wiring reach glovebox easily, just need to reverse wiring in the plastic box on engine block.

Ummm I think what you have is a harness from the Zs54 sir cause there's no way the e46m harness easily reaches the glovebox.