Interesting, but I'm just looking to be safer than sorry.
Haha, there really was never any race. It was just a motivation method that he wanted to do and I went along with it.
I want to do a custom 2 into 1 intake. Likely welded thin-walled aluminum as opposed to carbon fiber. Quicker and I could powdercoat it.
I'm doing Alpha-N for 2 reasons - More power, but also I had no choice but to eliminate the AFM's due to lack of room. Yes, I'll be occasionally daily-driving the car during the summer, not winter, so I'll adapt to its behavior.
I did research on AlphaN and it said that the torque and HP curves were smoother as was the idle itself. I do not have anything to compare it to, so the way it will behave is the only way that I'll know...and I'll adapt to it.
Some updates - Just got back from Gutenfest yesterday evening and started teardown today at 4pm. What you see is 4 hours of teardown.
I started completing my Sport Button, which activates the ECU to sharpen the throttle behavior/mechanism when pushed. I wanted to keep the E30 style button, so I decided to modify the Defrost switch. I had to do some very significant updates to the internals of this switch to make it work, including a custom LED to indicate when SPORT mode is actually on.
Sanded/polished the defrost insignia:
LED soldered with small, flexible enamel coated 22gauge wire in line with a 470ohm resistor, since the LED soaks up about 20ma
The yellow light works as normal with dimming controlled by the light control switch. I will be adding a small vinyl "S" where the yellow light is for indicating during the daylight what the switch is for, similar to the current Defrost, hazard, A/C, and Recirc switches.
Green LED indicating SPORT ON
Final Switch assembly with wire pigtail
2 wires go to SPORT indicator LED (1 to Ground, 1 to DME)
2 wires go to SPORT on/off (1 to ground, 1 to DME)
2 wires go to E30 yellow light & dimming
Now on to the tear-down: Started removing all front bodywork, exhaust, driveshaft, shifter...etc Boring stuff really.
Doing some C101/X20 wiring labeling for the future owner of this M60 making it easier for them to swap....
And finally, a little test fit.
This is going to happen fast, so try to keep up ;)
Haha, there really was never any race. It was just a motivation method that he wanted to do and I went along with it.
I want to do a custom 2 into 1 intake. Likely welded thin-walled aluminum as opposed to carbon fiber. Quicker and I could powdercoat it.
I'm doing Alpha-N for 2 reasons - More power, but also I had no choice but to eliminate the AFM's due to lack of room. Yes, I'll be occasionally daily-driving the car during the summer, not winter, so I'll adapt to its behavior.
I did research on AlphaN and it said that the torque and HP curves were smoother as was the idle itself. I do not have anything to compare it to, so the way it will behave is the only way that I'll know...and I'll adapt to it.
Some updates - Just got back from Gutenfest yesterday evening and started teardown today at 4pm. What you see is 4 hours of teardown.
I started completing my Sport Button, which activates the ECU to sharpen the throttle behavior/mechanism when pushed. I wanted to keep the E30 style button, so I decided to modify the Defrost switch. I had to do some very significant updates to the internals of this switch to make it work, including a custom LED to indicate when SPORT mode is actually on.
Sanded/polished the defrost insignia:
LED soldered with small, flexible enamel coated 22gauge wire in line with a 470ohm resistor, since the LED soaks up about 20ma
The yellow light works as normal with dimming controlled by the light control switch. I will be adding a small vinyl "S" where the yellow light is for indicating during the daylight what the switch is for, similar to the current Defrost, hazard, A/C, and Recirc switches.
Green LED indicating SPORT ON
Final Switch assembly with wire pigtail
2 wires go to SPORT indicator LED (1 to Ground, 1 to DME)
2 wires go to SPORT on/off (1 to ground, 1 to DME)
2 wires go to E30 yellow light & dimming
Now on to the tear-down: Started removing all front bodywork, exhaust, driveshaft, shifter...etc Boring stuff really.
Doing some C101/X20 wiring labeling for the future owner of this M60 making it easier for them to swap....
And finally, a little test fit.
This is going to happen fast, so try to keep up ;)
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