14 years - 1991 325ix, Stroker/5-Speed (N52 swap?)

[ForcedFirebird]

If you do all the leg work and chop/grind the bits yourself, can't you just go to a local welder? I'd have no problem with it if you weren't half way across the world.

[nando]

I haven't done anything with C167. I'd need some motivation.

MSV70/MSS70/MS45 are all in the same family (also MSS60 and MSS65 to some degree), with the same CPU and a lot of the same code - makes it easy to extend knowledge from one to the other. Unfortunately for me BMW no longer uses PPC cpus so I can't extend it to anything newer. :p

Nothing new to post yet - I did actually drive my E30 today. Had to dust it off. I should probably put some fuel stabilizer in it - at least it's on a trickle charger, but it didn't want to start right away. Haven't been driving it mainly because the CV shafts really need to be rebuilt and I've been too busy working on my house.

That's almost done though, then I'm going to clear out my garage (again) and start pulling apart the motor, cleaning it up, and putting it back together.

Still need to find a good fabricator who can modify the oil pan too. That's a major hurdle. The other issue is an oil pickup tube which will have to be made. There's not really a lot of adventurous custom fabricators in this area, unfortunately.

If somebody knows of a good fabricator who can weld aluminum, let me know - seriously.

[jpod999]

They were Bosch. M62 (prevanos) got the M5.2, and the M62TUs got the ME7.2. The ME7.2 seems to use a C167 cpu like the MS43.

Thanks for that. I totally missed Nando's question

[The Dark Side of Will]

And updated your avatar

[flyboyx]

I can't believe I've never subscribed to this tread. I fixed that

[terraphantm]

Is that a bosch or Siemens DME? I can probably do it with some time.

Yes I'm using the factory DME.

They were Bosch. M62 (prevanos) got the M5.2, and the M62TUs got the ME7.2. The ME7.2 seems to use a C167 cpu like the MS43.

[nando]

Is that a bosch or Siemens DME? I can probably do it with some time.

Yes I'm using the factory DME.

[nando]

Is that a bosch or Siemens DME? I can probably do it with some time.

Yes I'm using the factory DME.

[jpod999]

If you figured out how to remove EWS from the E39 540i DMEs I bet we would see a huge influx of people doing that swap.

Awesome work dude!

[driftxsequence]

that's amazing...

So is your plan to use the factory N52 ECU?

[nando]

basically? A hex editor and $40 in Chinese cloned hardware, and a bit of time..

I'll have an update to post in here fairly soon. I basically have a complete MSV70 disassembly so I can do pretty much anything I want with it now (and MSS70, MS45).

[driftxsequence]

New owner of an IX here. I just came across the holy grail build thread. Hoping you keep making some MAJOR break-throughs and open up some doors for all of us other IXers!

How are you hacking the DME exactly? I never understood how people are able to do things to such proprietary systems. And I'm a sys-admin!

[nando]

Just an update for my own sanity - still working on the house/other things, so the garage is a disaster and I can't do much to the engine yet. But I'm still working on "soft" parts of the build.

Made some more progress on software - RSA/EWS delete fine tuning, and also now checksum corrections for the boot sector and program segments (I already had it for the parameter segments).

Actually other than deleting error codes and relatively easy stuff, I don't think I have anything else that absolutely needs to be done to get this thing started. I mean, other than building a motor, wiring it up, and installing it...

[whitebulat22]

Dunno... it's probably not much lighter than an S62, if at all. It *is*, however, way easier to get 430+ to the wheels out of an S65.

The Aquila CR1 has a bunch of different V8s fully apple to apple including same trans. Weight listed is S65 = LSx = M60 + 10 kg, so I'd agree by the time the M60 transforms into the S62 it's probably just a bit above the 65.

well, I can't believe it - but it worked!

Congrats!

[nando]

EWS delete is confirmed working! Need to port it over to mss70. I think I'm the only person in the world who has done it on these DMEs - MS45 is next. :-)

I also have an RSA checksum delete, but i found that by pure luck. However, it means i can use WinkFP to flash modified files.