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[nando]

it's actually not a hard fix. core support, fenders, and a hood. Plus all the broken plastic stuff. But it's definitely a bit of a project. I'm not sure it would be worth paying a shop, but DIY, sure....

[nando]

Eh. It's like any software that can modify other software - I'm not making files for people in California necessarily (and I don't live there either). But I can make the software to do that and people...

[nando]

Sort of. The manufacturers have reported checksums to CARB since about the year 2000, but it was never enforced before now.

Time for me to finally implement this: https://www.nayuki.io/...

[nando]

Welcome!

I did all my Megasquirt soldering with a $15 Radioshack iron, lol. I mean, a good soldering station is going to be obviously nicer, but it's not absolutely required. I have something...

[nando]

There's no difference at all on MSV70 and later cars. All of the code and program is there regardless if you have manual, auto, SMG/DCT. The M cars were a very different animal, MSS54 and MSS60/65 are...

[nando]

You can't because it's a non-linear relationship. Pedal input = driver requested torque, not valve lift. At the Valvetronic end, that might mean increasing valve lift, or decreasing it depending on...

[nando]

AFAIK, the DCT tells the DME it's going to shift, and the DME reduces torque (among other things). the DME controls the rev limiter but the DCT controls the shift points.

it works a lot...

[nando]

you could maybe fit an 8.5 but definitely not with an offset of ET40. It wouldn't even bolt up because the wheel will clash with the struts and springs. You'd probably need an offset around ET20, and...

[nando]

The N54 head is not great for N/A. Unless you're going to spend a whole lot of money porting it. And then you'll be stuck with a bunch of extra problems the N52 doesn't have (bad injectors, carbon buildup,...

[nando]

That's not going to work. They going to pug in a computer to the OBD2 port and send a command to retrieve the software identification and checksum, OBD readiness values, errors, etc. So unless you're...

[nando]

I suppose, but that's the OD, and it's press fit into the hub. There must have been a reason, although I can't see what it would be, to have an otherwise identical bearing but make it 0.05mm bigger....

[nando]

I mean, MSV70 is pretty easy to work with. And it definitely reports the values over CAN that would be needed. My only hesitation is have never seen a factory DCT car with an N52, but I know they exist...

[nando]

I don't think you can even read the DME software with OBD1, definitely not with Motronic on the M20 which isn't technically OBD at all.

They started requiring manufacturers to report the...

[nando]

yeah, they need a CVN#, which is literally just the checksum, to compare it with. They don't have any of that for the E30 or E36. If you look at the Daten files, only cars like the E46 and later even...

[nando]

There was a gravel driveway - but I've driven for several hundred miles since then. I had thought it sounded kind of like that, but I've noticed slightly it on turns for months if I have the windows down....

[nando]

I miss remembered I guess, it's only 0.05mm difference - the fronts are 42X75,05X37 and the rears are 42X75X37. You wouldn't think 0.05mm would make any difference, they certainly fit in the struts and...

[nando]

S52 block weighs about 90bls. M20 is probably lighter, but it's been a long time since I picked one up.

[nando]

You're Moderator Approved^tm. If somebody is butthurt about non-BMW posts here then they can just piss off. :p



But at least it's not a Mustang? lol.

My car before...

[nando]

The 2-tone Mtech-2 is literally the way Japanese E30s (with the Mtech-2 kit) came from the factory. Sooo, yeah?

BTW, is that your car? Looks sweet!...

[nando]

The M42 transmission will not work with an M20. It's a Getrag 240, considerably weaker than the Getrag 260. And besides that, is clocked for the later 24v engine angle. You could physically bolt it up...