[KWA VaTech]

Originally Posted by Curt2000

I agree

Like I stated before...the N54 is still too expensive to risk blowing up. In a few years when warranties are gone and 335s become more affordable you will see an influx of new parts....hopefully

To me, you have to wait until the car gets under say 25k to start hitting those HS/college guys who only care about power numbers. When you do that you will see the huge turbos ect start making their way to market. If a single turbo came out right now for the 335, how many people would truly be throwing it on their car still under warranty? There just isn’t the market to do such right now, it will come though.

[Curt2000]

Originally Posted by ArmyBimmerDude

Where is this Single turbo kit that we're supposed to put in our cars? Oh I'm sure you'll be one of the first to put it on whenever it becomes available.

I'll PM you so you can continue your personal attacks in private to save us ruining this thread

[335i4u2nv]

okay ur all right! i quit.... honestly im quitting... and the warrenty junk should be okay as long as u remove it... bmw really is cracking down on this... its a shame though. at least in a consumers POV

[Bubbles]

Originally Posted by jpsimon

I could care less about these warranty issues. As soon as I get my downpipes on this weekend and the V3 upgrade on the car I'll be going to the dyno, don't you worry!

I never thought I'd see a post from you and look forward to a future post.

Originally Posted by ArmyBimmerDude

I would love to see more Dinan dyno's/track times. You're right though. The last few weeks have been about DME V81 and BMW voiding warranties.

+1

Originally Posted by foxman

My tune IS better than yours.

Thank you!

Originally Posted by MarinoB

I'll be picking up my car end of next month and shortly after that you'll have my reviews on my mods I have done lol....All this talk has not put the fear of god into me lol

Look foward to it.

Originally Posted by drphil71

Alot of it is just info for future precautions. In relation to all the views and posts in all of the threads how many people actually have had their warranty voided when they have taken all of their mod's off?

More than posted.

Originally Posted by ybbiz34

+1

I'm sure we will see an onslaught of Dinan Stage III track times and dyno runs in the near future, which will be exciting to see.

+10

Originally Posted by Sniz

I highly doubt that based upon the past activities of Dinan owners, but I hope thats the truth!

Its more likely we will see a lot of V3 dyno's and track times.

SIII owners are of a different breed, don't you worry.

Originally Posted by cn555ic

yeah these days the threads are getting to be pretty boring....I use to be here for hours reading stuff...I am not really into the F/I threads as much, maybe because i have already most of the mods already!

We finally see eye-to-eye.

Originally Posted by Curt2000

I agree...I came from the s2ki and SRT forums and those guys blow this forum away with technical knowledge. I think it has to do with cheaper cars being affordable by the working class and guys that will actually get their hands dirty with the car.

I hate to say it...but the stereotype is correct...typically guys that drive bmws are sissies when it comes to working on cars.

Keep quiet sissy-boy!

[BoostedBMW]

I agree that the FI forum has become quite bland lately, but in the grand scheme of things I still think that this is just the beginning when it comes to tuning this car. Right now everyone is just sitting on the side lines waiting to see how all of the 29.2 and v81 crap will pan out, but we'll get over it hopefully sooner than later.

[Mattscott]

my warranty is gone and I accepted it, now it is time to mod the shit of this car. waiting for v3 of another product to come out, then will come the FMIC, and we'll see what kind of dyno numbers and 1/4 mile times I get.

[Crimson92]

Originally Posted by Mattscott

my warranty is gone and I accepted it, now it is time to mod the shit of this car. waiting for v3 of another product to come out, then will come the FMIC, and we'll see what kind of dyno numbers and 1/4 mile times I get.

matt what happend...they didnt un redflag your car???????????

[Duke]

lets see some fresh mods! spice things up on this forum

[Mattscott]

Originally Posted by Crimson92

matt what happend...they didnt un redflag your car???????????

I haven't returned it yet to OEM specs. As long as everything is running like it should, I see no reason to.

[jpsimon]

Originally Posted by Bubbles

I never thought I'd see a post from you and look forward to a future post.

[Crimson92]

Originally Posted by Mattscott

I haven't returned it yet to OEM specs. As long as everything is running like it should, I see no reason to.

dont be a dummy and get that thing fixed

[lm1z]

Originally Posted by Curt2000

I agree

Like I stated before...the N54 is still too expensive to risk blowing up. In a few years when warranties are gone and 335s become more affordable you will see an influx of new parts....hopefully

This is why many people, such as myself, are so concerned about even moderate tunes. This is the cause of the entire fuss. The lack of technical/concrete data we are presented with does indeed cause a scare. What are the max specs of our turbos? How much power can our internals handle? How long will it take until things start failing?

If we don't know there's no point in pushing the limits yet. I want to know what the limitations of our engines are and it will take time. We're lucky that we have some knowledgeable tuners doing this for us.

[Bubbles]

Originally Posted by Driver72

Bubbles, I think the reason you don't see the "performance" posts anymore is simple....there's nothing new to post!

Everybody knows the dyno results of the mods now. Everybody knows the 1/4 mile times of the modded cars now. Everybody knows the reviews/results of CAI, drop in filters, etc etc now.
There's only so much you can talk about in those respects.

There is always months and months of speculation talk on new mods, then a months and months of actual "real life" review and results talk on newly released mods, then well, it becomes repost, repost, same old same old to the point people no longer want to hear about it.

Can you imagine someone coming on here who just got a PROcede v2 or JB2 or SSTT and writing a big long review and how much power it makes, listing his dyno results and 1/4 mile time results now.
Title reads: PROcede review, dyno and 1/4 mile results.

He'd have a handful of views and a handful of "yeah do a search, nothing new here" responses.

Reality is just hitting home regarding warranty for all those who slapped on DP's, FMIC, and other mods that aren't easily removed.
I said months and months ago, I'd never put DP's on this car, and would never put FMIC on this car, or even CAI. As none of them are easily removed and a dealer can say any of them contributed to a failure and can void warranty parts (though that's usually overlooked with CAI or even FMIC by some). But I don't know MANY dealers who will accept DP's (especially catless ones) as being ok for warranty work. But I got flamed a bit when I posted that months ago before the DP's started hitting the sales floor.
Bet many of those guys who spent the $800-1000 on catless DP's and a few hundred more for install are taking them off as we speak!

I'm sure as the tunes evolve to their next "stages" you'll again see more performance results. That and once the weather gets cold again, which is 6 months away. Nobody really does 1/4 mile runs for their best times when it's 80-100 degrees out.

Great points Driver72. Next round, turbo upgrades!

[markymarc1979]

Dinan is too expensive

[Curt2000]

Originally Posted by Bubbles

Great points Driver72. Next round, turbo upgrades!

Humm I think someone was talking about cartridge upgrades a few weeks back...oh yeah that was me...Some vendors responded to the thread saying that they were working on sourcing the new cartridges from mitsu, hopefully we will have a mild turbo upgrade available soon.

[pdjafari]

Originally Posted by Mattscott

I haven't returned it yet to OEM specs. As long as everything is running like it should, I see no reason to.

HA!! I just noticed your sig and I love it. The world is really coming down to things like this...its sad but true!! Pretty soon we'll all be lying about where we are located, trying to find screennames that are in no way related to anything about us and not mentioning anything about what we own and/or posting up pictures about them!!