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Nice! Love E90's!

Super cool wine red R33. I love this and the wheels look great on it. Welcome to ! Did you take pics of the rear lights clean up?

How old is it? What he said.

Welcome to ! Car looks gorgeous. Very jealous of you living there and driving that.

Welcome! Car looks great.

So, I got the oil pressure sensor. I can now monitor oil pressure and the car will alert me to any loss in pressure hopefully before it kills my engine.

I'm reindexing atm. Should start seeing improvements soon.

Cool, found it. Will sort shortly.

Is this still a problem folks? I patched the site this morning and my Activity feed is showing everything up to an hour or so ago.

Sorry folks I missed this. Will sort tomorrow 👌🏻

Brakes look great! So much nicer.

This looks super cool!

That looks awesome.

God damn I wish I'd thought of that. So many kids!

Looks like a great project! If you do nothing else, make sure you change that steering wheel!

So cool. That in car footage gets me excited!

I thought only BMW's got towed! Nice work!

How did I miss this? It's been over a year so surely the project is complete?

From my understanding, thats exactly how it is configured, it adds a rev limiter which is set to a conservative level, rather than a cold power cut. Unfortunately (or, fortunately) I'll have no real way of testing it when it arrives! 🤣

So, apparently the N54 can suffer from oil starvation at track G's. Its not quite as bad an RB26 but still possible. As my oil pan has to come off to get a new seal I thought I'd look into baffle options. There are some out there but they're definitely not perfect and you still run a bit of a risk. Then today, I found that I can fit an aftermarket oil pressure sensor which is monitored by the car as usual but my tuning app (MHD) can tune the car to protect itself with various pressures. A 'soft' warning will tell you to take it easy while a harder warning will actually kill power to protect internals. Sounds freaking cool and as I said it just piggy backs off my existing tune software. https://nexsysmotorsport.com/n54-oil-pressure-sensor-kit/ The lads at Zero to 60 have a video showing the pissy install and features. I've already bought it (approx $340 delivered) and not sure I'd worry about a baffle as well. My car will be going in soon for the oil pan and turbo swap.

Sorry mate, this is totally shit.

Sorry if I missed this in earlier posts but are you using the ZF 8 speed?

Oh and a quick trip back to the brakes. They kinda suck. They shook like nuts before I bought the car and the dealer changed them all and obviously used cheapest parts available. Although they're 18mm bigger diameter than the 330i's 330mm they dont have anything like the bite that car has with DBA slotted rotors and Bendix ultimates. I think I have posted earlier that I'll get the DBA rotors again and maybe some Yellowstuff or even the Hawk HP pads.

So, I'm pretty excited about this. I found a guy on gumtree with some ~100k's old turbos for sale. I asked if they had wastegate rattle and he said he didnt know but it's a safe bet at this age that they do. We got to talking and he said that he used to own a turbo shop and I asked if he'd be interested in fixing the flapper on the used turbos and selling to me as 'repaired' and he said he would. Top bloke in the end and for about ~$750 I got a pair of repaired turbos. (note that the going rate to fix the flapper is anywhere between $600 - $1k alone without the turbos.) They arrived on Monday and look great with the actuator arm and flapper all tight with no play. I can see why BMW hid these turbos underneath everything else. They're far from impressive and look like pretend turbos they're so small.

Although I do very few k's, I was starting to rip through my Federal 595's on the street so I decided to get street rims. Especially as I have hardly been to the track recently (besides a day at Luddenham). I found some F30 3 series '403 M' style wheels and got some tyres for them. I really don't like the polished face on these rims so have already done something about that. Will update on that soon.