Have a rather large update here, been a real busy week.
Summer has now kind of arrived so the summer tires went back on. This time around though I put on my BMS Spacers with a 12mm in the front and a 15mm in the rear
Before
After
That's just the front but rear had similar results. I have all of the DIY Install steps aswell if anyone wants to see those.
Next up was a rather large DIY in comparison. I bought a 3 Stage IM from another forum member
mad1stgen , got some new seals, and set up a new hard drive to run INPA and all accompanying software to be able to tune it.
The install went rather smoothly took a little bit as some connectors were a pain in the ass, but overall on first start up went flawlessly. I think i made 1 or 2 mistakes though while re-routing the power steering reservoir I think the lines are just slightly in the wrong spot so no biggy. The second issue I made was I think i put a cable in a holder a little to early as now the box that attaches to the cowl has to much tension and is about 1 mm to short from connecting back in its holder.
Mid Install
Lastly,
It was tuning time. This was a major deciding factor in doing the 3-Stage IM, was that the tune for it was free (besides a $30 cable). I went with the Bimmerlabs tune/flash that converts you over to a base 130i tune, which does incorporate the DISA valves. I highly recommend Bimmerlabs as its free, they had great support to answer my few questions, and it went over flawlessly.
Also shout out to
desertman123 , for his build thread informing me of bimmerlabs and helping me reset the adaptations. I originally forgot to do this but did the next day and definitely felt the change in the top end after doing this (previous to resetting the adaptations I only noticed a low end change).
Not 100% on what will be next, I saw some ghost codes for the VANOS solenoids im going to look into, but until then here is my current update pic
Update
