Heard acouple people talk about modding/tuning n52s to squeez 300hp

[janus77]

looks pretty cool.

[chylld]

janus if you also email them, then that's 4 enquiries from australia in the space of a few hours... hard to ignore that, no?

[ManGGouste]

Wooow...
I'll have to ask 'em a special price for the cutomers I bring them !

About the price I heard different things. I think it was about 3200€. To be confirmed however, it might be cheaper wether you want a waranty or not.

[chylld]

OK just got a PDF price list in German... hooray for google language tools! in a nutshell:

Tune (+50HP) = €1800 (AU$2928)
Tune + exhaust (to 280HP) = €3200 (AU$5206)

Shipping aside, this is about $3k for ~37kW.

edit: forgot to mention, we do need to ship our ECU to them. they need about 6 hours with it.

[wmj73]

so you only get 50hp with the tune but you get 280hp with tune and exhaust, thats a big difference that the exhaust makes)230HP. I WANT THAT EXHAUST

[cozza]

I see you guys beat me to it. I also received a reply email. $3K is a lot of coin. Dunno if I'd risk it.

[Cruiser]

Why doesn't someone try the local powerchip reflash? C'mon we need someone willing to try it out for us!

It's half the price, same power gains and you can get in done in melbourne, sydney etc etc not germany!

[chylld]

Originally Posted by wmj73

so you only get 50hp with the tune but you get 280hp with tune and exhaust, thats a big difference that the exhaust makes)230HP. I WANT THAT EXHAUST

50HP is a gain figure, 280HP is a total figure. so our 125i's make 215HP stock, so retuning the ECU brings that to 265HP, and then the exhaust a further 15HP to 280HP.

edit: given that my target is the 130i's output @ 255HP, the retune alone looks like it will do the trick. But to send my baby's brain half-way around the world

[chylld]

Originally Posted by Cruiser

Why doesn't someone try the local powerchip reflash? C'mon we need someone willing to try it out for us!

It's half the price, same power gains and you can get in done in melbourne, sydney etc etc not germany!

Powerchip's website says it only brings it up to 174kW / 233HP... unless they can do a full 130i flash that isn't mentioned there?

[wmj73]

just did a unit conversion, 50PS is equivalent to 36.78kw which brings our 125i's to 196.78kw which is freakn awesome, although $3k is ALOT of money. Why cant australian tuners bring us the same POWER

[chylld]

Originally Posted by wmj73

just did a unit conversion, 50PS is equivalent to 36.78kw which brings our 125i's to 196.78kw which is freakn awesome, although $3k is ALOT of money. Why cant australian tuners bring us the same POWER

I just calculated it as pretty good value. (bear with me and my guesstimates)

BMS chip: ~8kW ~$350 = $44/kW
Injen intake: ~5kW ~$350 = $70/kW
DS motorsport retune: 37kW ~$3000 = $81/kW
Upgrade to 135i: 65kW ~$13000 = $200/kW

[wmj73]

I received an email from the company chylld with the same info. Just out of curiosity I emailed and told them initially it was too expensive for my budget and asked if they would reduce the price if there were multiple people interested. Waiting back on the email

[ManGGouste]

DS detune group-buy ?
Interresting ...

[wmj73]

no news from ds guys
Was going through e90 post, found this interesting thread http://www.e90post.com/forums/showth...=37444&page=30

One of the guys there is installing a 3 stage intake from a 330i into a 325i. Looks like he is almost about to start the installation ie.according to pages 29-30. Looks promising

[jabwind51]

I just read this (don't read the whole thing, start at page 25ish). Looks really promising. I think it's gonna work. Two questions though: (1) how about for a 128i or 328i? and (2) warranty??

[wmj73]

well for us aussies i reckon we would need to get the manifold of the 130i and install it, i dont think you would have a warranty left though. I read some where on that thread that the 328i guys would probably have to get their manifold from the x3 but not entirely sure about that

[Spirit of Universe]

My small rocket
N52 AT
appr. 290 HP/340 NM
0-100 5,9 s

[chylld]

Originally Posted by Spirit of Universe

My small rocket
N52 AT
appr. 290 HP/340 NM
0-100 5,9 s

Nice!! Is there an AC Schnitzer kit that gets it to 290HP?

[Yvette]

it sure looks rocket ready to launch

[Garduna]

That's one heck of a modded car! Hot femme owner too. That's rare but always nice to see Any chance you could give us the mods and specs of ur ride dear?

[Spirit of Universe]

It is Euro speced N52 engine same as in X3/330i.
I don't think dealers sell them in this variant (but some tuners might have access to that).
It's stock engine with very minor ECU map optimization (higher revs up to 7500 RPM) to accomodate replaced intake and straight tube exhaust system.
Most of European BMW tuners offered to do it, so I think it's not big problem.
I tried manual 130i (hatchback) before, so I exactly wished similar engine capability with coupe and automatic transmission. It does easy below 6.0 s 0-100 km/h and goes slightly better with traction control off. Engine revs very smoothly and has lot of power in 5000-7000 range. Bastuck develops excellent sound and attracts lot of attention among street racers, although I don't drive like crazy (just imagine their faces when 6' tall blonde exits the car )
Exhaust, intake and ECU works costed something like 2200 Eur (3000 $) and factory upgrade on engine side was something like 1000 Eur (this is not option in price-list or by dealers, it was one of kind favor done by tuning company).
Car has full warranty and I would never touch anything else under hood.
Hope this helped.

[Yuzi]

omg i want that......