What point is it to much
- Thread starter Rob09msport
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Rob... dude.... I will say what everyone else is thinking. PLEASE put some effort into formatting your text.
I have been concentrating to read your stuff but this last post I just gave up.
As Sweet Brown says...
Ain't nobody got time for that!
Nah. True though. I got lost in the run-on sentences. Tried twice. I got some of it, but sure I lost a bunch of what he was trying to convey.
Filippo
Ill second that. The dark side is rough. My wife sees no logic in having that much tied up into a 2007
We both started the single turbo journey the same time. I hope your journey is going better than mine.
Mine is installed and just started tuning with motiv. 6466 93 + cp 100% meth.
What are you running into? Happy to help as I literally just did it. PM me.
N54s are like the rabbit hole. You just go deeper and deeper.
They are great with stock twins and lowest cost vehicle I know of with so much bang for your buck. But once you leave the stock twin life things start to add up. Especially if you want to do it right. I havnt even touched my suspension really. That has got to be another 4-5k depending on what I do(yes I know you can spend a lot more or less) I'll probably spend all this money and a low cost Porsche will Probably handle better.
They are great with stock twins and lowest cost vehicle I know of with so much bang for your buck. But once you leave the stock twin life things start to add up. Especially if you want to do it right. I havnt even touched my suspension really. That has got to be another 4-5k depending on what I do(yes I know you can spend a lot more or less) I'll probably spend all this money and a low cost Porsche will Probably handle better.
Actually I don't think you need to leave twin life for this issue. Look at the longevity data, what is available, for those that are upgrading their twins with other twins. YMMV.
It's funny everybody talks about buying a Porsche. I'm not very convinced ...
Filippo
It's funny everybody talks about buying a Porsche. I'm not very convinced ...
Filippo
I work in Europe 2 weeks a month so I needed a shop to do the install. My time home needs to be with family and not in the garage or I would have taken on the install myself. Long story short is the shop found rounded out injector hole so new head was in order. Shop locates me a refurb head and installs it. Then come to find out Precision sent a journal bearing 6466 instead of the BB I paid for. Shop goes back and forth with Precision to fix the problem and that takes a few more weeks. Correct BB turbo was supposed to be delivered Tuesday and now the shop is telling me next Tuesday.
I am flying home as I am typing this and plan to contact both Doc Race and Precision next week. I am losing my patience.
I really appreciate your offer to help and will most likely take you up on it once I have this shit show straighten out. Keep us posted on your progress!!
How were they able to tell the difference? Just curious.
So sorry to hear about your issues. Nothing like being forced to drop more money than you already have.
The install is a time sink 1st time around. You will be happy at the end of the day when you paid somene to install it and found the issue in your head.
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I was told one of the shop techs caught it. I was told how but can’t remember the details because so much other stuff was wrong with the turbo between now and then. It’s been back and forth several times.
I was hoping to hit one of the Pocono Slip Stream events before July but now I would jump for joy just to hear it start.
I know you have had good success with meth on the stockers so I am interested to see how you do with it on your new setup. Some of the 93 meth single numbers being posted lately are quite impressive.
On my first 135i/N54 car, I had about 20-22K into it and it was just an 08 sport package FBO 6 speed. sold it for about 15K, had it for about 1.5 years. 5-7K was kinda a big loss for only 1.5 years but considering that includes everything from maintenance to mods to depreciation of car value, not too too bad.
So 2 months after selling I scooped up my next n54 in the current market and searched very, very hard for a certain criteria car and got a downright steal. In todays market on the buyer's side of things, if you know your stuff, anything is possible. I got a super clean car for 9800$.. 2010, Lemans blue M sport 135i 6 speed, Index 12 injectors, Dealer replaced turbos, 94K miles only, and tons of other dealership maintenance.
yes this was pretty lucky, but with the sale of my 08 135i at 15K this leaves me 5K leftover for my single turbo kit. I am planning on another 5K into the build (7.5" fmic, chargepipe/bov, stage 3 LPFP, Port injection, stage 3+clutch/smfw, boostbox, and custom tuning) and for about 20K it should absolutely rip! Of course I will need to spend another few grand on traction mods with 17" wheels/tire combo and a Diff, but Ill save that for next year or after the winter and just throw some sticky 595rsrr's on the 18' msport wheels for 300$ and send it for now.
Moral of the story is I had a 2008 FBO car that I was 20-22K into, and all said and done I will now have a 2010 M sport single turbo car for basically the same price... If you cant beat em, join em. Their are deals out there
So 2 months after selling I scooped up my next n54 in the current market and searched very, very hard for a certain criteria car and got a downright steal. In todays market on the buyer's side of things, if you know your stuff, anything is possible. I got a super clean car for 9800$.. 2010, Lemans blue M sport 135i 6 speed, Index 12 injectors, Dealer replaced turbos, 94K miles only, and tons of other dealership maintenance.
yes this was pretty lucky, but with the sale of my 08 135i at 15K this leaves me 5K leftover for my single turbo kit. I am planning on another 5K into the build (7.5" fmic, chargepipe/bov, stage 3 LPFP, Port injection, stage 3+clutch/smfw, boostbox, and custom tuning) and for about 20K it should absolutely rip! Of course I will need to spend another few grand on traction mods with 17" wheels/tire combo and a Diff, but Ill save that for next year or after the winter and just throw some sticky 595rsrr's on the 18' msport wheels for 300$ and send it for now.
Moral of the story is I had a 2008 FBO car that I was 20-22K into, and all said and done I will now have a 2010 M sport single turbo car for basically the same price... If you cant beat em, join em. Their are deals out there
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Wanna buy my pi setup? Just pulled it off the car because my power goals have drastically reduced since I hardly ever drive the car. No point in putting the money into something I don't use.
One thing I will say is doing good quality coil overs is huge difference I still didn't put my new tires on and I hook 2nd perfect and somewhat 1st I will never overlook suspension again
I suspect some of the wheel hop complaints have more to do with the rear suspension setup than with the diff moving around.
Filippo
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