George Smooth
///Member
When I found out about the event happening at ODI I knew it might be one of the last opportunities to test the 335i after fitting the RB turbos.
As a lot of you know the 335i belongs to my wife and its her daily driver. So I had to scheme how to get it out of her hands for a bit of time. The car has 80,000km's now and has been trouble free beside a failed fuel pump and problem with one of the intake pipes which was causing a whistle when tapping off. I fixed that a few months ago so I decided to pull a move. I told her it needs to get replaced and its a big job a wadda wadda I ordered the VTT inlets and fitted them two weeks before the race weekend. Car stood until five days before I started testing it. On spool up the car was not happy over boosting and closing the throttle. As you all know I have always run a flash on the car so decided to try remedy the issue. Two flash attempts later I gave up and took the easy choice - enter the JB4. By now it was Thursday and the search for a unit started. On Saturday the day before the race the kind gentlemen from FR&R loaned me a ISO unit.
At around 1pm I went for my first test drive whilst the forum committee was gathering to meet at my place. The rest I am pretty ashamed to say but being use to the 5V JB on the VW units I thought the power wire was for meth and left it off. Kish and the gents from Durban came to the rescue with a JB4 101 and 1,2,3 the car was sorted. I left my flash as the back end and copied the boost target of the flash onto the JB. Two test drives later and I was impressed with the new found power at the top of the VTT inlets so I made quite a dicey call and decided not to fit the methanol on the car. I have never used ethanol neither so I knew I had to make my first run count.
Enter the day of the race. Sitting with a record is not a easy thing because everyone is there to beat it and I started thinking that I should have had the much needed meth for the 1km. As soon as the track opened I made sure to go quickly before it got hot - I think I was car two on the line. Nice 6 degree temperature with no wind. I always run the 1km with the standard run flats, I got a bit of a concern with the fat high sidewall Mickeys I use. Of I went with a perfect run. Coming back I told my pit crew the run cannot be improved because the stars aligned. The issue is the announcer did not call my speed so I would have to wait for the next day for the results to get released (we have seen what happens when you start partying too early at ODI). The new stock frame record is still mine sitting at 256km/h. A got beat by a single turbo N54 running a 259km/h that had issues on top of it so I think the singles are going to be the new kings with quite a few complete and quite a few that are being prepped.
All in all it was a great outing and it has created a itch to go do a full ball run to get the 260 mark which is what the car deserves. I still run the stock map sensor so I am boost limited and with the meth in the mix and maybe some semi slicks I think the extra 4km/h is easily attainable.
Big thanks to all that assisted in the achievement.
As a lot of you know the 335i belongs to my wife and its her daily driver. So I had to scheme how to get it out of her hands for a bit of time. The car has 80,000km's now and has been trouble free beside a failed fuel pump and problem with one of the intake pipes which was causing a whistle when tapping off. I fixed that a few months ago so I decided to pull a move. I told her it needs to get replaced and its a big job a wadda wadda I ordered the VTT inlets and fitted them two weeks before the race weekend. Car stood until five days before I started testing it. On spool up the car was not happy over boosting and closing the throttle. As you all know I have always run a flash on the car so decided to try remedy the issue. Two flash attempts later I gave up and took the easy choice - enter the JB4. By now it was Thursday and the search for a unit started. On Saturday the day before the race the kind gentlemen from FR&R loaned me a ISO unit.
At around 1pm I went for my first test drive whilst the forum committee was gathering to meet at my place. The rest I am pretty ashamed to say but being use to the 5V JB on the VW units I thought the power wire was for meth and left it off. Kish and the gents from Durban came to the rescue with a JB4 101 and 1,2,3 the car was sorted. I left my flash as the back end and copied the boost target of the flash onto the JB. Two test drives later and I was impressed with the new found power at the top of the VTT inlets so I made quite a dicey call and decided not to fit the methanol on the car. I have never used ethanol neither so I knew I had to make my first run count.
Enter the day of the race. Sitting with a record is not a easy thing because everyone is there to beat it and I started thinking that I should have had the much needed meth for the 1km. As soon as the track opened I made sure to go quickly before it got hot - I think I was car two on the line. Nice 6 degree temperature with no wind. I always run the 1km with the standard run flats, I got a bit of a concern with the fat high sidewall Mickeys I use. Of I went with a perfect run. Coming back I told my pit crew the run cannot be improved because the stars aligned. The issue is the announcer did not call my speed so I would have to wait for the next day for the results to get released (we have seen what happens when you start partying too early at ODI). The new stock frame record is still mine sitting at 256km/h. A got beat by a single turbo N54 running a 259km/h that had issues on top of it so I think the singles are going to be the new kings with quite a few complete and quite a few that are being prepped.
All in all it was a great outing and it has created a itch to go do a full ball run to get the 260 mark which is what the car deserves. I still run the stock map sensor so I am boost limited and with the meth in the mix and maybe some semi slicks I think the extra 4km/h is easily attainable.
Big thanks to all that assisted in the achievement.
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