Things to do to tweak my 330i (E46)

[AdiS]

You guys are in denial - anyone is welcome to drive my 330 with it off and on. Car is an auto so one gets a very real feel of the difference. I promise you will kak yourself at the difference. I'm at Killarney this Sunday if you are interested.

:biglol::biglol:

 

[Kish2604]

It just fools the potentiometer on the accel pedal into believing that its fully depressed when u on only push it half way.. Yes your car will feel more lively but to shave off half a second on a quarter mile run??? No chance..

 

[Legacy]

It just fools the potentiometer on the accel pedal into believing that its fully depressed when u on only push it half way.. Yes your car will feel more lively but to shave off half a second on a quarter mile run??? No chance..

Unless your feet are extremely slow :fencelook:

 

[Sankekur]

If you really want to do a performance mod that you can feel, do as has been mentioned a couple of times and swap the diff to a 3.38 (found on the 330i and 330Ci auto). It is the only thing that you can do to a 330i that is really worth the money, other that going FI.

The K&N filter has been debated to death, BMW performance part basically rebrands the K&N filter and sells it to their customers. Get one now & clean it regularly/correctly and you won't have a problem.

Wrong. I took my BMW performance intake apart and it does in fact use a paper filter.
The gain from fitting an oiled "performance" replacement filter is no more than just fitting a clean OEM filter, and on an e46 the OEM filter (from the dealers) works out cheaper than performance filters (even in the long run).
If anyone really thinks that they can get more power out of a e46 by changing the filter medium they are kidding themselves, as the filter used on the whole e46 range is the same, including the M3, so I doubt the filter that can allow for enough air flow to not restrict the performance of the S54 will have much of an effect on the performance of an M54.

You guys are in denial - anyone is welcome to drive my 330 with it off and on. Car is an auto so one gets a very real feel of the difference. I promise you will kak yourself at the difference. I'm at Killarney this Sunday if you are interested.

I will take you up on this offer if I am allowed in your car without pants on.

 

[andrewbuch]

The K&N filter has been debated to death, BMW performance part basically rebrands the K&N filter and sells it to their customers. Get one now & clean it regularly/correctly and you won't have a problem.

Wrong. I took my BMW performance intake apart and it does in fact use a paper filter.
The gain from fitting an oiled "performance" replacement filter is no more than just fitting a clean OEM filter, and on an e46 the OEM filter (from the dealers) works out cheaper than performance filters (even in the long run).
If anyone really thinks that they can get more power out of a e46 by changing the filter medium they are kidding themselves, as the filter used on the whole e46 range is the same, including the M3, so I doubt the filter that can allow for enough air flow to not restrict the performance of the S54 will have much of an effect on the performance of an M54.

Probably all except the 318i

 

[Sankekur]

The K&N filter has been debated to death, BMW performance part basically rebrands the K&N filter and sells it to their customers. Get one now & clean it regularly/correctly and you won't have a problem.

Wrong. I took my BMW performance intake apart and it does in fact use a paper filter.
The gain from fitting an oiled "performance" replacement filter is no more than just fitting a clean OEM filter, and on an e46 the OEM filter (from the dealers) works out cheaper than performance filters (even in the long run).
If anyone really thinks that they can get more power out of a e46 by changing the filter medium they are kidding themselves, as the filter used on the whole e46 range is the same, including the M3, so I doubt the filter that can allow for enough air flow to not restrict the performance of the S54 will have much of an effect on the performance of an M54.

Probably all except the 318i

318i one is also the same.

 

[Charlie Brown]

Sank is correct - I have the pre face lift 318 and a face lift 330i - air filters are 100% the same.

 

[NavZ]

Wrong. I took my BMW performance intake apart and it does in fact use a paper filter.

The E90 perf filter is a cotton filter.
It has been discussed to death in several threads, ask moranor for more info...
http://www.bmwfanatics.co.za/showthread.php?tid=32014&page=3

 

[Sankekur]

Well the e46 is the one discussed here and I am referring to the e46 BMW Performance intake, which uses a paper filter.

 

[Yuben]

The cheapest value for money mod has to be the Sprint Booster at around R1800. Decats and filters have got nothing on this baby. My 330 auto from 15.4 to 14.9

What is this sprint booster all about???

 

[moranor@axis]

dont bring my name up :rollsmile: Sank no likey oiled filters which is his choice :fencelook:

 

[Legacy]

dont bring my name up :rollsmile: Sank no likey oiled filters which is his choice :fencelook:

We have some picks from the post filter part of an airbox which used an oiled filter for only about 10 000km. When you see what crap got through you will k*k yourself.

@Sank: Post a pic if you can.

 

[Sankekur]

The cheapest value for money mod has to be the Sprint Booster at around R1800. Decats and filters have got nothing on this baby. My 330 auto from 15.4 to 14.9

What is this sprint booster all about???

What it does is alters the signal that controls the electronic throttle, so normally you would press the throttle 10% and it would result in a 10% opening of the throttle butterfly, with the sprint booster the same input will result in say a 15% opening for example, so in essence you will reach WOT faster, this results in the car feeling faster, as you exchange throttle speed for accuracy.
The only why the sprint booster will make your car faster in anything other than feeling only is if your foot takes a couple of seconds to get the pedal all the way down, or you never pushed the pedal all the way down.

dont bring my name up :rollsmile: Sank no likey oiled filters which is his choice :fencelook:

We have some picks from the post filter part of an airbox which used an oiled filter for only about 10 000km. When you see what crap got through you will k*k yourself.

@Sank: Post a pic if you can.

Will have to post later, pics are on my home PC

 

[moranor@axis]

you sure the filter was sealing properly or oiled? Ive never had that on any of my oiled filters and I make a point of rubbing the clean side of the airbox every time I have it open... to make sure it is filtering properly

post up pic...