Big Bore Throttle Body

[gold panda]

Originally Posted by Rob

Anyway, back on topic. A lot of the old-schoolers that brought modding to the BMW scene say that the big bore throttle body is a great addition for more air. They actually recommened it over getting a CAI at first. It's worth the better throttle response and HP gains. 200 dollars is not bad at all either. I may end up with one here during the summer. I would not recommend the Dinan one just because of the price. When will Dinan realize that there is competition out there now? They are still living in the past.

I hear you man! Hope you DO find what youre looking for also. I hear VF Engineering makes good throttle bodies and related wares. Have you checked them out yet??

Yep, believe me, if I had a choice other than Dinan, I'd have seriously consider other vendors, assuming of course that the quality and reliability isn't compromised due to price considerations.

For us folks with the newer bimmers, we're stuck with Dinan mods unless you (again) want to risk completely voiding the new car warranty. Also, I hear that BMW of North America are considering licensing other competing vendors in addition to Dinan in the future -right now its exclusively Dinan BMW. That would definitely give customers some choices and options.

Anyway, here's to your upcoming summer time shopping man!! We all know you're going to love that new big bore throttle body and other mods you plan on acquiring. Suck in that air big time man!

BEST REGARDS!

[tomctx]

BTW Panda, nice looking car. I'm not particuarly fond of the Bangle designs, but yours does look good in the silver color.

Hey Rob, do you think the throttle body, plus Impact motorsports silcone elbow, plus the 3.5" HFM, plus the Cosmos intake will help my 325? Wil the 3.5" HFM even work? How about this! I've hi-jacked my own thread and also lost my mind!

[gold panda]

[QUOTE=tomctx]BTW Panda, nice looking car. I'm not particuarly fond of the Bangle designs, but yours does look good in the silver color.

Thanks man! Yep, the jury is still OUT on the new Bangle designed bimmers. Unlike the previous generation bimmers, where it drew consistently universal appeal, his new design direction has really pissed off many traditionalist.

Fortunately, for me at least, while I initially hated it (I really loved that understated, yet cool 4th generation 540i Sport design!), the design did eventually 'grow' on me.

One thing there's definitely no arguing about though and that's the overall drive and performance of the new gen bimmers. Still, every bit the Ultimate Driving Machine and as the european tag line goes, Sheer Driving Pleasure.

The sport sedan 'benchmark' continues unabated.

BEST REGARDS!

[Rob]

Originally Posted by tomctx

BTW Panda, nice looking car. I'm not particuarly fond of the Bangle designs, but yours does look good in the silver color.

Hey Rob, do you think the throttle body, plus Impact motorsports silcone elbow, plus the 3.5" HFM, plus the Cosmos intake will help my 325? Wil the 3.5" HFM even work? How about this! I've hi-jacked my own thread and also lost my mind!

Let's see. I don't see many people getting gains out of the silicone elbow. The Cosmos CAI will definately help, I have one. I heard V2 is pretty sweet, but V1 still kicks some arse as well. I am pretty sure that they do not have software for the 3.5" HFM for the M50, but only for S50/S52, because that is where the main gains are at, I am pretty sure. The big bore throttle body and CAI should be a pretty good combination off the bat. You need to look into the 3.5" HFM working on the M50/M52 first, then go for it if it is possible. Just remember though, the 4 main components that make an engine work is spark, air, fuel, and combustion. You upgrade the air flow, you may need bigger injectors and definately software to get the most gain out of both. You should be able to find some 21# injectors from an M3 pretty easily. Stock spark plugs are fine until you go FI. Now, changing out and providing more air will definately give you gains, but you will get even more HP/TQ out of upgraded fuel injectors and software tuning. Look into the 3.5" HFM for me, if you can.

[jms]

Sarbanes Oxley and so does SAS70 and HIPPA and all those other vague, stupid, unclear regulations. I got a regulation for you, stone the bastards to death. Stop giving out the golden parachute, and if you must give up a golden parachute make it a literal gold parachute and push them out of a plane.

I work for a e-marketing company, and one of our clients is an investment firm, they require SAS70 certification. Apparently nobody knows what is required, if you ask 8 different firms you will get 8 different answers. Can I get a straight answer.

Well anyway I'm glad you profitted from your involvement. I do think you over payed for hp, but it's your money and if it makes you happy, enjoy it.

[///M Power]

BBTB = waste

[gold panda]

[QUOTE=jms]Sarbanes Oxley and so does SAS70 and HIPPA and all those other vague, stupid, unclear regulations. I got a regulation for you, stone the bastards to death. Stop giving out the golden parachute, and if you must give up a golden parachute make it a literal gold parachute and push them out of a plane.

Yep, know exactly what you mean here! First, we can all blame those bastard tyrants, total losers and greedy folks at the Enron, WorldCom, Adelphia, Tyco, Arthur Andersen LLP of the world, etc, for being less than ethically, for showing absolutely no professional integrity and honestly when conducting their corporate affairs. U.S. GAAP, accounting rules, compliance, full disclosure, what??? Us?? What are those?????

Secondly, yep, we can blame the SEC and the regulators for panicking and putting out all these additional stupid, pathetic controls and regulations, supposedly to help curb such corporate wrongdoings. Granted, the authorities certainly meant well, and certainly restoring/protecting the investment public's confidence is critical, but they totally screwed up big time with the execution of these regulations after the fact.

Like you said, very unclear, ambigious and creating a lot more work and waste of time than ever. Check this story out too. While implementing our SOX rules, they also asked me to terminate my staff of 10 CPA's because they had failed to fully comply to the new rules, including the firm's new "zero tolerance" rule. Can you believe me?? They wanted me to be the hatchet man.

Had a fundamental problem with this and felt that mgmt was going way overboard on this implementation, that when my staff made errors in judgment, whatever, that it would be more appropriate to first coach and counsel them, not outright terminate them. Senior management couldn't see eye-to-eye with me on this issue and insisted I axe them all regardless. They wanted to show the staffers that they meant business and that there's no room for errors anymore. Again, . Dream on.

I told them no and besides, no one is perfect and certainly the SOX rules were so convulted from the get go. Ultimately, I quit the firm and let them do all the dirty work. How's that for SOX screwing up the lives of honest, hard working corporate folks??? So, yeah, I can relate man.

Looking back, however, it's the best decision I ever made. I'm consulting now on, yep, you guessed it, SOX (that and SAP R3 ERP apps/configuration and implementation initiatives), and pulling very nice $$$$'s doing this B.S. also. Only in Corporate America man.

BEST REGARDS!

[tomctx]

Originally Posted by Rob

Look into the 3.5" HFM for me, if you can.

got an email from Doug at Turner Motorsports. His exact words were: The 3.5" HFM would be of no benefit for the 325/328. I guess it's just for the M engine. Well, saved me some money, anyway.

[Negrodamus]

Man dont hate on the Gold Panda who are we to tell this dude what he wants to do with his money... Gold panda pop your collar cause your big pimpin if you got Gouda stacks that large to dump that type of dough on a car. If I could do it I would maybe more LOL No need to explain your route of why you did what you did. I would be the first to say I couldnt afford the stuff you put in but Im not gonna hate on dude on the fact that he did.

btw gouda is a large stack of money and when you fold it slap a rubber band around it its a chalupa- courtesy of E-40 My Getto Report Card track # 5

[doughboyea]

Umm, personally, not hating on Gold Panda. I'm sure he's a fine fellow. It's the shock value that came out of the conversation. It's similar to someone saying that they just got a new pair of jeans and paid $200 for them... It's just a shock. I can't afford many (if any) mods for my car either, but that doesn't mean I'm hating on him or anything of the sort because he can. That was his choice and we discussed it and the topic ended there.

Dough

[xsperf]

yea its not mockery, its just interest, i think its pretty cool what he did to his car

[gold panda]

Originally Posted by xsperf

yea its not mockery, its just interest, i think its pretty cool what he did to his car

Well thanks for the kind words, support and your understanding, all of you!

As I shared in an earlier post, BMW's new car warranty really placed heavy restrictions on what I could or could not do aftermarket wise. Perhaps the company will ease off on this restriction in due time.

I even heard that BMW might begin offering their own performance mods through their own parts department (knowing how much $$$ people are spending on aftermarket mods, etc.) in the near future.

Well, I could have waited after seven years (or 100K miles whatever came first) when my new car warranty expired, but that's too long to wait for some extra hot performance action!!!

In light of this fact, Dinan was therefore the only appropriate and "safe" choice. Anyway, not trying to justify why I did what I did (again). Just hope all my buds know where I'm coming from with all this. HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND ALL!

BEST REGARDS!

[Storamin]

It's doubtful that they will.

You don't need to justify what you did, it's YOUR car and YOUR modifcations and you should do them because YOU want to, and not because somebody on the internet thinks you should.