silviaz

I thought I heard if you do this it can drop a cylinder?

Gosh these bmw's are worse money pits than JDM's! I won't complain about my car anymore 😂

Nice colour and welcome!

You gave me another reason to avoid poly bushings 😂

Ah right.

600km?! That's amazing lol, was that turbo or non turbo? I'd be lucky to get 400km on a tank lol (though that's mods for you i guess lol)

Ah right.

@Dose Pipe Sutututu with the wideband, are you referring to something mainly like this? https://www.justraceparts.com.au/oxygen-sensors/wideband-gauge-kits

Ah right I think I get what you mean, cheers for the info. As mentioned yeah I'll bring up the wideband o2 sensor with my tuner and give an update from there.

Ah right, interesting to know. I'll bring up the 02 wideband sensor up with my tuner as well.

Ah yep, foul I meant my bad.

Last question I had, can a super rich condition cause spark plugs to fail early? Say for example my mechanic says to change them every 10k but they fail at the 7k mark. From research I've done it seems to be the case, but then I assume it would depending on how much the car is overfueling?

Ah right, now wondering whether I should waste money to get it tuned at all, probably a good idea I guess considering I don't have tuning papers from the last owner.

Evo's now that you mention it do tend to stink I've noticed lol but don't remember smoke. Is that taking into account a properly tuned aftermarket ecu?

Yeah, I think I keep getting bad advice. I'll get a tune from a reputable place (from the place that they said black smoke on acceleration is not normal and hopefully it's fixed.) That one place I went to initially told me that they do run the car slightly on the rich side for safety.

That makes sense.

Ah, I thought as much lol. Me tuning the car myself would be a disaster, I'll just pay the 1k+ 🤣

My mechanic said that black smoke on boost is completely normal even with aftermarket ecu and tune, is this right? Sounds way off to be. Sure it's common because people don't tune their cars but from my understanding if you're popping flames or blowing a lot of black smoke, you're running way to rich? He was saying actually that you want to run very rich when boosting. Though a tuner told me you shouldn't have black smoke on acceleration only on deceleration. My spark plugs only last a few thousand km I noticed before my car started running rough, but now runs fine when putting new plugs in. Most cars that I've seen boost hard have never had black smoke on acceleration.

Really even though they save a ton of time with the copy paste it's still the same price as a full tune? I thought it was a time thing where the more time they spend the more money they charge, now if the adjustments take the same amount of time then that makes sense to me, or am I missing something?

Yep that makes a lot of sense, actually I was reading reviews a few minutes ago of this exact same scenario that you mentioned. Now, I wonder if they will do a copy and paste tune, doubt it lol. Less money that way for them.

I'd love to do a fix up but a tuner I went to says he doesn't do that, and it's easier just to do it from scratch because if they fix one parameter it could negatively impact another. I was trying to avoid spending $1k+, is this common with tuners?

I just realised my build had the 7s so will be putting those. Cheers man

I went to go search it up on Repco and autobarn and shows it's not compatible for my car, that's odd. Faulty search function?

I thought r34 gtt's run stock boost 5-7 psi?

Nope, I had some ones called "road claw" on a car with no traction control (luckily I never drove it in the rain) because I don't think that would have ended well lol. Tyres I think is one of those things to not cheap out on. I've heard stories of people using cheap Chinese tyres and almost totalling their car, just not worth the risk.