11-24-2016, 01:52 AM | #1 |
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Hi,
Imagine I'm 8 years old and I have m235i, so please don't judge, I don't know much about these things yet, but I'm learning. I'm getting some performance parts, such as new air intake, exhaust upgrade and such And as I understand it correctly, the car needs to be tuned in order to perform better, right? so the questions are: where do I go to tune it? (I live in Los Angeles, CA) Do I need a tune box like JB4 or something? please advise Thank you |
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11-27-2016, 01:54 PM | #3 |
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I'm pretty new to the upgrades thing too. I have a 2015 M235 m/t, thinking about Dinan Stage 2 and cold air intake. Sure are lots of opinions about Dinan, some good, some not, and whether they are worth the $. But this site is a good place to learn about things
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11-27-2016, 02:03 PM | #4 |
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ok.
1st. Read all the posts in this forum. You will learn a lot. Exhaust and intake do basically nothing for performance. Save your money, don't do this till last. There are 500+whp 2 series with stock intake. 2nd. Figure out if you want a piggy back or flash tune. Dinan stage 3 which is several thousands of dollars will produce the same performance as the $700.00 jb4. A flash tune which is roughly 1400.00 will be a little bit faster than the piggy back solutions and safer. 3rd. Get a downpipe first. This will open up about 15-20 whp and add a nice exhaust note to the car. If you go jb4 or flash, get a cattless dp. 4th. Charge pipe. Once you start adding additional boost, that stock charge pipe will be the first thing to break. 5th. Add additional bolt ons like your FMIC, exhaust or drop in filter. 6th. Stainless steel brake lines, better brake pads like EBC yellow, and fluid like ATE 7th. Wheels and tires, suspension upgrades. If you just want a to spend a few hundred dollars and add a little power, the jb+ is good solution. Similar to the Dinan sport. PM me if you have questions.
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DP for sure.
Good power bump with or without tune, and will make it sound nice. You don't need a fabspeed, get the wagner catted on thats in the classified section.
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tengotengo Performance mods are tune, Intercooler and downpipe
Exhaust is not a performance mod it is only for sound Intake might be considered a performance mod, but it will only give you HP gais if your car already has the main 3 mods i mentioned. Easiest and less costly method would be to get a Jb or Jb4. Since you are new at this, i recommend you get a JB stage 1
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The first batch of fabspeed actually threw a cel with the catted if i remember correctly.
Its a great product for sure, but so are the others that Mike sells. Im running the enzo cattless DP because I came across a used one for 250$. Can't go wrong with that price.
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A lot of guys have said it already but I will reiterate.
I 110% recommend doing a downpipe as a first modification, especially our Sport Cat Downpipe. A majority of the power is restricted within the downpipe. By moving to something such as our Sport Cat, you will access a nice chunk of that power, without needing a tune or worrying about a CEL. I am going to send you a PM to chat some more! |
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