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Originally Posted by Factory6speed
Please tell me more. What is this stage one, and vanos upgrade.
That might really be all I need. It doesn't need to be fast it would just be nice to get out of the way a little bit better and not wind out to 5-6k every 3 seconds.
Longer term I would like to pull the motor and completely rebuild it for the supercharger, but maybe that's just not necessary. It was rather sludgy and the cam lobes were worn, so I would like to do some heavier work on it at some point. Soon I will be ripping the e36 m52 head apart to fix the lifters and timing chain so we'll see how that goes.
That uuc clutch is pretty good. I smoked it in reverse a couple times already. It really requires a good bit of focus and is touchy but it is very nice. There was a week or so I was getting a lot of chatter but that was driver error.
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The reference to stage 1, was when the my supercharger kit was set at 6 lbs. (which is roughly 84 hp if tuned properly). My tune at the time was for pump gas, at 91 octane. The stage 1 setup in my opinion, made the manual SAV very capable at that point. You could have a couple of passengers, or some weight without feeling like something was holding you back. Had I had the 8 lb. flywheel installed during this period, it probably would have been all that was needed to get the tank moving proper. But I ended up at stage 2 (10 lb. boost with water/meth injection) prior to my flywheel, short shifter, DSSR, clutch upgrade, and especially the CDV delete.
I had my vanos seals upgraded, and that brought back a decent amount of missing low end power. Even with horsepower upgrades it is in my opinion VERY important to make the necessary repairs to the receiving M54 power plant. Otherwise you’re working backwards, and starts really adding up!
Do you have the 8 lb. flywheel? There are two different weights. I have never smoked the clutch, (mine is Kevlar) but I have stalled it a hand full of times. LoL.. The UUC equipment really cleaned up the sloppy factory 5 speed setup my X had. It was a night and day transformation!
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