THE BEST KEPT SECRET! MY AA SUPER CHARGER FINALLY INSTALLED!&#
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I finally got my AA Stage 2 Supercharger installed today!
I ordered the supercharger kit straight from Active Autowerke on July 27th, 2009 and received the package from them on August 28th. THE VERY NEXT DAY i ran over to Road Race Technologies, a BMW specialty tuner shop to install it. There was problem after problem because the kit was made for a e46 330 with the same engine as mine, but little did AA know, under the hood the two are COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. RRT did a great job installing the supercharger on my car. The biggest problem was that the intercooler was much wider than my radiator so custom tubing and hosing had to be put on. The next problem was that my Air Flow Meter that comes with E60's is built in the intake, but the intake had to be removed. So RRT custom routed tubing from e36's and e46's to make this work. Then they found out that the 3 series had a 6 pin plug while the e60 had a 5 pin plug so they inserted a dummy pin to keep it from shooting errors. Now the only option that RRT gave me was to wait until the part came in, so they are keeping me updated and im going back wed. to get everything finalized. THEY ARE GREAT! They always kept me updated!
Problems:
Now when i start my engine the rpm shoot up to 2500 and then down to 500 back and forth but the guys at RRT said that its the car reteaching itself since the DME was reflashed and modified by AA. It does this everytime I am at a stoplight or in other words in idle. They said it will eventually go away and I really hope it does.
AND HERE IS THE GRAND FINALE!!!!!!!!!!
I WILL SEE THE DYNO RESULTS WHEN THE IDLE PROBLEM RESOLVES AND I WILL POST ASAP!
PICTURES!
I ordered the supercharger kit straight from Active Autowerke on July 27th, 2009 and received the package from them on August 28th. THE VERY NEXT DAY i ran over to Road Race Technologies, a BMW specialty tuner shop to install it. There was problem after problem because the kit was made for a e46 330 with the same engine as mine, but little did AA know, under the hood the two are COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. RRT did a great job installing the supercharger on my car. The biggest problem was that the intercooler was much wider than my radiator so custom tubing and hosing had to be put on. The next problem was that my Air Flow Meter that comes with E60's is built in the intake, but the intake had to be removed. So RRT custom routed tubing from e36's and e46's to make this work. Then they found out that the 3 series had a 6 pin plug while the e60 had a 5 pin plug so they inserted a dummy pin to keep it from shooting errors. Now the only option that RRT gave me was to wait until the part came in, so they are keeping me updated and im going back wed. to get everything finalized. THEY ARE GREAT! They always kept me updated!
Problems:
Now when i start my engine the rpm shoot up to 2500 and then down to 500 back and forth but the guys at RRT said that its the car reteaching itself since the DME was reflashed and modified by AA. It does this everytime I am at a stoplight or in other words in idle. They said it will eventually go away and I really hope it does.
AND HERE IS THE GRAND FINALE!!!!!!!!!!
I WILL SEE THE DYNO RESULTS WHEN THE IDLE PROBLEM RESOLVES AND I WILL POST ASAP!
PICTURES!
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Let me be the first to congratulate you on ur purchase. And, thank you for letting me be the first person to drive your car after the supercharger was installed. The car is the ultimate sleeper now. Love it man. CONGRATS!!!
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Hope you get the glitches sorted out soon and can get it on a dyno! 
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This thread is useless without numbers....
but seriously..congrats..hope the rpm issue does get resolved....did you happen to get a pre-dyno?
looking forward to seeing a post dyno
happy motoring
but seriously..congrats..hope the rpm issue does get resolved....did you happen to get a pre-dyno?
looking forward to seeing a post dyno
happy motoring
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Great mod 
can't wait for the dyno results! Hope you get that idle issue resolved. Congrats!
can't wait for the dyno results! Hope you get that idle issue resolved. Congrats!
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Originally Posted by BMWPower06' post='1010683' date='Sep 17 2009, 11:00 PM
Let me be the first to congratulate you on ur purchase. And, thank you for letting me be the first person to drive your car after the supercharger was installed. The car is the ultimate sleeper now. Love it man. CONGRATS!!!
Thanks a lot bro, not to be too touchy feely but u were the one that pushed me to get this! Thanks for wakin up at 7am to drop my car off
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Originally Posted by GENEaTALS' post='1010686' date='Sep 17 2009, 11:02 PM
This thread is useless without numbers....
but seriously..congrats..hope the rpm issue does get resolved....did you happen to get a pre-dyno?
looking forward to seeing a post dyno
happy motoring
but seriously..congrats..hope the rpm issue does get resolved....did you happen to get a pre-dyno?
looking forward to seeing a post dyno
happy motoring
good thing i added pictures, i didnt want the "YMCA" men to hold those signs saying "this thread is useless without pitchers" lollll
The dyno results will be added soon and unfortunately no dyno pre-supercharger...
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wow.. that install looks awesome... you got one badass 530i now.. congrats mang!! can't wait to hear your feedback after more driving...
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Congrats man! Would love to check it out if i can make a NoVa meet sometime
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Originally Posted by Idonkare' post='1010701' date='Sep 17 2009, 11:15 PM
Congrats man! Would love to check it out if i can make a NoVa meet sometime
Theres actually meets every thursday night in fairfax, va and a lot of people come. I know richmond is pretty far away but the turnout is pretty good. Come by sometime, there are all kinds of BMW's
