Making a DONATED 200,000 Mile Twin Turbo BMW Look and Drive like NEW! (and then ENGINE MALFUNCTION)

Alright, here we go, three, two, one, just like that, at least that BMW chime sounds good, the

engine

malfunction

warning sure doesn't, especially if you're the type to take your car to the dealership after seeing this warning, the words of Scott, the previous owner of this BMW. it sounded really loud this car is your problem I hope you make the trip and if you don't I will laugh when I watch the video now Scott is familiar with the dealership because he took this car in to trade in a new BMW and they only offered him $1,500 for it Of course, when he brought the car in and was throwing out this

engine

malfunction

warning that we were able to rectify by replacing the valve cover for a little under five hundred dollars in parts, turning this $1,500 dealer into a wholesaler. car into what I would consider a five or six thousand dollar Craigslist car, but I won't just repair the car.

This

twin

-

turbo

BMW 54 is one of the most capable tuning platforms available today and, in my opinion, one of the best. Cheap tuning platforms available, so I have ordered a number of cosmetic and performance modifications and some maintenance items so we can make this car

look

better and

drive

better than when it was new. Alright, the 335 has already taken off. I've already done it. I just got my tools and stuff laid out, we're going to do a complete transformation on this car in a very short period of time. That's the great thing about the 335 platform with the n54 bi

turbo

engine, these engines are capable of reaching incredible levels. of horsepower now we're going to do what you would call a modern upgrade, we're going to increase that boost a little bit, we're probably going to get an extra hundred pound-feet of torque out of this engine, probably sixty seventy-five horsepower with our Cobb tune when you're doing that, of course, we're going to want to upgrade things like our charge pipe here, the intercooler down there and we'll do some little maintenance items while things are off the car, we've got new brakes.

The rotors again are really affordable because this platform has been available long enough. I think those brake rotors were like 30 bucks, other than the Aero lip it's cool. This is a cosmetic mod that costs less than 70 dollars and check this out. I'm going to float. Right here it installs very easily and

look

what a difference it makes of course we're going to paint it gloss black to match the rest of the car and lastly we're going to put our exhaust and the Koenig wheels back here the combo cob catback exhaust with the The dual cone inlet makes a wonderful noise, man what a cool mod for how quickly it installs now again.

I made the intake dual cone primarily for noise reasons, not performance. They tell you you'll gain like 10 horsepower with these and I don't. I don't know if I believe that much. I wonder how effective it is compared to the box attached here, the original entry that was here. Think about it, the Box probably does a better job of protecting heat than these two open filters, but again, if you have any kind of experience with these, let me know in the comments section below what you found after installing them. The big deal here is the charge pipe which will eliminate us from having any type of boost pressure issues after increasing boost and that's where the real performance will come from that big front mount intercooler which will really reduce the air intake temperatures. , so let's take out the old one and put the new one in, do me a favor and pass me the key, come on.

I wonder what a factory internal coil looks like after 180k

mile

s. Not bad, that's because most of the trash that was stuck in it fell on me and my creeper, my shirt, but I got out pretty easily, literally in just a few. In a few minutes we'll check out our aftermarket, a bigger one, it's direct fit, you don't need to cut it, which is really nice, we'll put it in there and

then

we'll start the car to make sure we don't have any. boost leaks, Zach is here to save the day the aftermarket Cobb intercooler is very heavy and it will be much easier to have two pairs of hands on it and remove the bumper while we install it.

The bumper came off which took Zac three to four minutes, so nothing too difficult. You can see we've got it lined up on the jack down here, so let's fish it out a little bit and get it into place and

then

yeah, we'll be ready to go, it's cool and see this one. I have four I love this one here four different sizes one two three four you need this and another wrench and you can accomplish most automotive projects given that you know what you're doing love me not we did it it's inside and all you What What I have to do is tighten these nuts and then we can go back to the exhaust that I saw while I was down here, it's going to throw us a little curveball, how's everything going down there?

Zach, yeah, he's doing a good job, easy stuff here. we just have a bunch of random bolts holding the exhaust on. It's great you showed up, Zach, because we'll have an extra pair of hands specifically for moving the chicken out of the way and then we'll do the light work. Taking the exhaust out of the car, we have the exhaust, everyone wants to know what a straight pipe sounds like, and then we have those double cone intakes that should make some nice noises, let's see what it's like, now it's not cool in my opinion. Well we've eliminated most of the work we needed to do on this car, like I said the exhaust is giving us a little bit of a problem and that's where the exhaust mates with the downpipe and its bolts that are pressed in. the back of the downpipe and are completely rusted all the way to the end and rust and into the downpipe.

I heated them up and tried to drill them. I kept breaking bit after bit, but even really nice cobalt bits and I tried to use a punch to get them out but I can't, so this is one of the rare times you'll see me do this, but I'll take the car to a mechanic shop and Hopefully, we will have them. use a jackhammer to drill out these bolts once they get it right we can use really good stainless steel hardware so we don't have this problem in the future and once they hit it it will be all downhill.

I'll be able to bolt on the exhaust and hopefully they'll do all this on a lift. It will save me a lot of time and will actually probably be worth whatever they end up charging because we have already removed the exhaust. from the car, so all the heavy lifting has been done and this exhaust is a direct bolt-on. I don't think this process will take more than an hour. There are the bolts. Wow, that sounds pretty good. I'm not going to go full throttle. the path yet, but we still have to show that melody. I can't wait to feel what that's like.

Unfortunately, the guy at the shop started the car, got it out of the bay before he could get them their first official cold start, but what I did. What I'm going to do is take the car home right now. I'll let it sit for several hours and then we'll have a nice cold start. I'll give it a few revs so you can hear what this new catback really sounds like. I hear that turbo noise now, since our car is a non-metallic gloss black, we will cheat a little and paint the front lip with a rattle. I can know?

Give me two seconds to try to defend myself and, of course, well, you'll see. what it looks like when it ends up on the car a couple things here number one i'm using a 2k this is a gloss black with a catalyst and the catalyst is what hardens the paint it's like what you get on a clear coat , that's what you get single stage paint, you get a hardener, your regular stuff that you see on my shelf here, the regular enamel paints that you buy at the hardware store, those don't have any hardener and if you put them on a front the edge of a car the moment a stone hits it it will basically start to peel and chip this will be very very durable the other thing is black well some people will tell you black is black yes there is different shades and different depths of black, but on a car again that's a little bit older, has a few longer

mile

s with imperfect paint, it's going to be very difficult to tell the difference, especially since these lips are very low to the ground, so again Hopefully that will convince you if it doesn't work well. go ahead and paint it and see how it looks on the car so this is a new part before you paint it all you have to do is scuff it up a little bit with one of these pads here we're going to scuff everything up including all the edges so the paint will adhere really well after scraping it, we'll put some wax and grease remover on it and then it'll be ready to go and again since it's so small it'll be very easy to paint when Zach We had the wheels off to do the brakes, we were able to fit these Koenig wheels wide and just look how beautiful they are in bronze, what a sharp wheel, if it's this car, great, they had a bronze color and they had bronze and bronze.

I thought it was a bit cheeky and I was actually going to put it on another BMW that the boys might have seen hanging around the farm, but I decided to put them here. They fit this car very well. I'm very glad I did it. This car came with a square setup, now it's staggered and it looks amazing, just look at this rear wheel here, it sits a little bit, a little aggressive, but I think it looks very, very good on this car. I really like bronze. wheels now I like the way they look here. I have a game on the rs7 of course you guys have seen it.

I think a set of bronze wheels personally looks great on that and maybe even the Ferrari, but for now. I'm focused on this car. I want everyone to keep in mind that all of the modifications and maintenance done today are things you can do at home with just hand tools. Well, of course, you need to mount some tires on your new Koenig wheels. I like it. Hoenig wheel specifically because they are priced very fairly with what you get, this is one of their flow formed wheels so it is a lightweight and stronger wheel and again compared to some boutique brands they are really affordable like This is it here. eBay Aero lifts these things up again.

I think I paid $68 for it. I sprayed it with that 2k. In the back you can see we made it stick out a little bit, so in that side profile you have that evil look right there, they look really good, really nice car, really fun car, there's only one thing left for us to do and that's flash. or cobb tunes it and that will give us the power to match the look of the car and that will be done now that all the hard stuff has been installed. It's time for the easy part into the fun part because this tuner This is what will literally add a ton of power to this car.

The nice thing about a Cobb tuner is that there are a ton of different maps that come in them and you can literally tune a car like this to win big. of power with just a tune and no support mods, of course, we have these support mods and they will give us a little extra power, so here, if we go well, we will say that we want to install the access. port I started the car already just in accessory mode you don't want the engine to be on so it's in accessory mode let's move on and here are all those maps I was talking about so 91 octane 93 octane I'm going to scroll over to down to stage 1 and now it gives me two options here oh we win stage 1 93 octane + FM s FM i c means front mount intercooler and then 93 octane do they have stock throttle or right here they have linear throttle so I I guess this is a bit more aggressive sentiment.

I'll be honest. I like the stock throttle on these cars. You can always give a car more acceleration, so that's the tune I'll choose, so a couple of clicks in just a few minutes, our car. It will be much faster after about 20 minutes. Our melody is complete. Striking. We're ready to take this car for a spin, but I just want to show you some of the cool things you can do with the Cobb access port once the tune is installed. First of all, it has some additional gauges, so I installed here while we were driving a gauge that reads the boost that the car is giving because I just want to make sure that we're doing good boost and it should be between medium and high. -The teenagers, as far as I know, the cars got one hundred and eighty-six thousand miles.

Another reason I chose a police tune is that they are known to be a little more conservative when it comes to stock turbos. We're talking higher miles. I just think it's the safest route, so we'll watch our gauges. It also has a performance timer so you can do 0 to 60 drag races. You could do quarter mile drag races. if it's out of control with the performance timer and then the other really convenient thing, if we actually throw out our trouble code while driving fine, we can go here and then it will read all the trouble codes. in the car, okay, let's put it in manual mode here, let's put it in first gear, there it is and I'm going to get my access portCobb because we want to see how much this car pushes.

I'm going to take a turn here and I'm going to go full throttle in second gear. I remember these cars were very fast, so okay, here we go 3 2 1. Now that we got that code from the beginning, the first thing I want to do is stop. a parking lot that we'll check for leaks, the intercooler and all the stuff under the hood that we messed with, if something fell out of place or if I didn't secure it enough, that will definitely cause what we just experienced, that It's the easiest. Which makes the most sense right now, so let's see what we really like around here, you'll want to check that this is all very tight and that nothing has moved out of place and also the main connection there hasn't moved in absolute, it's going to be some kind of jump, I want to get under it, yeah, it hasn't come out of place, our air intakes, our solid in the same place and then of course, these two guys here are not loose, like this that everything is fine and then I will go to the ground. and just reach for these intercooler tubes because if any of them came off it would be a problem, it was hard to see and feel but none of those tubes were loose so I'm going to try this again.

Again, I'm assuming we'll have the exact same result if we do this, we'll probably have a problem somewhere else, so I quickly pulled out our trouble codes here on the access port and in addition to some of the old codes we had. presumably we fixed the DM TL system would not be causing this type of problems these lambda sensor codes appeared your lambda sensor is simply an oxygen sensor and an oxygen sensor in any car, the one before the catalytic converter is very important if it fails At this point , and the car can't read what's going on there, it will put us in limbo like it did with the engine malfunction and the way that engine malfunction or limb mode appears to be working is when you turn off the engine. on this car and then turned it on again, it clears so I can give it another full throttle, it will increase a decent amount of 1011 psi.

I think this car is supposed to hit the teens now with the tune so I still don't really feel the full effects of the tune and then it cuts the power it limits the boost after that so if I give the car a little More acceleration again, it doesn't feel as fast as it feels. There is very little boost and the access port gauge reads like 2 or 3 pounds. I was able to trigger our engine malfunction again very easily just by doing the same thing, giving the car plenty of gas while manually shifting it to higher rpm when the boost kicks in you can feel the pull of this car definitely feels stronger than the original, but then it cuts out every time this appears on the screen and I think that limits the momentum for the rest of the ride, while the engine malfunction warning can seem intimidating.

I want to consider a few things: the car didn't explode, it didn't overheat, it didn't even leave us stranded, it just put us in limp and limited boost mode so the car doesn't fail even more and that's really cool. Some people criticize these cars for over-engineering, but features like that really make a lot of sense and I'm very impressed specifically with this car with close to 200,000 miles on it, if you can't tell, I know, I told you a million. times I love this rig and I love it more and more as I play with it if you enjoyed this video all the mods we made to the 335 especially these bronze koenig wheels be sure to hit the like button too if you don't follow me on yet Instagram where I'll be posting updates on the 335i before anything is posted here on YouTube, as well as future project cars coming to the channel right here, click the link in the description box below.

Of course we'll find out what's going on through a little more diagnostics, we'll probably have to order a few more parts to get this car in tip top condition and then again we'll release another video and hopefully we'll be able to open this car up, get a feel for it. Feel that extra boost and I'm telling you I've had one of these cars tuned in the past, now they are awesome guys. I have to give a huge thank you to each and every one of you for watching today I will see you very soon