Cptnslo
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So I picked up my nocturnal black A90 3.0 base model from New Albany Indiana and driver her home to Bowling Green Kentucky last weekend. Very uneventful 2 hour drive just enjoyed the supra and the 2 thumbs ups from various drivers, the kids freaking out at McDonald's and the guy yelling nice supra at the gas station lol.
The next day of course I threw a random check engine light and my scanner wouldn't read bmw codes so I had to order a veepeak and bimmerlink in order to code read and of course had 2 ghost codes and a VANOS exhaust side code. Cleared them, since I was experiencing no rough idles or misfires and everything was perfect try fine, no CEL for a day or so then it randomly came back.
When I left work the same day it was gone. ?. I wrote to John at CES and he was INCREDIBLY helpful. Gave me pointers on what to check since the owner before me threw a couple mods on the car and clearly I can tell used to have a piggyback on the car.
Of course right after I talk to John the car begins running ? and has not thrown a code since. I fiddled with the Tmap sensor and just checked the general connections and seems good so far.
The car currently has nearly 30k miles which were put on by the previous owner (im guessing traveling sales person of some kind, medical or insurance) and has H&R lowering springs, carbon mirror caps and ducktail and a CTS catless downpipe.
The odd thing is the downpipe is not throwing a CEL.
I ordered the MHD flash adapter so that I can check my ecu to see if its still locked abd eventually I will more then likely go with an mhd tune.
Today I got out of work with enough time to give her a wash since she was dirty from Nashville cars and coffee and dam she cleans up good. Anyone who says these cars are ugly clearly hasn't ever seen one regardless of looks being subjective.
I also finally had a chance yesterday to do some test hits with my buddy and his draggy, no launch control and first time trying to launch the car along with traction control on the first time. Clearly have a lot to work on given my 60ft and 0-60 and 1/8th mile times. Based on some online calculators thats a mid 13ssc 1/4 which is garbage.
Will be going to beech bend here one of these test and tune nights to get some practice since these draggy runs were done on some back roads in Mexico.
Anyway here's a couple photos from post wash times this evening.
Yes that is my 100lb German shepherd riding shotgun after daycare lol
The next day of course I threw a random check engine light and my scanner wouldn't read bmw codes so I had to order a veepeak and bimmerlink in order to code read and of course had 2 ghost codes and a VANOS exhaust side code. Cleared them, since I was experiencing no rough idles or misfires and everything was perfect try fine, no CEL for a day or so then it randomly came back.
When I left work the same day it was gone. ?. I wrote to John at CES and he was INCREDIBLY helpful. Gave me pointers on what to check since the owner before me threw a couple mods on the car and clearly I can tell used to have a piggyback on the car.
Of course right after I talk to John the car begins running ? and has not thrown a code since. I fiddled with the Tmap sensor and just checked the general connections and seems good so far.
The car currently has nearly 30k miles which were put on by the previous owner (im guessing traveling sales person of some kind, medical or insurance) and has H&R lowering springs, carbon mirror caps and ducktail and a CTS catless downpipe.
The odd thing is the downpipe is not throwing a CEL.
I ordered the MHD flash adapter so that I can check my ecu to see if its still locked abd eventually I will more then likely go with an mhd tune.
Today I got out of work with enough time to give her a wash since she was dirty from Nashville cars and coffee and dam she cleans up good. Anyone who says these cars are ugly clearly hasn't ever seen one regardless of looks being subjective.
I also finally had a chance yesterday to do some test hits with my buddy and his draggy, no launch control and first time trying to launch the car along with traction control on the first time. Clearly have a lot to work on given my 60ft and 0-60 and 1/8th mile times. Based on some online calculators thats a mid 13ssc 1/4 which is garbage.
Will be going to beech bend here one of these test and tune nights to get some practice since these draggy runs were done on some back roads in Mexico.
Anyway here's a couple photos from post wash times this evening.
Yes that is my 100lb German shepherd riding shotgun after daycare lol
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