JET's 335Xi

[mark4g63t]

That's pretty neat. I like it.

[Mark Leasure]

Very cool car, great bang for the buck mods too. I rode in a friends lightly modded 335 and I was very impressed, lots of torque down low in the RPM band.

[goodhart]

Cool. I like seeing other platforms and whats done to them

[C3L1CA]

Looks like a cool project!

Any more pics of it?

[JET]

Thanks for the support guys! Here are a couple more pics, there are a few visual mods I want to do also. Delete the stupid amber fender reflectors and put a small trunk lip on at the minimum. And eventually a CF rear diffuser, but they are $600.

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[scheides]

Very cool! Glad to see you finally modding this thing a bit, will be cool to see it out and about on the new setup. Basic mods puts these thing as fast as a pump gas stock-turbo evo on the street, maybe moreso with the flexfuel stuff, didn't know it could do that! Very very cool!

[Speedfreak]

Nice potential, should be a fun car.

BTW, what are the best forum's/sources of info for these cars? My buddy just bought a '11 335d and I think those have potential as well.

[simulatedwood]

Hey Jet,
The car looks great, is this a auto or manual? Interested to see with e85 and stock turbos what it makes.

I just bought a 08 335i auto rwd a month ago. So far I am loving this thing as a dd. Found a open source freeware flash software from bimmer boost using a Bavarian Technic cable. Sucessfully flashed a tune for cobb stage 1 AP to my car for basically free. Have you looked into this at all? I believe using tuner pro you can tune as well. The flash tune is such a difference on these cars it is crazy even on pump gas, but be sure to replace the plugs if they have anywhere near 30k miles on them or the car will experience misfires.

[JET]

E90post is the best forum I have found and they do have a 335d section. Bimmerboost is pretty much garbage, I can't stand that forum (at least the N55 section).

Hey Jet,
The car looks great, is this a auto or manual? Interested to see with e85 and stock turbos what it makes.

I just bought a 08 335i auto rwd a month ago. So far I am loving this thing as a dd. Found a open source freeware flash software from bimmer boost using a Bavarian Technic cable. Sucessfully flashed a tune for cobb stage 1 AP to my car for basically free. Have you looked into this at all? I believe using tuner pro you can tune as well. The flash tune is such a difference on these cars it is crazy even on pump gas, but be sure to replace the plugs if they have anywhere near 30k miles on them or the car will experience misfires.

Mine is an N55 instead of N54, so the chassis is the same, but the engine/turbo/ecu is different. You should really look at the OFT flash for yours. Very cheap and gives you control over most of the ECU. Your stock turbos are a little laggier than my single, but they have better top end. New plugs 4k miles ago. Mine is also a 6AT, tranny shows to be solid up to 500wtq once you hit 550 it definitely starts to shorten the life. There are some upgrades available. Have you flashed the tranny with the Alpina software yet? Do you have paddle shifters?

[simulatedwood]

Good to know information, I thought the open source worked for the n55 as well, but I know very little so far on this newer bmw stuff. The transmission has not been flashed, what advantage would that give? The car is a a sport package with the paddle shifters. My plan currently is to change out the oem transmission fluid for redline d4 as the car is nearing 93k miles.