For something that would seem so difficult it's worked out pretty well. The community response and knowledge along the way seems to have helped a lot. Great bunch you bimmer nerds are.
Reaaaally looking forward to your adventure with xhp (and the diff eventually lol). I have read so many comments about good or bad that I would love to see your take on it Congrats on making it work properly!
Awesome progress! Maybe try the steering wheel from the wreck to see if it’s paddles work first. Just a thought. I think your car has a modified LCI wheel, like mine, so some resistors in the paddles have been removed for the paddles to work. Would be a quick test.
andrew i did a bit of digging around on the net and the paddle shifters in your car are not the same as the dct ones apparantly the resisters in them are different use the dct paddles or pull one apart and check what resistance they have and replace the resistors in your original ones i found it on 1 addict under dct paddle swap hope this helps cheers glenn
Awesome, i have no idea how you manage to work out all of this technical stuff but the cars amazing and a credit to your efforts, definitely feel like there's a 335i with a DCT in my future.
N54 For Life ❤️ Love from Los Angeles. Written before. Following your build and making mine similar 😂. Love all the Content and SUPER informative. Keep up all the Amazing work.
Thank you so much! This is the DIY I have been waiting for I will start buying the parts I need for the swap soon. Please post an update in your next video about the chatter I'm curious to find out if I should spend the extra money for the 8 bolt crank flywheel. Again. Thank you!!!!
Not sure if this is relevant for E series but I recently upgraded the Kombi in my F series and one of the gauges wasn't displaying. Issue was Zeitkriterium (production date) was not the same as when the new cluster was availble so gauge didn't work as it saw the car as the older version that didn't come with the function. I updated the Zeitkriterium to a newer date when it was available and coded the Kombi and worked. So might fix your DCT not displaying correctly on your cluster.
I know what that waste gate rattle is! It's the sound of a big single turbo in your near future! Love this series! Glad you got some proper pulls in! It looks wicked!
@@ZeroTo60Tube of course it’s fixable, but are those 17ts worth your time if you have to take the turbo(s) off? I replaced my wastegates and internals on the stock snails with the Turbolabs of America kit and it has been solid but if i had to take them off again I’d rather upgrade to 19ts or something with more flow. Maybe you can do the same on those turbos if you do choose to keep them. I believe the kit runs something like $250 usd
So Awesome!!! So great and I'm excited to see.the video of this car roll racing!! As well I told you I have a vibration and my car had been worked on by a shop before I bought it and I think my saft bearing mat be upside down as well. I'll celebrate when I open her up to see lol. I love your channel!!!!
Chuffed this swap has worked out so well! I’m running JB4, FBO with a DCT, it does some funky shifting when the box is cold with mild boast… but only sometimes. Once you beat a little heat into it she’s golden. Looking forward to the content on the diff and xhp flash!
Yep, very fast shifting guys! I saw a video about BMW DCT's and the test driver said it shifts in 0,4 sec to the next gear. That's quick indeed. Very curious about that XHP tune on this DCT. I actually don't know what to expect... Dutch regards, Nico.
I had the exact same wastegate rattle randomly one night (i also have 17ts thanks to you 😂) one of the arms was stiff wd40d it instantly went away so i did the same thing for a week and after 4k miles nothing since worth the shot bud and as for the upshift untill you xhp it it will automatically upshift once xhp flash the box can bounce off the limiter 👌🏼
Wooohooooo will you make it to Rolls on the 17th or to soon? I have some plans in the making that have already started to prevail 😉 could be the last time in a long time I'll be out there.....
Dang, if my auto kicks the bucket in my e60 i think I’ll be in the market for the dct man. I’ll definitely have to pay more attention to these videos when the time comes lol
Awesome Fuckin Awesome I'm glad you are getting things sorted out I'm happy for you it seems to be running great and shifting great lets just get those paddle shifters to work and you'll be really jamming keep up the awesome content
you really need XHP DCT on Stage 3. A because of the torque and B because simply transforms your DCT Congrats to the best transmission ever built! With the new V1.3 XHP you can boost up to 1k Nm of Torque and won´t have any issues. But also the programming was amazing. In D, D Sport, M Sport with DSC off you will have different shift speeds and it is simply amazing.
Today I recognized that if the car is in Sport Mode and I deactivate the DSC while driving, the throttle behaviour changes (it has less power even at the same throttle position). Is that normal or related to MHD or xHP? Thanks!
Your beemer looks like it is running great with the DCT. It will interesting to see the difference in the 0 to 60 times when you get similar engine tunes and xhp installed in the DCT. It would be good to compare the time lost with gear changes in your datalogs between the DCT with standard tune, DCT with xhp tune and the 6AT with xhp tune.
It will shift in manual automatically sometimes with the DSC/ABS fault. My N55 DCT would shift by itself when revving out, but it would do it early (3k rpm)
Waiting for that paddle shifter video! Can you check if it is modified (resoldered and resistors removed)? I purchased a new steering wheel with LCI paddles, internet says I have to do these modifications before installing...
Well being jb4 they are controlling the wastegates. I haven’t changed any settings in the jb4 yet. So will see if I can quieten it down. That’s said it’s only one of the wastegates. So it’s a bit strange.
Honestly what is the thought process behind that? Can build the n54 for so much cheaper than you could even source a stock b58 from and let's not ignore the b58 injector issues its not a flawless motor by any means
@@bimmerfab it’s a way better engine on paper n54 literally had everything break around the engine 😂 , but the aftermarket for b58 is gonna be really big because of the Supra and newer technology, I can upgrade my hpfp and dp and intake and have at 500whp car for like cheap to nothing, me personally am a engine fan so when I see different bore sizes I want it
@@CycloneXCry yeah exactly ON PAPER , there's not even that many modded b58s over 100k miles making real power, just give it some time the hpfps will be going out the injectors going out and forsure new problems will arise as people start pushing them harder.
@@bimmerfab bro do you give BMW zero credit for lessons learned? B58 closed deck, cam driven HPFP, new crank hub design, which is why Papadakis is making a 1,000 on stock crank and cams, with just rods, pistons and valves.
In Australia a DCT swap will set you back around 10k if you buy the parts seperately second hand from a wrecker. However much cheaper to buy a donar car and get the parts that way.
Hey mate, I've got a 2008 335i DCT and I've been told my mechatronics unit is buggered... Have you got a spare gearbox or a spare mechatronics unit I could buy? Preferably just the mech unit because I'm in the UK... I've got a baby on the way and this is going to cost over £4,500 to fix. The whole car is only worth about £7,000.
What was the problem with the car and did a new mechatronics units fix it. So many people end up wasting money on that because mechanics jump to that conclusion
@Bruno-xb2mt wow this is a blast from the past 😂 Right, so the symptoms of my mechatronics failure was the gearbox missing 2nd, 4th and 6th gear if I recall correctly. Reverse definitely worked, and it was either the odd or even gears that were missing. The cause, we think, was that I had incorrect software installed on the gearbox ECU (I wanted to enable launch control as my car didn't have that feature until the software update) and the fix was the mechatronics unit. £4500 direct from a Getrag supplier on eBay. BMW wanted £7000 for the part. I took it to a BMW specialist (not a dealer, but they are ex BMW master techs or whatever they're called and with a new mechatronics unit, transmission oil change, new sump and filter etc, it worked perfectly. All 7 gears again. Hope that helps somebody out there.
@@Bruno-xb2mtoh and we did a full transmission service BEFORE ordering the mechatronics unit just to rule that out. It made absolutely zero difference.
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Wow, props to the comments section, some of us helping with the algorithm and some helping with technical fixes!
Ha, true. You all help!
Those shifts are sweet 😍
The speed of those shifts! Car sounds fantastic 👌
Crazy for a stock 335i trans tune.
So happy you got the car running again with super fast shifts now !
Yes! Thank you!
For something that would seem so difficult it's worked out pretty well. The community response and knowledge along the way seems to have helped a lot. Great bunch you bimmer nerds are.
Reaaaally looking forward to your adventure with xhp (and the diff eventually lol). I have read so many comments about good or bad that I would love to see your take on it
Congrats on making it work properly!
Most congrats!!! Now some FlowMax turbos here we go!!!
Awesome progress! Maybe try the steering wheel from the wreck to see if it’s paddles work first. Just a thought.
I think your car has a modified LCI wheel, like mine, so some resistors in the paddles have been removed for the paddles to work. Would be a quick test.
F30 M Sport (Steering) Wheel looks awesome in the e90... Just sayin'... :D
@@FreakkyJack how would be the best/cheapest way to source one?
@@fizz2754 eBay :D and there are vids an RUclips how to install in onto the e90 :)
Wow that thing moves 🚀🔥 brutal shifts 😲
andrew i did a bit of digging around on the net and the paddle shifters in your car are not the same as the dct ones apparantly the resisters in them are different use the dct paddles or pull one apart and check what resistance they have and replace the resistors in your original ones i found it on 1 addict under dct paddle swap hope this helps cheers glenn
That’s the plan! We’ll see how it goes anywY
@@ZeroTo60Tube do you think the waste gate rattle might have something to do with the odd boost problem?
@@ZeroTo60Tube you can also jump the grounds in the paddles and they should be gtg.
Awesome, i have no idea how you manage to work out all of this technical stuff but the cars amazing and a credit to your efforts, definitely feel like there's a 335i with a DCT in my future.
Lots and lots of reading and then lots and lots of trial and error lol.
The dct works just fine with a jb4 with a good bef and xhp. Congrats man. Love it.
N54 For Life ❤️ Love from Los Angeles. Written before. Following your build and making mine similar 😂. Love all the Content and SUPER informative. Keep up all the Amazing work.
Thanks man!
Thank you so much! This is the DIY I have been waiting for I will start buying the parts I need for the swap soon.
Please post an update in your next video about the chatter I'm curious to find out if I should spend the extra money for the 8 bolt crank flywheel. Again. Thank you!!!!
Yeah would be nice to get some feedback on the single mass flywheel regarding
Chatter…
Not sure if this is relevant for E series but I recently upgraded the Kombi in my F series and one of the gauges wasn't displaying. Issue was Zeitkriterium (production date) was not the same as when the new cluster was availble so gauge didn't work as it saw the car as the older version that didn't come with the function. I updated the Zeitkriterium to a newer date when it was available and coded the Kombi and worked. So might fix your DCT not displaying correctly on your cluster.
Dct is awesome love mine I'm also n54 335i but only mhd stage1.
I know what that waste gate rattle is! It's the sound of a big single turbo in your near future!
Love this series! Glad you got some proper pulls in! It looks wicked!
Yeah it was bloody good to open it up a little again.
Well done guys excellent work
Darn 17ts didn’t even seem to hold up a year. DCT swap seemed pretty intense but I’m glad you got it worked. You are brave for even making attempt.
It could be fixable. We’ll see.
@@ZeroTo60Tube of course it’s fixable, but are those 17ts worth your time if you have to take the turbo(s) off? I replaced my wastegates and internals on the stock snails with the Turbolabs of America kit and it has been solid but if i had to take them off again I’d rather upgrade to 19ts or something with more flow. Maybe you can do the same on those turbos if you do choose to keep them. I believe the kit runs something like $250 usd
So Awesome!!! So great and I'm excited to see.the video of this car roll racing!! As well I told you I have a vibration and my car had been worked on by a shop before I bought it and I think my saft bearing mat be upside down as well. I'll celebrate when I open her up to see lol. I love your channel!!!!
Good luck!
It looks properly rapid in the video, wow!
Chuffed this swap has worked out so well! I’m running JB4, FBO with a DCT, it does some funky shifting when the box is cold with mild boast… but only sometimes. Once you beat a little heat into it she’s golden. Looking forward to the content on the diff and xhp flash!
What back end flash are you running out curiosity?
@@ZeroTo60Tube I’m running pump
Hats off to you. Amazing work! Well done!!!
Thanks a lot!
Bloody awesome man you have smashed it out really quickly..
Thanks man. Big learning curve, mainly about how to Re flash the modules in the car. But we got there in the end.
DCT are brilliant man - nothing else come close.
If only I could get it to launch in like 3rd gear, like a transbrake skid
Yep, very fast shifting guys! I saw a video about BMW DCT's and the test driver said it shifts in 0,4 sec to the next gear.
That's quick indeed. Very curious about that XHP tune on this DCT. I actually don't know what to expect... Dutch regards, Nico.
I had the exact same wastegate rattle randomly one night (i also have 17ts thanks to you 😂) one of the arms was stiff wd40d it instantly went away so i did the same thing for a week and after 4k miles nothing since worth the shot bud and as for the upshift untill you xhp it it will automatically upshift once xhp flash the box can bounce off the limiter 👌🏼
Ha. Will definitely give that a try.
Wooohooooo will you make it to Rolls on the 17th or to soon? I have some plans in the making that have already started to prevail 😉 could be the last time in a long time I'll be out there.....
I’m not sure right now. Would love to head down tho.
Dang, if my auto kicks the bucket in my e60 i think I’ll be in the market for the dct man. I’ll definitely have to pay more attention to these videos when the time comes lol
Awesome Fuckin Awesome I'm glad you are getting things sorted out I'm happy for you it seems to be running great and shifting great lets just get those paddle shifters to work and you'll be really jamming keep up the awesome content
you really need XHP DCT on Stage 3. A because of the torque and B because simply transforms your DCT
Congrats to the best transmission ever built! With the new V1.3 XHP you can boost up to 1k Nm of Torque and won´t have any issues. But also the programming was amazing. In D, D Sport, M Sport with DSC off you will have different shift speeds and it is simply amazing.
Today I recognized that if the car is in Sport Mode and I deactivate the DSC while driving, the throttle behaviour changes (it has less power even at the same throttle position). Is that normal or related to MHD or xHP? Thanks!
DCT THE WORLD
Your beemer looks like it is running great with the DCT. It will interesting to see the difference in the 0 to 60 times when you get similar engine tunes and xhp installed in the DCT. It would be good to compare the time lost with gear changes in your datalogs between the DCT with standard tune, DCT with xhp tune and the 6AT with xhp tune.
I’m expecting slower 0-60 but quicker 60-120 and 100-200. Need a lsd ASAP.
Been following from day one great content bro👊
just put a single piece drive shaft in my e39 turbo today ..
Awesome mate 👍
Amazing man! Awesome work
It will shift in manual automatically sometimes with the DSC/ABS fault. My N55 DCT would shift by itself when revving out, but it would do it early (3k rpm)
The budget e92 looks so much fun to drive now, would love to hear the gear "pops" from the outside
I’m still confused about the pops. I didn’t think the N54s were supposed to pop on the shift.
@@ZeroTo60Tube mine does. I think its the ignition cut dumping fuel that ignites when the ignition comes back
@@jakegoldberg8941 yeah like jb4 nls
Waiting for that paddle shifter video! Can you check if it is modified (resoldered and resistors removed)? I purchased a new steering wheel with LCI paddles, internet says I have to do these modifications before installing...
That’s the plan!
Can you please summarise the coding procedure
Wastegate rattle might be tune related with the move to MSD81. Check the pre-control table as that sets where the wastegates sit off boost.
Well being jb4 they are controlling the wastegates. I haven’t changed any settings in the jb4 yet. So will see if I can quieten it down. That’s said it’s only one of the wastegates. So it’s a bit strange.
@@ZeroTo60Tube Forgot about the JB4. Bit of a mystery then, maybe a slight vacuum leak or one of the lines down to the turbo has been distributed.
Nice🤪
Do you have the link to the guru in Europe that is helping you out with the coding?
instagram.com/e90_shitbox? I think he is having some time off this week. But he is a wizard with BMW stuff.
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If you close your eyes during the videos, you can get all of your DCT swap knowledge from the Geico spokesperson👀☕️lol. I love this channel! 🚗💨
Im gonna need a link to that! hahah
Miss my 335i but got a m240i now and I can’t wait to build this engine bro and keep it you should get a 335i and b58swap it
B58s are dope, but just so much money at the moment. One day they will be a bit more affordable.
Honestly what is the thought process behind that? Can build the n54 for so much cheaper than you could even source a stock b58 from and let's not ignore the b58 injector issues its not a flawless motor by any means
@@bimmerfab it’s a way better engine on paper n54 literally had everything break around the engine 😂 , but the aftermarket for b58 is gonna be really big because of the Supra and newer technology, I can upgrade my hpfp and dp and intake and have at 500whp car for like cheap to nothing, me personally am a engine fan so when I see different bore sizes I want it
@@CycloneXCry yeah exactly ON PAPER , there's not even that many modded b58s over 100k miles making real power, just give it some time the hpfps will be going out the injectors going out and forsure new problems will arise as people start pushing them harder.
@@bimmerfab bro do you give BMW zero credit for lessons learned? B58 closed deck, cam driven HPFP, new crank hub design, which is why Papadakis is making a 1,000 on stock crank and cams, with just rods, pistons and valves.
Being in stage 2+ on my 335i, no traction until car hits nearly 4th gear mark😂😂😂
Wonder if you should change to the digital cluster? Well since you have one already.
I’m not sold on the aftermarket digital clusters yet. Might swap the dct cars cluster in tho.
@@ZeroTo60Tube oh shit. I just ordered one for my 335 lol
You are starting to look like a Mad Scientist!!! LOL
Haha. I think that ship sailed after the dme flashing attempt last week.
told you your car with ethem turbos and the dct would be very very quick haha
YES LADS!!!!!!
Oh yes that's waste gate rattle for sure!
I wish I had the space and money to do this mannnn, I’ve had my DCT sitting in the garage for a year now
Hey at least you have the box! I can’t see them getting any cheaper as the conversion in to all cars are so popular right now. One day!
@@ZeroTo60Tube it was a crazy deal I couldn’t pass on, it was pulled from a 135i at 70k I got it for $700
Im on the fence on the XHP flash for 6At. Does it require a trans cooler after flashing it?
Thanks in advance.
Personally i think you are running anything more than stock power you should have a trans cooler regardless. You wanna keep the trans under 100 degc.
Awesome work man congrats! Do you get the launch control?
Not at the moment. Well I can’t activate it anyway. I did try.
@@ZeroTo60Tube hopefully it enables with the xhp flash
Wow great stuff guys. Reckon you could convert a 6 speed manual for me ? :D
Definitely doable, but probably worth just selling a manual and then buying a dct car.
@@ZeroTo60Tube A 1M DCT with hybrids would be pretty epic.
Rattling like a “mother tracker” 🤣🤪 it’s Chinese man it was expected sooner rather than soonest
could find it anywhere but what was the total cost for this conversion?
In Australia a DCT swap will set you back around 10k if you buy the parts seperately second hand from a wrecker. However much cheaper to buy a donar car and get the parts that way.
Single turbo time
i live in the states and i dont think we have that steering wheel here, its nice. where can i get that?
It’s a e92 m sport wheel with trim from an x1.
@@ZeroTo60Tube fasho thanks!
Are you back to an open diff?
Yeah, for now. Unfortunately.
Hey mate, I've got a 2008 335i DCT and I've been told my mechatronics unit is buggered... Have you got a spare gearbox or a spare mechatronics unit I could buy? Preferably just the mech unit because I'm in the UK... I've got a baby on the way and this is going to cost over £4,500 to fix. The whole car is only worth about £7,000.
What was the problem with the car and did a new mechatronics units fix it. So many people end up wasting money on that because mechanics jump to that conclusion
@Bruno-xb2mt wow this is a blast from the past 😂
Right, so the symptoms of my mechatronics failure was the gearbox missing 2nd, 4th and 6th gear if I recall correctly. Reverse definitely worked, and it was either the odd or even gears that were missing. The cause, we think, was that I had incorrect software installed on the gearbox ECU (I wanted to enable launch control as my car didn't have that feature until the software update) and the fix was the mechatronics unit. £4500 direct from a Getrag supplier on eBay. BMW wanted £7000 for the part. I took it to a BMW specialist (not a dealer, but they are ex BMW master techs or whatever they're called and with a new mechatronics unit, transmission oil change, new sump and filter etc, it worked perfectly. All 7 gears again. Hope that helps somebody out there.
@@Bruno-xb2mtoh and we did a full transmission service BEFORE ordering the mechatronics unit just to rule that out. It made absolutely zero difference.
That's a 😂😂m4 with an open diff
Wow this is awesome I wonder how much a shop would charge to do this swap? Or is it cheaper to just find a 335is
Vs Omar i think does it for $5000usd. Probably cheaper to find a factory one
@@ZeroTo60Tube does that include the DCT???
@@igotaction vadersolutions.com/products/e-chassis-dct-swap