S54 Vanos Info Thread

[WOLFN8TR]

NEW THREAD, PLEASE GO HERE: https://nam3forum.com/forums/forum/m...os-info-thread

[liam821]

I'll try to repair all the m3f links in the above thread...bare with me!

[911Fiddler]

Would you know how to recover my old thread 'Vanos pressure test shocker'? Was around 2016 I think. Cheers.

[mrgizmo04]

Would you know how to recover my old thread 'Vanos pressure test shocker'? Was around 2016 I think. Cheers.

Check my thread, see if this works for you: https://nam3forum.com/forums/forum/m...k-from-m3forum

[SliM3]

Here is the official removal/install for those that need or want to reference the OEM procedure as well.

[liam821]

Would you know how to recover my old thread 'Vanos pressure test shocker'? Was around 2016 I think. Cheers.

I'll look. I have a bunch of the original threads, 200-300k or so, I'm trying to figure out the best way to import everything.

[WOLFN8TR]

Wow thanks for posting this! 😀

[mrgizmo04]

I'll look. I have a bunch of the original threads, 200-300k or so, I'm trying to figure out the best way to import everything.

That is awesome news!

[cbean]

Thank you everyone for taking the time to provide thorough explanations and direction on the S54 Vanos project. I am a new owner, I purchased with the idea in mind of DIY, it was a big reason I purchased. But man, I vacillate back n forth with these big engine DIY. One week I am hitting send on my Beisan order, and then I stop I get a freaked out by the timing stuff, and I think this post is the first one that has really made the pre-loading concept possible the most important factor in this job. NOthing really to contribute, other than I really want to do it, but than I think for a few hundred more maybe I should have a professional do it . Thanks again everyone for great info! Oh, and my first post here.

[WOLFN8TR]

Welcome. There is actually two of these Vanos threads, I was working on rebuilding it since the old M3Forum went down and didn’t realize Liam had this one as well. It has more info and videos take a look.

[cbean]

Thank you WOLFN8TR ! I am following both now Working hard on getting myself ready for this job ( but at times I think I should just take in down to Kaiv ) Everything up to: timing, pre-loading, sweet spot is straight ahead. And yours and Liams posts are the first time I read taking the Vanos Unit back off to properly torque the hub bolts down . . .crazy timing, I had just asked a mechanic friend how I would torque those correctly with the vanos in the way - sometimes the easy answer / correct way is staring you in the face but you cannot see it - as soon as I read in here to just pop the vanos unit back off . . . it was a DUH moment. Thank you

[liam821]

Welcome. There is actually two of these Vanos threads, I was working on rebuilding it since the old M3Forum went down and didn’t realize Liam had this one as well. It has more info and videos take a look.

Yeah, this was one of the first posts that I imported. I just hacked the database and change the owner of the post from me to you, so I think you should be able to have full control over it now. Thanks again for writing it up. Or perhaps we should just edit this one and just have a link to the other one - or vise versa. Whatever you think is best.

[WOLFN8TR]

Yeah, this was one of the first posts that I imported. I just hacked the database and change the owner of the post from me to you, so I think you should be able to have full control over it now. Thanks again for writing it up. Or perhaps we should just edit this one and just have a link to the other one - or vise versa. Whatever you think is best.

We can just delete this thread, I originally copied and pasted it to start the other so I could edit it. The other vanos thread has more info and fixed links. I really appreciate you getting this resurrected.

This is the updated S54 Vanos Thread
https://nam3forum.com/forums/forum/m...os-info-thread