Cockroach Individual M3 2/13 bench flash sidequest

[Bry5on]

You still want one?

Yessir! Maybe George Hill would too?

[George Hill]

Maybe, my car is likely going to get a fuel cell in the trunk, but until then… and depending on costs I might be able to get one or two others on board

[samthejam]

Random Side Quest,

I believe long term is to just buy a tune from Epic be locked out, because having knobs to play with will make me go insane. I also want to do time trial this or next year moreso next year.

But anyways, if I will be locked out it will be on separate DME not my only one. The engine I bought came with it, so it has been test mule for learning some more, I refuse to buy the ECUworkz tool.

Don't have a pic of the final harness tidied up, but validating I did it correctly. Was very straight forward.

Untitled by Sam DaJam, on Flickr
Untitled by Sam DaJam, on Flickr

Fun little side quest, was to make a bench harness, flash euro firmware on it and do all the deletes. So I did a full program flash and did all the specific changes like GPS stuff for my car and all the other mods with headers. EWS Delete etc. Also to validate everything I need for no CEL on my car as well. So went to the yard bought connectors from a non-m and pinned in the canbus, soldered it up and got a power supply off Amazon.

The Euro software definitely isn't as strong but you can tell it's much better calibrated for idle and all that. Which of course makes sense. I have an HTE flash, on my other DME. I have a few experiments I want to give a gander, but can't find a tool I found on wayback from m3forum where someone made a tool to better visualize cam timing changes. But I want to verify some injection timing changes with some vanos changes see if there is a correlation with how they are messed with together.
But anyways yea random side quest to make sure the DME works. I want to see if I can give it ago applying the performance changes to the euro firmware, also need to research playing with the axis values or just interpolate it with python or excel in some way.