Before the project can truly begin, the BMW is washed thoroughly. In our german Christ carwash, that is equpped with foam brushes that doesn't scratch the paitnjob to begin with. Thereafter rims, engine and more gets washed with a high-pressure water hose.
These preparations make the upcoming installations go more seamless, smooth and easy.
Lowtec front coilovers before installation.
Lowtec front coilovers installed on the BMW E90 335I.
Before installation of the Lowtec coilovers in the rear.
Coilovers rear being assembled.
Lowtec coilovers rear installed.
The original itnercooler gets uninstalled.
The original BMW intercooler (left) alongside the Wagner tuning intercooler (right).
After installation of the Wagnertuning intercooler.
The car's front before installation of the LCI hood.
The LCI facelift hood ready for installation.
Our technicians installing the hood.
The hood installed on the BMW.
The standard, original bootlid.
BMW E90 LCI bootlid ready for installation.
Technicians installing the bootlid.
Bootlid equipped on the BMW.
Before installation of LCI taillights.
LCI taillights (top) next to the stock tiallights (bottom).
Technician during the installation of the taillights.
The BMW's rear end after the installation of LCI taillights.
The original front-catalysts gets uninstalled.
Wagner tuning downpipes ready for installation.
During/after installation of the Wagnertuning downpipes.
Burger Motorsports JB4 tuning box ready for installation.
During the installation of the Burger Motorsports tuningbox.
Before the installation of tje AfE Power Magnum Force sport induction system.
AfE Power Magnum Force Stage-2 Pro 5R sport induction system with air scoops + heating shield ready for installation.
The new induction system being installed.
Air scoops being installed.
The BMW 335I engine bay after the installation of AfE Power Magnum Force intake system.
As the BMW is about to have xenon headlights installed, an aftermarket headlight washer is being installed as well as automatic headlight regulation.
Here you see the BMW E90 335I's stock pedals.
Schmiedmann alu pedal sæt sort/sort -Exclusive-.
And here you see the Schmiedmann aluminium -Exclusive- pedal set in the all-black livery.
Holes for the screws are being drilled.
The aluminium pedal sets are being bolted on.
Here you see the driver-side floor after the installation of the schmiedmann pedal set.
Vi had a used Schmiedmann Big Brake kit in stock, that we chose to install in the front.
The brakediscs of the Schmiedmann big brake kit was about 3 mm smaller in diameter and 2mm slimmer than the standard BMW 335I brake kit. The standard kits has the dimensions: 348x30 as opposed to the Schmiedmann big brake kit's 345x28mm.
On the other hand, the brake discs of the Schmiedmann big brake kit has a floating suspension with aluminium hub (from a BMW E46 M3 CSL) and holes for extra ventilation. Also, the big brake kit has 6 pistoned Schmiedmann/Brembo calipers, so we chose to install the kit despite the slighty smaller dimension of the brake discs.
An extra benefit of installing this kit is, that it looks marvelous.
Original BMW "sharkfin" antenna dummy.
The shark fin is originally designed to be nailed to the roof with screws.
However we choose to install the sharkfin with double-adhesive tape.
The "legs" for the screws are cut off.
Before the sharkfin is installed, the area where it is to be fitted has to be cleaned thoroughly. We de-grease the area with brake cleaner, product number:61100914
If the area is cleaned properly, the tape will stick better.
The sharkfin is installed 60 mm from the rear window.
In order to mark the area of installation, we use masking tape.
The foliage is taken off the double adhesive tape.
Now the sharkfin is installed.
Now the time has come to install the 19" Z-Performance -Type 9- alloy wheels.
On this image, we're making a 4 wheel calibration of the BMW E90 335I with our modern tracking device from Hunter.
The BMW gets a complete set of Schmiedmann floor- and trunkmats installed.
Before / After In the images above, you see the car as it used to look on the left, and as it looks now on the right.
See the whole rebuild in timelapse-format in this video.
And see the car in action in the video above!
The car was featured in Boosted Magazine no. 38, which was released in March 2017. Read the article - and see the images - in the images below:
Update - February 2016
I de seneste par uger har vi igen løbende arbejdet på vores BMW E90 335I projektbil, som vi også tidligere har vist billeder af. Her får du et sammendrag af nogle af de modificeringer vi har lavet denne gang. Denne gang monterer vores teknikere Schmiedmann signature stage II turboladere, Schmiedmann by Supersprint komplet udstødningssystem, samt nye indsprøjtningsdyser.
The pas couple of weeks, we have been working on our BMW E90 335I project car again. Here you'll get a recap of some of the modificiations that we've made thise time.
In short, this time our technicias will install:
Schmiedmann signature stage II turbo chargers
Schmiedmann by Supersprint full exhaust system
New injection nozzles
Replacement of injection nozzles:
Here you see the old BMW injection nozzles.
The old injection nozzles are screwn out of the cylinderhead.
The injection nozzles are removed from
the cylinder head.
Here you see the injection nozzles uninstalled.
The new injection nozzles are being installed.
The injection nozzles are a weak link for BMW's with a high-pressure fuelling system. They get worn out, which leads to an irregular engine rythm - on this BMW E90 335I, it was especially noticable when the car was idling. As the engine will perform more wtih the new turbochargers, we thought that this would be the perfect time to replace the injection nozzles, even though the error wasn't fatal yet.
We uninstalled the intake manifold, too, and blew the intake ports and valve tighteners free of soot with our original BMW cleaning system.
The cleaning will give a more even engine rhythm, a better gas mileage as well as better performance.
This procedure is reccommended to anyone who has a BMW with a high-pressure fueling system, don't hesitate to contact us for non-comittal offer.
Even though this BMW E90 335I hasn't driven many kilometres yet (130.000km), the intake is already quite sooted because of the AGR/EGR system, that leads the exhaust through the intake in order to reduce pollution.
In order to clean the intake, BMW has invented a small cleaning devide, that under high pressure uses walnut granulate to clean the soot off the valve stems and intake ports in the cylinder head.
Installation of Schmiedmann signature stage II turbochargers
The N54 signature stage II upgrade turbo modification consists of the following:
Upgraded 15T CNC manufactured compressor wheel 42/60 mm.
Upgraded TD4 turbine shaft 41/47 mm.
Turbine housing modified for TD4.
Upgraded wastegate bushing (get rid of wastegate rattle)
Upgraded bearing type (race)
Step gab rings on both sides of the shaft
Balanced in a VSR machine at 180.000 rpm.
100% OEM installation, plug & play.
Can deliver an effect of up to 550Hp with a high torque
BMW E90 335I on the carlift, ready
for installation of turbos.
The turbo is installed.
Schmiedmann by Supersprint light weight high flow exhaust complete with downpipes installation
Before installation.
Before installation.
Before installation.
Old exhaust uninstalled.
New exhaust is installed.
The right side Schmiedmann by
Supersprint tailpipe installed.
The left side Schmiedmann by
Supersprint tailpipe installed.
The car's rear end after the installation
of new Schmiedmann by Supersprint exhausts
Parts from the following brands have been installed:
Update - April 2017
1st Dyno run
Finally, the day that we'd been waiting for came. The day when we'd get exact numbers on the performance of our BMW e90 LCI -S3- 335I. See, how the dyno run went, in video below:
Result: 446,3Hp / 511Nm
- A result that we're quite satisfied with. Especially considering that the BMW M3 "only" has 431Hp. So our goal of beating the M3 has been met!
The clutch slipped a bit, though. And so therefore we chose to install a new Sachs sport clutch, so that we can transmit the full performance of the N54-engine to the dyno.
Apart from that, we could tell from some of the tests and logs, we've run on the car, that the original fuel pump is not capable of delivering a sufficient amount of fuel for the engine. Therefore, we will also be upgrading the fuel pump to stage II.
Update - May 2017 Installation of Sachs Engineering sport clutch
See in the video above, how we install a Sachs Engineering sport clutch. The clutch is organic, so the car can still be used for daily driving, though the new clutch is somewhat harder to push than the original BMW clutch.
Upgrade/modification of the fuel pump for stage II
In order to be able to provide a sufficient quantity of fuel, that a tuned engine like ours, we also had to upgrade the fuel pump to stage II. See in the video above how the modification went.
A trip to Helnaes, South Funen, Denmark - July 2017
In July we took a trip to Helnaes at South Funes in Denmark to cruise in our BMW E90 -S3- 335I LCI - A most beatiful evening with eqaullay beatiful BMWs. Watch our video here:
We also have a few pictures of from the evening:
Update 1 - October 2017
BMW SCENE has written a very great article about our Schmiedmann-built BMW E90 -S3- 335I, which you can read right here:
E90 E90 LCI E91 E91 LCI E92 E92 LCI E93 E93 LCI Schmiedmann by Supersprint X-pipe set from the catalyst/cat.-replacement to the endmufflers, titanium look micro sandblasted finishing
E88 E82 E90 E90LCI E91 E91LCI E92 E92LCI E93 E93LCI Wagner Tuning front catalyst replacements (downpipes) for race use only (please note, the kit will turn the yellow engine lamp on which wont have any influence on performance, to turn it of reprogramming is needed)
