My BMW sales schedule means that I'm back to working on the car about 10 hours a week. That also includes diagnosing. ( and trying to remedy) the issues that are present.
I spoke with the guy that I got the base tune from, he suggested I add a 10k/o resistor across the vr sensor. ( he didnt know that I've ran the VR sensor wire down the middle of the cam valley,...under the new Thermonuclear coil packs (that are right above it), and past all six plug wires ( that in alot of cases, are actually touching that wire).
When you read, ( like I have been doing lately) the recommendation for where and how to route that wire,....is fairly definitive.
NO WHERE NEAR ANY OF THAT SHT!
If he did know that, I'm sure he wouldve told me to "Stop,..and do nothing further until you get that wire way the hell away from the noise generated by the high current sht whose job is to create lightning in the combustion chamber".
Instead, that happened during a conversation with Steve today.
It's not all " Durrrrr" on my part, I always knew I was probably dancing with the devil by routing the wire there.....But remember who we are talking about here......Its not just fabricated stuff that I end up doing more than once.....Its everything I touch.
DAYS ago,.....i ordered a new section of shielded cable that will allow me to re-route the VR sensor wire, completely away from the high current stuff..I'll end up spending part of thursday doing that.
I'm gonna repurpose the existing VR sensor wire as a cam sensor wire. Then, both of them will be shielded, and separated from the potential EMI/RFI that may be coming from the coils.
One day,....one day I'll have a running engine.