Well, I've been converted;
Having been dead against power chips / tuning boxes for the 3.0si, I heard about a chap called Jason from BW Chiptune in Hounslow.
He has spent time working on a few 130i's, M3's out in Asia - also working for a few dealerships out there on new cars. He is also all over BMW forums and has a big fan base.
I'm booked in next week, and after running a disapointing dyno of 242bhp last week (poss due to my quad exhaust set-up) he will tweak to get me back up to normal & improve power input /mpg.
The best thing is, my insurance company arent fussed unless the new dyno shows anything above 270bhp which is unlikely.
If you're already at 260 ish bhp he says he can normaly get it up to around 285, but says it's more about power delivery.
Seems like a very genuine, very experienced modern BMW tuner & I shall report back soon!
Having been dead against power chips / tuning boxes for the 3.0si, I heard about a chap called Jason from BW Chiptune in Hounslow.
He has spent time working on a few 130i's, M3's out in Asia - also working for a few dealerships out there on new cars. He is also all over BMW forums and has a big fan base.
I'm booked in next week, and after running a disapointing dyno of 242bhp last week (poss due to my quad exhaust set-up) he will tweak to get me back up to normal & improve power input /mpg.
The best thing is, my insurance company arent fussed unless the new dyno shows anything above 270bhp which is unlikely.
If you're already at 260 ish bhp he says he can normaly get it up to around 285, but says it's more about power delivery.
Seems like a very genuine, very experienced modern BMW tuner & I shall report back soon!
He worked on my car at the BMW show. I was talking to him about the lack of bottom end power that my 2.2 is producing, Jason suggested that a remap would sort that out and would give me more MPG along with it. I humed and ard abit . he was telling me how some tuners just through a map on a hope for the best which sometime makes the car worse, he then offerd that he would rewrite my cars map, for me to try and if i was not happy with the results he would put the car back to normal with out any cost (try before i buy ) with that i agreed for the work to be done. He then down loaded the map from my car and then set about rewritting the new map asking me how i would like the car to perform i.e how aggresive i would like the car to be and am i looking at out and out performance which would lose the MPG, i didnt wont the mph to go down so left him to it, 2 hours later
Indeed the work he has done has deffantly improved the car performance. when i returned i payed the man for a great job done, he told me if i needed it tweaked just to call him, but so fare the car is running spot on, more than happy with the results. on the way home the car returned 36.6 mpg. i filled up with juice at the pod for the trip home to Sittingbourne Kent. the drive was at mostly motorway speed 80 apart from the roadworks on the the M1 and M25. 
