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Martyn wrote: ↑Thu Oct 06, 2022 12:47 pm Tough to give an exact date but maybe in the next week or so potentially.

Providing the ECU is not locked to prevent reading by a previous tuner (a few do this to protect their IP) you'll be able to tweak freely. Naturally this won't effect existing tuning (ignition, vanos, fueling etc).

Ed Doe wrote: ↑Sat Oct 08, 2022 1:46 pm

Martyn wrote: ↑Thu Oct 06, 2022 12:47 pm Tough to give an exact date but maybe in the next week or so potentially.

Providing the ECU is not locked to prevent reading by a previous tuner (a few do this to protect their IP) you'll be able to tweak freely. Naturally this won't effect existing tuning (ignition, vanos, fueling etc).

Do you know if evolve are amongst these? And if so, are you able to flash the oe map back on before tweaking?

I'm also definitely interested in either beta testing or paying for a tune eventually, my evolve one is fairly s**t, throttle is way way too aggressive even in comfort, and it also feels completely non-linear which can make it really challenging to balance on the throttle or drive on broken roads. Plus there's a soft limiter instead of proper hard one like the oe map. I'd definitley be interested in sorting the throttle out whcih it looks like you can, as well as possibly a slight rev limit raise. Also innterested in enabling mtrack mode if that's something you could do!

Martyn wrote: ↑Sun Oct 09, 2022 9:06 am

Ed Doe wrote: ↑Sat Oct 08, 2022 1:46 pm

Martyn wrote: ↑Thu Oct 06, 2022 12:47 pm Tough to give an exact date but maybe in the next week or so potentially.

Providing the ECU is not locked to prevent reading by a previous tuner (a few do this to protect their IP) you'll be able to tweak freely. Naturally this won't effect existing tuning (ignition, vanos, fueling etc).

Do you know if evolve are amongst these? And if so, are you able to flash the oe map back on before tweaking?

I'm also definitely interested in either beta testing or paying for a tune eventually, my evolve one is fairly s**t, throttle is way way too aggressive even in comfort, and it also feels completely non-linear which can make it really challenging to balance on the throttle or drive on broken roads. Plus there's a soft limiter instead of proper hard one like the oe map. I'd definitley be interested in sorting the throttle out whcih it looks like you can, as well as possibly a slight rev limit raise. Also innterested in enabling mtrack mode if that's something you could do!

It usually depends if you were sent a flashing cable (Evolve-R) or went to Evolve for the tune, if it was done remotely it's lilkely to be locked, if you went to their HQ then it probably won't be.

Flashing back to stock in order to allow you to tweak is no drama at all.

M-Track is an interesting one, I'll cover that in another post.

Martyn wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 3:42 pm Continued testing my AlphaN tune, but switched over to a GSR box. As some of you know the boxes are made to fit the E46 M3 and not the Z4M so the snorkle piece doesn't fit.




I initially hacked the snorkle up a bit to give it the clearance but decided a better solution would be to design and 3d print my own version.

Hi Martyn - have sent you a DM. Hope that you might be happy sharing the 3D print file so that I might be able to print one of these locally in NZ! Thanks in advance.

Jon2215 wrote: ↑Thu Jun 15, 2023 4:28 pm When went down the Alpha N route with mine I had Aaron from Areeves in Kings Lynn carry out the mapping and set up.
Great bloke,highly respected and recommended.

bestgun wrote: ↑Thu Jun 15, 2023 9:39 pm I went down the Evolve Automotive route with my Z4MC and was hugely impressed. Imran and his team really do know what they are doing.
https://www.evolveautomotive.com/produc ... 0613687587
Everything is supplied to do this yourself. The real benefit is their brilliant software interface easily downloaded onto your laptop. Kit includes OBD dongle, transfer cable, IAT sensor, and IAT extension cable (which I didn't need). Software downloads (and saves) your original tune. Email this to Evolve who modify to Alpha-N (and other mods if required) and return for simple download through your laptop back to the car. My tune was returned to me in less than 24 hours. 100% seamless and problem free process and car has never run better. I wouldn't hesitate recommending to anyone that wants to go the same way.