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Sorry for the long gap in updates but between work/life commitments I just had to close the bonnet for a few weeks. To cut to the chase the problem is sorted. I replaced the factory charge pipe with an Evolution Raceworks pipe which I have to say was an easy fit. The problem came with the pipe that connects intercooler to the charge pipe. In the end I got some help from Brad and his hands being a bit smaller than mine allowed him to button up the clamps and then it was just putting it all back together. So I can now rev it out and there is no check engine light. I stuck with the original diverter valves and will do some logging with them in place and then swap over to the forge valves. Without a leak throttle response seems better and power builds from lower down in the rev range. I have gone over the original charge pipe a couple of times and I can't find any cracks. I can only conclude that with the diverter valves being a slack fit into the charge pipe that could have been where the boost leak was occurring. The vaunted BMW engineering excellence was perhaps not at its highest in the N54 and I was somewhat underwhelmed. The charge pipe is a fail waiting to happen.

the rear underside of my e60 545i, yesterday. "if you see this, please put me back on my wheels" seriously though, so much Aluminium used in the construction of this car.

Followed my wagons slightly dirtier cousin into Carls jr on Paul Mathews rd, had to park up and get a photo.

Glad to hear that's sorted, now you'll finally see what the car can do!

$5000 come on guys its a great E46.

I don't actually own a BMW, I just signed in to give my opinion of Woolf Mufflers. I went there to get an exhaust gasket, and got talking to the youngish guy that seems to do all the actual muffler work there. He sold me the gasket to suit the piece of pipe I had brought with me, which had a little gash in it, about 1 cm long. I could have got it welded as a homer at where I work, but he said he'd do it for nothing. It was the end of the day, and he'd cleaned himself up ready to go home, so he said he'd do it the next morning. I arranged for my wife to go and collect it the next day, and told her to take him a packet of biscuits. When my wife went in the next morning, the guy brought the pipe in, but there were another man and woman also standing behind the counter, and this other bloke said it was going to cost $25. I think the guy who'd welded it didn't want to say he'd said he'd said he'd do it for free in front of what must have been his employers, but he should have done so. Anyway, my wife paid up because she didn't really know what was going on. I asked her if she'd given them the biscuits, and she said she did and they'd taken them. That was the part that really pissed me off the most. On top of an exorbitant price for two minutes work, they still took the thank-you biscuits. I have vowed never to have anything to do with Woolf Mufflers again, and never recommend them to anyone, as I think they are just money-grubbing A-holes. No good will shown at all.

no no no, this won't do. you need to talk to the man who cornered the market in e38's, and, most particularly, 750's. Talk to Don @kulgan and he'll tell you the price, if he deems it appropriate for you to make an e38 aquisition.

That said, there is three of them here! Mines the only turbo and non-bridgeported one though haha! Its almost time for an update on this thread too.. can't wait!

Saw this gorgeous M5 in the far end of the parking lot in Stanmore Bay today. Is this someone here?