*My niece spent £10k on her first car a couple of weeks back, after getting the all clear from Car Vertical. A couple of days later she finds it was bought/sold as salvage after being stolen and recovered. Seems that report was a waste of time and money. Even worse she now owns a car with a dubious past!* 🤬😡🤬😡😡
YES PLEASE!! I drive a 2012 KIA Picanto manual 1,2. Real death trap. Found out I've had a loose subframe bolt since before the car was even bought. Would love to see what can be made of them haha
Fun as always. How about some fun with something a bit different, say old SAABs? Can't say I've seen too many people having fun with old 99's or 900's.
Why else did we click on the Video? Best thing to come out of everyone leaving Car Throttle is we now have FIVE channels making Car Vertical ads for us to enjoy.......sometimes some content makes it through the cutting floor
@JamieE200 in this case, it is known as humour, either ironic, sarcastic or even black humour. Maybe go and look it up. Just remember, just because you didn't think it was funny, that doesn't mean that nobody else did.
@JamieE200 incidentally, the videos from TDC are informative and interesting and they do feature a more encompassing menagerie of cars and do different things to each one, depending on what is required. Also, you have once again fallen into the hole of, if someone doesn't watch a video, how will he know if it is worth watching? The fact that I have to explain something so incredibly simple, to so many people is quite perturbing.
What I don’t get with these people who mod cars with no understanding is those stupid cone air filters. The manufacturers put an intercooler to cool the air before the turbo then these twerps put those stupid air filters in the engine compartment usually over the manifold so it’s feeding red hot air into the intercooler thus negating any benefit
Timing & fueling would have been way off, essentially limp moding the car. If it was putting in as much fuel as it does on boost it'd have been pissing out the exhaust unburnt
I can't believe you can buy a E92 335i for 2500!! Thats alot of car for the money. Here in Greece they ask 20-30k for them!!! Although I own a E46, I believe the E92 is the best looking 3 series ever made.
I have modded a couple of N54s, what I learned was the engine itself is quite reliable, whats bolted to it not so much. Turbo wastegates, charge pipes, intercoolers, solenoids, pcv valve and vacuum pipes are all potential problems and direct injection leads to carbon build up ion the intake valves. But it is all fixable, and there is a big N54 community to help you understand it. As you saw space is tight but the tuning potential is there, 400hp on stock turbos is as you can see quite easy. Replaceing them with slightly bigger units gives you 500 hp plus potential. The stock block sees its limit at around 7-800hp as its not a closed deck.The ZF 6 speed auto is a decent auto box with good reliability and can work really well with an XHP tune. In New Zealand a 335i can be had for less than 10k nzd, the poor mans 2jz. 😂😂
To everybody who thinks: "N54s can't be that bad and they make massive power for cheap - I am going to get one!" Don't! - Regards from an N54 owner, wwhich currently runs great.
Wondering if a Saab with a B204 or a Volvo V70 T5 could give the BMW a run for its money - they're not worth much and fairly easy to tune. Front wheel drive mostly though.
Edwin, i will admit, i was wrong. I wasnt a fan of your chemistry on CT. With Will however, this is quickly becoming my favourite channel. Keep it up chaps!
A friend of mine is working in GRIDSERVE Norwich. They have explained to me the biggest problem with the grid serve is the leasing. It’s not possible for them to make profit on any lease due to depreciation. They are scraping or making money apparently on high profit electric being solved top up vehicles, but overall there in negative profit
That’s one hell of a turn around. Nearly triple the power when purchased. A few tiny mods could have this at triple the BHP of when it was bought. That’s some going.
There's few better feelings than when a dauntingly expensive looking fix turns out to be cheap as chips. I expected a £500 fix once when my car refused to start at the side of the road, the RAC came out, he took a look and cos we were chatting about cars, having a bit of banter he did the oh expensive "draw of breath! He went to his van fiddled about, came back with something and after 5 mins car ran again, no problem, he then turned to me and said £7 please......a bloody earth strap had failed, apparently it was a common fail for my car at the age it was lol. I was that relieved that I gave him a drink (£20) for his troubles.
This channel is putting out much better stuff than auto Alex. Those guys are just posting "here's what I bought" videos, and not doing anything with them. TDC rules!
As an a fella who watched OG TG when it launched in 01 as an adult... your channel brings me much of the same joy I would get from those episodes as well. You can tell you're not just cohosts you're actual friends and thats what made TG/GT so much more than a car show. Keep it up!
Reminds me of a few years ago when I bought a van with my old man. We got 1/4 mile up the road before the engine light threw, so drove it back (bought from a mechanic) and a vacuum line had popped off. Quick start and some maneuvering later and it was gone.
Make sure you snap the little cage to the oil filter cap, otherwise it'll rattle in there until you get rough idle with no codes. If it doesn't snap back on, new oil filter housing cap.
As someone that works on bmws and specializes in the n5x platform. It was so painful to watch this episode lol. Oil dripping out of the oil fitler housing because the gasket is just sticking out. And then the wastegate line. Ughh im so sad lol
Great vid! Congrats on your first BMW N engine oil filter cartridge o-ring leak, most of us have experienced the same (saying this as a proud E8X owner)
you guys are absolutely class. i loved every second of this video. genuinely hit the nail on the head with starting a channel. Alex you’ve got contenders 😅.
I feel like those road racing slicks are not going to be much help on a drag strip. My understanding is that you need to get a ton of heat deep into those tires or the carcass will be too stiff. I'll be curious to see if they perform much better than the road tires.
Would love to see the face of the guy that sold that car for cheap. Just finding out of the cheap repairs it needed to have to get rid of the problems 😂
Please change those pod filters which for a car guy should sense that it's rather hot intake because it closer to engine and please take care of this bmw
Kinda want to see these 2 given the autobahn treatment, a return to their natural habitat, then what it takes to get the vauxhall into fighting territory with them, maybe even alexs 5 series to give him some envy and send the engine off with a bigger bang
Get 20% off Car Vertical using code 'TDC'! www.carvertical.com/gb/landing/v3?a=TDC&b=38b26e3a&voucher=TDC
Thanks to Car Vertical so the boys dont have to sink to better help for sponsorship!
*My niece spent £10k on her first car a couple of weeks back, after getting the all clear from Car Vertical. A couple of days later she finds it was bought/sold as salvage after being stolen and recovered. Seems that report was a waste of time and money. Even worse she now owns a car with a dubious past!* 🤬😡🤬😡😡
Will: Hi!
Edwin: Hello!
Will: Made 400. Hangs up
That's some proper top gear level banter
Totally reminded me of the North Pole Special
May: "Hammond?"
Hammond: "Yes May"
May: "May. Bad luck."
Quality moment that was 😂
Your Channel is so fun to watch. Guys engine swap a KIA Picanto
Ok give them the car and the engine then ? 😂
A saab B205 into a corsa is easier
@@Sorry24538 I have the car 💀 but I need it for med school 💀
OH GAWD NO Please NO don't, ALSO YEZZ! 🤣
YES PLEASE!! I drive a 2012 KIA Picanto manual 1,2. Real death trap. Found out I've had a loose subframe bolt since before the car was even bought. Would love to see what can be made of them haha
Sell that hot air intake, trade it for a stock airbox, heat reflective tape it, and drop in a K&N panel filter
Intakes on these are much better than the stock box for stage 2, given the air goes through an intercooler anyway
stage 2......
honestly the last thing they need to worry about is the intake filters, an upgraded intercooler would more than make up for it
The star of the show, the TDC Chair is back!!
American Taylor at 10:23 caught me totally off guard. ahaha
1 more word and he woulve exploded
That was a laugh out loud moment
Fun as always. How about some fun with something a bit different, say old SAABs? Can't say I've seen too many people having fun with old 99's or 900's.
That's because they aren't fun.
I wonder why Car Vertical didn’t flag up that someone had previously stolen 200 hp?
😂
You should do budget drift cars next!
Yes bring back the white e36
@@natedostalik3538 yesss bro i’ve been saying they need to make a video on edwin’s white e36!!
I read this as Bugatti drift cars 😂
Now you're cooking with gas
@@alexflosholol. Same.
Dont worry guys. It has a Carvertical Ad. Its safe to watch this one. No shady company for this vid!
Why else did we click on the Video? Best thing to come out of everyone leaving Car Throttle is we now have FIVE channels making Car Vertical ads for us to enjoy.......sometimes some content makes it through the cutting floor
@@BugattiONE666go outside
@@R03333 no u
Does anyone watch YT videos for the ads?
Are you stupid mate
1:47 is literally the Thwomp sound from Mario. ahaha
Taylor will sort it for you leave it to the professionals 😂
I don't see what poking holes in the floor and sills and then adding some BC coil overs is going to achieve.
@@calibrazxr750zzzzzz swear all you do is complain but still watch the videos?
@JamieE200 in this case, it is known as humour, either ironic, sarcastic or even black humour. Maybe go and look it up. Just remember, just because you didn't think it was funny, that doesn't mean that nobody else did.
@JamieE200 incidentally, the videos from TDC are informative and interesting and they do feature a more encompassing menagerie of cars and do different things to each one, depending on what is required.
Also, you have once again fallen into the hole of, if someone doesn't watch a video, how will he know if it is worth watching? The fact that I have to explain something so incredibly simple, to so many people is quite perturbing.
@@calibrazxr750why get so deep, just watch it or not😅
UK car prices are insane. Checked my local sites and found a 2006 one for 12k a 2011 one for 15k and a convertible 2010 one for 21k.
UK car prices are legitimately about 30% lower than continental Europe my guy.
Which country is that
UK has the cheapest cars in the world. There are E92s around for £15k, before v1rus a 996 was 8k.
they don't really have an export market within Europe so naturally they don't hold their value great... compared to mainland Europe at least.
Same here in Italy. Absolutely insane that you can pick one of these for 3-4k in the uk
What I don’t get with these people who mod cars with no understanding is those stupid cone air filters. The manufacturers put an intercooler to cool the air before the turbo then these twerps put those stupid air filters in the engine compartment usually over the manifold so it’s feeding red hot air into the intercooler thus negating any benefit
Hope you're not referring to TDC. XD
because intake noise
the intercooler cools the air after the turbo because compression results in increased heat
Agree but manufacturers also have to sacrifice some performance for usability. A decent filter set up will be more useful than stock set up
@@Zikhr But these hot air intakes are not decent by any standard.
best of the CT channels by far
“Yeah this graph is just…..its just sadness”😂😂
I've never seen a Dyno chart go downwards before 😂
An upload straight after work? Come on 👌
WAS WONDERING WHERE THE NEW VIDEO WAS. AS SOON AS I SAW THE NOTIFICATION I HAD TO CLICK!!!!
Good for you
@@dvh8543 dont comment just to comment 🤣 dont be so salty over absolutely nothing.
@@trendingukgood for you
@@trendinguksame for you attention seeker
@@trendingukbut you’r commenting just for the sake of commenting you hypocrite 😂😂😂
Jag xjr, 400bhp stock getting really cheap now
Funny how the naturally aspirated 3.0 makes 265hp. Having 2 useless turbos saps 100hp!
Different fuelling and ignition timing I assume!
It would also have much lower compression than the NA counterpart, definitely interesting tho.
Timing & fueling would have been way off, essentially limp moding the car. If it was putting in as much fuel as it does on boost it'd have been pissing out the exhaust unburnt
It made 165. Not 265
@@FlammableCash yes, that’s why the “useless turbos sapping power” bit.
You're lucky it wasn't injectors. N54 injectors cost around $3k.
nice, they actually fixed something lol
great video
I can't believe you can buy a E92 335i for 2500!! Thats alot of car for the money. Here in Greece they ask 20-30k for them!!!
Although I own a E46, I believe the E92 is the best looking 3 series ever made.
I have modded a couple of N54s, what I learned was the engine itself is quite reliable, whats bolted to it not so much. Turbo wastegates, charge pipes, intercoolers, solenoids, pcv valve and vacuum pipes are all potential problems and direct injection leads to carbon build up ion the intake valves. But it is all fixable, and there is a big N54 community to help you understand it. As you saw space is tight but the tuning potential is there, 400hp on stock turbos is as you can see quite easy. Replaceing them with slightly bigger units gives you 500 hp plus potential. The stock block sees its limit at around 7-800hp as its not a closed deck.The ZF 6 speed auto is a decent auto box with good reliability and can work really well with an XHP tune. In New Zealand a 335i can be had for less than 10k nzd, the poor mans 2jz. 😂😂
Much prefer the content on this channel to autoalex, you guys actually work on the cars and mostly behave like adults 😂😂
So glad the e92 is actually getting good treatment from you guys
Make the zafira great again!
Excellent video guys. I much prefer this style of content, sometimes these challenge videos seem rushed.
13:50 can Will rap faster than Eminem? Surely. That's a challenge I'd watch
They're looking for your turbos in there 😂
It Made 400 , than the end call noise xD
Please do a merch lineup of Wills garage chair. Absolute star of the show!
10:11 Taylor is getting the biggest hovermax 9000 suction.
10:52 unless it's a 996 gearbox
What happening with the Cadillac rust bucket
I'd assume they have probably binned it by now
Try the dump.
Hopefully on the way to a short oval.
To everybody who thinks: "N54s can't be that bad and they make massive power for cheap - I am going to get one!" Don't! - Regards from an N54 owner, wwhich currently runs great.
Jinxed it
I am glad they pointed out how those stupid air filters damage performance!
I love it, rings Edwin, states the figure and hangs up.
Do drifty things
I can't believe that phone call at the end 😂
Excited for the zafira videos
Look. I know its lame and I'm a stupid old man, but......
I love this channel. It's ACTUALLY my new favorite thing
Just the best content right now
Wondering if a Saab with a B204 or a Volvo V70 T5 could give the BMW a run for its money - they're not worth much and fairly easy to tune. Front wheel drive mostly though.
Edwin, i will admit, i was wrong. I wasnt a fan of your chemistry on CT. With Will however, this is quickly becoming my favourite channel. Keep it up chaps!
honestly i really hate how you guys downplay diesels so much, a 3L m57/n57 would beat both of these on a drag race with bolt ons.
1:29 half the horse power for half the price
Excellent episode 👏🏼 i really enjoyed the awful time all 5 of you had fitting a vac pipe! Always feels like these things only happen to common folk
Taylor "Top Job, Great Work, Great Score" Hetherington. Brilliant.
A friend of mine is working in GRIDSERVE Norwich. They have explained to me the biggest problem with the grid serve is the leasing. It’s not possible for them to make profit on any lease due to depreciation. They are scraping or making money apparently on high profit electric being solved top up vehicles, but overall there in negative profit
I'm really enjoying all of your videos, guys! Especially for a channel that's only just started, you're doing fantastic. Keep it up!
Honestly love this channel so freaking much. The relationship between you both is just perfect
That’s one hell of a turn around. Nearly triple the power when purchased. A few tiny mods could have this at triple the BHP of when it was bought. That’s some going.
Quick question, E93 or E46 convertible? Which would recommend if was made to have either.. 😂
Horse: Hello I'm a horse, please pet my snout and give me treats
TDC: oh my god you're quite scary
There's few better feelings than when a dauntingly expensive looking fix turns out to be cheap as chips. I expected a £500 fix once when my car refused to start at the side of the road, the RAC came out, he took a look and cos we were chatting about cars, having a bit of banter he did the oh expensive "draw of breath!
He went to his van fiddled about, came back with something and after 5 mins car ran again, no problem, he then turned to me and said £7 please......a bloody earth strap had failed, apparently it was a common fail for my car at the age it was lol. I was that relieved that I gave him a drink (£20) for his troubles.
This channel is putting out much better stuff than auto Alex. Those guys are just posting "here's what I bought" videos, and not doing anything with them.
TDC rules!
As an a fella who watched OG TG when it launched in 01 as an adult... your channel brings me much of the same joy I would get from those episodes as well. You can tell you're not just cohosts you're actual friends and thats what made TG/GT so much more than a car show. Keep it up!
Reminds me of a few years ago when I bought a van with my old man. We got 1/4 mile up the road before the engine light threw, so drove it back (bought from a mechanic) and a vacuum line had popped off. Quick start and some maneuvering later and it was gone.
Make sure you snap the little cage to the oil filter cap, otherwise it'll rattle in there until you get rough idle with no codes. If it doesn't snap back on, new oil filter housing cap.
As someone that works on bmws and specializes in the n5x platform. It was so painful to watch this episode lol.
Oil dripping out of the oil fitler housing because the gasket is just sticking out. And then the wastegate line. Ughh im so sad lol
This turbo on the thumbnail looks smaller than the one I have in my 2009 1.4d mazda 2
You'd think you'd all have enough experience of pushing rubber onto a small pipe 😜
thank fuck for no betterhelp sponsorships. I dont know if theyre able to talk about it, but i hope they just never do a sponsor like that again
Hopefully he's going to at least slap the old intercooler back on; still, good job.
The immediate hang-up is the perfect mic drop. Will, you absolute chad.
400whp for $4000 is a FANTASTIC result. Love it
U guys should buy sub £500 shitboxes and offroad them Carwow style. And whoever wins their car should get a engine swap.
or do something original.
Or something not crap.
Great vid! Congrats on your first BMW N engine oil filter cartridge o-ring leak, most of us have experienced the same (saying this as a proud E8X owner)
Love watching your vids, content is always 110%. My fav car channel!
Bro just gained a sorted NA K20 amount of power from a bit of tube!
This is pretty awesome! 😆
The boost pipe came off my MiTo and I didn't notice for about a month although I thought it was a little down on power! An easy fix at least.
16:35 amazing tuning my guy! bros just chilling in whatsapp xdd
getting the files from the actual tuner haha
@@hcmzahit’s sad how many outsource
Some loser on Tiktok has already broken this video into bits and put it on their channel without crediting these two
That power figure is nearly 100bhp less the nat aspirated 330i!
Fastest lap round Curborough for £2k. Mod or don’t mod, £2k limit all in.
I have made exactly the same mistake with the oil filter gasket on that engine. The gasket doesn't go where it looks like it should go.
you guys are absolutely class. i loved every second of this video. genuinely hit the nail on the head with starting a channel. Alex you’ve got contenders 😅.
Funny how TDC / AutoAlex keep buying these cars at half the price they'd usually sell for. Coincidence.
Always do trans fluid with engine oil on track cars, also bleed brakes.
I feel like those road racing slicks are not going to be much help on a drag strip. My understanding is that you need to get a ton of heat deep into those tires or the carcass will be too stiff. I'll be curious to see if they perform much better than the road tires.
Genuinely funny guys 😂. In car youtube land thats pretty hard to find! Love it!
another good way to test for holes, is to pressurize the system and the drive your car into a pool and check for bubbles
Nice video guys. Made better no doubt by the appearance of Taylor.!
What's the point in having a budget if you don't include the dyno, all the extra cost!!!!
Flog the rubbish intercooler and use the money to buy a stock airfilter/housing
Been searching for decent chanel but u boys kill it glad I subscribed absolute legends
Would love to see the face of the guy that sold that car for cheap. Just finding out of the cheap repairs it needed to have to get rid of the problems 😂
I did rally cross the weekend I reckon you boys should do it all against all best lap time wins rest do a forfit
Please change those pod filters which for a car guy should sense that it's rather hot intake because it closer to engine and please take care of this bmw
Kinda want to see these 2 given the autobahn treatment, a return to their natural habitat, then what it takes to get the vauxhall into fighting territory with them, maybe even alexs 5 series to give him some envy and send the engine off with a bigger bang
Just fyi, a crap remap can stop the ecu from telling you correct codes or even registering codes.
Everyone is telling me not to buy a Bmw but this video might change my opinion 😭😭
Wasn’t expecting it actuall to have 400. That’s insane
A mapped S4 B6 mapped nearly 400bhp around the 4k mark bud
Doubling doubled no matter how you word it just dont look right who agrees 😂
This is the channel! Keep it going lads. More uploads per week please 🙏
The guy at home crying at the simple fix that cost him 3 Grand 😂😂
i love you guys. my favourite TH-cam channel.
that phone call had the same vibes as when Motorola called bell on the first mobile handphone