CharlesW, first thanks for taking your time to post your continuous experiences with Nowack.
Your quote below I agree 100% with, I also suspect that Apples ECU is wrong, he have to get the appropiat individually tuned by Nowack for his engine. This is in line with what Nowack have stated both to me in person and other N500 owners.
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Originally posted by CharlesW
That said, even Nowack have told me that 75% of the power hike they get is from the changed programming -- all that mechanical work (or lack of it) only increases power by 25-30 BHP (they told me). If Apples isn?t getting the power uplift, I suspect it's because the ECU they sent to him is in fact standard. The stock M5 delivers c350 BHP on the road, so with the mechanical changes (mainly air flow improvements), adding say 30 BHP, we get to 380 BHP on the road. His 384 BHP sounds like a stock ECU on a modified engine.
Charles
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No, why would I ban you? I agree with you than Nowack have treated you very bad and that is totally wrong. It's their issue.
I just say what I have experienced myself, currently with two different N500.
First one:
http://www.bmwm5.com/articles/germany/tysk2.htm
This report seriosly pissed Nowack off when I visited them the other time. I simply wrote down my inpressions of the car.
Second time I went with Dragos car (dr N500) on the board and Johan, me, Dragos and Onkel Tom (Owner of 2001 M5 on the board) CLEARLY noted that the N500 was much faster. I have writtten about that before. Also not running rich etc. (see my previous posts). That is what I have experienced. Period.
I am not defending anyone, just telling what I think and have experienced.
I just think it's highly unlikely that a tuner would rip clients of like that, maybe I beleive in honesty too much!
Regarding the cams, you write yourself that the cams were "worked". So I assume they work on the original BMW cams and that work aren't visible without measuring them is my assumption. I do not think they switched cams. Just reworked the current ones.
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Originally posted by CharlesW
As a quick aside, I really hope I?m not banned from this site for saying this, but Gustav ? why are you defending Nowack all the time? Given my experiences and those of Apples, we have two of us that have enough evidence to suggest that in fact these guys have actually set out to rip us off. I won?t speak for Apples, but let?s consider my experiences
· 3 months to do the conversion
· electrical faults left in the dashboard when car returned to me
· engine undertray reattached with cheap plastic rivets, not proper clips
· two major oil leaks in the engine when it is returned ? previously no oil problems for 2+ years before conversion
· heat shield held of block by what looks like fishing wire
· cams in engine discovered to be standard BMW, not uprated
· a lack of interest in my problems, other than suggestion of returning car to Germany
What other evidence do I need to show that Oliver Nowack is not a maligned enthusiast but someone whose business should be shut down as quickly as possible. My recommendation to everyone on this board: Do not use Nowack, EVER
Charles
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Also I think you should give Nowack chance to fix the situation. How can you expect them to fix it if you never want to hear from them again?
But bottom line is that I really feel sorry for your Nowack experience and I hope everything settles. I will follow the upcoming story with great interest in the future here.
