I had the pleasure of meeting Sal on his visit to Dubai this week and I got the chance to pick his brains with all the questions I had about the M5. I was very surprised with his vast knowledge about cars and BMW's in particular. I expected him to be very good in tuning cars, but never thought I would ever meet a guy with as much in-depth knowledge about every aspect of what makes an engine produce more power and torque. At the end of the meeting, I wasn't sure if he was a better tuner, engineer, or developer, all I know is that it was like having my own live BMW wikipedia.
I have cams and headers on my car and had another tune on it and always thought that it was very fast. I never thought of ever remapping it because I never thought that anyone could squeeze more power out of it. But, I was so impressed with Sal's knowledge that I could not wait for him to have time to tune my car. That time came today, Sal first drove the car and complemented the cars low end torque, but quickly noticed how it was flatting out towards mid to high range. His first comment was that the cam timing needs to be adjusted. After his test drive, he downloaded my original file and asked me to have a seat while he went through all the tables and graphs with me. I would have paid money just for that session alone. He made sure that I understood how things worked, and what changes he would do, and how that would affect the cars behavior. The biggest modification that was made was the one to do with the vanos to control the cam timing, which was the first thing he mentioned when he drove my car. He also tweaked a number of other tables , plus added sports mode memory, SAP delete, and all other goodies.
Now I know everyone is going to ask for a dyno test, and I would have gotten one except for the fact that I didnt do a baseline run, and more importantly for the way the car ran after the tune. The car was a totally different beast pulling hard all the way to 7250 RPM's in any gear, and went through the RPM's so fast that I hit the rev limiter twice while intending to shift below 7k. It really put a big smile on my face, I could not believe I thought my car was fast before getting the evolve tune. It was simply like driving another beast,....my car truly evolved. Next will be the Alpha-n upgrade.
I am very fortunate to have meet Sal in person, he is extremely good at what he does and more importantly, he is a great business man. During our conversation, it was very clear that anything evolve sells is well tested and adds value. That is why the intake for our cars is taking time, he did not want to cut corners with quality and make a quick buck. He would not put his name behind anything unless it works as advertised. And, he is thinking long term, not make money now and who cares later. He wants to make sure that customers are happy and will come back again. We are also fortunate because even after Sal goes back to the UK, we can just visit DAS Autoworks for any evolve products.
I have cams and headers on my car and had another tune on it and always thought that it was very fast. I never thought of ever remapping it because I never thought that anyone could squeeze more power out of it. But, I was so impressed with Sal's knowledge that I could not wait for him to have time to tune my car. That time came today, Sal first drove the car and complemented the cars low end torque, but quickly noticed how it was flatting out towards mid to high range. His first comment was that the cam timing needs to be adjusted. After his test drive, he downloaded my original file and asked me to have a seat while he went through all the tables and graphs with me. I would have paid money just for that session alone. He made sure that I understood how things worked, and what changes he would do, and how that would affect the cars behavior. The biggest modification that was made was the one to do with the vanos to control the cam timing, which was the first thing he mentioned when he drove my car. He also tweaked a number of other tables , plus added sports mode memory, SAP delete, and all other goodies.
Now I know everyone is going to ask for a dyno test, and I would have gotten one except for the fact that I didnt do a baseline run, and more importantly for the way the car ran after the tune. The car was a totally different beast pulling hard all the way to 7250 RPM's in any gear, and went through the RPM's so fast that I hit the rev limiter twice while intending to shift below 7k. It really put a big smile on my face, I could not believe I thought my car was fast before getting the evolve tune. It was simply like driving another beast,....my car truly evolved. Next will be the Alpha-n upgrade.
I am very fortunate to have meet Sal in person, he is extremely good at what he does and more importantly, he is a great business man. During our conversation, it was very clear that anything evolve sells is well tested and adds value. That is why the intake for our cars is taking time, he did not want to cut corners with quality and make a quick buck. He would not put his name behind anything unless it works as advertised. And, he is thinking long term, not make money now and who cares later. He wants to make sure that customers are happy and will come back again. We are also fortunate because even after Sal goes back to the UK, we can just visit DAS Autoworks for any evolve products.
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