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 Post subject: Here to help E46 M3 ready
PostPosted: Thu Oct 08, 2015 1:48 pm 
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Hey guys, done a lot on the subaru side of things in the way of tuning the past couple years. I have the time and the vehicle (e46 m3) to work on this and help create definitions. I just need a little kick in the pants to get started. Where should I begin. Probably going to buy another vag com type cable here soon. Does the Siemens ms41 software pull the map for the ms43 or what software are you using?

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 Post subject: Re: Here to help E46 M3 ready
PostPosted: Fri Oct 09, 2015 1:10 am 
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E46 M3 uses a MSS52 ECU. It's different than MS43. Check m3forums for a great forum section on tuning.

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 Post subject: Re: Here to help E46 M3 ready
PostPosted: Fri Oct 09, 2015 1:39 am 
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mrf582 wrote:
E46 M3 uses a MSS52 ECU. It's different than MS43. Check m3forums for a great forum section on tuning.


Oy. Okay got it. BMW flash it is!


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 Post subject: Re: Here to help E46 M3 ready
PostPosted: Fri Oct 09, 2015 9:04 am 
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Actually its using MSS54, but they are pretty much identical.

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 Post subject: Re: Here to help E46 M3 ready
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Moosen wrote:
mrf582 wrote:
E46 M3 uses a MSS52 ECU. It's different than MS43. Check m3forums for a great forum section on tuning.


Oy. Okay got it. BMW flash it is!

BMW Flash sucks.

Use the program (forget the name) that one of the 2-3 main developers wrote. I think his name is 'paffy'? His can write over the whole thing and 'disable' flash counters etc.

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 Post subject: Re: Here to help E46 M3 ready
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mrf582 wrote:
Moosen wrote:
mrf582 wrote:
E46 M3 uses a MSS52 ECU. It's different than MS43. Check m3forums for a great forum section on tuning.


Oy. Okay got it. BMW flash it is!

BMW Flash sucks.

Use the program (forget the name) that one of the 2-3 main developers wrote. I think his name is 'paffy'? His can write over the whole thing and 'disable' flash counters etc.


Any idea what the software is called?


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 Post subject: Re: Here to help E46 M3 ready
PostPosted: Fri Oct 09, 2015 12:19 pm 
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lol, I said I forgot the name... Go spend some time reading on M3 forums...

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 Post subject: Re: Here to help E46 M3 ready
PostPosted: Fri Oct 09, 2015 12:24 pm 
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mrf582 wrote:
lol, I said I forgot the name... Go spend some time reading on M3 forums...


Bah humbug. Alright I'll look around some more. Thank you!

Edit: Found it. for future viewers of this thread in search of e46 stuff

paffy's http://www.msstuning.com/


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 Post subject: Re: Here to help E46 M3 ready
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I have been digging in the MSS54 ecu world. It'sa bit tricky with the ecu variances. I got a bench set up going and I'm able to read the partial and full bins with the MSSTuning tool.
I got of the bytes that control the shift lights and transmission type on the version I have.

I can share what I got and the bins too if anyone wants to start looking for the tables.


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 Post subject: Re: Here to help E46 M3 ready
PostPosted: Mon Jan 01, 2018 6:33 am 
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E36M3J wrote:
I have been digging in the MSS54 ecu world. It'sa bit tricky with the ecu variances. I got a bench set up going and I'm able to read the partial and full bins with the MSSTuning tool.
I got of the bytes that control the shift lights and transmission type on the version I have.

I can share what I got and the bins too if anyone wants to start looking for the tables.


Always interested, maybe a moderator/admin could create additional forum like MS45 and MSS54. Those are still underrated.

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 Post subject: Re: Here to help E46 M3 ready
PostPosted: Mon Jan 01, 2018 8:31 am 
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Pretty much everything has already been done for mss54 on m3forums


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 Post subject: Re: Here to help E46 M3 ready
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busterhax wrote:
Pretty much everything has already been done for mss54 on m3forums


Yeah there was quite much stuff there when I checked last time. Of course making RR definitions wouldn't hurt.


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 Post subject: Re: Here to help E46 M3 ready
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busterhax wrote:
Pretty much everything has already been done for mss54 on m3forums


So there actually published XDF?

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 Post subject: Re: Here to help E46 M3 ready
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Cloudforce wrote:
busterhax wrote:
Pretty much everything has already been done for mss54 on m3forums


So there actually published XDF?
No but tap is still sending it out.


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 Post subject: Re: Here to help E46 M3 ready
PostPosted: Mon Jan 01, 2018 5:44 pm 
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Here are the full and partial bins from my test ECU. I'm trying to catch up on all the information available which is quite a bit. :shock:
vin: JR14696
ECU variant: 2200
program version: 2801


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