Fluid MotorUnion - Mike Burroughs's S54 E36 Dyno Tune

The following video is a result of Fluid MotorUnion's most recent late-night tuning sessions. This one took place on Monday, December 12, 2011.

The car featured here is a BMW E36, owned by the founder of StanceWorks and FMU's close personal friend Mike Burroughs. It's retrofitted with an E46 M3 S54B32 motor, along with the OEM E46 wiring harness and gauge cluster.

His modifications are as follows:
-Pulleys
-Headers
-Lightweight flywheel
-Fluid MotorUnion custom exhaust, headers-back
-Fluid MotorUnion custom velocity stacks
-Fluid MotorUnion custom "Stacks/Header" dyno tune

The car finished the evening with a run of 312.5 horsepower to the rear wheels, which is not bad at all (and actually higher than some of the non-intercooled supercharger setups we've tested in the past). This thing runs like greased lightning, and the sound is unparalleled.

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Oh, and pay no attention to the man behind the blur. He's a client that would prefer his significant other not know what he was doing at 11:00 last night.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Burroughs
• S54
• BMW
• E36
• M3
• velocity stacks
• intake
• power
• fireball
• stanceworks

[urinemachine]

How did you guys manage to screw the tune such that it breaks up so badly at lower RPM. That 's horrible, and not where a car usually "breaks up" at.

[FluidMotorUnion]

@urinemachine

As we mentioned before, these we're taken "pre-tune". When you remove the airbox from the car and add this many modifications a lot of things change that need to be tuned for. That "breaking up" you hear is the car shooting rich and basically "bogging down", all of which is now tuned out providing a proper power and AFR curve.

In any sense, thank you for noting that so viewers now know what's going on!

[BIGverHEYen]

Would you be kind enough to tell of the exhaust specs? I know where hearing manly intake noise but every time I watch a flyby of that car, damn it nearly brings a tear to my eye at that little reverberation or whatever you want to call it on the shift, just sounds so incredible. 3", couple resonators, cat or no cat? If not completely understandable.

[FluidMotorUnion]

@BIGverHEYen No cats, and the rest is the stuff of legend.

Suffice to say, at its largest point, it's at least 3".

That's what she said.

[Klodust]

Pardon me whilst I tend to this erection.

[FluidMotorUnion]

@Klodust Thanks for covering that; that's not on our list of typical services rendered.

[foleygac]

@FluidMotorUnion Thanks for the response. I figured it was something along the lines of fuel delivery but I didn't want to jump to any conclusions. I'm a huge fan of the work you guys are doing. I own a 2011 BMW M3 and when I saw the velocity sack set-up you guys did for the S65 I fell in love. Keep it up!

[FluidMotorUnion]

@foleygac Thanks! The butterflies opening is the main reason I love shooting from that angle. It lets you see the car at WOT from an angle you normally wouldn't.

And regarding the stutter, it was an issue with the fuel delivery. Open stacks suck in air by the metric ton, so it's tougher to compensate at lower RPMs for all that air being added in. We've since tuned it out.

[foleygac]

That's awesome. Love seeing the throttle bodies open through the velocity stacks. Out of curiosity, what was causing the low RPM studder?