Well it sucks you are going to miss some track time, but Its good that YOU are ok. AutoTragics are nothing but problems IMO... Just one more part of the car you have little to no control over.
:lol::lol::lol: I believe we should call this Pirate day in celebration of your recovery! Everything has to start with RRRRRRRR. Glad your doing better. Wish I could help with the Auto, but they have always been a bit of a dark art to me.
So last night I was definitely reading all known knowledge regarding the manual swap... If it ever comes down to pulling the engine to pull the tranny to have a rebuild, I might actually try it. I'm not afraid of manuals. I've driven my buddy's GP2 and his Lotus Evora. I get it. But I think I'll lick this auto issue before it comes to that.
I wonder if your track time would even be any different. I would be cool if there was some kind of SMG type of conversion. then you get the best of both worlds.
I thought someone made a sequential box for this application. Hmmmm. I thought I saw one. Not that M7 auto thing. That's not what I thinking of.
That M7 thing was not a sequential gear box, it was a sort of robotic gear changer with no feelings and no respect for the transmission, why it was a utter POS by all accounts.. A real $equential gear box is what I'm suggesting.....
Finally got my copy of BMW INPA and DIS running. Those tools are awesome. Was able to diagnose a specific bad solenoid in the new valve body. Valve body rebuilder is sending me a replacement. Still possible that I may have some issues beyond that, but one thing at a time. Should be able to work on it next weekend. I'm actually kinda looking forward to pulling the engine and doing a DIY rebuild of that transmission... I think it's ready for new clutches. But I'm going to put that off a little linger if I can. Would love to make it to winter before I get into that project...
The software....is it the one from the guy on eBay in Romanian? Been intrigued with the software pack....seems much better that the other options....
Yup - Romanian Diagnostic Cables Provider. Stuff works. Note that you need a windows laptop (not a windows VM on a Mac) to run GT1/DIS.
I finally got around to reading the entire thread. Great project you have going. I'm looking forward to seeing you run it at VIR. Make sure you post your next track date. I only live about 20 minutes from there, but haven't attended any events in the last few years. Something else I need to remedy.
This sounds like personal experience. I too can't get the s/w to run on my Mac that's running a virtual Windows environment. However, mine is from a guy in England, I believe. Which Windows machine did you get?
I had an old Win7 laptop handy. The issue is that the DIS software is UNIX-based and runs in a VM already - that's how BMW distributes it. VMware won't let you run a VM within a VM... so you need physical Windows to run it. The other stuff runs fine for me on a Windows VM on my Mac.