Chipwizards

29/09/2026

Buyers and Sellers beware.

This is my GT2, some of you will have seen this if you've been to my place. Registration number GT08TOO, VIN WP0ZZZ99Z8S794536.

I was having some minor work done to it by someone called Jack prior to an arranged sale to The Octane Collection. They had acknowledged that they were going to pay me for the car, but Jack somehow managed to convince them to pay him for it when he didn't have permission to sell it.
They bought it without ANY documents or evidence that Jack had any authority to sell it. Under British law 'nemo quod non habet' applies, which means that for legal title to pass, the seller has to have the permission to sell, so the car is still legally mine.

I don't believe that The Octane Collection have done anything unlawful, but they have been extremely foolish buying a car without documents from someone who they barely knew, especially a car of this value.

If anyone is interested in buying it from The Octane Collection you must understand that the car is still legally mine, and a month, a year or ten years down the line, regardless who the current 'keeper' is, a bailiff or the police could take the car from you to return it to its legal owner.

I have written evidence to support my claim so this is not in any way defamatory or slanderous.

Please share.

24/03/2026

Juicy

12/12/2025

It was a pleasure to be involved with Taylor Made's supercharged 540i touring.

Luck landed nicely in my lap a little bit because I was involved with a Life Racing ECU conversion on a 993 GT2 at the same time, which meant that there was a MAF going spare that just happened to be perfect for the 540. Those things are rarer than hen's dentures so it was super lucky. :-)

In this episode I modify my 1 of 1 supercharged BMW 540i Manual touring but unfortunately it goes completely wrong…Find James here: https://www.bmwtuning.inf...

10/11/2025

You don't see these every day.
MGB GT V8.

16/10/2025

I haven't posted anything in a while but I thought someone might find a few videos interesting.
This is a Supercharged 540i 4.4 that I've been asked to do for a YouTuber 'Taylor Made'.
With any job like this you need to make sure you have the basics covered, the 'foundations' if you will. I fitted the emulator so I can see exactly what is going on inside the ECU, and made some rudametary changes to enable some safe dyno pulls. It turned out that the fuel flow to the rail was more than adequate, but the MAF and the injection duty cycle were both maxing out before the top end.

19/04/2025

Well done team J-Mec on yesterday's pole and class lead after today's part of the Spa 12h. Good luck for tomorrow boys and girls.

05/10/2024

Congratulations to Mark Sumpter , Marino Franchitti and Kyle Tilley for their GT2 class 1st and 2nd places at Estoril this evening.

After a long time resting, the Blue Coral GT2 still has it.

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17/01/2023

Just thought I'd share a little video of what effect inlet flows resonance has on MAF readings. There's a gentle change in load initially, to show what should happen normally as the mass flow increases and decreases, then at around 12-14 seconds enough throttle is applied to cause resonance.

28/12/2022

I thought somebody might find this interesting. The top trace is the primary injector, and you can see that the duty cycle reduces as the revs rise and more duty is applied to the secondary injector, which is the lower trace.
These are actually primary and secondary from different cylinders, hence the offset in the flyback voltage, but the timing of the secondary injectors is usually not critical anyway, with so much port being 'wet'.

09/11/2022

Ok, so I'll never get a job as a presenter, that much is obvious.

But I thought I'd share this video about a product that a friend of mine has developed along with some other clever people which takes a different approach to diagnostics and is especially good for intermittent faults. To appreciate it, you need to re-think the way you would use a 'normal' scan tool because this is different from everything else available. Freeze frame data only gives you a snapshot in time, so more often than not you miss the bigger picture of what is really at fault.

If you have 20 minutes spare please watch the video. See if you can get through it without laughing at my cardboard performance. :-)

WHAT IS IT?The main purpose of the OBD X BOX is to Assist Technicians to Fix any elusive intermittent faults which may be present before or after repairs cau...