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      01-29-2020, 09:47 AM   #1
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I am thinking of adding some mo-powa to my 18 lci M2. However, I'm learning of all the issues and the rabbit hole of new parts needed to not break stuff/throw codes.

Any advice/regrets? Should I stay stock so I can autocross and track it occasionally and not have any issues?

Or get the bootmod, intake, charge pipe, intercooler, etc. and never look back...

Keep in mind I probably will only keep the car for another year or two, so if you were me what would you do??

Thank you for your help!

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I'd get an intercooler if you drive the car hard or track the car. Charge pipe is popular because it's cheap and the stock one is known to break eventually at stock power levels.
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I am thinking of adding some mo-powa to my 18 lci M2. However, I'm learning of all the issues and the rabbit hole of new parts needed to not break stuff/throw codes.

Any advice/regrets? Should I stay stock so I can autocross and track it occasionally and not have any issues?

Or get the bootmod, intake, charge pipe, intercooler, etc. and never look back...

Keep in mind I probably will only keep the car for another year or two, so if you were me what would you do??

Thank you for your help!

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I'd get an Intercooler and charge pipe .You can always sell them when you trade your M2 and get 75% of your money back. Intake is a waste of money. In meantime you have some added HP. BTW what will you trade it in for?
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I am thinking of adding some mo-powa to my 18 lci M2. However, I'm learning of all the issues and the rabbit hole of new parts needed to not break stuff/throw codes.

Any advice/regrets? Should I stay stock so I can autocross and track it occasionally and not have any issues?

Or get the bootmod, intake, charge pipe, intercooler, etc. and never look back...

Keep in mind I probably will only keep the car for another year or two, so if you were me what would you do??

Thank you for your help!

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I'd get an Intercooler and charge pipe with Sport Cat. You can always sell them when you trade your M2 and get 75% of your money back. Intake is a waste of money. In meantime you have some added HP. BTW what will you trade it in for?
All good points. Yeah probably going the mod route, glad to hear no one had any regrets besides losing a little cash.

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Bolt ons are relatively safe and for track use will help keeping the car running cooler. I personally wouldn't think upgraded charge piping and intercooler to be a bad thing from a pre-owned buyers perspective. Downpipe is where you'll make noticeable power, if you don't plan on adding one, I wouldn't bother with a ECU tune.
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I went down the rabbit hole. I would do it all again except for the intake. I really like my Fabspeed sportcat (perfect sound imho), like the csf intercooler (tight fit but it eventually went in) and my charge pipe. I also run stage 2 bootmod3 on 91. I run the winter with stock tune as I don’t need power on snow tires. Then summer for autocross and daily I switch back to the tune.
I have nothing against the intake, I do like the sound it makes, but there’s really no point as I seldom open the hood to see it. I’d just put that money into the other stuff, like camber plates and more tires which seem to always need refreshing
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i would just go FBO...they are reversible if you keep your oem parts.
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