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Dr. Vanos Upgrades

Next up it was time to look at locking down the Vanos. Now I had done a bit of research on this before buying the car so I already knew there were a few main options. The big issue was the failing tabs on the exhaust hub followed by some rattling issues in the cam gears and/or sprockets. The two main companies that offer solutions for these issues are Dr. Vanos and Beisan Systems.


 Based on the feedback over at M3Forum it would be fair to say that the Beisan Systems options are the most favoured. The issues I have with their offerings is they are all DIY and I am not really tooled up to complete this level of work at the moment. On the other hand Dr. Vanos solutions are ready to bolt in and even references some local Australia workshops which are competent at the install. As a result I decided to go ahead with Dr. Vanos as my source of solutions but now I had to decide what options and what workshop.

To address the exhaust hub I really wanted to "upgrade" the parts so I was most interested in the TurboToy Hub or equivalent. Luckily Dr. Vanos offers a licensed version of the TurboToy Hub which they call the C300 Hub.



After looking around at a few of the workshops listed on the Dr. Vanos site for Australia I settled on BM Techniks to do the install. Luckily when they did the install they had found that one of my OEM exhaust hub tabs had broken off but had stayed caught in the Vanos Oil Pump Disc. So it looks like I caught this job at just the right time before it got any worse. Unfortunately they didn't capture any photos during the job but now my Vanos is all locked down so I have nothing to worry about there!
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