VVEL control unlocked

gabe3d · 10-18-2012, 09:04 PM

This is good news and hopefully fairs better than BMW's valvetronic (the exact same as VVEL but on the market since 2001) for aftermarket performance tuning. The tuners over at BMW have been mucking around with this for some time now and have had decent results, nothing amazing.

It's interesting to note that both Nissan and BMW decided to not use this technology on their high performance models, M series and GTR. However I think BMW started using this on their M trim Xseries and on some future normal Ms.

djtodd · 10-18-2012, 09:15 PM

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Originally Posted by gabe3d

This is good news and hopefully fairs better than BMW's valvetronic (the exact same as VVEL but on the market since 2001) for aftermarket performance tuning. The tuners over at BMW have been mucking around with this for some time now and have had decent results, nothing amazing.

It's interesting to note that both Nissan and BMW decided to not use this technology on their high performance models, M series and GTR. However I think BMW started using this on their M trim Xseries and on some future normal Ms.

I suspect we won't see it around for long.

Funny how one of the first thing on the grand-am rulesheet for allowed modifications for the z34 is the z33 HR head swap

hughdogz · 10-19-2012, 10:08 PM

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Originally Posted by gabe3d

This is good news and hopefully fairs better than BMW's valvetronic (the exact same as VVEL but on the market since 2001) for aftermarket performance tuning. The tuners over at BMW have been mucking around with this for some time now and have had decent results, nothing amazing.

I could be wrong, but I thought I saw a VVEL video that said it's superior to the Valvetronic since there's no valve springs that will float (harmonic resonance) and drop a valve at high RPM.

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Originally Posted by gabe3d

It's interesting to note that both Nissan and BMW decided to not use this technology on their high performance models, M series and GTR. However I think BMW started using this on their M trim Xseries and on some future normal Ms.

Makes me wonder

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10-18-2012, 09:04 PM	#1 (permalink)
gabe3d Base Member Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Fresno, Ca Posts: 51 Drives: Old school G Rep Power: 14	This is good news and hopefully fairs better than BMW's valvetronic (the exact same as VVEL but on the market since 2001) for aftermarket performance tuning. The tuners over at BMW have been mucking around with this for some time now and have had decent results, nothing amazing. It's interesting to note that both Nissan and BMW decided to not use this technology on their high performance models, M series and GTR. However I think BMW started using this on their M trim Xseries and on some future normal Ms.