Thread: BMW N57 8hp to TD5 Auto adapter kit

Originally Posted by RRT

So generous and thanks, am going to give this one last try before giving up. So have cancelled Monday and have a quick link if I can resolve some issues.

Well today and thanks Slunnie, got onto that FB page via my brother in law as to registering for the group, this is English so a little bit of a wait for them to wake up and get us on.

Also went to the HTG Facebook website, they have it would appear a major issue with a sacked partner wiping their database a few months ago. They are supposedly getting it back on line but the dates of the communication and progress were not what I call, inspiring. I am not the only disgruntled customer...

Had contact with Andrew of 8 Speed Auto fame in QLD as to the Turbolamic CANCTU solution and he is not of the belief they will be any good for the TD5 and 8HP (I know HTG have done it...). Have been over their website and they have a different way of going about things but their information is first rate and actually helpful. Also asked the company Turbolamic for assistance as they may have actually done such a conversion with one of the other 19 persons who have purchased the adaptors from Syncro.

So Shads from Syncro got back to me as to others and he pointed me to,,, facebook, urggggh!!!!! He also suggested that I again try Marcus at MWMachines for some guidance which I will do after this.

So as frustrating and tail chasing as this is, have been studying as much as possible the HTG solution. There are some titbits that interesting as to looking at the solutions for standalone engine ECU such as Haltech and Ecumaster etc. that being this

HTG SUITE has “Ecumaster EMU Black” CAN preset available in General Settings.

So guessing that they should also have TD5 in their general settings as well then as they do state they have OEM support but do not list the OEM supported platforms, they have done the TD5!
OEM ECUs

HTG SUITE supports variety of OEM ECUs. If Your ECU is not listed please reach out to our Support Team and we will look into adding it’s support
*LIST to be added*
TO BE CONTINUED.

That said this has been unchanged since they did these pages last year and reaching out for support has only drawn blanks.

So plan this weekend
Hook up 12V power supply to the HTG cable harness
Hook up the CAN IO to this, the gearbox and the Shifter
Get the Laptop and try to get Windows to provide driver for the CAN IO and hopefully the software platform will not drop out immediately after starting.

If the software shows the TD5 as being available to communicate / protocols then proceed on with install in a fortnight.


It is a plan.

Was Shad advising the same FB group? Hopefully you have some luck this weekend with your tests!

Had a discussion as to the installation and integration which I can now understand as to what I need and subsequently spoke to the installer who is getting back to me on a possible date.

So whilst the actual IO CAN unit will need to be programmed the first hurdle is an immobiliser in the Gearbox, who knew, I didn't. So have been investigating removal tools and possible ways of achieving this - anybody know a BMW dealer with such a tool???

Good thing I bought the wiring harness as this would be even more complicated with the correct wiring to and from the GB to IO CAN to the shifter. There will still be a bit of hit and miss as to which of the CAN's I am on with the connection of the shifter and TD5 CAN as I got no information on the harness wiring, but this is only a choice of two.

This is a screen shot of the MW Machines vid and whilst it is a rats nest on the console, there are only three inputs to the prototype IO CAN - two CAN and one power I assume -as well as a usb to the computer.


So feeling somewhat confident that it can and WILL get done.



MW Machines Discovery 2 TD5.pdf