What's going on guys welcome back to the channel today you're doing me at birds where we're going to be transforming the handling on my M140i. If you didn't see my first drive video, it wasn't a fan of the way it handled. It felt very floaty, it felt very disconnected, didn't inspire confidence, so I knew immediately that handling is something I'm gonna have to look into. So if you're not heard of birds, I specialize in tuning and they've got the perfect recipe to cure those issues I'm talking about, so enjoy the video. Right, the guys we've got quasi, are you there man? I'm good and Ricky, nice to see. Nice finally meet ya. Right, so I've fought before we've gone to what we're gonna be doing today on my 40. Why don't we mention who birds are for people that are unaware maybe. Birds have been around there for over 30 years. We go back to the 70s and 80s, we were then BMW main dealer from there with progress into basically a BMW independent specialist. About 15, 20 years ago, Kevin the boss who you met earlier in the recipe, we just felt that the aftermarket suspension offerings from certain tuners and our certain manufacturers weren't what we felt were right, so we started developing our own suspension and we progress onto differentials now, utilizing the quave differentials. This is what we do, as you can see, got your M140i up on the ramp already, there's another customer's M140i that's in because suspension as well. So not a week goes by where we haven't got an M140i in, we're all in M135 in. So obviously when I started researching into the hand inside of things, I was on the forums and literally birds, birds like your suspension pack. So it's suspension and the combination with a quave differential right? Correct. What we're doing today, we are installing four Billstein shock absorbers. These are core units that we have then had re-avolved to our specifications. We have a look at the suspension stuff. Let's show you what we've done. So guys, we've got the Billstein suspension here, we've got the differential over here as well. What we have here, these are your front struts, basically it is a Billstein B6 core unit and basically they are built for our specification. Also, including that specification, we have our dampers made black, not yellow. This is one of your rear units as well. Then I'll show you the springs. The springs are made of home specs. You'll see them. You know, even laser on our names onto them. New genuine BMW bump stops. Additional dampers as BMW call them. It will go on there. That's what they call them in their part system. And this is your diff, which we've already pre-built for you. That's already been built with a quave differential or the in there. So just a quick little explanation. So obviously it's not going to have a limit, it's a little different to me. Correct. This is going to be the what's going to give you loads more traction. This is going to give you loads of traction. As I said, it's common knowledge to M140i's. They don't become with an open differential. You tend up losing a lot of traction. You lose the ability to put the performance in a power dam, not an in-strait line, but coming out of corners. That's where I noticed it a lot. Yeah, very squirrely inside wall spinning. Correct. But now it lock up. I leave me out as just it now. If you want to, it's not war into. But yeah, if you want to get that tail wagging, you can. I hold the hands up. I do it myself every now and then. But you can't help it. So we've got an opened up differential. We've got a stock one here. Yeah, just save you and I'll spend a time today and we pre-built differentials. We haven't ready to do it on an exchange basis. So this is your diff casing. This is what's actually in there. That is your crown wheel. And this is a quave, limit slip differential unit. And just for the record, quave for the original, right? Like, quave is the original quave been around since sixties, tried tested proven patents and their products and they come with a lifetime guarantee. English made as well. Called British made. British made. Can't get back to British made. Before we do, it's Bill Stunner's a German made. Yeah. But you can see all goes in there. It's all done properly. The guys have got all the correct tooling there to check the preloads and everything. The guys are well up to speed on what they do here with these differentials. I'm still in boxes up there. You got mine going. I'm going to crack this right there. You're doing it a lot. I'll take you to our store room there. Oh, wow. Bloody hell. You want to see. And it's just for BMWs or all. BMW and Mercedes. And Mercedes. Yeah. Doesn't matter where you're on the world. If you want a quave for a BMW, it's come from here. Another point to make guys as well is you guys are not trying to build me a racing car. This is a road car with better handling and better traction right? Totally. This is what we aim for. Our philosophy is road cars. This is what you drive. Even if you want to do an occasional track day, 99% of times on the road. This is what we aim for. Fast road, good chassis dynamics, good traction, good grip without compromising comfort. What you'll probably find is the car may be a fraction firmer than what it is at the moment. Just a fraction. We don't build race cars here. Let's we do it for ourselves. But the most part is road cars. It's going to overall be better. But like the M140 that it does literally hit the back when it I mean, even though 45 in my now down the road near me, which I've never noticed it in any other car, it's my shoes man. Obviously we've got the night in each world as well. You're saying even like overly adaptive. You're done with a fixed out right? Adaptive for us, it's not a viable solution. A damper is designed to work with a certain springway. If you then change the valve of a damper, it then moves away from the parameters of that spring. But for us, it's always been passive set-ups, which is a fixed rate damper built to our specs and a progressive rate spring. The springs are progressively wound. You don't want to be sitting there continuously pressing a button. Oh, it's rose to firm. Go to comfort. Go to race setting. You just want to jump in your car and drive. And this is what we aim for. So Kevin's going to quickly take me out and one of his demo cars is the car that he's up for a very long time. It's a BMW 1 Series 1.30i. It's like that. So what's going on with this car this? So it's a 1.30i? Yeah, completely standard engine wise. This was one of the original development cars for the suspension because this is going back a few years. My attitude to suspension was a little bit different. So you'll feel that it is quite firm. Most of that is to do with the anti-roll bars. Again, a bit like with the quake situation, we found it, we realised it, we did a load of work and development work with quake. We also identified the suspensions were horrible. So these are... Wow! Yeah, it's a 1.40i, absolutely. Oh, this straight there. A lot of you say that the car feels more rigid, but it's not hitting the bump stops. It's not crashing, is it? She doesn't have to open it so much. These guys are only... It's kind of companies. There's a reason why they only need companies. So guys, literally, you've got to have to get some food, come back. The car's already finished. I'm only like joking. Usually it's an all day thing. The guys work hard. So... It's a fairly routine operation for us these days. So we know the guys not what they're doing and if a spare pair of hands will jump on. So if you can get the car done for you quicker, we can. So the car was originally down. We thought we'd quickly put up back on the ramp, guys. So we've got the diff here. We've obviously got the coil overs, which we can see. Not coil overs, that's... Sorry, this dampers. What's the next procedure? Do I need to sort of like wear the minor anything? Well, the next step for us is... The car's going to come off to the two-poster. It's going to go back into the four-poster, rubber-chip, or the geometry. That's it. If we're 100% happy, we'll sign it off then it's all yours. Excited, man. Very, very excited. It's got to be transformation vibes. So what's the process right now with the line in the pot? You said it already was aligned previously to go now. Yeah, before we guys start any work, we put up the four-poster. We do a geometry check. Obviously now all the suspension's gone back on. It goes back on there for an alignment seat. What the story is, we measure the right heights again, make sure it's all within target values and go from there. Yeah, we've still definitely got some arts for that, Bimp-me. Would you say it could set a little bit? A little bit. Not too much, but it will settle down a little bit. So of course, cars finally finished. Cars all done. I'm not even going to drive the home, I'm actually going to get the camera mounted driving back, and I'm going to proper make a video tomorrow. I don't want to... I don't want to idea of what it's like, but I just went out with Kev in the 1.30i. And guys, let me tell you that thing, the speed you can reach, and it just absorbed the road. This car, honestly, 40, 50 miles per hour over, it hasn't even got to be bad road surface. It's just really crashy, bumps really cabin. I don't know, I'm kind of parroted at the time, but it's really going to feel... But you've got the suspension travel, we saw. Just a quick little reminder for where people can find you, if they want to have a similar package done. We are based over in Iver. We have our website up there, Bird's Auto, prices, all our applications that we offer for this service. We were listed on our website, so it's all there. All the information is there. There's loads and loads of reviews from likes of piss and heads of evo. And you guys, just for your information, like, I actually started looking into what it's done to this car. If you're going to the forums, you'll hear birds everywhere. So I'm gasping, we've got the proper package on the car. Get ready for the next video where we'll be going for like a first drive slash impression. So yeah, hope you enjoyed it. It'll be good to hear your first impressions. Thank you, Kos. Thank you for coming to us. No problem.