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The stock M57 charge pipe relies on a weak rubber bend that deteriorates over time under high heat and pressure. Worse yet, the original part features an outer wire reinforcement that is notorious for rubbing directly against the hose, wearing through the rubber, inevitably causing a boost leak. If you’ve turned up the boost on your diesel build, it’s not a matter of if the factory hose will fail, but when.
Thankfully, our team of dedicated BMW diesel enthusiasts has engineered a smarter, more durable fix. This replacement hose is constructed from high-grade fluorosilicone with multi-layer internal fiber reinforcement. By moving the reinforcement layers inside the hose wall, our design eliminates the external friction that destroys the rubber coupler while giving the hose the tensile strength needed to hold higher boost pressures effortlessly.
Installation requires cutting off the original, worn-out rubber hose section from your factory charge pipe assembly and clamping the new reinforced silicone hose in its place using the provided T-bolt clamps.
If you own an M57-equipped BMW, you already know this twin-turbo diesel powerplant is an absolute torque monster. What you might also know is that all that low-end grunt and high-compression diesel vibration wreaks absolute havoc on your accessory drive system.
From the factory, both the E90 335d and E70 X5 35d utilize a rigid alternator pulley. With each cylinder's fire, the crankshaft experiences a violent micro-acceleration. Because the alternator has a heavy internal rotor spinning at high speeds, it wants to keep spinning at a constant rate. When the engine suddenly slows down (even minutely between firing cycles), the alternator fights the belt. This constant tug-of-war results in extreme stress on your engine's belt-driven components. At best, it’s an annoying, unrefined chirp at idle; at worst, it’s a ticking time bomb for your expensive harmonic balancer.
To solve this issue, many enthusiasts choose to run a clutched alternator pulley (also called an overrunning alternator pulley). A clutched pulley allows the alternator to "freewheel" or coast when the engine slows down, completely isolating its rotational inertia from the belt drive to prevent component wear. While the N52's clutched pulley (12317560483) is a straight bolt-on, the offset is incorrect for the E70 X5 35d's accessory drive. Thankfully, our engineers designed this zinc-coated spacer to provide the precise amount of spacing needed to perfectly align the new pulley with existing belt drive components.
