[GeorgeH]

Hey e30gentry thanks for the reply.

I was planning on doing what you noted above, but wanted to make sure I didn't miss something already listed on the forum.

Originally Posted by e30gentry

What I’ve been doing in a few hours of spare time here and there with my double hump, edc, DCT car is:
Leave double hump and edc alone for now(not sure what coilovers I want yet)

Sounds like our cars are similarly optioned, EDC, Doublehump, DCT, etc. What systems are you planning to retain aside the bare minimum to run the DCT?

Obviously if this was a 6MT car it would be much simpler but I just don't know how far the DCT system reaches to operate "properly." But maybe not, as I wrote that I realized aside from the DCT and GWS maybe everything else is still needed for a 6MT car?

Originally Posted by e30gentry

Remove every airbag, crash sensor, all rear audio/MOST system. Then traced all wires and depinned from connectors.

This is definitely the low hanging fruit and should be the easy part.

Originally Posted by e30gentry

Now for the EKPS, I believe unless you’re making your own fuel system you’ll need to keep this as it powers and regulates/ramps up/down signal as needed.

I put together an S85 swapped E46 and it was on a stock DME through an Awron gateway and then used a standard fuel pump relay. I wasn't sure if that Awron gateway was doing something in regards to the DME/Fuel pump or if the DME even cared the EKPS wasn't installed (faults suppressed).

Originally Posted by e30gentry

CAS/FRM and most others you’ve listed you’ll need to keep unless running different forms of standalone.

What do you mean by this? What is the FRM sending that the DCT needs?

I assume CAS is sending some kind of Wake-Up signal out to other modules. But aside from that I wasn't sure what else it did. We've got the ability to CAS delete the MSS60 DME as far as the key/anti theft system is concerned but again I wasn't sure how far it reached beyond the WUP.

Originally Posted by e30gentry

Alex and Roastbeef will probably have the most insight to all of this and I’d love to speak with both or either of them too

Maybe they will chime in. In the meantime can you be more specific on Alex's user name as there are bunch on the forum. I'll spend some time looking through their posts and see if anything was mentioned.