E46 M3 - The entire build from stock to Nurburgring.

[mft]

Lovely pair, and thanks for a great thread. Any chance of a few more details on the 964?

[Trtj]

The NA s54 gets 110hp per litre, it is an incredible mass produced engine, one of if not THE best NA engines ever made. I would leave it sat there in its glory and build on the dynamics, exactly as you are doing. Great stuff

[biscione]

Top man!

Lovely cars, keep on enjoying them!

[Polarbert]

alclark said:

Polarbert said:

Incredible. Can imagine that would be brilliant to be behind the wheel of.

Forgive me if I overlooked this, but did you or are you planning to do any engine modifications?

Thank you.
Currently - no. It's SUCH an expensive and relatively unrewarding route tuning up the S54 that it's literally right at the end of the list. There is so much speed to be gained elsewhere that if I can find that and THEN add the power the car should be pretty special. I can't even drive it at full speed yet with less power, so I need to get there first.

Fair enough. I wouldn't have thought it would need more power either. Absolutely cracking car you've got there. Amazed at how many times you've been round the ring as well!

[alclark]

mft said:

Lovely pair, and thanks for a great thread. Any chance of a few more details on the 964?

Thank you! Well the 964 was something I've always wanted, and I found this car for a bit of a steal really and couldn't pass it up.

It's a 964 C2 originally, but fully rebuilt into a fully caged and seam welded making it far stiffer torsionally than an RS - Carrera Cup car weighing in at just over 1150kg on Intrax suspension, Enkei Alloys and turbo brakes.





It's running a near stock engine at around 255bhp with the heat exchangers removed / fans etc but retaining OEM Glass.

I've taken it to Snetterton...


Spa... where it was absolutely AWESOME in the wet, even on R888's.


Mega rain battle with me and by friends E36 M3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF8QlGUblmc

And with that mad Exocet Missle thingy on racing wets!:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvxCgWnpvFE



And if you're at Spa, well you may as well go.... right?


And as an experiment, I sourced a set of genuine narrow body RUF Speedlines for it... :-D


Maybe should start it's own thread, but I don't 'plan' and doing much more to the Porsche, except maybe unleash a few ponies...

Edited by alclark on Thursday 16th January 11:23

[gsd2000]

I knew I recognised this car. I wander into craigs every now and again

Great build

[cozmcrae]

Those are two awesome cars. When you took your M3 to the ring, how many laps would you usually do before stopping to let it cool down or did you just do lap after lap?

[nickson]

loving the 964 on the ruf wheels mate! thats a beautiful car!

[alclark]

cozmcrae said:

Those are two awesome cars. When you took your M3 to the ring, how many laps would you usually do before stopping to let it cool down or did you just do lap after lap?

Three is the most I'd do - but I'd be back in the car after 20 minutes. The ring isn't hard on brakes or tyres, just engines and suspension... but I need a rest after 30 mins. :-D

[Dakkon]

Fantastic thread, many thanks for taking the time to post and respond to everyone's questions.

I have an MR2 Turbo that is slowly becoming more and more track focused in a similar vein.

A question on tyres, early on you say you fitted Kumho V70's, then later on Toyo R888's, I am about to put some semi slicks on my car for this years trackdays and I curious as to what you think of different brands, do you have a favourite having done so many track laps?

[DanBMW]

Awsome thread and an awsome car!

I'm a big e46 M3 fan (I have a CS) I did my first lap of the ring last year and it's so easy to see why people get addicted. I certainly didn't want to leave!

Looking forward to more updates!

Dan.

[Babw]

What a brilliant E46 M3! I was wondering who else has a Carbonetic LSD, I've yet to have mine fitted.

What have you done to improve the steering feel apart from square setup?

Are you running the standard E46 M3 rack?

[Guillaume]

That's a superb build you have there. It's a shame so many photobuckets pics have exceeded the bandwidth, I feel like I am missing a lot!

[BigsimonY]

not much or a Porsche fan, but that is gorgeous.

[murraynt]

Two brilliant cars you got there!

[P1H]

On the first Spa video in the Porsche, the speedo didn't seem to be moving.

Is this a mechanical fault or something people do for a reason I'm unaware of?

Cheers

[oxam]

Seems like we have very similar projets http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

and seems that it's about time you start doing some drift days and I start going back to the ring

[alclark]

Babw said:

What a brilliant E46 M3! I was wondering who else has a Carbonetic LSD, I've yet to have mine fitted.

What have you done to improve the steering feel apart from square setup?

Are you running the standard E46 M3 rack?

It's still all standard in that respect - at the moment I'm reasonably content with just trusting the car, there is a good degree of feel but just not quite as much as it once had on stock wheels and road tyres!

P1H said:

On the first Spa video in the Porsche, the speedo didn't seem to be moving.

Is this a mechanical fault or something people do for a reason I'm unaware of?

Cheers

I'm not sure, it does work (the miles are going up) but the needle isn't, so I use the GPS instead until I can fix / source a new one.

[screamingyellow]

Wonderful thread! I love seeing the snowball effect from taking the car to the track! lol

[BBS-LM]

This post is just one reason I need to get an E46 M3, hell of a car for the money, and yours is excellent, I'm glad you went for more setup, and not more power when developing the car.