M3 Track Car

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Just thought id share some pics of my M3 track car which I have been building over the last year.

As i brought it in Jan.



Started buying bits :-)









Then fitted the steering wheel and removed the carpets ready for the cage.



Fabricage custom bolt in rollcage fitted







Carpets re fitted, seats and harness's fitted and rollcage painted







Brakes and suspension and eisenmann exhaust fitted







Wheels refurbished and new tyres fitted







The finshed product, with black kidney grilles and sun visor fitted.



And at the ring where it acheived a 8.22 lap!!



Paul

Edited by Bmdub on Wednesday 8th October 22:25

Edited by Bmdub on Wednesday 8th October 22:27

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Not really been going for the past 5 years, guess ive done about 30ish laps now.

The reason for the carpets is to try and keep some creature comforts for the long journeys over to Germany, hence why it still has a stereo and air con too. The idea of the car is based on a gt3 clubsport!

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Thanks

Yes did consider a weld in cage, but the only reason i didnt is becuase it couldnt be painted if it was welded in due to the interior remaining insitue!!

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Thanks. To be honest iam not sure how much performance advantage there would be but i do know that the carpets weighed a ton when i took them out!!! still doing quick times though and in comfort so iam well happy

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Thanks for all your comments.

The cage was made by Fabricage in cambridgeshire, it was custom made to my spec, cost £1200 fitted including welding in the box sections for the feet to bolt to.

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Cars in for AP 4-pots on the rear and trailing arm poly bushes before my trip to the ring in a few weeks

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The AP,s are great dont get any brake fade at when on the track.

As for the cost it has cost me £9k excluding the cost of the car which I dont think is too bad for what ive got.

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1)Yes i do run spacers on the front in order to clear the AP calipers, but I found out this week that the forged motorsport wheels will actually clear without spacers??
2)Front tyres are 225 width same as standard.
3)I brought the tyres from George Polley motorsport and they delivered next day to my house.
4)Correct the rear seats have been removed for the cage.
5) No i paid £300 for the cage to be painted.

Hope this helps, let me know if you need anymore assistance.

Paul

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Small update:- Car is now residing in Germany for the Summer.

Not done anything over the winter other than put a private plate on.





Updated my lap time



Also managed to find a set of genuine forged motorport wheels on here, had them refubished in volvo T5 anthracite and some new A048rs fitted, now my nice polished wheels can be saved for the road and I wont have to spend 2 hours per wheel cleaning them after the track.







Just need to take the wheels out to the car now, which i will be doing next weekend.

Cars only been out there a month and this is my third trip out there already.



I will be at the ring a lot over the summer so come say hi if you see me.

Edited by Bmdub on Friday 8th May 17:10

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Just a couple of pics from the weekend, with the new wheels and tyres fitted!

Had a good weekend although it was very busy and a lot of people not knowing what there were doing on the track.

Also managed to to finish off my brake pads stopping from 150 to 0 after somebody decided to stop in the middle of the track when they saw a yellow flag!!

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Had a nightmare with the brakes after going through the pads, got a new set took them out to germany only to dicover that i'd scored the rotors, so back home and a set of rotors ordered.

Finally got them fitted last weekend and after 100 miles bedding in around the eifel mountains they were ready for a lap or two!