E46 M3 fast road - track car

[Gingernuts]

Love this build, great ethos well executed. Im dying to get back into an e46 after having an M3 and a CSL and reading this is only encouragement to build a clubsport type spec road car. Keep up the good work!

[PBMWsam]

Thanks guy

Regarding the carbon, it's 2mm thick prepreg so is no shoddy piece of carbon by any means. Works better heat soak, light, strong and yeah looks amazing.

[PBMWsam]

Few from sliverstone

Asbo Grant drifting on the in lap


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Lastly a video, cannot even hear mine as masked by the hole in Grant's exhaust

https://www.flickr.com/photos/samratcliffe19/16871...

Bring on Bedford GT 5th May

Also have 2 items in paint, one is a common M3 mod, the other is very rare in the UK.

[WojaWabbit]

[PBMWsam]

CSL lid and rear parking sensors deleted



Proper pictures to follow

[e21Mark]

I love the line of the CSL boot lid on the E46. Such a simple but effective mod.

[frayz]

Cool build this, I like it.

[T.K]

Tres cool- like it

[PBMWsam]

Had my brother take a few pictures yeterday


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[SirSquidalot]

This car... I swoon every time i see it

[lukefreeman]

Only thing that ruins it is the lack of rear doorcards!

[PBMWsam]

lukefreeman said:

Only thing that ruins it is the lack of rear doorcards!

Will be painting the rear then half cage so should look the part then. Just no need for rear cards

Some more of the pictures that my brother done

IMG_0136 by samratcliffe19, on Flickr

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Have also since fitted a 16" electric puller fan and removed the viscous fan, should hopefully keep temps down on track. Next is to tackle the raising oil temps.

[hondansx]

Hard to beat the E46! Lovely car.

[MrBarry123]

This is fantastic - ace work.

Really want to buy previous PBMW magazines now so I can read the whole story!

[Track_Cit]

This looks so so good, well done!

[PBMWsam]

Car preformed well at Bedford GT last week. The HSD coilovers are being bit of a let down though leading to a few wild moments. They were the very first thing I done to the car so there not really up for the abuse now.

After fitting a electric puller fan and binnging the viscous fan the collant temp never went above half and dropped fairly quick on an in lap so the electric fan is working very well. A better oil cooler is needed next.



After Grant lent me his Pro racer I just had to get my own. Managed to grab a week out of date seat for a good price.

[pantera chris]

Really great build. What rear brace is that? Im using the rear seat fixings at the moment which is not at all ideal!

Also do you get any problems with fuel starvation at all? Mine suffers at Snetterton under half a tank.

Cheers

Edited by pantera chris on Tuesday 12th May 14:12

[PBMWsam]

pantera chris said:

Really great build. What rear brace is that? Im using the rear seat fixings at the moment which is not at all ideal!

Also do you get any problems with fuel starvation at all? Mine suffers at Snetterton under half a tank.

Cheers

Edited by pantera chris on Tuesday 12th May 14:12

Rear brace is made by ultra racing then I powdercoated it black.

No fuel surge for me, even went down to the red light later in the afternoon.

[pantera chris]

Cool, thanks. Ordered the brace and it turned up today!

Strange how some get fuel surge and not others. Mine is really bad at Snetterton, although it was fine at Cadwell. Have Bedford booked for the 18th so will see how it goes there.

Good luck with the build

[PBMWsam]

Having a stripped interior is always a little eye sore, so in my fee time I've been trying to tidy it up.

Stage 1: Angle grinder

Cut off all the un-need brackets (ended up being more than this handful)



Stage 2: Remove all sound deadening, tidy up the seam sealer and remove all the resin glue



I also thinned out any un-needed items from the wiring loom then re-taped it back up with factory fabric tape.

Stage 3: Paint

From factory not everything on the interior is painted, behind the rear door cards of example is just in primer or just a extremely light dusting of colour, so I wanted to blue the lot.







Stage 4: Clean up and refit

Going to Bromley Padgent this weekend and not taking a passenger (only the dog) so only going to run a drivers seat.



I have also dropped my Sparco 330mm steering wheel off with Jack at Royal steering wheels for him to work his magic and retrim it, really looking forward to getting that back but for the time being I have a loaner wheel which is a little odd, i'll leave it at that.