E46 M3 fast road - track car

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rusticm3 said:

Hello mate, How much camber are you running on the front? I need to replace my wheels and they are tempting

Edited by rusticm3 on Thursday 19th February 16:23

Front has 3.3 from memory

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Beedub said:

whats the condition of the pole positions and how much you after?

Both are in really good condition. Drivers is only a year old and the passenger is dated 2004.

Also shows how good these seats can age being 10 years apart.

Won't be up for sale for least a few weeks as maybe swapping one and possible buying another. Would be after £450 for the drivers as still in FIA date and £300 for the passenger.

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rusticm3 said:

No I flipped when when swapped to the apex. Want to take a little camber out the rear but fronts will stay the same.

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e46m3c said:

Love it. One of the nicest cars ive seen.

Id question those brake ducts tho. The veins in the discs are design to throw air out the edges. this seems to contracdict that? Would it be better to put the feed to the center of the disk to increase flow through the disc as designed and hence make it cooler?

Yeah I'm under that same impression. But going to give these a go on track and if they prove to be no good I'll ducted from the centre of the disc.

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Few small updates

As I needed a taller seat for the harness slots to be my shoulder height. Good friend lent me his recaro pro racer seat. Love it!



Found a good place to tie the dog to. Although did come back to him with the lead under the bumper and him stuck.



Finally redone my sun strip with no creases or bubbles. I royally messed up the last one so was happy with this



Then I used the left over carbon from my stereo blank to add a little more air intake as I've robbed the engine of the lower feed that is now only a brake duct.

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Track_Cit said:

Awesome car, awesome photos, really like this dude. How do you find the Nankangs? I have them on my Clio 200. They're aren't bad for the money but I don't find them as grippy as the Yoko AD08R's I had on my Civic Type R previously.

Once you've got some heat on them they seam pretty good. Only problem I found is they go off a little quick.

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Thanks. The ambers have been sold on so there's no going back.


I'll also kind of be at the Sliverstone sunday service. Say kind of as I'm on the reserve list but am booked on track at 11:20am

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Now running a Eventuri intake which added a nice proven 10.6 bhp just from a air filter. Will be doing a full write up soon.



Also installed a oil catch can and gold intake tape, have since wraped the maf housing too.

Someone took a nice pre track photo from the back of the pits area


Pistonheads Sunday Service Silverstone March 2015 by adamlstr, on Flickr


IMG_2964 by samratcliffe19, on Flickr

Really enjoyed clapping around sliverstone, shame I never looked around the sunday service.

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rossi1 said:

Cant beleive i have only just spotted your thread here sam! still looking spot on mate ! always remember your 328i sport. Gave me inspiration to stick with mine and still have it to this day

Wow glad to hear you still hae the 36, yours is a stunning example.

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Few pictures from the Total M cars 2nd anni at Evolve Eventuri HQ






More of the Eventuri intake as its just a work of art.





Also had to make a custom feed as my brake ducks got rid of the stock oem lower feed



Yesterday I finally swapped over my Vibra Technis prototype trans mount for their in production item




At the same time fitted my UUC DDSR



The new mount has made the world of differance, my exhaust was every so slightly rubbing on the old item so is lot quieter now

Have some pictures from the PHSS round Sliverstone too.

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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.

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Few from sliverstone

Asbo Grant drifting on the in lap


IMG_3035 by samratcliffe19, on Flickr


IMG_3028 by samratcliffe19, on Flickr


IMG_3012 by samratcliffe19, on Flickr


IMG_3001 by samratcliffe19, on Flickr


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.

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CSL lid and rear parking sensors deleted



Proper pictures to follow

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Had my brother take a few pictures yeterday


IMG_0163 by samratcliffe19, on Flickr


IMG_0011 by samratcliffe19, on Flickr


IMG_0029 by samratcliffe19, on Flickr


IMG_0097 by samratcliffe19, on Flickr


IMG_0105 by samratcliffe19, on Flickr


IMG_0162 by samratcliffe19, on Flickr

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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

IMG_0134 by samratcliffe19, on Flickr

IMG_0132 by samratcliffe19, on Flickr

IMG_0116 by samratcliffe19, on Flickr

IMG_0094 by samratcliffe19, on Flickr

IMG_0085 by samratcliffe19, on Flickr

IMG_0044 by samratcliffe19, on Flickr

IMG_0036 by samratcliffe19, on Flickr

IMG_0151 by samratcliffe19, on Flickr

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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A lots been going on in the past weeks, some upgrades and also some breakages

This was the begging of my Vanos repair and overhaul, read here if your interested: http://totalmcars.com/thread/6765/vanos-faiure-fix...



Had my steering wheel retrimmed by Royal steering wheels, went for black alcantara with white stitching (Senna style)



Wrapped the whole airbox in gold





Made a air dam and yellow tinted headlights



Down to the really nice stuff, KW v3 with Turner adjust front mounts and rouge rear, fitted with Ring dry settings, still need to fiddle the right height and play with spacer then will get geo and some decent pictures. Looking forward to testing these around Sliverstone GP in a few weeks

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tsinc said:

Car looks fantastic, are you going to Silverstone on August 3rd?

Edited by tsinc on Wednesday 8th July 16:17

No we have a few sessions at trax on the 19th (I know it's trax, but was cheap for the GP circuit)