E46 M3 fast road - track car

[e21Mark]

Carbon air box!!

[LanceRS]

Still looking good. How much weight do you recon you've managed to shed now ?

[Mk2lewis]

This is great. Truly built for purpose.

See you at snetterton on Wednesday, just doing the evening session.

[Tickle]

Very nice OP, excellent attention to detail. Not the biggest BMW fan but I do like the E46, especially what and how you have modified yours.

[BullyB]

look forward to seeing this one day at a track.
Keep up the good work and enjoy

[PBMWsam]

em177 said:

Just had a read of the thread from start to finish. Great read. Making the my wallet tremble after the recent arrival of my standard E46 M3!

Is there anything you'd class as a 'must do' mod for the someone fresh to these cars?

Put all your money into brakes, coilovers and tyres. Basics of making a quick car.

LanceRS said:

Still looking good. How much weight do you recon you've managed to shed now ?

200kg lighter than stock now

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Just got my EC-7 back from going gloss black as never liked the satin, also a fresh set of slicks from Malc






Last time out on circuit was getting a little blinded by the low sun, even though I've a 1 foot sun strip it still doesn't help with the the side windows of course.

Didn't want to smoke the visor so thought I'd give amber film a bash, extended the sun strip too.



Next time out on track is Goodwood an have some tasty upgrades lined up before hand


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Binning off the factory weighty exhaust system had been on my to-do-list for a lone time now.

Headed to www.waltonmotorsport.com and they made it happen.










Noticeable quicker, around 15 to 20kg lighter and should still be within Bedford's drive by of 87.5 db... no lift

[LanceRS]

That exhaust is going to confuse the hell out of people not on here

[ManOpener]

Shame the spare wheel well is in the way, a central twin exhaust in the style of the 997 GT3 would really suit that.

[Robins]

Looks incredible. Really love what you've done to this and imagine its a proper weapon on track!

[bigalx]

Can you share when you will be at Goodwood - I'd love to pop down and see this in action...

[PBMWsam]

LanceRS said:

That exhaust is going to confuse the hell out of people not on here

Going to be asked so much if its a real M3 haha.

ManOpener said:

Shame the spare wheel well is in the way, a central twin exhaust in the style of the 997 GT3 would really suit that.

I've seen one before with a central twin exit... not a fan.

Robins said:

Looks incredible. Really love what you've done to this and imagine its a proper weapon on track!

It does alright

bigalx said:

Can you share when you will be at Goodwood - I'd love to pop down and see this in action...

Goodwood is Saturday 11th June, it's with a show called Players Classic. Mostly a fancy wheeled air ride show but has cheap full day track day and loads to look at on lunch.

[Col 666]

Another M3 thats gone down the single pipe route and custom valance.

[anonymous-user]

Looks utterly sexual with the yellow dunlop slicks!! Well done mate, want it so bad

[jelluzz]

Love everything done to this but still on the fence about the exhaust.

Still trying to convince SWMBO turning our M3 into a track car would be the way to go

[KernowSid]

Any updates? Great work so far.

[PBMWsam]

KernowSid said:

Any updates? Great work so far.

Loads of updates. Here's few of the major ones

Done few laps around Goodwood back in June with the new exhaust, felt really good and didn't get flagged for noise.

Managed a 127.1 but was really slow in braking zones as front pads had gone down to the metal, annoyingly I hadn't noticed before the day to address it.

Untitled by Sam Ratcliffe, on Flickr

Untitled by Sam Ratcliffe, on Flickr

Sold my Apex and upgraded to Grants 18x10 with Nangank AR-1



Went to Hack Engineering for valve clearance







While I was at Hack Engineering I made a big decision and compleatly changed up the braking system on my car.

Went for standard rear disc with EBC yellow stuff pads, Braided brake line & brass slider insert. An for the front a new AP racing BBK all from Hack :thumbsup:







Went to Snetterton on the 26th Aug, couldn't of had better weather



XSP_0962 by Sam Ratcliffe, on Flickr

XSP_0563 by Sam Ratcliffe, on Flickr

XSP_0395 by Sam Ratcliffe, on Flickr

XSP_0111 by Sam Ratcliffe, on Flickr

Managed a 2:09 which just got into my target of a sun 2:10 but I know I've room for improvement as still a little messy an slow in places.

YouTube video of a lap

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGBfILntryM

[KernowSid]

I have spent far too long looking on forums of track/race prepped E46 M3s after reading this thread.

That gearbox looks worth the cost on the video at Snett, quick changes.

You've updated the thread without a picture of your dog though!

[gubsta]

Went to the Kop Hill Climb yesterday (and rude not to as I live about 5 mins away!) and what did I spy...?



Looks great in the flesh and lovely attention to detail.

[LanceRS]

I wanted to go to that but once again work has got in the way. This makes me even more annoyed that I couldn't make it.

[PBMWsam]

Ah thank you very much. Well it's still currently here and hoping for a run up the hill.