Castro Motorsport: Kato Racing's LS7 "E40Z06" M3 Race Car Build

[e30polak]

Sorry for the lack of updates everyone, Forgestars should be here in a few weeks, takes 6 weeks for them to be custom made... When we get them we'll get the tires mounted and get started on the fender flares.

A factory S54 engine harness and DME are being put back into the car as well, in order to get the M3's ABS to work.

After experiencing some fuel starvation on the track, we're also going with a Radium Engineering fuel surge tank.

Hopefully we will start the cage soon as well.

A few more pics from our friend Nick at NDK Photography: https://www.facebook.com/nick.kouris.9?fref=ts

[e30polak]

sell me the ring and pinion!!!

PM'd!

[e30Hybrid]

Friday we made a quick, but very sturdy harness bar for the M3, since Kalon had a track day on Saturday.



We also swapped wheels, tires, and had fun with the wheel color :thumbsup2:





The 275 NT05s made traction a huge problem at Big Willow on Saturday, thank God Kalon loves to drift!









Sadly I couldn't experience the M3 at the track on Saturday because we had a booth at the SoCal Vintage BMW Show, but I heard Kalon put on quite the drift show with the car!

Custom fender flares, wider wheels, 315s and a 3.15 LSD coming soon to aid the traction issues!

sell me the ring and pinion!!!

[TeckniX]

I really liked the idea/project to start with, but when I heard that dyno run, I was like:


Looks really clean and glad you wrapped the side-skirt with some heat-reflective tape. Probably would've melted after the first corner. lol.

ps: where did you get the boot lid (duck-tail-ish)? Looks rather fantastic overall!

[e30polak]

More from the Shift S3ctor's their Time Attack event at Big Willow.

Photo credit: BJ Lopez Photography

[e30polak]

A few more action shots of the LS7 E46

2 from Shift S3ctor's Airstrip Attack






And 1 from Big Willow with Shift S3ctor

[Theaudiowner]

Epic!

[Hybrid For Life]

Amazing build! Front does looks a bit jumbled up, needs kidneys!

[e30polak]

Epic work

Thanks!

[NeilP]

Epic work

[e30polak]

Friday we made a quick, but very sturdy harness bar for the M3, since Kalon had a track day on Saturday.



We also swapped wheels, tires, and had fun with the wheel color :thumbsup2:





The 275 NT05s made traction a huge problem at Big Willow on Saturday, thank God Kalon loves to drift!









Sadly I couldn't experience the M3 at the track on Saturday because we had a booth at the SoCal Vintage BMW Show, but I heard Kalon put on quite the drift show with the car!

Custom fender flares, wider wheels, 315s and a 3.15 LSD coming soon to aid the traction issues!

[e30polak]

Video from inside the LS7 M3, traction is an issue with 285s out back...

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v...type=2&theater

[Royal_T]

damn loving that side mount exhaust..

[e30polak]

This went a LOT faster than I expected lol. Amazing. I love it all, great work.

The front end looks a bit jumbled together aesthetically, but I'm sure a lot of it had to do with making way for the intake or radiators or whatnot.

Kalon pulled off the bumper taking the car off the trailer, before we showed up to the event. Car will be in much more proper shape aesthetically in the weeks to come.

[Miroteknik]

This went a LOT faster than I expected lol. Amazing. I love it all, great work.

The front end looks a bit jumbled together aesthetically, but I'm sure a lot of it had to do with making way for the intake or radiators or whatnot.