Austin's E46 build (2/10, do not recommend)

[FunfGang]

Looks good so far, certainly pretty low.

[mozinqo]

Alright, I'm a bit late on the update but I've been pretty busy. I finally got my car on jackstands Thursday, and spent quite a few hours doing random things I needed to do. We cleaned the shop out today, so I'll have that to work in soon. Anyway, these are just a few pictures from the last few days. I need to get started doing more things, so I apologize for how boring this build thread has been so far. But hey, I'm a boring guy


nice booty shot


I'm so close to wearing through my exhaust, and there's so much rust under here. I should really do a lot of things, including build a skid plate, but I'm so lazy.


Kids, don't ever use spray paint over plastidip, I promise it doesn't come off the same. These wheels will have to be stripped before any of that excess black ever comes off. Oh well, you live and you learn. It's a good thing these are just temps/back-ups.


so back to black wheels because the wheels are gross and deserve all the cover up they can get. whatever, and good god I need a lip so badly. or 17s. I think I'd rather have 17s.


whatever ft. Josh's golf which is getting sold soon for a new, air-ier car. keeping the VSPs though, because they're a great company and you should check them out if you haven't (@vspwheels on instagram)

Now we get to today, which involved a lot of cleaning and rearranging of the shop.


we should really finish this thing already, I'm ready to drive it to shows and hurt the feelings of truck owners everywhere.


minor height difference, and I thought my car had rust issues


as clean as it's been in months, now we just need to move all of this stuff around some more.


and finally, a little tease of what's happening tomorrow. hopefully it'll annoy some people, and draw some attention to the business. I'd be ecstatic if either of those things happened. Maybe it'll also motivate me to find some new wheels because I know mine will look gross with whichever one of these I choose. Oh well, it's a work in progress.

[mozinqo]

If you want to keep it clean and simple I suggest blast pipes with flamethrowers and a cardboard widebody.

fire makes anything cooler, I don't know if I can afford cardboard though..I may go with a construction paper widebody

[rightfullrudder]

Thanks man!

I agree completely. I want to do a ton of stuff to set my car apart from other E46s while keeping it clean and simple, so we'll see how that goes.

If you want to keep it clean and simple I suggest blast pipes with flamethrowers and a cardboard widebody.

[mozinqo]

E46 looks good.

Can't go wrong with clean and simple!

Thanks man!

I agree completely. I want to do a ton of stuff to set my car apart from other E46s while keeping it clean and simple, so we'll see how that goes.

[MikeyP3]

E46 looks good.

Can't go wrong with clean and simple!

[mozinqo]

Looks good so far. The RX looks hilarious up on stilts like that.

Also, fellow NC member. Followed you on insta. Must get lonely building a car in Pikeville.

Thanks man, yeah that was weird because I'm used to working on things much lower

Building a car in Pikeville is very lonely, and you get a TON of disapproving looks.

[rightfullrudder]

Looks good so far. The RX looks hilarious up on stilts like that.

Also, fellow NC member. Followed you on insta. Must get lonely building a car in Pikeville.

[mozinqo]

oh and I almost forgot, these pictures were originally a ton larger than this, and I don't know if this is a good size for them..so criticisms are more than welcome

[mozinqo]

disclaimer: this build is not for the impatient, I don't have impatient funding..so yeah. I do love this car though, and I don't ever plan on giving it up.

So hi, my name's Austin. I live in North Carolina, and I drive an E46. I've had a few, but I bought this one wrecked a couple of months ago and this will show you some progress since August of 2013.

Also, I'm trying to find a camera but until then these will be iphone pictures, get over it.


I got M3 wheels and thought this was as low as I'd go..cute.


I seriously took this picture and bragged about how low I was *cringe*


I then painted those wheels black, because who doesn't love black? also, that front bumper clearance makes me cry.


now we're getting into more recent pictures, this is just before I lowered the front more.


this is also before lowering it more, and getting rid of those vinyl 'eyelids'


again before lowering more. I should really get around to building a skid plate so I don't mess something up, but roll hard, you know?

[two weeks later]



I made the daily/mom's car look a bit less 'mom'


racing season started, excited to get my redneck on.


and I almost cried from happiness when this happened backing out of my garage, I guess that part of the driveway is a bit uneven

Now I need to get some pictures of it currently, but as of right now it's been raining for two weeks straight and it's cold as hell and I have no motivation. That's why I'm making this to motivate me. If it isn't raining tomorrow, I'm going to go torch some hubs off of a parts car and put the wheel bearings on mine because it sounds like my car is raping metal when it drives (which I'm pretty sure is a wheel bearing, but if anyone else has experience with that let me know).

Long term plans are to go lower, do a ton of much needed body work, a LOT of custom work and much nicer wheels. I hope to live up to some of the build threads around here. Thanks for reading, anyone that has. Hopefully I'll get some updates up tomorrow or Thursday.