BMW E46 M3 Lemans/Cinnamon

[Frode D]

this thing is fucking mint dude!

Thank you sir!

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Paul is currently finishing the brushed finish and I hope I will recieve the lips Shortly. Cant wait to finish the ACS type 2 wheels. I have painted the barrels "Satin Black" and waiting for the centers to come back from paint. The nuts and a few of the bolts are sent to be galvanized.


Also splitted the Hartge's and painted the two barrels I'm going to re-use. I need 4 new lips and 2 new barrels to rebuild them.


While I was at it I painted the air ducts as well. the only remaining visible carbon is the diffuser.


Got an alignment yesterday. 3,75 degrees was what I ended up with (3 degrees and 45 minutes). This is more than I hoped for, but It has to be this much to fit the wheels. Don't want to poke too much.


Cleaned the car to get rid of the salt, don't really use the car during winter due to salty roads.


Now the car is delivered to a friend of mine to re-do the rear inner fenders to make more room for tires. Wanting to run 225/40 and 265/35 and not have the super stretched 225/35 and 245/35 like I have now.

[storey618]

this thing is fucking mint dude!

[Frode D]

Adjusted the height for now. Just need an alignment and to redo the rear inner fenders to make more room for te wheels..

Changed the bulbs today.
Before:


After:


Some better pics:

[Frode D]

i get what you mean about the led indicators. chrome, should clean it up nicley

love the lip, especially with the csl front bumper. i say do it.

Waiting for an answer about shipping to Norway. Probably expensive.

I ran that same style lip when I had my M3 but I think it was one from status gruppe or whatever their name is, loved the look tho over the normal CSL splitters.

Always been curious of those air cups, love how fast they are. Wish I would have had them a few years back.

I've looked at the Status Gruppe lip and I think that one has better fitment than the ebay lip. But Status Gruppe is carbon fibre, and the ebay one is plastic which should take a lot more beating before it cracks. CF does not last very long on low cars.

Thanks for sharing, appreciate that.

Good choice of the potential new lip. I was running the same until I went lower. Thats why I need air cups to get the splitter back on!

Air cups is very convenient. Gives you a lot of extra driveability.

[The Simps]

I ordered new front struts that are 20mm longer than standard BWS for E46. (60mm longer than E9x setup). This gives me 100mm piston above the shock body.
I have 5" 16k springs and 60mm helper springs (compresses to 22mm). The combined compression with these are adjusted to 50mm when applied the weight of the car. The cups are 18mm thick. This leaves me with 32mm of suspension travel, which is not a lot, but hopefully enough.

Thanks for sharing, appreciate that.

Good choice of the potential new lip. I was running the same until I went lower. Thats why I need air cups to get the splitter back on!

[hinrichs]

I ran that same style lip when I had my M3 but I think it was one from status gruppe or whatever their name is, loved the look tho over the normal CSL splitters.

Always been curious of those air cups, love how fast they are. Wish I would have had them a few years back.

[C2_mad]

i get what you mean about the led indicators. chrome, should clean it up nicley

love the lip, especially with the csl front bumper. i say do it.

[Frode D]

thanks for your feedback really apreciate it... whats next for this beast. have you thought about changing the indicator bulbs to the chrome ones, would get rid of the fried egg look in the front. that or i saw someone with a set of led indicators that actually look good, kind of reminded me of the e90 lci idicator

No problem
Good thing you reminded me! I have "chrome" bulbs laying around somewhere in the garage. The LED indicators look too futuristic for me.

Next up will be adjusting the height and get an alignment. Also I'm considering this front lip.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/272023697126?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

[C2_mad]

thanks for your feedback really apreciate it... whats next for this beast. have you thought about changing the indicator bulbs to the chrome ones, would get rid of the fried egg look in the front. that or i saw someone with a set of led indicators that actually look good, kind of reminded me of the e90 lci idicator

[Frode D]

the cup kit if awsome.... and so quick. good stuff as always. the eonon looks good in there, how is the colour match at night? also have you tested the bluetooth phone calls? how does it rate?

Thanks!

The color match is as good as it gets. Adjustable as well if you want something else. With the external mic the sound is good (according to my gf). Sounds like an handsfree usually do.

Bluetooth streaming however is a little variable. I have android and that sounds good, but på gf has an iphone and that has a little high pitch noise. Seems like Eonon is very sensitive to the quality of streaming. I had to adjust Spotify to "high quality" to get rid of everything..

[C2_mad]

the cup kit if awsome.... and so quick. good stuff as always. the eonon looks good in there, how is the colour match at night? also have you tested the bluetooth phone calls? how does it rate?

[Frode D]

So did you end up with a 50mm helper spring and 50mm longer piston basically? What length is the 16kg spring?

I ordered new front struts that are 20mm longer than standard BWS for E46. (60mm longer than E9x setup). This gives me 100mm piston above the shock body.
I have 5" 16k springs and 60mm helper springs (compresses to 22mm). The combined compression with these are adjusted to 50mm when applied the weight of the car. The cups are 18mm thick. This leaves me with 32mm of suspension travel, which is not a lot, but hopefully enough.

[The Simps]

So did you end up with a 50mm helper spring and 50mm longer piston basically? What length is the 16kg spring?

[Frode D]

YESSSS!!!!

This is exactly the update I've been waiting for

Glad you were able to sort the air cup side out, definitely they way I want to go to. With the cost of importing Broadways right now tho I might try and do it with a set of Nitrons instead.

You must be stoked? Your still waiting on shorter rear springs right? 100mm?

Yes, finally! I've been wanting to finish this for two years now and finally it's installed. And works perfectly! Feels so good

I haven't bought rear springs yet. I think I will stick with these 5" springs and just remove the lock ring if I want it a little lower. The reinforced subframe and spring perch reinforcements are probably the reason it is this "high" at the lowest setting. They probably add 1-2cm in total. If that doesn't do the trick I'll buy 4" springs.

[The Simps]

YESSSS!!!!

This is exactly the update I've been waiting for

Glad you were able to sort the air cup side out, definitely they way I want to go to. With the cost of importing Broadways right now tho I might try and do it with a set of Nitrons instead.

You must be stoked? Your still waiting on shorter rear springs right? 100mm?