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The one way is beneficial aswell as having it submerged as it means the same air that is expelled from the pipe can't be sucked straight back in when you come off the pedal...
Also surely without the one way valve youd have to lock the nipple when you come of the pedal as otherwise your just...
We've had a good few days on the M3 again, and everything went to plan!
So firstly, I've been waiting to sort the rear arches out for a while now, you may remember the inner arch had been attacked by rust pretty badly so I chopped it out, and that left me with a problem of either patching...
Interested on having a look at that spreadsheet when you've done it!
Although this one is an r26 ecu.. not sure whats the diff between that and 225
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Afternoon all
First of all, looked what arrived!!! hmmm
anyway... finally a bit more work done on the shell... Although nothing fancy
Started removing some of the standard pedal brackets
Following this, had more fun filling in holes in the floor and bulkhead...
Unfortunately this shell...
I'm just awaiting some pictures of the external reservoirs as they look nice! So will get a price when they're sent - around £1100+ I think mate.
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Yeah sorry guys, has been ages - other cars have literally taken over! I don't think I have touched the m3 since the last update!
So the engine turns out to be a 1.6 balllsssss + my trusty angle grinder has broken!
We got the pug engine stripped down, bearing didn't want to be bearing any...
Another week gone, not much progress on my own car this week as other s**t gets in the way of course...
Wasn't happy with the thickness of metal I used on the repair, so I re did it...
Started with filling the other grommet holes, as you can see this hole doesn't really resemble any type of...
Christ thought they would never update that ECU to stop the fuel pump running continuously hah
Another note, don't buy a cheapy eBay sandwich plate, go Mocal or something like that - I've been there.
The weekend is here! and gone...
and so is my boot floor!
The space will now be taken up by an ATL 60 litre tank... which brings the total fuel capacity up to 120 litre... you can kinda see where I'm going with this... along with a set of air jacks.. it will a sick track car... nah Endurance...
I need to check regs but I will make some spacers and uniballs up on a lathe to correct roll centre, and similar for bump steer to fit into the standard lower arms... or I may even make some tubular lower arms but thats a bit fancy! Haha
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Yep I have heard that before, gotta fix the units compressor then hopefully will be able to run some air tools! Nah still got plenty of time to grind stuff downbefore any paint goes on it, but yeah your right about spot welds most of them are done now
Thanks!
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More updates on the scrapper tonight...
First job - Weld holes I made
Simple case of filling them in and grinding them down, pretty time consuming especially when you canney get grinder in flat on the welds..
Didn't actually get any photos of them ground down, but just imagine shiny metal...
Another good amount of progress on the shell last night:
Finished removing all the spot welds for the panels that cover brake servo/relays/fuses etc
Quite hard to get good photos at this angle lol tilt your head...
Now on with the fun bit! remaining seams to be welded...
Throughout the...
Time to flip the shell over again to work on the other side of the engine bay, to remove all the panels that hide the servo.
Some pretty poor photos, but hey you get the idea...
Loads of room for activities in there now! few small bits to cut of still, as I left them as you have to get...
bit of a sweat box tonight! I say bit, must of lost weight lol
Finished the underneath seam welding tonight, wasn't to happy with quite a lot of the appearance of the welds but going to put that down to seam sealer between panels and experience...
last arch that was needed doing...
this with...
Thanks guys!
I already cant wait to drive the thing, but that's next year easily (budget)
I've actually never taken apart an e46 m3 before let alone driven one, so kinda in the deep end with this one, but end of the day cars a car...
Plans are to build it to be competitive in the BMW kumho...
The underseal is certainly putting up a fight and the thought in the back of my mind "why didn't I just get the shell dipped" repeats.
The arches are so far turning out to be the worst, the underseal comes of quite nicely whereas the seam sealer just takes forever, bmw sure know how to layer...
Last night was spent removing the tar and some more seam sealer I missed, as-well as removing the small studs that I've spent the last week getting penetrated by...
much much cleaner inside, much nicer environment to work in now...
and started smoothing back some of the spot welds that...
Greetings all,
like most of my builds I've done a build thread for so I thought it was about time to start one for my M3.
This was my second clio 182. I had the intention to race it in the tricolore series, but something else took my fancy..
converting a 172 cup standard f4r engine to a f4rt...
Does every meganed engined mk2 have just a first time mapping curse on it :( shame i know the feels and so does matt above.
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