just thought id do a little update on here,so i got bored of fg04 zsn, had a hankering for an e46 m3,so i bought this
I stuck some csl replicas, a carbonio intake, scorpion exhaust, and had it remapped at amd
so i done basically all i could to the m3, on paper it looked fast, but although it had 349bhp, they have hardly any torque, due to the high revving nature of the engine , i was missing my torque from the turbo,lol
So i put the m3 up for sale and ended up with this
It was a stage 2 mapped by jabbasport, it had 250bhp but 345lb torque!! So i certainly got my turbo torque back,lol, but the car was virtually undriveable as it would spin up all the way to fourth, so i had a more progressive map put on it.
I started getting bored again,so i looked into hybrids and rods for it, but sadly due to me typing the wrong reg number for a vehicle check when i bought it, i found out it was a cat c write off.
So that put me off spending anymore money on it really, and thought it would work out cheaper aswell if i sold up and bought a
cupra r with rods and hybrid.
Fast forward 4 weeks and in steps this car
Now ,this car was described as mint in the advert and needed nothing doing,and had all the mods that i was looking for, it certainly did look mint in the pictures, so i made the 4 and a half hour journey to leeds with the cash to buy it from sc45 (sam calcutt).
My advise is never let your heart rule your head when buying a car!, when i got there, the front bumper was in dire need of a respray, a stone chip on the arch was 4 inches long! And the car was advertised with 12 months mot and 6 months tax.
The tax wasn't on the car but sam assured me he just paid for it online and would post it to me.
Me being a nob as i wanted the car so much,brushed these things aside and bought the car.
It wasn't all bad as he had thrown in a polished inlet manifold which i later found out he had stolen from d.k (darren knight).
So i made the long journey home, and near home i could notice an exhaust blow getting louder, so i got home and checked it out, took the charge pipe off and found this
a great big split in the exhaust manifold(034 high flow), i reckon the crack was in there,and after the long journey and the heat cycle,it opened up the split and made it more noticeable.
So i had a good look round the car (should of done it before i bought it), and found the pads with about 1mm thickness
And a bald tyre, which made me think the mot couldn't have been ledgit, so by this time i sort of figured mr sam calcutt sc45 is not the most honest of people, so i checked online about the tax, guess what, it hadn't been paid for, i text sam to confirm,but had no answer, so that was another £154 i had to shell out for on top of the other things.
So on with the car.
I was pretty pissed off with the manifold situation, and couldn't really drive it like that and i didnt want to put a standard one on, so at the time the badger. 5 manifold had been released, heard great things about bill so i paid the £384 and waited 2 weeks, then 4 weeks, then found out they were ****,couldn't wait any longer ,so i cancelled my order and bought a relentless v2
I know these were prone to cracking,but it had been rewelded ,ported and coated, and at the time i didnt know when the v4 was coming out.
I had a hard time finding a garage that would actually fit it , my first port of call was benjamin parsons,but he had a lot on,
So i had someone message me from ed38 forum that lived local and he said he could do it, so left the car with him for 2 days to fit it
I went to pick the car up,and the fella said he couldn't get his jack under my car to do up 2 of the 3 turbo to manifold bolts!!
He said they are very easy once underneath, so i thought they cant be bad ( am i too nice a person with mug on my forehead?), got home,had a look and i didnt realise he had left the near on impossible nut ,and he hadn't screwed a stud into the turbo before fitting the manifold.
The hole reason i got someone to do this job,was because i knew how much of a ******* it is with the head on, so i would have thought he would have fitted the turbo to the manifold and fit them both the same time.
So after 2 nights and a day,i finally did it,i cant believe the audacity of some people, i told the bloke he can have the car as long as he wants as i wanted it done properly
Needless to say he never rang me to come round and finish
By this time id felt pretty let down by a lot of so called professionals, no one seemed to want to have a go at fitting my water meth kit, so if you want it done,do it your self,lol
I bought the devils own,6-30psi kit,it turned out the most time consuming thing was routing the wires and pipes to look pretty neat.
I installed the pressure switch on top of the rocker cover, which was spliced into the vacuum hose which in turn when reached the desired boost,would activate the little micro switch.
I then mounted the tank and pump in the boot
I routed the pipe work to the corner intercooler hose (before the map sensor)
I used this method for sealing to the hose
I hid the relay behind the fuses at the side of the dash,
And i fitted a green led in the boost gauge which lights up when the pump is operating
It was lucky i fitted the led, as when i first went for a drive to test it, it came on at the set boost,but stayed on!!
I pulled over and pulled the fuse,the tank was nearly empty, my biggest fear was it had pumped the entire tankful into the boost pipes, but luckily for me, i hadn't connected the pipe into the nozzle properly,and it had sprayed all over the floor.
On closer inspection i had mounted the switch in a way that the micro switch got stuck on , so thats all sorted now.
The car came with 9.5" rota grid drifts, which were kerbed,and i didnt like the colour anyway
So i sprayed them matt black with plasti dip, really easy to do,and the paint sort of evens itself out
I then added fly eye to the headlights
I then added an omp steering wheel and boss
Although the rota grids did look pretty mean, i kept kerbing them everywhere,so i done a deal for some standard lcr alloys painted in mitsubishi evo grey
Being a bit used to the wide Rotas , the standard lcr wheels sat about an inch inside the arches
So i fitted 20mm spacers all round,and they sat flush with the arches
Now the car sits like this