My E46 M3 build journal (NJ)

[jamesbond]

Hello everybody,
I would like to start a build "journal" for my E46 M3. I decided it start the thread here since I'm leaning more towards a stance build. I would post in the BMW forums, but as some of you might now "if it's not a track build I'm doing it wrong".
I promised myself i wouldn't touch the car, but i like to change things around
Anyways, I owned a bunch of 1.8t mkiv vw's before and about a year ago upgraded to a beautiful M3.




Before on ZCP wheels


On square setup of 19x9.5 zcp wheels

[Kalin]

Looks really good man! Keep it up!

[jamesbond]

Looks really good man! Keep it up!

Thank you sir 🙌

Here is a picture of he gtr hood

[milwaukeeandy]

it's almost funny how many people have terrible experiences with WheelFlip.

Car is looking good though, i love that GTR hood

[jamesbond]

it's almost funny how many people have terrible experiences with WheelFlip.

Car is looking good though, i love that GTR hood

Very frustrated with them...thanks for the kind words


Took a few measurements for the front splitter to be made and the cage is being shipped today. I'm going to change the color to red

[jamesbond]

Finished my last 4 finals yesterday and woke up to this cage today and a pair of barrels. No word from wheelflip yet so decided to get them from vrwheels. Within 15 min they sent me a tracking numbers

[jamesbond]

Can someone with some photoshop skills change the color of the faces to red or another color if possible. maybe change the color of the lips and faces. just post them here. thanks

[jamesbond]

Finished building my first set of three piece wheels. as of today they all done and wrapped with new tires, just waiting to install the air ride


Put the half cage in and oh boy it was a mission to install it. doing this alone is not a good idea, but got it done

[jamesbond]

Installed the GTR hood with the help of a friend. put the CF CSL lip on along with the front splitter
"have sideskirt extensions and rear diffuser to give car that aggresive look im going for"

[Z German]

Love the rims man. What bolt pattern are they? I also have a E46 M3 and just ordered 5 inch lips for my rear rims. Can't wait to see how this turns out.

[Kalin]

Dude ... If i has an e46 M3 , I would do the exact same mods as you , but I was going to keep in on coilovers and drive teh shit out of it! The rims, the hood , teh cage....pure porn!

[jamesbond]

Love the rims man. What bolt pattern are they? I also have a E46 M3 and just ordered 5 inch lips for my rear rims. Can't wait to see how this turns out.

Thank you! Forgot what they called but they 5x120 (temporary wheels)

[jamesbond]

Dude ... If i has an e46 M3 , I would do the exact same mods as you , but I was going to keep in on coilovers and drive teh shit out of it! The rims, the hood , teh cage....pure porn!

Yeah that was the plan...but after a crazy accident with my vw jetta 1.8t thought i just build more of a show car with a track look. just picked up an e36 m3 to mess around in the track as soon as i finish this.

[jamesbond]

this 2 weeks installing bags, putting the wheels on, headers with the rest of the exhaust and excited to see how it will look. will post pics when i start working on it...got busy with college summer clasess but im now done for this year.

[Spectra Phantom]

Looking forward to see