US M3 to CSL conversion

[m3dragon_csl]

[MQP32]

nice, but wrong color - stahlgrau

[m3dragon_csl]

US Steel Gray so not changing it. We had the color here for two years so not going to change it.

I can post the full conversion here as it is more than just body parts.

[Olive]

I followed your conversion on the US forum. Nice job !

[mattCSLnut]

US Steel Gray so not changing it. We had the color here for two years so not going to change it.

You can always get a "Silver Grey" wrap for the full effect :thumbs:

[73CSL]

very nice .. but why the CSL badge ? Its like all the superb Porsche 964 'RS' conversions , usually better than the real thing, but then spoiled when they are badged as an RS ... the car is great in its own way, shame to label it as a fake

[mattCSLnut]

very nice .. but why the CSL badge ? Its like all the superb Porsche 964 'RS' conversions , usually better than the real thing, but then spoiled when they are badged as an RS ... the car is great in its own way, shame to label it as a fake

+1 :thumbs:

[Neil M]

Applying a badge has no bearing on a CSL (the badge was optional, you either chose to have one or not when the initial order was placed, this resulted in quite a significant number remaining un-badged)
So I don't really see the point, just a waste of a badge, if I'm being honest! IMO it would make more of a statement without!:thumbs:

[m3dragon_csl]

I already know posting here will get the most flack of any group about the badge. The badge was a full vanity addition as I noted in the build thread. It will always be a controversial addition but to each their own, like slamming the car to the ground.

State side we get shafted from getting all the great cars, CSL in point. To take the time, effort and funds to make a conversion with all the OE bits and not just cosmetic is rare (or insane depending on who you ask). Then again I went with upgrades and CSL owner could do as well.

Love or hate the badge I never claim to be a real one. I always tell people as close as real as we can get in the states. I have done my best to keep the build in class for the M3 and the CSL.

So wit that, fire away and hate or enjoy the time and effort to make something we never had here in the sates.

10 years of ownership thread.

http://www.m3forum.net/m3forum/showthread.php?t=412413

[Olive]

This work come from a passionate guy. That is the essential.
The CSL badge seems to me more strange due to the car color in fact ...

[m3dragon_csl]

I find it interesting though BMW only allowed 2 colors for the CSL and 3 for the 1M. I will keep my 1M white but it is interesting to see those who own either car that have done full paint jobs not wraps.

I believe recently someone did a CSL in red and don't forget the 1M owner who painted the car dakar yellow.

[MQP32]

why it is not possible to import an CSL to USA?

[m3dragon_csl]

Emissions and crash testing keep a lot of "fun cars" out of the states. In this case it was emissions that prevented the CSL from coming over from what I have read.

There are 2 CSL in the states that were brought in through puerto rico. As puerto rico is a US teritory there is ways to get them in but it is not easy.

So in order to have a CSL in the states you have to make it.

[MQP32]

crasy, emission.... an at every corner V8 pickups :thumbs:

[MQP32]

but congratulation, some details looks like me




only new is the best:thumbs:thumbs: