What did you do for your M3 today?

[Sid_E46]

I know it's not a new idea, but love the rear emblem. Something about your placement and emblem choice on the CSL trunk just looks awesome.

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Thanks, just got sick of seeing a bunch of "fake Ms" so I decided to do the inverse because why not.

[HighSchoolDream]

Stock headers with cats? I assume that's what got in the way?

Yeah, mostly a sensor was in the way. Probably o2 sensor idk. Just frustrating the amount of effort needed for such a small thing. If I had bought the flex head ratchets I tried to awhile ago would have been so much easier, irritating when Amazon sellers won’t ship to Hawaii.

[stash1]

Just finished up a major wire tuck project (w/the help of a good friend) that I've been planning forever.

[rbg]

Great job! Looks great so clean. That soft focus, light and reflections ... looks like a shot from some 80s hairy metal band ballad music video :-)

[stash1]

Great job! Looks great so clean. That soft focus, light and reflections ... looks like a shot from some 80s hairy metal band ballad music video :-)

Haha, right!? I didn't plan it that way...chalk it up to my bobo photo skills.

[Nihilation]

Started removing the front driver side brakes to install my Stoptech C43 BBK and found both rotor set screws rounded and stripped. 🤬

[Inizes]

Mocked up my new to me Rogue Engineering El Diablo. Driver side tip was cracked, took it to a nearby fab shop and they sealed it up for me. Put it into the car, read the muffler hanger thread, took it back out of the car because I thought the hangers were backwards. Flipped the hangers, put it back on. Now they were really on backwards (they were correct originally) so now I need to flip them back. I also mocked up my super sprint section 2, but that will come back down to make taking the muffler back of easier. The section 2 just has the 4 center hanger bolts holding it up right now.

Guess I’ll be a pro at the exhaust before I’m all done. Euro headers and CPV O-ring on Saturday.

[mrgizmo04]

Started removing the front driver side brakes to install my Stoptech C43 BBK and found both rotor set screws rounded and stripped. 🤬

Those are more trouble than they are worth. I dont use them anymore. Just drill them out. Lugnuts with the wheel on hold the rotor on. Just my $0.02.

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[GeorgeBeirut]

Suspension is made for a particular weight of car. Putting suspension from a 3050lb car to a 3450lb car might not work so well.

Im shedding the weight off my car, my aim is to have it close to CSL as possible

[eacmen]

Started removing the front driver side brakes to install my Stoptech C43 BBK and found both rotor set screws rounded and stripped. 🤬

Dealt with that a few times. Take a torch to them, then hammer in a torx bit you don't care about until it has a good grip on it. Make sure to get it nice and hot.

I would not use a bolt extractor, they snap off too easily.

Don't bother reinstalling the set screw. Not needed. If you do reinstall use anti seize on the threads.


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[Phoenix///M3]

Doctor, the patient is prepped and ready for rod bearing procedure.

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[Inizes]

Today’s the day for headers!

[ra2fanatic]

FedEx finally delivered my Mile End Composites CSL front. Will likely get this painted next week to replace the Status Gruppe CSL front.

[Icecream]

So for the longest time my car has had shifting problems despite new parts. It would last a year or two then require an adaptation via DIS which would take 10 attempts to get right then it would be fine for a good while. Then last week the car went full on psycho mode. Random shift problems I have not seen posted here. So I took it all apart, checked and replaced the springs (none were broken) and tried to readapt. Nothing, same error at adapt angle sensor. I had noticed my actuator was loose, 1 bolt was badly stripped inside and the other was on the verge, the actuator had about a millimeter or two of play back and forth as the selector rod moved back and forth, enough to confuse the sensor for sure. So I decided to get under there and hold the actuator tight while it adapted, flew through it in what seemed like a couple min, no errors, never seen it get through so quick. The only caveat (and this pisses me off because now there is a bit of unknown) is I did a bleed of the actuator just before this last attempt (with dis) but being that even though my fluid was a little low, didnt appear low enough to suck any air in and I could select any gear just fine with the dis software so I dont think that was it). So there you have it. How it got stripped I dont know, probably two decades of S6, explains the loose csb and shredded guibo haha. I tried readapting again without holding the actuator now and it still flies through. So I dunno. Gonna fix the threads and cross my fingers. Good news is I got the csb done (wasnt even attached to the driveshaft) new conpression springs, guibo and fixed a sheared transmission mount. Excited to see how it performs now.

[Nihilation]

One side down!

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