5 Mods you loved / 5 Mods you didn't

[Ragincajun5220]

Here you go. 😉

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looks awesome. Is that an e92 M3 steering wheel? Does that swap in?

just picked up my e46 and the stock wheel is thin and a little worse for wear. I ran a coby wheel wrapped e92 wheel on my e92 and it was great. Would be nice to run one on the e46 if it fits properly without much trouble.

[Altaran]

Altaran definitely gonna need some photos of those carbon pole positions.

Here you go. 😉

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[Thoglan]

Altaran definitely gonna need some photos of those carbon pole positions.

[Altaran]

Best:
1. Öhlins TTX 46/40 custom suspension setup
2. AP Racing Brakes
3. Recaro PP Carbon Leather Seats
4. Carbon Airbox (duh)
5. Normal E46 Steering Rack swap with Bumpsteer corrected end rods

Worst:
1. ChaseBays steering hose kit (by far: leakage, bad heat dissipation. Their support is good, but that does not make up for a bad product)
2. 95A Urethane tranny mounts. Feels like the car is desintegrating when lifting of at 5k rpm.
3. Li-Ion Battery without BMS (one time out of power and its trash. Replaced with a BMS controlled Li-Ion bateery, no problems since)
4. Non dyno generic tune. Just does not feel 100%.
5. Empty, will find something in the time to come

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[Jason]

What kind of modified engine mounts did you go with that you liked a lot?

On the old m3, the vibra was nice. On my current, I’m running a new oem and that’s been nice too lol

[Gt4]

Which brand on those so we know to avoid LOL!

That makes sense if it's a track car but damn still after ten minutes hahaa.

All those parts are a waste of money no matter how cheap they appear to be at first glance whereas quality parts at 5x the cost are not, to me at least.

I think they were Rogue. But on a side note, the track I destroyed them on is an airport so track is concrete and really rough on tires/bushings/bearings/gears.

[old///MFanatic]

can't really think of 5 but here are some that I liked and didnt like
best:
engine mounts
recaro seats
turner monoball rtab

What kind of modified engine mounts did you go with that you liked a lot?

[jet_dogg]

Which brand on those so we know to avoid LOL!

That makes sense if it's a track car but damn still after ten minutes hahaa.

All those parts are a waste of money no matter how cheap they appear to be at first glance whereas quality parts at 5x the cost are not, to me at least.

[Gt4]

Noise from the bearings?

I lol'd at seibon, were they ever supposed to be any good? All these pseudo cf companies make me smh, everything is always a compromise. Buy it right and buy it once.

My buddy has a seibon hood and trunk I think on his e60 m5 and that shit is straight trash. Unfortunately none of my taste has rubbed off on him.

Yeah the sphericals were making noise/were loose with some play after 1 track event… and I could feel the loose/play while driving…

I bought the Seibon CSL trunk used for like 400$ and it was for a dedicated track car. I installed it and 10 minutes after I removed it from the car cause fitment was crap… and it was a dedicated track car LOL, can’t understand people with cheap replica parts on their street/show car…

[jet_dogg]

I had 12x E46 M3 over the last 15 years, some were track/race cars and some were street cars. Here are my 5 best and worst:

-lightweight flywheel
-spherical bearings rear upper & lower control arms
-TTFS CSL tune
-Hard Motorsport composite sunroof panel
-Seibon CSL trunk

Noise from the bearings?

I lol'd at seibon, were they ever supposed to be any good? All these pseudo cf companies make me smh, everything is always a compromise. Buy it right and buy it once.

My buddy has a seibon hood and trunk I think on his e60 m5 and that shit is straight trash. Unfortunately none of my taste has rubbed off on him.

[Gt4]

I had 12x E46 M3 over the last 15 years, some were track/race cars and some were street cars. Here are my 5 best and worst:

Best:

-Recaro Sportster CS
-Euro headers & cats
-Ohlins R&T coilovers
-Brembo GT bbk
-4.10 diff

Worst:

-lightweight flywheel
-spherical bearings rear upper & lower control arms
-TTFS CSL tune
-Hard Motorsport composite sunroof panel
-Seibon CSL trunk

[Jason]

can't really think of 5 but here are some that I liked and didnt like

best:
engine mounts
recaro seats
turner monoball rtab

worst:
rtd shifter
poly diff bushings

[CachacoE46]

Best so far, 3M Crystalline 70 all around. Stock locking and a huge difference in heat rejection. Maybe it's only my car but heat inside is much higher than all other cars I've had.

[Tbonem3]

I would love a CSL sect 2 & 3, but can't pay so much for such a small upgrade.

[Cubieman]

From what ECS has to say the entire CSL exhaust system reduced weight by a total of 11lb, the muffler accounts for 5lbs of the reduced weight.
I think they used different materials as well as thinner walled pipes, if that is the case (thinner pipes) the people that like a bit of S54 rasp would love the CSL exhaust.
Going from euro headers/section 1>SS stuff definitely reduced the rasp and I would have to assume it's partly or mainly due to resonance from a thicker walled pipe, at least that's my take.