A few months ago, I bought Good's E46. I promised I would make a build thread, and finally, a few months later, here we are. Some changes have already happened since I bought the car, and I'll do my best to document it.
The backstory:
This car replaced our MK5 A91 Supra which was my wife's fun car. My weekend/track car is a S2000 and she really wanted a fun car of her own, and kept complaining that I only bought high revving NA cars with no torque. She finally had her eyes set on a Supra and we bought an essentially-brand-new gorgeous refraction blue example. The Supra was stupid fast, torque throughout the RPM range, and we both loved the aggressive styling. But it was a boring car to drive unless you were driving 10/10ths and the interior was cramped with poor visibility. Go-to-jail speeds happened almost immediately with no drama. The car had sports car styling but drove like a luxury GT -- and for that -- it only sat 2. For that kind of 'cruiser' driving experience we would have preferred 4 seats. The car ended up staying in a storage facility rarely being driven. Somehow we didn't know we needed an E46 in our lives until we drove our friend's PY E46 M3
The M3 was a breath of fresh air. Clarity. Honesty. No iDrive. No driver profiles. No pops and crackles. Visibility for days. Classic styling. Sounded like a hoonigan. Fun to drive even just cruising. Fast and powerful enough. An intoxicating engine. Small package. Room for 4. Big boot.
I started to look. I'm no stranger to BMWs. I've had an E46 and a couple E36s including a street/track E36 M3 that I owned, modified, tracked, for 8 years. When it came to the E46, whatever E46 I bought was not going to stay stock, and it was going to stay in our garage for a long time.
The backstory:
This car replaced our MK5 A91 Supra which was my wife's fun car. My weekend/track car is a S2000 and she really wanted a fun car of her own, and kept complaining that I only bought high revving NA cars with no torque. She finally had her eyes set on a Supra and we bought an essentially-brand-new gorgeous refraction blue example. The Supra was stupid fast, torque throughout the RPM range, and we both loved the aggressive styling. But it was a boring car to drive unless you were driving 10/10ths and the interior was cramped with poor visibility. Go-to-jail speeds happened almost immediately with no drama. The car had sports car styling but drove like a luxury GT -- and for that -- it only sat 2. For that kind of 'cruiser' driving experience we would have preferred 4 seats. The car ended up staying in a storage facility rarely being driven. Somehow we didn't know we needed an E46 in our lives until we drove our friend's PY E46 M3
The M3 was a breath of fresh air. Clarity. Honesty. No iDrive. No driver profiles. No pops and crackles. Visibility for days. Classic styling. Sounded like a hoonigan. Fun to drive even just cruising. Fast and powerful enough. An intoxicating engine. Small package. Room for 4. Big boot.
I started to look. I'm no stranger to BMWs. I've had an E46 and a couple E36s including a street/track E36 M3 that I owned, modified, tracked, for 8 years. When it came to the E46, whatever E46 I bought was not going to stay stock, and it was going to stay in our garage for a long time.
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