Obioban's 2005 IR/IR Coupe

[Slideways]

i didnt read the entire thing just the first 2 pages and then the last 2 lol. what happened to the OEM airbox? i saw it but then saw a different box at the end.

The first one you are referring to is made by Obi's absolute, favoritest of favorites... VAC lol. The current one is OEM manufacturer Die Wejthe made for Digi-tec.

[Obioban]

i didnt read the entire thing just the first 2 pages and then the last 2 lol. what happened to the OEM airbox? i saw it but then saw a different box at the end.

I still have the OEM airbox. It was just a different variant than people are used to seeing— the one evolve copied.

[nextelbuddy]

i didnt read the entire thing just the first 2 pages and then the last 2 lol. what happened to the OEM airbox? i saw it but then saw a different box at the end.

[Obioban]

Made some changes to the suspension, which included eye balling the ride height (with a tape measure). Spent 2 hours setting up and leveling my scales, only to sit down in the car and find the cross weight was already at 49.9%. Le sigh.

Interestingly, though, I did notice that the cross weight stays identical to the .1% when I'm in the car or not-- which I believe means my COG is exactly centered between the front and rear axles in my natural driving position. Kind of cool.

[Obioban]

I saw that it was now possible to run the OE performance steering wheel in the e46 a couple of weeks ago, as seen here: http://www.m3forum.net/m3forum/showthread.php?t=611535

The thing that held me back was that the while OLED display in the center really doesn't jibe with the e46 gauges/instruments. The gauges in the center are also a lot less useful for us, as our clusters already have useful gauges . At the end of the day, all I really wanted was the shift lights.
... which led to an offline conversation with Terraphantm about them, or, specifically getting the OE cluster shift lights to strobe at redline (allowing them to be more noticeable in peripheral vision-- which I don't find the default shift lights to be). Which, happily, he was able to do by writing a little program in the program space. He's still dialing in the pulse speed of the lights, and going to be making a thread with the details on how to do it, but in the short term, upgraded shift lights in the cluster:

Now that I'm running this in both M3's, I no longer have any desire for the shift lights on the steering wheel.