Obioban's 2005 IR/IR Coupe

[Obioban]

I thought I saw you selling the E60, did you decide to keep it?

Nah, just waiting for spring. Winter didn't seem like the time to get the best value :P

[George Hill]

All my recent car projects have been e60 and e82. The e46 is so nice and easy in comparison. Really missed it.

I thought I saw you selling the E60, did you decide to keep it?

[Obioban]

Doing a little spring project on the M3, which is fun-- with building the house, the e60 M5, etc, haven't really had time to do anything with it for a while. Changes:
1) new/updated/lighter/not crumbled under back seat sound deadening pad
2) Bry5on's additional exhaust mount point
3) Higher flow injectors (Bosch 0280156063), with new OE BMW injector o-rings and vacuum rail o-rings.
4) one step colder plugs (Denso ixu27)
5) creating a little spacer to allow my OEM (Die Wethje) CSL airbox from before CSL's existed to use the factory CSL air filter (my filter is slightly larger in one corner, so it doesn't get a good seal as is with a factory filter)
6) replacing two of the power steering lines that are slightly weeping
7) installing a wideband so I can use the forum partial throttle auto tuner
8) moving to an HTE tune, to update for my new injectors and colder plugs, as well as tuning the WOT with the wideband/data logger.

All my recent car projects have been e60 and e82. The e46 is so nice and easy in comparison. Really missed it.

[Obioban]

hey man! glad to have found you, good that youre still active.

need some advice, what bump stops should i use for eibach and sachs?

Don't really know, never looked at it. Stock is probably fine-- the eibachs are a pretty reasonable drop.

[gnoy26]

hey man! glad to have found you, good that youre still active.

need some advice, what bump stops should i use for eibach and sachs?

[1bluemcm]

I'm discovering that the list of NLA parts for M coupe/roadster seems to get bigger and quickly. Problems with low production numbers. I also try to pick up extras of things that seem to be getting harder and harder to find.

[Obioban]

Kind of a boring update, but the old driver door arm rest cracked, so I bought a new one. Feels like the kind of part that will soon be NLA.

[Obioban]

Any update? Can't have the mythical obioban m3 off the road!

Ha, I’ve been driving it.

Pressure tested it and it held pressure. No further coolant has disappeared.

Hopefully it just burped over winter 😜

[5676879]

I hope not.

Zero coolant smell in the cabin.

Going to pressure test the system.

Any update? Can't have the mythical obioban m3 off the road!

[Obioban]

Heater core leaking?

https://nam3forum.com/forums/forum/m...in-heater-core

I hope not.

Zero coolant smell in the cabin.

Going to pressure test the system.

[heinzboehmer]

Heater core leaking?

https://nam3forum.com/forums/forum/main-forum/e46-2001-2006/176277-best-way-to-drain-heater-core

[Obioban]

Hmm. Just pulled the M3 out of winter storage and the coolant was low.

No sign in the oil.

No puddle or residue under the car.

Where did it go?

[Projecte46m3]

Waiting to see how this CF driveshaft goes...

[0-60motorsports]

Just bought a used F8X driveshaft. Going to follow Altaran's lead and put e46 M flanges on it, for a hopefully OE qualify CF driveshaft on the cheap.

Yes! Looking forward to your feedback.

[Obioban]

When I saw what Altaran did I actually thought of you as I figured six seconds would elapse between you seeing it and you buying one. lol

I don't know how to feel about being so predicable.