Sharocks 2004 CB/Cinn 6MT Build Journal

[Sharocks]

Car made 355 whp/252 ft/lbs on a Mustang Dyno and 362 whp/265 ft/lbs on a DynoJet
Redline is 8500

Just quoting you.
That power and torque are very impressive! with the mods you have.

Thanks man I was surprised as well. It's all up top regardless so putting around town it feels slow as per usual haha.

Cams, Bored ITBs, and a better flowing head were huge parts of the success.

[Hyperboost]

Car made 355 whp/252 ft/lbs on a Mustang Dyno and 362 whp/265 ft/lbs on a DynoJet
Redline is 8500

Just quoting you.
That power and torque are very impressive! with the mods you have.

[Loopyspec]

Car looks great! Looking forward to updates

[Sharocks]

Dyno Day:

IgnitionTube feature:

[Sharocks]

Ok massive photo dump, bear with me I'm going through years of what I can find lol

So I snagged the last brand new Vorsteiner GTS3 1x1 CF diffuser directly from them in 2014. Bought it as an early Christmas present to myself. Love the way the way it looks and it fits very well.





A friend of mine has a YouTube channel called IgnitionTube. He wanted to shoot the M3 and do a video. Here's a shot of it semi clean. Video is below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0E8uOA1i7s&t=85s

A shot from Boston's Car's and Coffee at Larz Anderson circa 2015?



At this point I had a CEL on for no cats. I've been running the JVT's without a tune for about almost 2 years. Time for a tune. I didn't want a flash or a can tune. I wanted to hear it, see it and watch it on a dyno with the person tuning my car in my state. BrenTurning was what everyone around was using. Bren extracted a shit ton out of the car. This is when we realized that the PO had spent quite a bit of money on this car. More on this later. Here's a vid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPU0-nCiT7U

So I had been scouring forums, eBay, online etc for a Vorsteiner CSL trunk. My GTS3 diffuser was still in the box as I didn't want to run it without a trunk. It looks incomplete and weird. After like 4 years of searching, a friend of mine was parting his AW M3 in Texas. He had a double sided CF trunk in 1x1 weave to match my diffuser with the edge exposed. Perfect! I also bought his V1 Vorsteiner CSL front bumper and a VCSL 1x1 CSL diffuser. Sold both of those parts to get some money back haha.

This was day 1 of running the trunk, still needed quite a bit of fiddling.




A peek into the interior at the same time, just "upgraded" to a ZCP steering wheel. God I hate alcantara. What a bad phase.

I had also found a person on M3F parting an individual car. He had extended Cinnamon and he hated it lol. I bought as many parts as I could off him. Got the shifter boot, e brake boot and armrest.




Just awful. SMDH.



Right afterwards, I had vanos blow up on me. Marbles the whole shabang. Mileage was around 165k at the time but the car had a new vanos unit installed by the dealer at 111k. Shocker.

Opted for EVERYTHING Raj over at Beisans Systems sold at the time. Sucks he didn't offer the teflon upper chain guide then SMDH.

Had my shop in Boston install everything.



While doing this work we found out that the cams were not stock on this motor. I called the PO and turns out when vanos exploded at 111k it damaged the head in a few ways. They had the head built and added cams at the time. Further looking through paperwork, I found what I needed to see. Schricks. Explained the trash idle and surging I was getting prior to the tune. Also absolute shit gas mileage but that's partially due to being not tuned and being catless.

Some shots at this point.









After this I took the M3 with my friends in a caravan style down to H2Oi in Ocean City MD. I'm still looking for pics, but it was during Hurricane Joaquim. Yea. Not that much fun. Yea.

[Sharocks]

I see you still take your pics with a potato 😜

Who let you in here!? LOL

[Tbonem3]

Ya, did it say o toe f & r in your op? I love some toe out! And a little in, in the rear for stability. Eats tires a little more, but worth it imo

[tdott]

It's pretty good. Car tramlines a lot due to the alignment but I needed the alignment to keep it from rubbing.

A little toe in up front will help a bit.

Looks like you've done a bit of work to it from what I remember. 😂

[SandeepM3]

I see you still take your pics with a potato 😜

[Sharocks]

How does the OE CSL wheel setup ride around town with the 265 tires all around? That setup is gorgeous!

It's pretty good. Car tramlines a lot due to the alignment but I needed the alignment to keep it from rubbing.

It's not the fastest in this spec but it does look good haha

[Sharocks]

Car looks great!

Thank you!

[Sharocks]

Amazing car please create threads for the others as time permits

Will do, nice to see ya here!

[MTiz]

How does the OE CSL wheel setup ride around town with the 265 tires all around? That setup is gorgeous!

[Loopyspec]

Car looks great!

[Tbonem3]

Amazing car please create threads for the others as time permits