Sandeep's 2003.5 Carbon Black on Laguna Seca Blue Coupe

[SandeepM3]

2003.5 Carbon Black on Laguna Seca Blue
SMG
Coupe



Exhaust:
Supersprint V1 stepped headers
Supersprint V1 Straight Pipe Section 1
OEM Sec 2
OEM Muffler

Engine:
Eventuri Intake
DKR McChip tune
CSL SMG Tune

Suspension:
TC Kline Single Adjustable 500 lbs Front 600 lbs Rear Springs
TC Kline Camber Plates
TC Kline RSMs
TMS Monoball FCABs
Whiteline Front Sway Bar w/ TMS End Links
TMS Monoball RTABs
TMS Rear Adjustable Camber Arms

Brakes:
Brembo 355mm 6 piston GT Kit front
Brembo 345mm 4 piston GT Kit rear
Brembo Stainless Lines
Brembo High Performance Street Pads
Hawk DCT 60 Track pads

Body:
AJ Hartman Carbon Fiber Sunroof Delete Panel
OEM CSL trunk
CSL Replica 1 Piece Lip

Wheels:
18" Apex EC-7 Race Silver 9F10R
18" Apex ARC-8s Matte Bronze 9.5 Square
TMS 75mm studs

Interior:
Sparco Evo1/Evo2 seats
Brey Krause Seat Mounts on OEM electric sliders
Rear Seat Delete Panel
Carbon Fiber SMG Paddles
BMW MS Knob

Misc:
Reddish Subframe Reinforcement Plates

Pics how she looked when I first got it.

[SandeepM3]

Before I picked up the car I already had Supersprint V1’s,sec1/2 waiting. The car already had CPI stepped headers with CPI sec1, SGT X pipe and Borla muffler. Was not the biggest fan of the Borla and would rather have the OEM muffler. Luckily the PO left me EVERY SINGLE OEM part that was taken off. Swapped all that over. Even though the CPI headers are “stepped” as well, I still felt a huge difference from the butt dyno.



Car also had KWv2’s. They were very nice on the street for normal driving. But just didn’t cut it for more aggressive and track driving. So I got a set of TC Kline singe adjustable coilovers to fix that. Car immediately went back to handling amazing





Swapped out the Arc-8’s for some Ec-7’s





Over the winter, I swapped out the LSB interior for a pair of bucket seats. I went with Sparco Evo1 for me and Evo2 for the passenger seat. Have them mounted on Brey Krause seat mounts that attach to OEM electric seat rails. Don’t have any good pics of just the seats in the car. Off to storage for the blue. ☹





Don’t have any pics of the seats in really. But here, you can see it in here lol.

[SandeepM3]

Also got a set of Arc-8’s in Matte Bronze for track rims and a set of Pirelli Trofeo R’s.








Here’s various track photos of my car from last season as well as some other cool cars that are out there.














My best lap at Mosport(Canadian Tire Motorsport Park)

Notice the keys just left on the dash. Owner nowhere to be found




A vid of ferrari challenge sounds as well as a formula car on track.

[SandeepM3]

Once the car came out of storage this year I took out the sunroof and put in a delete panel. I got mine for AJ Hartman aero. The quality is excellent. The weave is perfect and everything lines up perfect with very little gap between the panel and the sunroof hole. Heres some pics.














Since we’re on lockdown I decided to take care of making a rear seat delete panel to clean up the rear area as well as cut out a bunch out sound.





Valve adjustment as well on lockdown. Since I have time to kill, I decided to clean the valve cover.
(120kms)

[MrClutch55]

curious what offset for the bronze x9.5?

[Mike0032]

Beautiful E46. I didn't think I was going to like that interior color but I think it looks really good on your car.

I've come across that 458 GT2 before, that's a wild car.

[Tbonem3]

That's a very nice looking rear seat delete, you made it yourself? Was there a DIY you worked from?

[SandeepM3]

curious what offset for the bronze x9.5?

Et 35

Beautiful E46. I didn't think I was going to like that interior color but I think it looks really good on your car.

I've come across that 458 GT2 before, that's a wild car.

Thanks. Yea that was literally my exact thoughts when I went to first look at the car haha.

Sweet! What track was that at?

That's a very nice looking rear seat delete, you made it yourself? Was there a DIY you worked from?

Thanks. Yup made it myself. I got a template with measurements from M3F. The top section is the pic below. I cant find the bottom section pic. I think I deleted by accident when clearing my desktop. Either way both sections had to be modified to fit properly with the cushions. The bottom section considerably. If you are looking to make one I can take measurements from mine.

[SandeepM3]

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[Mike0032]

Thanks. Yea that was literally my exact thoughts when I went to first look at the car haha.

Sweet! What track was that at?

Indianapolis, last summer.

[RoyalFlushness]

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Love this shot. I think I saw you driving towards Hamilton on the QEW this Sunday.

[SandeepM3]

Thanks

Haha, Yup that was likely me. Went for a cruise with a few friends.

[Loopyspec]

Great rolling shot! Looking forward to seeing more of this