E46 M3 cluster swap

[delatlanta1281]

Looks awesome!

[dude8383]

Man, that looks good!

[nando]

Worked on it a bit today, started gluing the face together:




Finished the lense... you can't even see it looking straight on:



Once this is dry, I'll glue it to the main housing, then paint it. Maybe I'll actually get it into the car this year!

[LJ851]

Lol, i'll leave the snow tires on and bounce the limiter with my m20 for ya :p

LOL, snow tires make the best howl. Get good audio.

[nando]

Lol, i'll leave the snow tires on and bounce the limiter with my m20 for ya :p

[AndrewBird]

Sexy. Very nice work man. Now I want to see it hooked up to its native engine, driving the tach needle into the general red area spinning all four wheels.

This.

DO IT NOW!

[Wh33lhop]

Sexy. Very nice work man. Now I want to see it hooked up to its native engine, driving the tach needle into the general red area spinning all four wheels.

[gazellebeigem3]

Awesome work man!

[LJ851]

Man, that really looks nice. Well done.

[nando]

drilled the holes for the trip reset & clock:


also fixed the crack in the corner. I have to make the holes a little bigger as they're not quite large enough for the pegs to move without binding, but that's no biggie. Next week I think I'm going to glue the housing all together.

[nando]

MSS54 or MSS52, yeah. I don't know how different the M5 cluster is but it's got to be pretty similar given you can flash an MSS52 to MSS54 and vice versa.

it's a lot of work. it would be easier in some ways if you just transferred all the wiring and electronics from an E46, but I wanted it to be reversible and 99% plug-in using the E30's existing sensors (other than the engine computer).

today I picked up a drill bit for acrylic and some transparent acrylic cement, plus some putty for the rest of the cluster body. I actually made a 4th attempt at forming a cluster face but I was in a rush and it didn't get hot enough, so it was a total fail.. I still want to give it one more go!

[RobertK]

So nice.

So will this also work in a car that is using a MSS54 ECU?

[Wh33lhop]

Aww yiss

[nando]

thanks!

finally ordered the parts I need to finish up wiring this sucker. then it's basically finishing up the fitment, gluing, painting it, and hopefully plugging it in the car to find that it still works after not touching it for almost 2 years!

[AndrewBird]

That's awesome. Can't wait to see this project all finished.