325is, Track Ready, Street Drivable, Show Quality

[KEVORM]

If you can show me the scale numbers for an e46 M3 that weighs 2000lbs i'll eat my own shoe.

I hope you can build this car to your liking, but i fear you'll show up to your first track day and get destroyed by some guy in a 318 with suspension mods, only to shortly after have your wheel bearings fail.

Unless you're gonna make 400+, a set of 245 R-compounds (Shaved Toyo RA1's) will be plenty of tire. Especially since the weakest link in this build seems to be behind the wheel.

[unevolved]

The crazy changes and idea swaps is just cause thats how i am. Nothing is set in stone until i finish it. Listen there are a milliin regular e30s little mods like bags and turbo and blah blah blah some are amazing. So i think its fair that one (mine) can be a little different and whatever i want. I dont car if it has 10000000hp. If i can have a car i tuink looks awesome and i have fun racing it and taking it to shows that thats it. If i want a fast car ill jump in the e46 m3 with 470hp/450tq that weighs 2000lbs and has amaxing track geometry

[Farbin Kaiber]

[acolella76]

[Jb325is]

The crazy changes and idea swaps is just cause thats how i am. Nothing is set in stone until i finish it. Listen there are a milliin regular e30s little mods like bags and turbo and blah blah blah some are amazing. So i think its fair that one (mine) can be a little different and whatever i want. I dont car if it has 10000000hp. If i can have a car i tuink looks awesome and i have fun racing it and taking it to shows that thats it. If i want a fast car ill jump in the e46 m3 with 470hp/450tq that weighs 2000lbs and has amaxing track geometry

lol oh

[Farbin Kaiber]

Thanks man. So far its all been childs play for whats to come. I know there have been some bad ass builds on this site and some serious cars. But ive never seen what im about to do for.power at least not in the way im doing it to keep weight distribution good

[lambo]

[Perry Wilson]

The crazy changes and idea swaps is just cause thats how i am. Nothing is set in stone until i finish it. Listen there are a milliin regular e30s little mods like bags and turbo and blah blah blah some are amazing. So i think its fair that one (mine) can be a little different and whatever i want. I dont car if it has 10000000hp. If i can have a car i tuink looks awesome and i have fun racing it and taking it to shows that thats it. If i want a fast car ill jump in the e46 m3 with 470hp/450tq that weighs 2000lbs and has amaxing track geometry

[acolella76]

If you are so concerned with cornering speeds then why is your car on BC coils? I like the intake (a lot, might try to expand on your idea), and the flares, but there's a lot of mental masturbation in this build. Keep it up though, I wanna see some dyno plots!

[Jb325is]

Didn't know we had so many race engineers lurking on this forum! Good to know! Sure the car might eat hubs a little faster and yes the camber curve will be affected by the added track width but I doubt that there is anyone on this forum that is fast enough for any of that to matter. It's a NASA (I'm assuming?) or track day car, it's seriously not that big of a deal:

[Bimmer_man]

I'm just curious how that engine is going to fit in the bay. If it fits well I'd like to try the same thing with a little spin. And nice score on the headers you lucky dog.

[unevolved]

I'm curious about the loads in your wheel bearings, too. By inverting your wheels like that, you've greatly increased the static moment on those bearings.

[gtdragon980]

Also by adding the flares and kicking the tires out like I am I have increased my track by 8 inches meaning more corner grip

This does make sense, but you will gain more camber pushing the wheels out further. Can be good or bad, depending on your setup.

[SA E30]

Didn't know the jaffster (Steve) sold his e46.

[unevolved]

Got some analysis to back that up? I'm interested to see how adding 8" of track affects your camber curve at the ride height you're planning on.