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Cadwell Park Tried not to leave it too long and get some more use of the car early in the year this year. The car was pretty well spot on at Oulton Park in Feb and didn't need anything off the back of it, The car has quick check over, a new splitter, I had fitted a vac pump to run the brake...

Prep for Oulton Park On went the calipers with the standard 330 discs for the time being, after Oulton I'm probably going to move to a 340 or 345mm CSL disc. Dropped in the RS29 pads too. Gave the whole car a once over, completed bolt checked the car front the rear, went over a lot of the...

January update! It appears this place has slowed down a lot recently, turns out the build thread is only 16 posts down since November, not like It used to be when threads would be on the 2nd page after a day or so! Anyway... So the new year brings more car content as well as the plans for some...

Bit late to the party but I did run one in the clio back in 2018. A friend of mine is still using the gearbox who I regularly do track days with, if you still have the questions just let me know or have a look through the build thread. all the data, graphs, information and videos are in there.

12th November 2022 - Oulton Park Was looking forward to the annual winter track day at Oulton Park, this year the turn out was fantastic, over 20 friends from all over turned out for this one with as many other people popping down to say for a catch up. Always a really good social side of track...

Nearly 3 months to the day since the last update but some interesting bits on this one which I've been taking my time with over previous months. Back when I first built the E46 I made a Arduino logger based off the back off an Uno, at the time it was only supposed to be basic thing that would...

Cadwell Aug 2022. Only the second track day of the year but I was looking forward to this one, Cadwell has always been a favourite but it's a nemesis of mine! More on this later. Cadwell is a good 2.5 hours from me so we always try to make a few days holiday of it either side of the Trackday...

2022 has been probably the slowest year I've had with the E46 since building it with everything going on in the world as well as renovating a house upgrades and working on the car has been a little bit towards the bottom of the priority list. Shortly after Anglesey I did book a summer track...

First track day of 2022. Turned out to be the wettest track day I've ever done, which upon reflection makes me appreciate the amazing conditions I have had since I started doing track days in 2016 and have only really had the odd wet day here and there with the majority of the ones that started...

Only just catching up on the forum posts. At the time I was using the Compbrake top mount and combining these with a custom machined adaptor perch to fit the Kw Clubsports as well as the V2's. I made a number of these custom sets over a period of about a year with great success. @J90RDN was...

Small update on fuel rail mounting, when I swapped to the Bosch injectors I ran into the small issue that the injectors I am using a much more compact than the standard pink top injectors I was using so I came up with a quick solution which was some deeper aluminium mounts which moved the fuel...

Spring 2022 About time I did a little update now the clocks have sprung forward and the nights are getting lighter, I've done very little on the car, well absolutely nothing on the car since Oulton Park besides start it once to rearrange the drive way and have it on the trickle charger through...

I was going to go down the Brembo or Porsche route but at the moment I’ve not picked up any calipers over winter at a suitable price and I wanted to make my own adaptors to suit my own rotors. So I’ve decided to refresh my current brakes. Replacement calipers and go over the rest. Started the...

Yeah I saw him coming for me on the straights a number of times. 350bhp on waste gate and If I remember correctly mid 400's on high boost. Straight to it with the BBK, you're right, just waiting for calipers to come into stock and I'll be ordering some. Will be a custom set up I'll design and...

Oulton Park Prep. Leading up to Oulton there was a few last minute jobs to get boxed off, I wanted to make sure I had done everything I could think of prior to the track day. Throughout the year I've had an annoying number of vibrations through the car under braking, one of them was from the...

Thanks for the tag, I've not done a set of these for a long time now as demand was small for that specific requirement. I can't help out this time unfortunately.

Good to see you still out using it Ben. I know you're a fan of the cooler winter track days! See how the temps cope in the summer with higher ambient but it seems like a step in the right direction!

Thursday 28th October 2021 - Finally, I didn't think this was going to ever arrive, I couple of milestones reached for the E46. The first big on being to have the car running on stand alone ECU and the second was sorting out the engine issues issues which all resulted in building the new engine...

Weekly round up. Thursday evening was a early finish from work to try and get on with the car before it went dark, these darker nights aren't very good for working on the car unfortunately as well as the colder weather. Now I have got the engine running on the new ECU with the cams timed up in...

Cheers, I’m glad you think so! This recent work has been really interesting, a good learning curve too. Taking on some things I’ve never done before really. I would have preferred to do it a little slower with more time but I have been determined to make Oulton in November.