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    Albi Blue 200 >> BMW E46 Track Car

    Another few weeks of finishing off small jobs. Collected a few track day stickers over the last couple of years, time to clear the windscreen and get fresh sun strip on there too, the hot summers sun has taken its toll on the vinyl and its started to crack. Appears that MSVT and Javalin get the...
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    GW 200 CUP (clubsport->racecar->v2)

    Had a good read of this latest build while i'm away. Really good to see someone doing it properly, going to be a lovely build when finished.
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    Albi Blue 200 >> BMW E46 Track Car

    Thanks, I've done the whole garage my self except from the blockwork to save some time, some quick sums and I've spent around 8000-9000 building the garage including roof drains, wiring, garage door and side door etc. Will keep the updates coming, booked a track day for Cadwell at the end of...
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    Albi Blue 200 >> BMW E46 Track Car

    Summer Update: In the background I've been working on building a garage to give me a proper space to actually work on things, the old garage being more of a workspace. It's taken a while as I've been renovating the house at the same time as well as doing car bits here and there Foundation in...
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    Albi Blue 200 >> BMW E46 Track Car

    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...
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    Albi Blue 200 >> BMW E46 Track Car

    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...
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    Albi Blue 200 >> BMW E46 Track Car

    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...
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    anyone use a 4.7 final drive

    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.
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    Albi Blue 200 >> BMW E46 Track Car

    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...
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    Albi Blue 200 >> BMW E46 Track Car

    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...
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    Albi Blue 200 >> BMW E46 Track Car

    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...
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    Albi Blue 200 >> BMW E46 Track Car

    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...
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    Albi Blue 200 >> BMW E46 Track Car

    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...
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    KW Coilovers & CompBrake Top Mounts

    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...
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    Albi Blue 200 >> BMW E46 Track Car

    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...
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    Albi Blue 200 >> BMW E46 Track Car

    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...
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    Albi Blue 200 >> BMW E46 Track Car

    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...
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    Albi Blue 200 >> BMW E46 Track Car

    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...
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    Albi Blue 200 >> BMW E46 Track Car

    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...
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    Adjustable front top strut mounts 197 kw v1s

    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.