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Engine refresh continues... Given the crank another good clean with brake cleaner and blown out the journals with the compressor. Replacement gear hub on the nose of the crank Delivery of parts for the bottom end. Front and rear casings, new oil pump chain, main and big end bearings, new sump...

Plan for the engine. Check for any further damage Leave the head on with rods and pistons in the bores Clean all the bottom end parts Replace the crank hub Replace the oil pump chain Replace main bearings Replace big end bearings Upgraded oil pump with the Hopwood kit New seals and gaskets on...

While waiting for engine parts to turn up I thought I might as well continue to make the car better than it was before, one thing that has bugged me for years was the engine bay. I helped a friend paint their engine bay a while ago, when painting the inside of the car and it looked so much...

Looks great from the front! Really mean.

The lock wired solution has been in since august 2021 when I rebuilt the engine due to the bad honing on the block. I did know that it would fail are some point in the future and knew that when that time came I would address the issues properly. First step was assessing the damage properly...

I have got warnings on the centre screen for 100+ on coolant and 105+ on oil temp. 120+ on diff temp, also with the ECU protection I have a rev limiter for any excessive temps or low temps, anything less than 50 deg for oil and water and there's much lower rev limiter around 4/5k. Oil pressure...

Not quite the Cadwell Park update I was hoping for... Arrived at the circuit from the hotel nice and early, perfect conditions were on the cards for the day with MSV. Was hoping for a really positive day with a few changes I wanted to test, ECU tweaks, Michelin slicks and the firmer rear...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...