A purists nightmare - E46 drift build
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Not an update but excited to have another part come in!
S2rTuning sunroof delete!
Definitely seems like another quality piece to add to the car. Excited to see how the fit is this weekend. Really love that this is the only one I have found on the market that uses the existing mounting holes from the oem cassette to mount.
Fingers crossed that it fits well!
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UPDATE
Began the weekend by getting the quarters undercoated.
Then I got to work figuring out my new hand brake set up.
For starters this was NOT working out how I planned... but I did figure it out after ALOT of staring at the center council area and moving things around.
I am happy with the final result so far, it did take some "adjustment " of a spot welded bracket under the heater core though lol.
Here is the plate I cut out with the handbrake mounting plate.
And here it is primed and installed with the hanbrake bolted in as well.
Really liking how the location worked out. It feels comfortable and my arm doesn't hit the armrest either which I was concerned about originally.
I then mounted the resiviour which is now remote mounted rather than attached to the master.
I routed all the lines and just need to pick up some DOT5 fluid and get it bled.
So then I moved on to fitting the lower dash pocket thing near the handbrake. It worked out soooo well. Just trimmed out the 12v outlet and the result is below!
Still able to keep the ash tray which is cool too, not because I smoke but because its nice to keep smaller random stuff in there and not have it flying all over.
Just need to find a new shifter bezel and trim the top left corner and things should be looking really complete.
Finally I fitted the rear overs, all they need now is some wrap and final install.
Left side.
Here is the over mounted also with a 25mm spacer for now
And the right side.
Things are moving along nicely. Alot of things to address still but nothing super huge.
Also I did test fit the sunroof delete and it fits great, just need to get some new bolts.
Hopefully the windshield will be installed this week as well.
But thats it for this weekend!
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Fitment looks great in the rear. What kit is it? Don Musk?
Thanks! And yes these are the Musk M3 style overs. Fit very well, barely needed any trimming.
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Are you sure about DOT5 fluid? Totally different and incompatible with regular brake fluid. Just a heads up, it isn't a higher number is better thing. There is also DOT 5.1 which is compatible with other "normal" brake fluids.
DOT5 can only be used if it is a brand new system and never had other brake fluid in it. Which maybe is your situation.
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Are you sure about DOT5 fluid? Totally different and incompatible with regular brake fluid. Just a heads up, it isn't a higher number is better thing. There is also DOT 5.1 which is compatible with other "normal" brake fluids.
DOT5 can only be used if it is a brand new system and never had other brake fluid in it. Which maybe is your situation.
Half the system is new lol, but I'll look more into it. Just don't want to deal with the issues if there are any leaks inside the car. Its not a problem for me to clear the system out.
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fitment looks perfect!
They fit great, very little trimming done!
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Hear me out. Fire orange or Inka orange.
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Hear me out. Fire orange or Inka orange.
Been thinking about more like an Imola red. But it wouldn't be Imola exactly, the color i found is carmine red. Red coupes have given me a real hard on latley...
Like this one here.
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UPDATE
Was a pretty productive weekend. Absolutely loving having the car home again.
Picked up some M rear quarter and door trim, a passenger M fender (to finally complete my set) a M gas door and the inner door sill trim.
Painted the door still trim and then installed it.
Looks so much better with the carpet not just hanging out.
Then I got started on trimming the resr seat delete to fit the cage now.
Stared at it for awhile... cut out some cardboard and tested ideas... here's what I came up with.
Cut out the corners and used a hole saw to notch them and riveted on some tabs I made with spare ABS.
Then I riveted in the other sides of the tabs once the panels were all screwed in.
Happy with the outcome for sure!
Then I sprayed some silver on the damaged area from last season. Not perfect but its fine because it's getting wrapped over.
I moved on to some more interior stuff then, extended the wires for my window stitches.
Sanded and painted the center console insert.
And after i taped up the wiring i installed the piece to the console.
I decided to not make flat ABS door panels for the rear and instead cut up and fit the factory ones.
And it worked pretty well!
Even got the front sections to clip in on both sides!
And made, installed nutserts and installed the trim I made to hold down the carpet in the rear.
Installed the sunroof delete, pretty happy with the way it fits.
I timmed away the wrap so I can peel it off later without pulling the sunroof back out so it looks like there's big gaps.
I also started on shaving the center shift bezel. This one is an auto one still though so I'd Ike to find a manual one at some point. I plastic welded in some abs blocks then layed some filler on it. Only have a pic of the pieces welded in.
Also got my handbrake bled so next up is finishing installing the center and dash pieces!
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Is Earl slacking? he still needs to get those hood shocks I got to you.
No i got them haha just been too lazy to want to realign the hood lmao
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UPDATE
Finished up the shaved shifter trim by trimming around the handbrake and then painting. I used some paint that is pretty close to the dash trim color but its not perfect.
Next I finally found something to do with the hole in my dash that had a battery cut out in it (that was from the sedan).
Got this really nice usb charging port on Amazon. I chose this once since it has a power button feature, I wired it to the original power outlet wires so I didn't want it to always be on like the factory one.
Before
installed
Turned on
Next I did some repairs from damage.
Last season I ripped off the underglow and never got around to fixing it lol. So since I had to respray some undercoating where the cage bases are welded in it was a good time to fix the underglow.
Replaced 2 of the strips and resecured everything.
Next I decided to try and shave the M fenders.. luckily I only tried on the passenger one. Even though I went slow and tried to disperse the heat I still warped it
. I tried to fix it with filler and its better, but still not good.Here's the only 2 photos I took since I got really discouraged.
Thats it for now.
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Love the lights!
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Picked up a M bumper this past week locally for a really good deal. It even came with the diffuser and crash bar, although I don't need the crash bar and its an aluminum one rather than carbon kevlar since it was off a 2001.
Here's a photo of it somewhat mounted. I have to do some work with the exhaust, and would really like to have the openings in the diffuser shaved. I definitely don't want a dual exhaust and would rather shave the openings and make a new opening farther to the left for the exhaust in the future.
I really like how it looks especially since I was between finding a M bumper or finding a lip for my non-m bumper (which is very difficult to do)
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Any chance you could share a picture of the inside of the M bumper? I’ve always been curious to see how the diffuser is mounted.
How’s the power on the M54 for drifting? Is there any need/want for more?
I can shoot you one once its off again. It clips in on the top and push pins on the bottom.
And its gets the job done haha but there's always a want for more but I'm not sure the direction I want to spend money to go.
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Update.
So here is my solution to there not being an exhaust exit on the M bumper (that I currently can make work and that I like).
Not super proud of it but it will work for now.
You can't see it from looking at the car at all so thats cool with me, and it will do until its time to make a real exhaust.
Next i tackled fitting the gas door.
I drilled some new holes that would work with the M door layout. And trimmed up the standoffs I bought to make the door fit the overs correctly.
I also found a spacer that I had laying around that I trimmed down until it was the right size to sit against the original non-M push button thing. I need to decide how I want to attach it yet. Most likely some sort of epoxy.
And here is the fit when closed!
My girlfriend deep cleaned the dash and interior which was VERY NEEDED! I'm so glad she has the patience for that because I dont.
I also started on shaving the driver side fender. I chose to use 3M scotch-weld to "weld" in the piece of metal to shave the vent.
Here is the patch panel held in on the outside with hot glue. I then put painters tape over it to keep it in place for sure. I used the hot glue because its easily removeable.
And here is from the inside.
And here it is with the scotch-weld mixed up and applied.
Honestly I think this is going to work out really well. After 12 hours we will see!
Finally got the windows cleaned on the inside as well then installed the rear quarter glass.
Still alot more little stuff to do so hoping to keep picking away at it.
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