M3 Upgrades

M3 Upgrades February/March 2007

Well the Carbon Fibre Airbox arrived and has been fitted as you can see from the picture.

The picture is of the car on a rolling road so that we could tune the car's engine to take advantage of the new bhp and torque.

The CF Kit comes with a new brake master reservoir which needs to be mounted on the strut tower - that is the white bottle with the black top in the photo. the power steering reservoir needed to be moved as well.

The rolling road is registering 201bhp! :-( which is disappointing and I cannot believe it - I am not in denial it is just that the car keeps up with similar powered cars on the track. I will check it out over the coming months.

The performance is better than before and it makes a glorious noise - off to the Nurburgring over Easter so will post on how it performed after that trip.

The other upgrade that I have just completed is the bigger brakes - 6 pot calipers and 13" disks. This was not straight forward either as it involved people from Montreal, California, Kent and Berkshire in the UK! It also involved buying two sets of new wheels to fit over the new brakes - he ho....... here is a picture of the new brakes fitted to the front

Awesome don't you think - the stopping capability is unbelievable.

Here is an example of one of the sets of wheels I bought to fit arount the Big Brake Kit - as you can see there is not much room around the caliper.......

And here are the other wheels Team Dynamics Pro Tech 1.2's with R888's fitted and in the car ready for the Ring trip - don't they look the Dog's Dangleys :-)

With the other two in the boot.