1994 M3

[morerevsm3]

bought the car about 2 & 1/2 years ago, relatively stock 3.0l with a few aesthetic accessories, like Hamann blacked out grill surounds, pedals, rear spoiler and aviation style (functional) fuel filler (since removed as it looked like a stick on one) also A.C. Schnitzer short shift kit, and BMW motorsport front coilovers and full set of King Springs, later found out coilovers and springs were from an original M3R.
drove it around quite happily for a few months, then saw a BMW club motorkhana was coming up in december 04, so decided to enter, had a ball and did most events looking out side window, not fast, but fun, then started going to some circuits for some more fun, then found some deficiencies in the handling, it had far too much understeer for my liking, so new rear bisteins were fitted, front billsteins were sent away and rebuilt and revalved to suit intended track use, I also fitted noltec adjustable solid camber/caster plates at same time, next was motorsport chassis brace and ebay front strut brace, this improved handling a great deal. then I saw a cutaway of the inside of a muffler, they are very restrictive and heavy, so decided comercial ones were a ripoff, so set about making a muffler, I aquired some 304 polished stainless, and perforated 2.5" stainless tube, made what is basically 2 muffler internals, each with 2 X 2.5" straight through perforated tubes, sat them about 50mm apart, end to end on stainless sheet, and wrapped it around and welded, then took it to exhaust place and they bent up cat back pipes and fitted, next was replacing 27Lb duel mass flywheel with 8.5Lb alloy flywheel and M5 clutch. the muffler and flywheel lifted power from 170.1rwkw to 191.1rwkw, so it was quite an improvement, during this time, I also bought second set of wheels for R compound tyres, they are single bigggest improvement in lap times you can get in my opinion (and still be road legal) next on list was enclosed pod style filter, and different E Prom chip that raised rev limiter from 7600rpm, to 8000rpm, this further lifted power output to 199.6rwkw
in amongst all that was several track days, skidpan days, hillclimbs and drags, the net result was a lot of worn out tyres, and stripped splines on LSD plates, so a replacement open 3.64 diff was purchased to replace the 3.15 with non functional LSD, a couple of steel plates and an hour later, I had CIG locker 3.64 diff. then after being happy with the way it was going, had almost dialled the understeer out, I spotted a group buy on suspension components, so I purchased some powerflex rear trailing arm bushes, and an H&R adjustable rear sway bar, these have done the trick nicely, and car is very nearly totally neutral now. then by sheer chance, I spotted an ad for a carbon fiber plenum for about 1/4 the price they usually go for, so I snapped it up, and went searching for Alpha N (maffless) chips to match, ended up finding some copies of now defunct, but highly respected H&H racing chips in Holland, a few emails later, they were on their way. I had a few fitment issues with plenum, and gained over 2 mph at drags (best of 106.48mph), so is definately making more power, but haven't been back to dyno with it as yet, heavy front seats were replaced with some lighter ones, and with only 1 seat in car, and all door trims, boot lining etc removed for a trip to drags, still weighs 1440kg, so circuit race weight is around 1550kg

some vids
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0zDXgb5-o4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXfUdTwRx80
http://www.burnoutsunlimited.net/video/as/Picture200.MOV
http://www.burnoutsunlimited.net/video/as/Picture199.MOV


http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y171/morerevsm3/m31.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y171/morerevsm3/P3130054.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y171/morerevsm3/IMG_0384.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y171/morerevsm3/IMG_1716.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y171/morerevsm3/DECA.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y171/morerevsm3/calder_05_03_053b.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y171/morerevsm3/Picture411.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y171/morerevsm3/Picture416.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y171/morerevsm3/2005_0219drags0220.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y171/morerevsm3/2005_0219drags0162.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y171/morerevsm3/Picture469.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y171/morerevsm3/Sandown.jpg

[DCR]

Al, Would it be fair to say your car is one of those freaks from the factory. Seems quicker than it should be? No US dyno sheets either.

Good work.

[marcus_h]

Noice, an M3 is one of my dream cars, someday i will be an owner

[intehnet]

aahh shit man i've seen your car in the city before! nice. i like it very muchly

[DATZED]

How does it sound with the C/F air box fitted? Very nice car btw, would be a very nice steerer.

Just saw the youtube. With or without CF intake?

[Splash]

please tell me that isn't one of those fake fuel filler stickers

[morerevsm3]

you tube vid of dash is with carbon plenum, (speedo reads 20kph too low)

fuel filler is functional, but has since been removed (was on car when I bought it)

[Grunt]

please tell me that isn't one of those fake fuel filler stickers


read his first post.

Really nice car mate... looks like its driven aswell!

[Splash]

read his first post.
Oops I must have skimmed over that bit, my bad.

[morerevsm3]

some more bits towards adding a little power-
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y171/morerevsm3/miscellaneous/Picture609.jpg

[Euroboost]

Mmm. Very tasty. Do you really need the towbar?

[morerevsm3]

yes, I do use it
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y171/morerevsm3/Picture503.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y171/morerevsm3/Picture336.jpg

[Euroboost]

Even better. I bet that pisses a few people off.

[morerevsm3]

added to offset weight of blower, wouldn't leave it on driving around streets though
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y171/morerevsm3/miscellaneous/Picture611.jpg

[morerevsm3]

short vid from DECA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU-QEEYtVYI

[morerevsm3]

bit more progress-

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y171/morerevsm3/miscellaneous/IMG_0045.jpg




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QIrwu3lc04
and skid vid-
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=TTs08yLqP5o

[da9jeff]

were you at collingrove hillclimb earlier this year? (could have been late 07)

either way that thing is tough :)

[morerevsm3]

were you at collingrove hillclimb earlier this year? (could have been late 07)

either way that thing is tough :)

skid vid above is collingrove come and try day a couple of months ago, ran a 1:25.8 at Mallala about 3 years ago when almost completely stock, should be 4 or more seconds quicker now...

[Kiahatsiu]

Any updates on this thing?

[Shifty]

I love these, my old man had one exactly like it - 5sp 3.0l and the same slightly pale yellow colour. Fantastic to drive, I think I took Nicko for a razz in it one night :)

[morerevsm3]

car is now logbooked for IP, going to do a state hillclimb round, and the nationals...

[Dr_Hoon]

sweet

more update pics?

I've been looking at these and the slightly later version with the 3.2 (if I decide to rent for the next 5 years instead of buying a place lol). Good ones seem to be in the $25-30k price range. Blokes at work are all like "It is a 10 year old european car, shit falls apart blah blah"

What do people in the club rec to newbies?

[DCR]

Look for full service history if possible
Check to see whether Vanos has been replaced, it can get expensive.
Dont get SMG as they had a lot of drama's with them.......I mean a lot.
Other than that the engines are pretty much bullet proof. Engine designation is S50B32. US model is S52B32. US M3 and Aust M3 are 2 different kettle of fish. They didnt get ITB's due to emmision controls etc.
Parts are cheap if you look overseas.
They will still embarress a lot of later model so called 'sports' cars.
Throw on some good coilovers and some sticky rubber and you will be having fun all day long on a track.
Browse the various BMW Club websites as you would benifit from buying a club members car

[msmola2002]

http://www.bmwclubnsw.asn.au/forsale.shtml#m_series

[morerevsm3]

had first run today as IP car in a round of state hillclimb championship at haunted hills in figure 8 track configuration, result, 1st place and track record for IP (in figure 8 configuration) so very happy

[Turbo 351]

had first run today as IP car in a round of state hillclimb championship at haunted hills in figure 8 track configuration, result, 1st place and track record for IP (in figure 8 configuration) so very happy

Well done Alan, you can obviously steer!

[morerevsm3]

ran it in Australian Hillclimb championships at Haunted hills on the weekend, IP 2001-3000cc class, first place and reset track record again, still more time in it too, have too much understeer on the toyo 888's that is costing a good 1/2 second, but am very happy

[Cal]

Well done mate.

[L67HX]

ran it in Australian Hillclimb championships at Haunted hills on the weekend, IP 2001-3000cc class, first place and reset track record again, still more time in it too, have too much understeer on the toyo 888's that is costing a good 1/2 second, but am very happy


Was there on the sunday and saw most of the cars run, great work, what was your time?. the induction noise on this M3 is EVIL:yup:

[DrNick]

Well done!

I just ran out of time to get up there, did hear all the cars zooming around while playing golf Sat morning.

S

[dirtyrex]

My old man had the same car. Same colour, same optional 5 spokes, towbar for our kart trailer.

Very cool.