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  What the hell happened?
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Jun 8, 2016 19:39
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bandman posted:
He found out that you can only hit the "space shuttle" button once.
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pros: most hardcore burnout on the forum cons: now you have to put a V8 in there
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Ether Frenzy posted:pros: most hardcore burnout on the forum I see no problems here.
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A rod got upset and decided it wanted to see the world hahaha.    This was chasing a 458 challenge for about 5 laps. So at least it was an amazing way to go! Since I stopped posting, I also added seats, harnesses and a nice wheel.  But then since it blew up I went full mental and ordered the following parts...     
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Bape Culture posted:But then since it blew up I went full mental and ordered the following parts... You did the right thing. You're just lucky the Ferrari didn't start on fire and take you with it.
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I thought about building an e46 m3 touring but I learned that the bearing design in the s54 are poo poo. That sucks. Good luck with the LS conversion!
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Wrar posted:I thought about building an e46 m3 touring but I learned that the bearing design in the s54 are poo poo. That sucks. Good luck with the LS conversion! It's not that big of an issue, especially if you were going to do an engine swap.
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Bape Culture posted:But then since it blew up I went full mental and ordered the following parts... Hell yeah. Welcome back, a5h.
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Ether Frenzy posted:op when you're done with this, you should buy an E92 M3 and convert it to an E46 M3 and see if you can recoup the costs from this project good luck with your V8 M3 bape, this will be fantastic. welcome back. Your car is still really nice looking even if it doesn't exactly car, per se, at the moment, I'm glad your escapee rod didn't go upwards.
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I'm sorry your engine killed itself but what you're doing now is good times.
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drat that sucks. However, you should have the thread title changed to "Building a race car one rod at a time. My stupid E46 M3". 
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Thanks lads. I am very excited 😁 Insurance is turning out to be a real ballache though! Edit. Can I have a good pun for the title please. Maybe "The Real American M3, LS is More" thx
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What block are you going with? Rx swaps have been known to have issues with oiling on LS-x conversions during HPDE/track days. My friends LS3 has yet to have any, but it's only done one track day.
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the spyder posted:What block are you going with? Rx swaps have been known to have issues with oiling on LS-x conversions during HPDE/track days. My friends LS3 has yet to have any, but it's only done one track day. LS3 block. I'll be using a trap doored f body sump (to get it sitting as low as possible). My builder has built about 10 cars in this identical spec that race on slicks and don't have any issues. So touch wood it should work. 😟 What's Rx sorry?
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Bape Culture posted:LS3 block. I'll be using a trap doored f body sump (to get it sitting as low as possible). RX-7 duhh bitch
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corn in the fridge posted:RX-7 duhh bitch Ok Scary Terry.
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lovely feeling to blow up an engine  Looks like you've got a really cool plan forward though, good luck and make sure to 
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Thank u I'm in love with this goddamn shifter setup. My god those welds 😍  Nobody has made one work with the tremec before so fingers crossed my wizard of a builder can do it! You can check out some of his previous stuff here: http://www.speedhunters.com/2015/03/faster-than-a-superbike-a-real-1017hp-street-fighter/ Also I drove this the other day and it was loving savage. 102mm tb and heavy as multi plate clutch made it quite exciting when setting off!  I think I'll paint my intake manifold crackle black and my valve covers insanely metallic flake gold. Might throw an m stripe on somewhere to wind up the purists too.
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Anything that annoys purists is the thing to do.
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88h88 posted:Anything that annoys purists is the thing to do. //PUSHRODS
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Bape Culture posted:I think I'll paint my intake manifold crackle black and my valve covers insanely metallic flake gold. Might throw an m stripe on somewhere to wind up the purists too. Take it a step further and turn the intake runners into M stripes.
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meatpimp posted:Take it a step further and turn the intake runners into M stripes. I wonder if that'd work it's just a crappy casting isn't it. Anyone able to do a photoshop?
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Bape Culture posted:I wonder if that'd work it's just a crappy casting isn't it. I think it's plastic, I was thinking about taking 3 of the runners, painting them the M stripes, then have the stripes continue down the driver's valve cover with the "M" on the cover. Beautiful.
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Red and white alternating runners. Insane sparkle silver stars on metallic blue valve covers 🤔🤔🤔
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Thank u mods 😁
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Arent you gonna need some more rubber on the ground with the ls. Have you bought the ls yet will u let me drive it when its done.
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Less rubber = less traction = arse out round alllllllllllllllllllllll the corners. See: Chris Harris in the Merc on space savers.
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track day bro! posted:Arent you gonna need some more rubber on the ground with the ls. Have you bought the ls yet will u let me drive it when its done. 285 square semi slicks will be fine I'd imagine. I'll upgrade to direzzas once I get sick of sliding all around 😁🏃🏻 You can have a go once you've tamed that 115hp of yours and stop spinning all over the track 🤔😂😈 LS etc is all paid for and say on a pallet at partsworldperformance 😈 BlackMK4 posted:you're batshit in the best possible way Thank you my friend I was hoping all you guys would drop into my thread reboot 😁
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I hope brexit doesn't cause your furrin car to get deported.
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Hahaha. I'm glad I brought in my CAE setup last week! I ended up with a spare billet aluminium shift knob and I want to get it coated in copper and then clear coated. Anyone know what company would do that and how much it would cost? Alternatively I wish I knew someone who could airbrush well so I could get an American flag blown onto it 
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Bape Culture posted:I ended up with a spare billet aluminium shift knob and I want to get it coated in copper and then clear coated. Anyone know what company would do that and how much it would cost? Alternatively I wish I knew someone who could airbrush well so I could get an American flag blown onto it Hydrodip it.  http://hydrodipstore.com/product/hot-lava-copy/
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Bape Culture posted:Hahaha. I'm glad I brought in my CAE setup last week! It'd be cheaper to have someone make a new knob out of solid copper. Hydrodipping is a decent option if you don't want a metallic though.
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Right then. Everyone said I would regret having a 200mph car and no cage.    Wing wasn't necessary yet but it was a bargain!!!!! I'm not addicted to buying parts!!!!! Hopefully car will be in in about 3 weeks. Supposed to be going to Nurburgring last weekend of September. My pal has just had a Schirmer GT E46 built that is Proper. And he's said I can drive that to compare head to head. Which means I assume I'll come back and have spent another 10 grand on dampers and fancy wtcc arms and have no excuse for being slow and poo poo!!!!! Anyway I am insanely excited about this car. Like I can't stop thinking about it. 
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Any reason why you went with that ECU? Megasquirt or the stock GM ECU seems more capable.
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Wrar posted:Any reason why you went with that ECU? Megasquirt or the stock GM ECU seems more capable. How so? I was originally going to use a pectel jobbie after hearing good things but after speaking to my builder and his tuner I decided to go for this. He's comfortable working with them and has a direct line to manufacturer for trouble shooting. No pay to unlock crap and very reliable. He's probably built about 30 cars in this configuration running between 400-1500hp with no issues including full on race cars. He's done a couple with other ECUs and had trouble. I think something about LS coils may be awkward for a mega squirt off the top of my head. A lot of the LS based ultima guys seem to really rate them too. What features will I be missing out on? When I compare insanely huge spec sheets it seems to have basically all of the features this side of a bosch/motec for a fraction of the price? It's not really something I understand in depth so thought I was just going with what the people putting it together know and recommend 
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Well, this seems to be an issue from my perspective: Ignition coil drivers 6 internal drivers, configurable as Active high for external amplifier control or Active low for direct coil control Injector drivers 6 internal high power drivers Unless they can trigger the injectors some other way, the stock ECU works great unless you're boosting it, and the Megasquirt MS3x does 8/8. Doing wasted spark isn't that big a deal, but again, both the GM and MS3x would be fine. As for LS coils on MS, they're not. That lunatic over on Sloppy Mechanics has a 750 HP LS Colorado and has done dozens of cars with an MS setup. It does sound like your tuner has a way around it, though. The GM ECU is a super-well known quantity in the States and probably Australia, with LSEdit and dozens of other ways to tune them.
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