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Hi Guys,
I'd like to introduce myself briefly so that you guys can get the sense of who is driving this car. I am 20 years old, go to school at UC Irvine majoring in CS. I own my website business and I love computers. My previous car was a 2003 330Ci Steptronic. I paid 11k in cash for this with the money I got from selling off one of my websites. It was my dd, autocross and track car. Amazing car but I felt that there wasn't enough power. ![]() ![]() I received an internship offer at a tech company in San Jose for this summer and I decided to take this opportunity to upgrade! I sold my 330Ci and used the money to pay the M3 in cash FULL. ![]() ![]() I bought my 2002 E46 M3 during the start of this summer. It was my first stick. I learned how to drive stick in a m3. ![]() heres when I first got it: ![]() ![]() ![]() plastidipped my wheels...i later took it off: ![]() Did some maintanence work on it... brake job tps sensor timing belts rsms lock actuators ![]() ![]() ![]() wrapped my cracked arm rest: ![]() ![]() replaced the garbage stock knob with zhp: ![]() ![]() but then mod bug hit: got CSL diffuser csl splitters strutbar angel eyes... ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() At Bullet Performance in Costa Mesa, doing some maintenance work ![]() ![]() soon it was time to drive from norcal to socal for school... A TRUE TESTAMENT TO M3 daily drive-ability! ![]() I been reading couple of build threads and I love the idea of having other members critiquing the build progress of my car. Having people keeping you in line is a great resource haha. Don't want to mess up a m3... I am doing relatively small mods atm but im saving up for some nice coilovers.
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I recently got my roof vinyl-ed by Daniel from F4D Studios in Riverside, CA.
![]() They gave me a sizable discount, as I was their first customer! ![]() Brand they used and recommended was Hexis, they also had 3m but Hexis did look better. ![]() Anyways I leave my car in the open where my car is a target for bird crap. I just wanted to protect my roof to the elements. ![]() Hood and bumpers are easy to replace. A roof is something to protect. Although this DOES adds unnecessary weight to the car, I feel like its not even a big factor. They did it in 2 hours or so. If you guys need to vinyl your roof in Socal , pm me i'll give you their information. ![]() They also did work for skateboards! ![]() Just ordered BMW OEM SSK Shift Lever! ![]()
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Very nice progress man. Car looks simple and clean. Best of luck with the build and enjoy!
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M Therapy
Join Date: Jan 2003
Age: 51
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Congrats! Welcome to the race that never ends. Will check up on your thread in a couple of months to confirm.
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Join Date: Nov 2005
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congrats and nice project...IMO the front exterior looked better in stock exterior form...oem corners, gills, grilles, no splitters...keep the wheels factory...no black lol
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Nice progress!!!
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Thanks all!
Hoping to document this beast of a car. I love it so much ![]()
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looking good!
did you plasti-dip the hood grill and side grills as well? how did it hold up to the elements? whats next in the mod list? ![]()
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Join Date: Dec 2008
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Very nice journal, but you should have the mods move it to the "Member Journal's" Section!
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Oh shoot.
Can mods move this for me. I didn't see member journal. BMW ssk is my next mod. And yes I plastidipped grills . Works fine
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