BuildaBeemer: Building a BMW E46 Track Car

Zound

///Member

• Oct 6, 2019

• #1

Hello Fanatics!

Enter the start of track car build project!

Featuring: Nick (Me) and Craig (My Father)

So what have we got to work with?
Well, it's my ex-daily driven 2001 BMW E46 330i (M). See previous history in this thread here.

She's a titanium silver, pre-facelift, manual 330i with over 330 000km's!

We've got a pretty tight schedule to operate in, in order to be ready for the 2020 BMW Car Club Race Series.

This track car build project will be significantly budget focused, but we'll be looking to spend wisely on the best "bang for buck" components through recommendations and reviews of people who have gone before us.

We'll be striving to prepare a car that will be competitive in class D for the 2020 race season.

Stay tuned for a video link where we will provide a brief overview of the vehicle and discuss our intentions in the 2020 BMW Car Club Race Series.

Naturally, we welcome the input from the wealth of knowledge existing in the BMWFanatics community and await your comments and advice!

 

Dewald Basson

///Member

• Oct 6, 2019

• #2

raise:

Good luck guys

 

FiRi@Rennzport

Well-known member

Official Advertiser

• Oct 7, 2019

• #3

Great stuff. Subbed

 

PLV

Well-known member

• Oct 7, 2019

• #4

Best of luck! This looks like it will be awesome!

:bravo:

 

GoCart

///Member

• Oct 7, 2019

• #5

Awesome Nick. If your K75 build is anything to go by, then this will be nothing less then epic.

Good luck raise:

 

Captain_Stealth

Well-known member

• Oct 7, 2019

• #6

love these types of builds.

1st tip, weight reduction

https://forum.e46fanatics.com/showthread.php?t=460350

 

Nikhil

Honorary ///Member

• Oct 7, 2019

• #7

Keen to see this :bravo:

 

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Jeremy

Well-known member

• Oct 7, 2019

• #8

:bravo: thats awesome bud. Good luck with the build.

 

Jeremy.d

Active member

• Oct 7, 2019

• #9

This is gonna be good...raise:

 

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Nürburgring'R_ZA

Active member

• Oct 7, 2019

• #10

Brilliant. Staying tuned to this!

 

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Carbonic135

Member

• Oct 10, 2019

• #11

OK guys. turns out we’re not just rookie Racecar builders, we’re also pretty thick at putting YouTube vids together. But I think we have it now, take a peek at this:

[video=youtube]

 

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Nürburgring'R_ZA

Active member

• Oct 10, 2019

• #12

All the best with the journey! :thumbs:

 

PaKiMoNSTeR

Active member

• Oct 11, 2019

• #13

I love seeing sh!t like this. Myself and my dad have been racing for about 4 years now. Started by sharing a car and we each have our own now and it's become a family affair with the wife and kids joining from time to time. lot's of hard work but the fun out on the track outweighs it 10 fold.

One word of advice, do not skimp on safety. I spent all my money on a proper seat, harness, race suit and those kind of things. Don't get lured into the trap of wanting to make more power or get nice (read ricer) things if the basics are not in place.

Most of all have FUN!

 

Clint@MMS AUTO

BMWFanatics Advertiser

Official Advertiser

• Oct 11, 2019

• #14

Sounds like an amazing project, Looking forward to the rest of the build. Nice job on the video... All the best and good luck with it... :bravo:

 

Crash_Nemesis

///Member

• Oct 11, 2019

• #15

Awesome job guys. Excited to see this come together.

 

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Carbonic135

Member

• Oct 12, 2019

• #16

Hey Pakimonster
Spot-on with the advice.
Rules of the build, in order of priority:
1. Make safe
2. Make light
3. Make stiff & grippy
4. Make stop!
5. Make aero
6. Make power

Spent quite some time researching human survivability under extreme deceleration, then designing seat mounting to ensure mounting strength exceeds G-force survivabilty. Yup, I’m anal like that.

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Episode 2:
[video=youtube]

 

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Nürburgring'R_ZA

Active member

• Oct 12, 2019

• #17

This series seems like it's going to rival Game Of Thrones:smilebounce:
Keep them coming :thumbs:

 

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Carbonic135

Member

• Oct 13, 2019

• #18

So, a bit of a frustrating delay for this weekend. We were hoping to get the car back from TNT, but it wasn’t to be. Didn’t matter though - we ended up spending the day trying to diagnose a no crank issue on Nick’s E60, which seems to have taken leave of its senses.

In the meantime though, the last of our catchup videos - after this, we should be posting stuff in “real time”

Episode 3:
[video=youtube]

 

Nick

Honorary ///Member

• Oct 14, 2019

• #19

subbed!

 

Zack

///Member

• Oct 14, 2019

• #20

Looking forward to the end result! Good luck guys :thumbs: