E46M3 Alpine White III #Update Pics on P2

[444YYY]

Wow, looks mean!!

 

[Rayzor]

Andy those seats look really awesome in the e46

 

[Gizmo]

Nice seats Andy! Wonder where you got the idea from?:rollsmile:
May I ask what MD House charged you for those seats?
Does this mean you going to delete the rear seat now as access is now somewhat limited?
There's a possibility I may have M3 black door cards and rear cards to get rid of the red/black combo.

 

[Andy1GP]

Looking good Andy.

Awesome build. Please bring this car to clarens.

Thats the plan

Nice seats Andy! Wonder where you got the idea from?:rollsmile:
May I ask what MD House charged you for those seats?
Does this mean you going to delete the rear seat now as access is now somewhat limited?
There's a possibility I may have M3 black door cards and rear cards to get rid of the red/black combo.

I've been wanting to do it ever since I saw you do it Initially they asked R7k each but I got them for R5k each in the end.

I also quite like the red door cards. It's grown on me. Along with the other mods Kabal did.

 

[icechilli]

Awesome Andy - I wonder what the performance seats weight!

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[Andy1GP]

Some new goodies for her

I've been experiencing a strange jerk or hesitation during acceleration at random rpms. Sometime from 4000 odd rpm sometimes a bit higher and sometimes a bit lower. Almost like the car doesn't know what power setting im demanding. Sometimes even at a steady throttle setting while accelerating it would feel like you put foot tap off and go again.

I thought id swap out the upper tps throttle position sensor with the z4m. Low and behold it virtually cured it!

Part number 1 363 784 0383. Bmw price is just over R1315. But Gert at Obd worx can source it for much cheaper.

Thought id post some pics of the diy. Its a 5 minute job and the car has already done 50km more on a tank and im not half way yet.

Thats right the engine is not only running smoother it feels stronger and is definitely more frugal!

Pics

And reinstall...

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[Xack]

I've heard of the tps acting up on these cars.

 

[Andy1GP]

Heat cycles get to them. I'm going to even do the Z4M ones.Very cost effective maintenance item. I've calculated that the sensor will have paid for itself by 6 tanks on the M3

 

[444YYY]

Andy, please do us a favour, put the Textar and OEM pads side by side and take some pics please.

I have found the Textar replacements to be 5% smaller in area compared to OEM. I have not checked for the M3 though.....

 

[Ratslaaf]

I find that strange bud. Many of the BMW pads actually have Textar on them...

 

[444YYY]

I find that strange bud. Many of the BMW pads actually have Textar on them...

Yes I know. My E36 M3 OEM pads are Textar.

When I bought Textar replacements for the E36 328i, the Textar pad area was about 5 % smaller than the OEM's!!!

 

[Ratslaaf]

Wow, you referring to the thickness or surface area?

 

[444YYY]

Wow, you referring to the thickness or surface area?

Surface area. See below. Ordered the proper part number too. Correlated part number on brake book.com - I think that's the Textar website.

Sorry for the hijack Andy.

 

[Ratslaaf]

Yoh!

 

[Xack]

Man's got a point....well spotted there 444yyy

 

[Andy1GP]

Very Interesting. I never checked when I replaced the Z4M pads. Textar from BMW under motorplan as well. I'll check the M3 ones and post here when I do it. Won't be for another while though.

 

[Andy1GP]

Just for interest sake i stripped the tps to see what it looks like inside.

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[moranor@axis]

so where is it broken? cant see anything in the pics that looks worn?

 

[Ratslaaf]

Yup, that's very worn. You can actually see the drag marks where the wiper makes contact with the plastic/carbon film surface

 

[Andy1GP]

I know Shaun, was thinking the same thing. Open for discussion