We know this is not an E92 M3 but we thought some of you may like this build. All the work has been done by us in house.
This E46M3 came to us in many different forms through our relationship with our customer. It started out as a show car where the owner took to local events around the Chicago land area and eventually a supercharged time attack car. The owner who also used to competitively go kart started to get the itch to move in to road racing and that is when his car began to transform into a full time track car. This winter he decided to turn it into a GTS-4 car in NASA club Racing. The supercharger was taken off and the the car stripped down.
The car was brought to us with the entire interior stripped out along with some of the sound deadening taken out. We are building an 8-point cage out of chromoly with a nascar style driver side. The car is also having gussets on the A/B pillars. Along with the cage we are removing excess wiring, reinforcing the rear sub frame, replacing bushings with solid/ spherical bearings, heater core delete and more.
As more work is completed we will do our best to keep you guys updated.
First day at the shop getting wrapped in protective plastic.
Main Hoop Mounting plates
Main Hoop Mocked up in place
Main Hoop and Front bars dropped down to weld completely 360 degrees all around
Rear X-brace being welded in.
Passenger side X-Brace before gussets are added
Driver side footwell protection
Passenger side footwell protection
Nascar style bars in process of being built on the drivers side
Nascar bars completed
View of nascar bars from inside
Tacking gussets into place
Passenger side gusset tacked into place
Driver side gusset tacked into place
View from the front of the car. Gussets are currently being made for the front pillars
Picture of the wiring harness that we are going through, taking out all the unnecessary wires
Box of wiring that has been taken out so far
Block off plate for the heater core delete
Some of the goodies we are installing during the sub frame reinforcement
