{"id":1191,"date":"2016-11-14T14:04:50","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T22:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/?p=1191"},"modified":"2016-11-14T14:04:50","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T22:04:50","slug":"bmw-e46-daily-driven-track-car-summer-of-mods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/bmw-e46-daily-driven-track-car-summer-of-mods","title":{"rendered":"BMW E46 Daily Driven Track Car &#8211; Summer of Mods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been busy this summer quietly working on our Daily Driven Track Car, this red 2001 BMW 330 (start reading <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/forums\/showthread.php?p=58438#post58438\">here<\/a><\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Projects\/Red-2001-BMW-E46\/i-FF8kS4F\/0\/M\/DSC_2553-M.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve knocked a lot of weight out of this little E46 and it has shown in the lap times. The sunroof was replaced with a carbon fiber delete panel, the rear seats removed, and some other non-critical parts cut away.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Projects\/Red-2001-BMW-E46\/i-HqMXfgW\/0\/M\/DSC_4464-M.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Many areas have been upgraded: the entire cooling system was replaced and upgraded, an SFI rated balancer was installed, an oil pan baffle and oil pump driveshaft upgrade were also added.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Projects\/Red-2001-BMW-E46\/i-hPzr52B\/0\/M\/DSC_5219-M.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We installed new Whiteline adjustable swaybars and continued development with the MCS TT2 coilovers.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Racing-Events\/MSR-Track-Test-111016\/i-qWrSJtD\/0\/M\/IMG_3997-M.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Check out all of the details, pictures, tricks and tips in the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/forums\/showthread.php?p=58438#post58438\">latest update<\/a><\/strong> to the E46 forum build thread, starting <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/forums\/showthread.php?p=58438#post58438\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been busy this summer quietly working on our Daily Driven Track Car, this red 2001 BMW 330 (start reading here). We&#8217;ve knocked a lot of weight out of this little E46 and it has shown in the lap times. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/bmw-e46-daily-driven-track-car-summer-of-mods\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-build-thread-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1191"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1194,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions\/1194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}