hey everybody its Justin and welcome back today we have an exciting video for
you today we're going to be unveiling the new and improved BMW M3 in my garage
here let's go ahead and get started
all right so there you have it a new BMW M3 in my garage nobody's buying it
nobody at all this doesn't look familiar maybe it does all right so not a BMW M3
it's my old 325is I did not get rid of it I did not get a new BMW M3 I know I'm
a little late on the April Fool's joke but we have actually done a lot of
upgrades to this thing in the off season believe it or not it has been m3 ties it
has a lot of m3 parts on and now we're going to go through what we have already
installed on the car and we actually have some more stuff to install as well
let's talk about what we've got and what we're going to do all right so the large
majority of the upgrades that we did from an m3 part perspective are on the
front of the car if you guys have a keen eye for 3-series BMWs and the
differences between an M car and a non M car you're probably noticing that these
front brakes are a lot larger than what are on the non M car or on my previous
325is before we had these brakes so this is actually an entire m3 front-end or m3
front brake setup so we have the m3 rotors we have the m3 calipers of course
we have m3 hubs and spindles and bearings and we also threw on some
stainless steel brake lines as well as a hard motorsports brake ducting kit so
that was a pretty huge upgrade from the stock parts on the car everything is
bigger from the bearings to the rotors to the calipers to the brake pads to the
spindles lot stronger a whole lot better performing and overall a much better and
reliable set up for the track driving that I do with this car now on the non
m3 part upgrade side we added new stock lower control arms and bushings we added
a z3 steering rack from a BMW z3 this makes the steering a lot more responsive
and a lot quicker as the stock steering rack is very very slow took many turns
of the steering wheel just to get the car to turn on the interior of the car
we added a Sparco 383 steering wheel to replace that gigantic stock steering
wheel and the airbag that goes in it alright so that covers all of the m3
upgrades that are on the car right now we have more to do believe it or not I
have a few parts actually more than a few parts stored up in my shed out here
I'm gonna go grab those and then we'll go over what we're going to be putting
in the car today
all right so as you can see we have quite a few parts here to go on the car
I have my new or not new they're actually used apex arc eight wheels
seventeen by nine with brand new hand Kuk RS four tires I used to have a set
of these wheels for my BMW some years ago I sold them to buy the wheels for my
first FRS and anyways picked up this used set from a friend of mine not too
long ago so we can have a second set of wheels again for the BMW on the floor
here we've got the rest of the hard motor sports brake duct kit which we
have to get installed I have a new front what do you call these things a front
grille panel or front nose panel the one on the car right now is all bent up and
out of shape so we're gonna get that replaced we also have the Sparco Evo
seat here you guys probably recognize this one it actually came out of my BRZ
what I'm going to do is put the Sparco Evo in the driver's seat of the BMW so
it's a more comfortable seats than the Sparco Sprint's that are in there what I
did is I took the drivers Sparco sprint out of the BMW and put it in the BRZ so
both cars will have the nice seat in the driver's side so it's comfortable last
but not least in order to be a wannabe m3 you got to have an eBay m3 bumpers so
that is what is in this box we're gonna open this thing up real quick take a
look and then finally get started on installing all of the parts on the car
and hopefully have it ready in time for the race weekend or actually going to
Pueblo Motorsports Park this weekend in about five days so we got to get it
going get the car on the track
all right so this is my m3 ebay bumper this is polypropylene some kind of
reinforced plastic terribly inexpensive these bumpers are I think I paid 130 or
140 dollars for this thing shipped so the reasoning behind this you guys are
probably wondering why did you go with a cheap knockoff m3 bumper on eBay well
for track cars like mine dedicated track cars and road racing cars they all opt
for these cheap eBay bumpers because they get trashed so often in racing
whether it's doing HP de or time trials in a dedicated track car like mine if
you're going off course you're bouncing through the dirt potentially hitting
brush or shrubs or ruts in the dirt that kind of thing the bumpers get jacked up
in road racing there should be no question there all of the bumper to
bumper contact front ends to rear ends on the cars the bumpers just get messed
up so they get replaced a lot so my race shop SCR performance up in Loveland
Colorado here they had recommended to go the eBay route there's no point in
spending the extra money on a real om style grill or something that you might
find from ECS tuning or something like that
eBay is the way to go these things fit really great or at least hopefully we're
gonna find out that it fits really great I've been told that the fitment is
pretty much perfect with these things so we're gonna go ahead and get it on the
car here it also comes with this mesh front grille as you can see here which
we will probably put on and the big deal with the m3 bumpers is well with the
hardened Motorsports brake duct kit that I have it is specifically designed for
the m3 bumper ports so I needed to get an m3 bumper because it doesn't
necessarily work with my stock 325 bumper so we're gonna start ripping
things apart get this guy on get the nose grill on and hook up the rest of
the hard motorsports brake duct kit as well and then we got a
bunch of other stuff to put in the car 236 bumper removal is pretty
straightforward at least from what I have read
researched I actually have never removed the bumper on this car I've done it
multiple times on the BRZ or I'm sorry on my FRS have not done it on the e36
yet but what it looks like is there's this strip across
the front of the bumper and I'm not gonna do a detailed how-to on how to
remove this stuff I'll kind of give you guys the overview and then throw it on a
time lapse but you remove the little bumper strip here there's bolts behind
it obviously I have to remove my tow hook and then on the rear side of the
bumper back here and here and then on the underside are some other screws and
bolts that tie the bumper into the fender liner once you get those bolts
and screws removed the bumper pretty much just pulls straight out now a
similar process with this front nose grille the metal panel piece that is all
dinged up and dented on my car there's a number of bolts around the top and
around the inner sections of the grille area that hold that in when I get the
bumper off maybe I'll try to show you a little bit closer look at that we have
to take the headlights out as well or at least you have to to make it an easier
process getting that nose grille out so we'll probably do that also so let's go
ahead and crank up the time-lapse we'll get started and rip things apart and
hope everything goes well
so the bumper came off pretty easy just about as I had suspected four bolts on
the front of the bumper underneath that rubber strip that I had showed you and
then a handful of little bolts around the fender liner and on the underneath
now there is a metal support beam on the stock bumper that needs to be moved to
the m3 bumper so this little piece down here it's kind of a I can't tell if it's
a metal or some kind of hard plastic but anyways that needs to come off and then
that needs to go on to the backside of the m3 bumper which we'll show you here
real quick so that piece will fit in here in this area on the m3 bumper and
that acts as the bumper support for the bumper and kind of what holds the bumper
into place so next up we're going to get this nose panel off on the front of the
car and then probably take the headlights off as well
so for this nose grill there is about 12 different bowls that you have to get off
in order to loosen this thing up and be able to remove it there's two on the
edge of the bumper side two and four on the top here and then two on the inner
side of the bumper will try to point out the different bolts here real quick
on the underside of the ends by the wheel weld there is two right up in this
area there's two bolts down in this area one on top and one on the bottom there
already taken out here's the side with the bolts still installed one there one
down there and then you have the four top bolts two up here and then two
exactly on the other side with all of those bolts remove this thing will pull
right out so we'll get this thing off real quick here and then take a look at
that compared to the new one that I have or I guess the new used one that I have
so neither of these front nose panels is very pretty
so the one reason I got this other one is because it's not dented this is the
newer one of the two that I have this is the one that I just took off you can see
there's all kinds of dents and dings in these areas and what it does is it makes
it select the grilles you know standard BMW grilles they don't really fit and
stay in there there's another big dent there it's dented down here and overall
just not in the best shape now the other used one that I picked up super cheap a
long time ago you're probably wondering why I'm putting better parts on because
I just mentioned you want to go with the cheap stuff for the race cars but this
was cheap I don't even remember how much I paid for it but the grilles fit in it
it is straight and it'll allow the hood to line up a little bit better so it in
itself is not very pretty but better than the one that I had on there before
now while we have the whole front end of this car off what I'm gonna do is a
little bit more weight savings on the car and actually remove the entire air
conditioning system so the AC compressor the a/c condenser and the fan down here
and the related hoses and components now the good thing with doing this is I
don't have to worry about emptying or bleeding out the AC system because when
I bought the car the owners said that the system was completely dry it had no
more air conditioning refrigerant in it and it needed to be refilled and I never
did that because I didn't really care about air conditioning in this car it
was mostly a race car and a future track car so we tested out on the bleed valve
there's zero pressure in the system so we're good to go they're already started
unplugging some of the piping and the tubing and I'm gonna go ahead and do
this kind of offline taking everything apart because it's gonna take a little
bit of time and I just want to jam it out and get it done so I'll show you
everything that comes off of the car once it is done we'll give you a quick
look at the condenser section on the car that's this fan up in the front and the
condenser is the little radiator system in behind it so all of this stuff will
come out and then the compressor for the AC is kind of up in that area you can't
even really see it and then there are some additional parts down here in the
hoses and things that go along with it so we're gonna go ahead get all that
stuff removed and save some weight on the car make this thing even lighter
than it is already and voila we now have an empty front and
no more condenser or fan in front of the radiator we have the compressor removed
from underneath the engine there that little canister and the associated hoses
are also out as well alright finally we got all of these air conditioning parts
out of the car let's take a look at what we have all on the floor I'm gonna try
to weigh it up here I'm not sure if I'll be able to do it or not but anyways
let's take a look at all of the pieces so here we have the AC compressor this
is the heaviest piece in the car that lug that sits on the front of the engine
this thing took me a while to get out of the car and just because of the space
and the restricted area that you have and really all it is is these four bolts
here one two three and four and then you have
the tensioner that holds the AC belt in place that runs off your engine these
long hoses that go up into the engine bay to the AC system itself this little
unit here I'm actually not even sure what that does and then over here we
have the condenser fan and then the AC condenser which is this radiator looking
thing here so all of those AC parts on the floor weighed just about 40 pounds
so knocking off 40 pounds on the car is pretty significant just with that
compressor the condenser the pulley and the various little components hoses and
things that go along with it so a good drop from the front of the car now we
can get started on putting everything back together turn this into the Amma
three that I've always wanted
all right the new nose panel installed without a hitch everything fit pretty
well I've got the new bumper preps new the new m3 bumper that is and this one
was a little bit tricky only because of this piece here the big support brace
this is the I don't know metal piece it's metal it doesn't sound like it now
because it's attached to all of the plastic but that one was a little tricky
to get installed there's the old bumper over there but we were able to get that
installed and everything worked out okay
so the m3 bumper is now ready to be test fitting to test fit at first I had a
hard time with the hard Motorsports brakes ducts they have these little
brackets that come with them these little guys that connects the hard
braked up tubes to the lower subframe somewhere I couldn't figure out where it
goes exactly so I have to get that installed again at a later time possibly
if I can't get it done before the race weekend but now we're gonna test fit
that m3 bumper and see how that works out
all right everything is mocked up on the car now
I haven't tightened anything down like the headlights or even the front nose
panel here or the ends of the bumper this is really just the test-fitting
phase and I'm gonna make sure everything is fitted properly but so far looks
pretty good my wannabe m3 is nearing completion at least for this phase of
the project let's take a closer look at how things turned out
all right so not half bad for a budget eBay bumpered bmw m3 with other m3 parts
on it but we still have more work to do I'm gonna button up all of these parts
that I just test fitted get everything secured in place then call it a night
for tonight I think tomorrow we have my Sparkle Evo to put in the car and that
hard Motorsports brake kit or brake duct kit if I can call the shop and get the
tips on how to get that thing installed we'll install that thing as well but
that's not a deal breaker if I don't get that installed this go-around we do need
the RACI is stalled for obvious reasons so we're gonna finish this up pick it up
in the morning all right after some poking around and making some phone
calls and a visit to the dealership I was able to get the hard Motorsports
brake kit installed and got the bumper back off of the car and basically I was
missing a little screw attachment where the hard Motorsports brake duct tubes
mount to I'll try to show you that in a second but these little teeny tiny
plastic things that a screw goes into and actually I think I have one over
here show you what it looks like for those that are doing this brake duct
install and it's only because I have an on M 3 so the m3s have these little
screw dealies so these little guys actually pop up into the frame rail and
then allow you to put a screw into it and that's where the mouse go for the
hard motor sports brake duct kits we'll take a look at it here now right up in
there you can see where that little plastic piece went that little white
line and there's another one back here but those are what you screw this little
bracket into or the mounting bracket for the main tube and then here's what our
main brake duct tube looks like
and it comes out on the wheel well side obviously this is a flexible tube so
when the wheel turns getting do that one-handed but the tube squishes with
the wheel or with the turning of the wheel that is so that it stays out of
the way so now we can finally button the rest of this up get the m3 bumper on
there get it all bolted in and secure it I got to put the grill on it - real
quick actually and then I've got to mount my Sparco seat in the car I'm
doing a hard mount on it so you got to do a lot of test fitting and REE bolting
and test fitting and bolting to get your seat position just right because there
is no slider and obviously it's a hard mounted back seat so it doesn't recline
or anything like that so you have to get the seating position just right and it
bolts in there solid and stays in place we're gonna get to work cuz I gotta hit
this thing going by the morning so we can get off to the racetrack
I will spare you guys the visual trauma of me test-fitting the spark array seat
in and out of the car 20 probably 25 times over just to get the seat height
and the fitment proper and instead just show you the finished product came out
pretty well and is looking to really slick with the Sparco steering wheel now
the bumper I had one more last thing to do and that was to update my
glow-in-the-dark Batman duct tape over the fog light covers I think it looks
pretty sweet and goes really good with the all-black Batmobile theme of this
car and one last thing to do before we get this thing back on the ground
getting the wheels and tires back on those Hankook rs fours on the apex arc
eight wheels and then we're ready to get it off the quick Jack and on the ground
all right I think we've finally wrapped up a haul of the work for the e36 bmw
for this week we did so many things obviously we went over the m3 upgrades
that had done to the car by the shop the steering rack upgrade the Sparco
steering wheel we added the EBA m3 front bumper and the new front nose panel on
the car as well along of course with the hard motorsports brake duct kit we took
out a whole bunch of the a/c stuff that we'll see on the floor this is basically
all of the stuff we have taken out of the car this week and we're just about
ready to head on to the track we got the wheels and tires back on those apex r8
wheels with the new hand qu car S four tires so really pumped to get this thing
on the track it's been a long time in the coming since last season I got a run
out to get my trailer I'm going to show you guys one last look at the finished
product and then I am heading out
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