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I had the opportunity to test drive a car that had the Borla exhaust (I’m talking just the muffler, not any of the other Sec I, Sec II, Headers…), another car that had the Masterschaft SuS, and finally a supersprint. Personally I liked the Masterschaft rumbly, droney, throaty sound that I heard. It’s just so raw and naughty but not too loud like the supersprint. The performance was probably pretty free-flowing, but I don’t know the exact numbers. If you want a more professional sound, go with the Borla and their anti-rasp mid-section. I don’t mind the rasp around 3500RPM… it reminds me of this killer I6.

I put the Masterschaft SuS on my E46 and I’m hoping to hook it up to: evosport headers, Supersprint cat section, supersprint sec II. That should give a pretty mean sound and good flow!

When I get it all set up, I’ll post some vids, and exhaust notes here. I’ll try to run off and get some exhaust notes before the Sec I/II and before headers also!

Tired of the naturally aspirated HP/TQ curves? Active Autowerke came out with an impressive collection of supercharger systems for the E46 M3 and both supercharger and turbocharger systems for the E36 M3. The supercharger (stage 3) can knock up around 520 bhp and around 400 torque. That is awesome. Then there’s VF engineering (vortech! good quality, and I believe they are working on CA CARB compliance). The VF kit does around 400rwhp I believe, not too sure on that, but any of these SC systems should give the newly chipped 335i a good run for the money— Not to mention the new E92 M3

Recent attempts at turbocharging the very high compression E46 M3 have resulted in a few successful projects – the most popular one being the horsepowerfreaks m3 turbo kit. This thing can whip out 700+rwhp on 91 pump gas! I think they had the car on display at bimmerfest with around 1000rwhp, but I was not able to attend that sadly.

M3 CSL

I’ve seen a lot of M3’s trying to copy the CSL in body style and in performance, all within good reason!

360bhp, stripped out A/C, carbon fiber components… very simple and precise. With the new 2008 V8 M3 coming out in upcoming months, I really don’t see much performance improvement over the I6. I personally love the I6 model, but I can’t make any decision until the new model is out and can be test driven.

I’ve tried probably 4 times now with my angel eye installations. I’ve used ümnitza for all of them, I think. I really shouldn’t give them another chance. Everytime I install the angel eyes, they work fine for a while, but something comes up. First one of the halos broke. Next one of them didn’t light up. After all that, *another* one broke! Come on. I should have learned my lesson after the first halo breakage. Then there was the time that one of my xenon’s stopped working (turned out to be a broken ballast, burnt bulb, and some other risidual damage).

When I went to the dealer ($tealer?) they denied to fix the xenons until I stripped out all the angel eye (ahem) garbage from under the hood. Pretty understandable, since its not their equipment. In any case, after I removed all the aftermarket equipment, the problem got resolved.

It all just turned out to be more hassle than it was worth to have 2 sets of glowing rings