Just make sure you go for a long drive and have the gear settings on 5Ĭoupes are worth more than convertibles and they are going up in value ( the good ones ) It's old technology now and compare to today's DCT gearboxes is not as good but i think you should drive one and see if ''you'' like it. If you flash the CSL software, it makes the gear changes much sharper, quicker and it rev matches. The handling is fantastic, especially if you fit good quality coilovers but even standard they handle very well.Īll my M3's have been lowered on coilovers. The engine is special but you have to rev them to get the most out of it. A remapped Golf R would destroy it in a straight line but a Golf will always be a Golf. Yes, in today's standards, it's not a very fast car but I wouldn't say it's slow either. The way they sound, the way they put the power down. They have aged so well and every time I take the M3 out, I remember why I love this cars so much. The coupe drives better than the convertible and the performance difference is noticeable. The e46 M3CS and CSL are even more money.Īs you can imagine having an M3's for so long, I absolutely love them. If you pick up a cheap one £8k - £9k it can easily cost you £15k in no time just to get them to drive good and look well, depends how far you want to go as well. You could pick up an e46 M3 for £7k and you can find one for £30k with very low miles. Mileage makes a "big" difference on price's. I guess you could say i'm a bit obsessed with the E46 M3's Perhaps its a bit vague, but I want to be informed as mutch as possible before I dive into the building process.I've gone down to two e46 M3s now, one is a coupe and one is a convertible. like what extra sensors i would need to acuire. Perhaps any guides that are a bit more detailed than the standard information I could find when ordering a DIY kit.
Yeah I can imagine.I will go through to check if i got a good starting point to map my own configuration.īut as far as I know is a VANOS setup very tricky.Correct me if i'm wrong but I allready found out that MS3 is capable of handling the solenoids to control the cams.īut first things first, selecting the right parts & sensors and stuff to build myself the MS3 ECU. but blindly loading someone else's tune to an ecu is usually a bad move. Grom_e30 wrote:yeah included with the firmware is a generic base map, you can open this in tunerstudio without a ecu and go through the settings that way you will get a feel for the tuning software, again if you can find any msq's that have been posted you can have a peek through those. Hoping some of you could guide me in the right starting direction I really like the whole DIY purpose of Megasquirt so I'm willing to learn and share my experiences. I'm fairly new to the whole EFI building/programming scene but I'm a quite fast learner. I was wondering if there were some folks who could help me out with some basics like where to start and if everything I would like to achieve will be possible with the MS3 ECU. Setup stand-alone (out of car) ECU for programming purposes
Gathering some more intel about the MS3, allready read alot of information on the ECU Maintaining some OEM functions like cluster control. Selecting the right ECU (aiming for a Megasquirt MS3 based on reviews & user experiences found across the world wide web) Forced Induction BMW E46 M3 S54 Drift spec build with +/- 800whp 26 year old freelance webdesigner/developer from Belgium with a passion for cars First post ever on Megasquirt forum and I hope I'm posting in the right section!