My 97 E36 M3 Sedan hpde build

[sunnyjay]

Introducing everyone my 97 E36 M3 Sedan build. I purchased this car 2 years back with the intention to turn it into a hpde track car mainly. Now almost 2 years later I got the balling rolling with the build. It started its life as a automatic that I converted to a manual over the course during the first year I own the car. I wish I have taken pictures of the automatic to manual conversion but I didnt have a chance to. Everything from here on out will be documented in this thread.

When I first bought the car.




I started building my exhaust this weekend with my friend derek. He did an awesome job tig welding all the vbands, piping and mufflers. The exhaust system is consist of ebay headers, 3 inch stainless piping, vbands (for the sake of easy removal), and 2 magnaflow mufflers.

I had 2 inch vbands welded onto the header exits for ease of removal.





The merge collector was also fabricated by my friend as well. Stepping from 2 inches to 2.5 inches and then finally to 3.0 inches with a vband as well.



From here it goes into a 3 inch center magnaflow muffler along with a vband shortly after the exit.



After the final vband is a 3 inch inlet, 2.5 dual outlet magnaflow muffler.



The journey of the rollcage.

The M was relocated to his own personal workshop.



Hello raw materials, why its chromoly.



Lets get things measured out and bent.



Measure twice and cut once.



Here is the main hoop.



Next is the tar removal process, thank you dry ice for making the process easier.

Rear wheel wells





Rear floor



front floor



Magical CO2




Thats all for today, I will update as work progresses tomorrow.

Enjoy

[usedunderwear]

GL with the build!! Looking good so far
Hope to see you out at the track once I get my car ready as well

Are you in SoCal?

[sunnyjay]

GL with the build!! Looking good so far
Hope to see you out at the track once I get my car ready as well

Are you in SoCal?

Thanks, sadly I'm located in Norcal. I have been on streets and big willow a few times with shift-s3ctor. Any plans to visit seca?

[cemmett]

That exhaust looks great!!

Where in NorCal? I'm up here in grass valley/nevada city. Ever been to Thunderhill?

[pDubs]

Looks great so far. Excited to see the progress on this one.

[sunnyjay]

That exhaust looks great!!

Where in NorCal? I'm up here in grass valley/nevada city. Ever been to Thunderhill?

Im in the bay area. I have been to thunderhill a few times with I was building hondas. Fun high speed track.

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Looks great so far. Excited to see the progress on this one.

Thanks

[stealthbeam]

Looks like its off to a great start!! Please keep us updated on the build

[sunnyjay]

Looks like its off to a great start!! Please keep us updated on the build

Thanks. I will

[usedunderwear]

Thanks, sadly I'm located in Norcal. I have been on streets and big willow a few times with shift-s3ctor. Any plans to visit seca?

I'm from SoCal but I would love to drive Laguna Seca sometime in the future I have visited the track before and was spectating the "corkscrew" portion of the track. Such an epic part of the track

[M3boarder]

Subscribed, good to see another sedan. Good luck with the build.

[sunnyjay]

I'm from SoCal but I would love to drive Laguna Seca sometime in the future I have visited the track before and was spectating the "corkscrew" portion of the track. Such an epic part of the track

Oh is a very technical track to drive on but very fun. Come on up in future, you will enjoy it.

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Subscribed, good to see another sedan. Good luck with the build.

thanks

[bjracing]

I'm building my track car too same color will post my own thread soon. I from bayarea too. Hope to see you at the track on day!

[sunnyjay]

I'm building my track car too same color will post my own thread soon. I from bayarea too. Hope to see you at the track on day!

awesome, hope to see you on the track.

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Hello everyone, is a been a busy month for me. I have did a few small things here and there to the car. I overhauled the vanos unit and it wasnt as difficult as people made it out to be for the single vanos. I have never pulled the valve cover off the engine since I bought it. I was very surprised on how clean the internal of the engine was. The owner before really did follow up on the oil changes early and used a good oil.

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I finally also had the chance to sand down the paint surfaces to prep for welding in the cage. The mounting points are going to be box in like it is shown in the picture.

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That is all for updates for now.

[usedunderwear]

Keep up the good works

[sunnyjay]

Its been a while since I have updated, Its been a busy few months.

Here are the floor mounts for the rollcage. They are made to fit snugly over the frame rail and floor itself.




Here is the main hoop with the harness bar and cross bar.



Here is the whole cage fully welded into the car.



I picked up some paint to paint the rollcage to prevent it from rusting.



Here is the cage 3/4 painted.



thats all for now.

[stealthbeam]

Very nice, How much did the cage run ya? This is the next step for my build, great progress thanks for sharing

[sunnyjay]

Very nice, How much did the cage run ya? This is the next step for my build, great progress thanks for sharing

I sent you a pm. Next on the list is bushings, which will be major fun. lol

[hellatj]

Looks like a nice build so far. Subbed to your thread.

I'm in the Bay Area as well. Nice to see another M3 sedan on the track.

[Evtron]

This build looks promising, any updates worth sharing?

[BandarM3]

Excellent work on the Roll bar! I need to ask one of you guys to build me one.

[sunnyjay]

No updates currently as I been swamped with work.

[GG Emerican]

Any updates? Can you PM me with the cost of the cage. Looking into getting a e36 M3 sedan for the same HPDE class, maybe one day something more. Don't want anything bolt in cage but may go with a 6 point with cross/harness bar