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    After Hours Autosports FD Pro E46 Build

    Well, if anyone was following pro2 they know what happened to the E36 from the previous thread, but long story short, RIP.



    Despite that, we finished 3rd overall earning us a Pro license, and we won Rookie of the Year.

    Building a new car we decided to switch to the E46 chassis as I feel it is slightly superior to the E36. A lot of the parts will still transfer over and it will get us in to a 10 year newer chassis, while still retaining the trailing arm rear suspension. Quite a few things will change as lessons were learned this year, and some sponsors will be switching as well.

    I found this thing on FB marketplace, PO had tried to do a "drift build" consisting of ebay angle blocks, the weirdest hydro I've ever seen, no name coilovers, no name seats (welded in), conduit bash bar, etc. In the midst of "weight reduction" on the harness something got messed up and never got figured out. With 200k on the clock I think it's about time it gets a second shot at life!

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    It's been in our possession for 24 hours, and it's coming along nicely.

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    Have a vid of the crash? One that doesn’t involve me being forced to watch a half hour long selfie?

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    start video at 6:45.

    E46 will do good. Shame. That's my fav color on an E46

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    Quote Originally Posted by Liquidity View Post
    Have a vid of the crash? One that doesn’t involve me being forced to watch a half hour long selfie?

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    Back from blasting

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    Starting the Ti Conversion

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    and starting on the cage work

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    how's kevin been with the reinforcements? I always wondered how he danced around that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by protomor View Post
    how's kevin been with the reinforcements? I always wondered how he danced around that.
    I emailed him about them and got them approved. I think it flys because they're technically cage baseplates and meet all the rules in that section, and there's no rule that says they cant land on the towers.

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    Cage is coming along. Moving on to other things for now as I don't want to be working around the door and diagonal bars.

    Kevin has new rules for the E46 subframe mounts coming soon, so I'm stuck on mounting the cell until that drops.

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    you talk with Andy Hateley at all? For... reasons I'm not sure I'm allowed to say publicly.

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    Quote Originally Posted by protomor View Post
    you talk with Andy Hateley at all? For... reasons I'm not sure I'm allowed to say publicly.
    Everyone knows he's finally giving up on that E30 (thank god) and building a 46, I'm pretty sure he announced that.

    Right now it looks like:

    ProSpec:
    Joe Lin
    Andy Hately
    Tony Cisneros
    Micah Diaz
    Dimitri Brutsky

    Pro:
    Josh Love - us
    Travis Reeder
    Michael Essa
    Dylan Hughes

    I'm missing some because at one point we counted 12 total IIRC, that may have been counting the Sorensons if they come back.
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    oh ok. I didn't know. I haven't been following stuff lately. good to see the bmw crew representing!

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    a small photo dump of the progress.

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    holy shit this thread is behind, anyway, qualified 4th at FDORL and ended up finishing in 6th. Not too shabby for the first real time driving the car.

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    seriously. Love the colors on the car tho

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    Quote Originally Posted by protomor View Post
    seriously. Love the colors on the car tho
    Thanks! SOOOO much better than the red and white

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