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When swapping motors, the factory DME is no longer receiving signals. As a result, the cluster panel won’t show rpms, coolant temps, and lights like the oil pressure dummy light and the CEL. The E46 chassis also uses a ton … Continue reading →

Turns out the e46 cluster won’t tween between values. It just shakes between the two values. So I severed the can bus connection from the chassis and made sure important features still worked. It turns out the e46 cluster is … Continue reading →

Usual disclaimer. I am not an engineer. Nor do I know everything about angle kits. This is a reflection of my current level of knowledge about angle kits.  For most chassis, angle kits are narrowed down to either cut knuckles … Continue reading →

For some reason, FD’s yearly technical rulebook isn’t readily publicly available. Regardless, I found a copy and looked through it. As usual, the formatting is so wildly different from last year that you can’t just do a straight text comparison. … Continue reading →

In an attempt to not make this a blog, I’ll keep this short. I crashed the E30 on a friendly private day, parted the car, kept the LS2, and now I’m in an E46 330. This posting will go over … Continue reading →

Full disclosure, I’m a web developer who has done some mobile development for work. I’ll also start this off with the fact that I hate this app. I’m on android but I doubt the iPhone version is any better. First, … Continue reading →

Drift boxes are units for on track data acquisition. Many aftermarket units are well into the thousand dollar range. I’d like to create a cheap unit for data logging and drift telemetry. Drift Box Day 0: Project overview Drift Box … Continue reading →

The grassroots drift world is filled with different people with different goals. 99% of us get along very well and the sense of comradery is the reason so many stick with it. Inherently, our goals separate us into “subcultures”. These … Continue reading →

I’ve screen scraped http://www.bmwstylewheels.com/ and placed the data here. I wanted a way to look at BMW wheels by various criteria and the page didn’t allow me to. For more detailed pictures and info, please click the link on the … Continue reading →