0:04 this is a BMW E46 M3 CSL and it's my
0:06 dream M3 only problem is they're super
0:07 rare and worth over
0:09 $150,000 and I don't have that kind of
0:13 money yet so I decided to make my own M3
0:15 CSL at home in my garage for a fraction
0:17 of the price by starting with a used
0:20 regular M3 and after days of hard work
0:22 and a couple heart attacks well we've
0:24 got all the maintenance handled and
0:26 we've got some suspension and handling
0:28 stuff handled then we went to the dyno
0:43 horsepower uh yeah so today we're going
0:45 to improve on that by installing a new
0:48 intake a new tune and a new exhaust
0:49 we're also going to finish up the
0:52 aesthetic upgrades on this car and get
0:55 this thing completed as my version of a
0:57 CSL then we'll go back to the dyno and
0:58 make sure that we're making more power
1:01 than a CSL [Music]
1:03 [Music]
1:04 all right the first thing we're going to
1:07 do is install that beautiful new intake
1:09 which means I need to remove the ugly
1:10 old intake now we got to take off the strut
1:17 brace now disconnect them M take out the
1:22 housing okay now we'll take some of this
1:46 [Music]
2:09 fun all right after just a few minutes
2:11 popping off some hose clamps this should
2:21 not oh I played the curve Perfect all
2:23 right this is our stock air box nothing
2:25 special this is what came on the M3 the
2:27 regular one we're going to be replacing
2:29 it with something much nicer this is
2:32 turn Sports CSL replica carbon fiber
2:35 intake uh it looks a lot like the intake
2:37 that came on the CSL the carbon fiber
2:39 unit which flows better than the factory
2:41 airbox for more power this flows 20%
2:43 more than the stock airbox and it even
2:45 flows more than the original CSL intake
2:48 more flow more air more power it also
2:50 looks pretty good and it's going to
2:52 sound really good this is going to free
2:54 up a lot of sound from the itbs which is
2:56 very exciting the other thing that this
2:59 intake does is removes the use of a MAF
3:01 sensor so we'll no longer be using mass
3:03 airf flow sensor we're going to be using
3:05 a map sensor and uh what's called an
3:09 alpha end tune so we got to tune this
3:11 thing which will also let us make more
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4:31 okay all we got to do is screw in a
4:34 couple of mounting studs and then screw
4:36 on a
4:38 bracket okay now that those are on there
5:08 okie dokie now we got all the couplers
5:11 in place time to drop the Box in just
5:19 [Music]
5:21 blindly all right the box is installed
5:24 now it's time to put in the air filter
5:25 should be pretty
5:28 easy we got that big beautiful filter in place
5:30 place
5:31 let's put the front on [Music]
5:49 this oh we're making the same
5:52 phase all right well now we got a new
5:54 intake on the car and I got to say it
5:57 looks pretty cool uh so I think that's
5:58 going to do it for today but we'll get
6:00 back at it bright and early tomorrow
6:06 store all right while Jerry's working on
6:07 the exhaust I'm going to work on
6:10 tightening up the linkage between me and
6:12 the transmission so the shifter and the
6:14 linkages underneath uh the shifter's got
6:16 a little bit of play in it right now and
6:19 we're going to get rid of that Sweet
6:22 Caroline whoo whoa who so that's how I
6:24 know you're not white yeah I don't know
6:26 these music these songs you didn't hit
6:28 me with the wo wo wo I mean I thought
6:31 you you would by now that I'm not I'm
6:34 not very Anglo Saxon tough to tell
6:36 sometimes I mean your name's
6:48 shift all right so I have the old
6:53 exhaust off and valonic sent Joby a uh
6:57 exhaust for his E46 and it's always nice
7:00 to do a little unbox therapy oh
7:06 yeah okay so what we have here is a
7:09 stainless steel setup now valve tronic
7:11 is they got their name because there's a
7:13 valve in there you can go full race car
7:15 setting and open it up so it sounds
7:17 pretty sick or you can be a little bit
7:19 more reasonable and close the valve and
7:22 it uh diverts some of the exhaust all
7:24 this is is just a little air pump so you
7:28 put rubber hose on one side of it and
7:31 then the hose run runs to the valve here
7:32 hit the
7:36 button boom valve in there opens
7:45 closes Nifty so that works that's very
7:47 cool and very good now I need to go
7:50 install it with just two exhaust hangers
7:52 going to sound so good job you're going
7:56 to crumb I think I will look B okay well
8:05 okay we'll clean that up replace that
8:08 little bucket there and uh put a couple
8:18 Rod all right that'll give me a little more
8:19 more
8:23 room hey look at that thing that's not a
8:26 factory it's pretty nice let's clean it
8:29 up replace that wonky bushing
8:33 tighten things up a bit Yeah suers loose
8:35 this is the shift carrier so this is
8:37 where the shifter actually mounts to so
8:39 the ball goes right in here you shift
8:41 here and then down here is your selector
8:43 Rod which goes from the bottom of the
8:46 shifter over to the transmission so the
8:48 one that was in the car is a single
8:50 Shear basically it has a bar with two
8:52 pins that stick off either side that
8:55 connect the shifter to the transmission
8:57 we're going with Turner's dual Shear
8:59 shift selector Rod so basically it is
9:02 like a tuning fork on either side takes
9:04 away a lot of slop tightens the feel up
9:05 and uh looks nice [Music]
9:19 too give it just a little bit of Grease [Music]
9:46 all right after a hardfought battle with
9:48 the shifter bits all the installs
9:50 complete and the shifter feels great all
9:52 the play has been removed and I'm
9:55 excited to row through these gears so I
9:56 got to finish buttoning this up throw
9:58 the shift boot back on and then we're
10:02 done here move on to some aesthetic bits
10:04 while Jerry finishes up the
10:07 exhaust right jar jar
10:10 jar Gary
10:12 Gary
10:15 Jerome Jeremy now I do have the CSL
10:18 front bumper and these carbon spats are
10:19 what would have come on the CSL but
10:23 these things are absolutely destroyed
10:26 help and I really like the look of the
10:27 one piece so we're going to replace
10:32 what the
10:40 cool
10:42 TOS all right well clean that up a
10:45 little bit and Chuck a new whip on there
10:48 you know one of my fatal flaws is trying
10:51 to save time by working around things
10:53 like in the case of the shifter the
10:56 exhaust and the drive shaft yeah
10:57 probably would have taken me an hour to
10:59 get the exhaust and drive shaft out but
11:01 that probably cost me 3 hours leaving
11:13 [Music]
11:15 learn all right this is just a random
11:18 noname carbon fiber front lip from eBay
11:20 um was kind of Unsure how it would fit
11:21 and honestly overall it's pretty good
11:23 just got to file down a little bit of
11:25 these things are a little too big better
11:26 too big than too small I can always take
11:29 a little off so all in all pretty happy
11:29 with it
11:31 uh these are kind of tough to find so
11:42 it all right that was quick and easy I'd
11:44 say overall the fitment is pretty good
11:47 it's not quite perfect in here and out
11:50 here but from 10 ft away it's what do
11:53 you think 10t away I'm 10 ft away least
11:55 pretty damn
12:04 oh he's still
12:11 hug hi buddy hi baby dude what have you
12:13 done I haven't seen this car in like
12:17 what have I done uh well we did the
12:19 wheels the tires the brakes the sway
12:21 bars oh going back we did rod bearings I
12:25 saw that that went flawlessly of course
12:27 handful of we yep power steering lines
12:28 that also went flawlessly [Music]
12:31 [Music]
12:33 what is that power steering the one
12:35 didn't go flying off in the driveway
12:37 then we did intake just rebuilt the
12:39 shifter just put this front lip on do
12:41 you need a help hand with anything I
12:43 need a help hand yeah helping hand yeah
12:45 yeah you need a hamburger helper yeah I
12:46 probably do Jerry's working on the
12:48 exhaust right
12:53 now he's not there yeah he's not here is
12:56 he yeah no oh okay that makes sense but
12:58 my favorite J name guy is here [Music]
13:00 [Music]
13:01 so the factory skid plate on these cars
13:04 is plastic and mine is pretty beat up uh
13:06 so Turner offers an aluminum one that
13:07 offers you way more protection and it
13:09 looks great so I'm going to throw that
13:12 in real quick just got to drill a couple
13:14 holes put in a couple Riv nuts how fast
13:16 do you think you're going to scrape it
13:17 uh like
13:21 immediately 30 ft your driveway is but
13:22 uh no skid plate I don't think we'll hit
13:24 out there okay sure but hey that's what
13:26 it's for you sure about that yeah I
13:28 think skid plate will be fine all right
13:31 but the front lip not so sure yeah yeah
13:34 you don't want that to get busted up uh
13:36 yeah so there's the brackets right there
13:37 just got to figure out where they go and
13:38 which one goes on which [Music]
13:40 [Music]
13:45 go all right now we just got to drill
13:47 out a couple holes put some rib nuts in
13:50 got a 2564 drill bit and uh just using
13:52 the factory holes that had plastic Clips
13:54 in them you're swapping out this old
13:56 bracket with this new bracket but you
13:58 still have to reuse the old uh intake
14:01 tube system because we need to feed that big
14:04 big [Music]
14:18 trumpet okay time for something I've
14:19 been looking forward to uh we're going
14:22 to switch the stock trunk out with the
14:24 CSL trunk that I got it's freshly
14:25 painted so I'm going to take this one
14:27 off get all the stuff out of it and get
14:29 the car ready for the new trunk
14:32 we're getting it on tonight I think
14:35 shouldn't jinx it Jimmy's helping I'm
14:40 over we're going to get the tail lights
14:43 out get all the wiring out we'll get the
14:46 latch out and the key cylinder then we
14:47 just got to remove the four bolts that
14:50 hold the trunk
14:54 on T30 you know that the T30 job what is
14:56 this a pool Cube this is a pool Cube
14:57 yeah what do you mean it's in a leather
15:00 case well it's fake I have a much bigger
15:02 case if you're impressed by that really
15:05 yeah I have a bunch of pool sticks
15:09 damn oh my God Christmas Is Here jeez
15:11 dude you got to chill on the hom what do
15:14 you mean man just focus on like three
15:16 I'm getting into espresso in a big way
15:18 right now are you kidding me dude no if
15:20 you had to have only three Hobbies what
15:24 would that be ooh uh cars and golf
15:29 and and on that note he said the word
15:31 real life [Music]
15:36 [Music]
15:39 girls but also like a [Music]
15:45 [Music]
15:49 Lego you're free free why you think he tight
15:54 in and
15:57 rotate all right we can just Chuck this
16:00 sucker over here for now now Perfect
16:02 Landing dude now let's go get the new
16:04 one it's in your bedroom right yeah I've
16:19 lightos yeah we'll just get her on there
16:21 for now we'll line it later oh and you
16:23 know needs to go to the driver side a
16:26 little bit but good for now we'll get
16:27 the rest done let's hang on a sec let's
16:31 look at it yeah baby that's really cool
16:33 I like that I gotta say I might be a
16:35 little jealous yeah that's what I like
16:37 to hear I'm a little jealous okay it's a
16:40 cool trunk it's an O it's an actual OEM
16:42 piece that's right jealousy from Jimmy
16:44 is the highest compliment you got to get the
16:45 the
16:50 seats oh do I I mean the seats are cool
16:52 have you seen the CSL seats yeah they're
16:55 probably how dare you mock me how dare
16:57 you yeah I'm going to go sleep in your
16:59 bed right now okay I'll be there in a
17:29 [Music]
17:32 you're gentle with it Jud EMB I'm being [Music]
17:43 [Music]
17:46 gentle I would pay to see job and Kanan
17:56 there all right we're tying up some
17:58 loose ends today uh I just finished
18:00 installing the exhaust down below we got
18:02 the gaskets in so that's all bolted up
18:03 so next I'm going to install the
18:05 controller which opens and closes the
18:07 valves so a little bit of wiring some
18:09 vacuum line routing should be pretty
18:11 easy all right so I'm going to reuse the
18:13 this little area in the trunk here this
18:24 reinflates thing down uh using this
18:27 velcro strap that used to strap down
18:29 Tire thingy and I've also got my remote
18:31 wire to the amp running right here so
18:33 that's nice key on power that I'll be
18:35 able to pull from for this we'll ground
18:37 over here run the vacuum line out and
18:45 cake all right with the wiring and the
18:47 vacuum stuff done we can put the icing
18:55 tips oh come on look like that tip is a
19:26 [Music] he
19:27 he [Music]
19:46 [Music]
19:48 blue license plate
19:51 lights just for now uh I think I need to
19:52 modify those lights I want to think
19:54 about it a little bit but I don't want
19:56 to waste more time doing that I want to
19:58 pop on this panel and then I want to
20:09 car okay now while we do need to get the
20:10 license plate lights to fit I do need
20:13 some more clips and I do have the badges
20:16 and emblems but I am going to get this
20:18 trunk uh wet sanded and buffed it's got
20:20 a little bit too much Orange Peel at the
20:21 moment so I'm going to wait to put those
20:24 on until I have that done so now with
20:25 that done I'm going to move into the
20:27 cockpit and we're going to put a tune on
20:29 this thing okay for the tune I hit up
20:31 the guys over at arcade tunes and uh
20:34 Jordan sent me over a tune for the car
20:35 and the mods that I've done to it
20:38 including the intake and the exhaust uh
20:41 so it should be pretty simple to install
20:42 they sent a cable and there's some
20:45 software that I downloaded uh so I'll
20:47 pretty much just pop the file on and
20:49 we'll be good should just take a couple
20:51 minutes okay the car's on the dyno coach
20:52 is in the driver's seat so here's the
20:54 plan first we're going to do two runs
20:56 with the exhaust valves closed see how
20:58 much power we make then we'll open the
21:00 exhaust valves and see how much power we
21:02 make I'm guessing there'll probably be
21:04 like a 15ish horsepower difference
21:06 between valves closed and open and I'm
21:10 hoping we make around 260 all said and
21:13 done actually I have no hopes anything's fine
21:32 [Music]
21:34 that's the valve close right that's a
21:36 valve close
21:38 Okay well I hope the valve open makes a
21:40 big difference because we actually lost
21:42 horsepower overall with the valve closed
21:45 it's only making 225 horsepower now I
21:47 mean the valve closed it makes the
21:50 exhaust basically do a big 180 pretty
21:52 quickly so it's not great for flow it
21:54 just quiets it down so I hope valve open
22:00 I'm just going to have to suck on that
22:02 exhaust let him do a few more runs hell
22:05 no man okay now the exhaust valves are
22:13 horsepower what
22:15 what
22:22 on huh something went wrong with
22:25 somewhere I think was Happ nice well
22:27 it's just making too much power for the
22:29 software to handle I think don't laugh
22:32 like that it feels good it sounds good
22:35 right isn't that all that really matters [Music]
22:55 [Music]
22:58 right all right let's go see oh I made
23:00 250 three yeah oh
23:04 oh all right we made 23.8 5 so we could
23:07 pretty easily round that up to 254 which
23:10 while it is not 255 or 256 and is
23:13 technically a loss it's at least an
23:16 increase so I am I'm happy I'm happy and
23:19 I'm going to while it is on paper and
23:23 L that's a w in my head so that's all
23:24 fine and
23:26 dandy but I'd like to take this car to
23:28 the streets where it's meant to be and
23:35 stressful all right so it's been a few
23:37 days since the dyno I've had a couple
23:42 days to reflect and uh well on the fact
23:43 that uh we didn't make the horsepower
23:45 that we wanted to make you know my
23:48 therapist says that I need to address my
23:50 failures and not move the goalpost to
23:53 make everything a success and uh I think
23:55 that's true so really has me thinking
23:58 about whether or not my original goals
24:01 were good goals you know uh horsepower
24:04 CSL I mean well intentioned and all but
24:06 is that what really matters I'm not sure
24:09 I think I think there might be something
24:10 more intangible you know that we're
24:13 really after so I think we got to get
24:16 out of the the dirty dinno dungeon and
24:18 out into the sunlight and see if this
24:30 a [Music]
24:31 [Music] [Applause]
24:34 [Applause] [Music]
25:48 well you know today really turned me
25:50 around I was all bummed out that we
25:51 didn't make enough power didn't meet our
25:53 goals but I tell you what a day of
25:56 cruising in the canyons really cures all
25:58 this car is exactly what I wanted it to
26:00 be and to be honest with you one or two
26:02 horsepower wouldn't make a difference at
26:05 all so I'm pretty happy with how things
26:07 turned out and I hope you guys are too I
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