Saxon's Mineral White m3 build thread

[saxon]

Originally Posted by greytrack

Congrats man. Selling my S4 and getting an F80. Cant wait to see it!

picked it up tonight!!

first impressions are that the exhaust actually sounds pretty damn good!!

not happy with pedal response unless its on sport plus

the carbon cloth is actually pretty nice!!

cruising 6th gear on the highway @ 80 is very smooth and more than enough passing power without dropping down a gear

Harmon Kardon sounds "ok" I am glad i got it but not very impressed to be honest

[saxon]

giving her some lovin'

20150629_194649 by saxonbrian2, on Flickr

20150629_210834 by saxonbrian2, on Flickr

[RJVIII]

1Welcome brotha! Know it's been a long time coming!

[j23a45m]

Haha hey Saxon
Glad to see she's finally home, can't wait to see her at work man. This tempts me so much now it's not even funny.

Marcus 😊

[Bimmerchop]

Congrats bud! Glad she's finally home

[saxon]

Originally Posted by j23a45m

Haha hey Saxon
Glad to see she's finally home, can't wait to see her at work man. This tempts me so much now it's not even funny.

Marcus 😊

thanks man!! excited is an understatement!

[danniexi]

over three months with the his thread. finally got the car! The wait must've been killer.

congrats! :

[trey100]

Originally Posted by saxon

picked it up tonight!!

first impressions are that the exhaust actually sounds pretty damn good!!

not happy with pedal response unless its on sport plus

the carbon cloth is actually pretty nice!!

cruising 6th gear on the highway @ 80 is very smooth and more than enough passing power without dropping down a gear

Harmon Kardon sounds "ok" I am glad i got it but not very impressed to be honest

Congratulations on the new ride!

Regarding pedal impression, I have to imagine coming from an 11.xx 1/4 mile supercharged car will do that.

[Lynchmob6]

Congrats...finally!

[saxon]

Originally Posted by trey100

Congratulations on the new ride!

Regarding pedal impression, I have to imagine coming from an 11.xx 1/4 mile supercharged car will do that.

maybe thats what it is, maybe its that I havent had a manual transmission since my last s2000



my next day off was detail day, if you notice in the first picture i picked it up without any dealer installed swirl marks and they left all plastics on the car for me to take off.

for the detail I
-spray foamed mtm cannon
-2 bucket washed
-sprayed down with Iron-X to get all the metal contaminants off the paint
-used nanoskin autoscrub to further clean the paint (replaces having to clay bar the car)
-polished using meguiars #7
-cleaned off all oils etc with IPA 50/50 solution
-applied cquartz UK ceramic coating (rather easy to work with)
-topped off with cquartz reload
-cleaned interior
-scotchguarded the carpet and seats
-used 303 for dash and all plastics

20150701_085352 by saxonbrian2, on Flickr

IMG_20150702_110047 by saxonbrian2, on Flickr

IMG_20150701_102304 by saxonbrian2, on Flickr

installed the grille and sidemarkers

20150701_185402 by saxonbrian2, on Flickr

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[saxon]

then today i installed 75mm studs (replaces the lug bolts), cleaned the wheels and installed 12mm spacers

20150702_144404 by saxonbrian2, on Flickr

20150702_150444 by saxonbrian2, on Flickr

20150702_150345 by saxonbrian2, on Flickr

hoping to get some better photo's here as soon as i install the lip/splitters

[saxon]

decided i wanted some more sound/power

IMG_20150921_202121 by saxonbrian2, on Flickr

my tuner tuned an m4 in florida with the same mods as my car, and then they compared it to a car on jb4 map 2, pretty impressed since everyone swears by jb4

jb4 vs cbtuning by saxonbrian2, on Flickr

[apexit]

Was the JB car running any e85?

[saxon]

Originally Posted by apexit

Was the JB car running any e85?

no, both cars on 93 octane

[saxon]

cleaned the car up today for a local car show and decided to try and take some pics at dusk

20151004_183849-1-1 by saxonbrian2, on Flickr

IMG_0384 by saxonbrian2, on Flickr

IMG_0375 by saxonbrian2, on Flickr