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Build Planning

After well over a year of moving around a dead car and searching for a second hand engines or other E46 M3 wrecks with running engines I was almost going to give up. Then my job situation changed and I had an opportunity, with both the time and resources now at my fingertips to make a full E46 M3 project viable I decided to investigate further. I toyed with the idea of getting an S54 crate motor from BMW, obviously an absurd notion, but this thought and Google led me to Lang Racing Development's website.

I started pricing up a Lang Racing Development rebuild and although pricey I could build a significantly more bulletproof engine along with additional performance all for the price of getting a stock rebuild from BMW directly and for not too much more than quoted by BM Autohaus originally. This grew more and more appealing the more I looked into it so I started emailing Andrew directly about some of the options.

I decided that now was the time to make this build a reality so I started investigating other upgrades for Brakes, Suspension, Cooling, etc. If I was going to replace the engine I wanted to do it all. Anything that was rusted or old needed to be replaced with something new or better or refurbished if there were no other options.

Let the build planning begin...

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