Lazlo’s 2002 M3 Project

[Karl Lazlo]

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Road legal!

[cakM3]

Yesssssss!!!! Long time comming!! :thumbsup

[Karl Lazlo]

Yesssssss!!!! Long time comming!! :thumbsup

Most certainly! BP was gracious enough to roll to casa Lazlo and do some coding for me, and help t-shoot a lean condition at WOT under load.

Now, it gets snow tires today.

[johnrando]

Great!

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[Will]

This is so awesome, congrats! Glad you saved it from the crusher.

[Karl Lazlo]

Well, got the permanent VT tags last weekend, so instead of blue, the M3 wears green!

True to form, I decided to work on the car the coldest day of the year... Tackled the leaning out limp mode - Often times at WOT and under load, the car would go into "cat protection" mode and would have to restart. Then, during a coffee run on Friday, it decided on sending a misfire MIL.

Yesterday, in my cold garage, I replaced the fuel filter, test drive, still had the misfire and chased it down to likely coil pack. Swapped for one "in stock" in the garage (spare for my other 330s) and back to business. No code, car runs A LOT stronger with the new filter, but still get a *slight* hesitation but no limp mode now. Ordered new coils and plugs already and will swap them this week.

[johnrando]

Nice!

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[BADCLOWN]

Congrats on getting it registered and tagged !

[Karl Lazlo]

Congrats on getting it registered and tagged !

Thanks! Glad that is done.

Spent the weekend replacing the fuel filter and chasing down a misfire. The Beast was going to help me, but realized the garage was too cold.

Commuted to Dirty Jerz (New Jersey, for the uninitiated) and it's running great! Better MPG, too.

[Karl Lazlo]

Great shot taken this weekend at a little car meet and great. C rolled with me and wanted to take the M3.

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[cakM3]

Those BBS CH wheels look amazing on your M3 Ray!!! Car is looking very sharp my friend! :thumbsup

[Karl Lazlo]

They do, Charlie! Thanks for the comment and for the cak parts!

[Karl Lazlo]

A year +1 days since being "road legal." I have put about 12.5k miles in the car since. While repairing the car, but all stock and missed a few things while in there. AC compressor needed replacement, chasing down errant oil leaks, and generally beating the hell out of it. The car has been great and looking forward to more upgrades when the Porsche comes back from its winter projects.

Took the M3 to the track a few times and found some issues that need to be addressed:

1. Diff is shot. Needs new LSD
2. Suspension. Well, just plan needs. Old OE stuff is in there.

Other than that, the zombie M3 did great for a few track days and I am happy. So, let's celebrate with some pics!

The Beast doing a summer to winter wheel/tire swap:

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Oh, and since I have fallen off the deep end with track stuff, decided to add this for to aid logistics...

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