I'll probably get flamed for this, but hopefully some of you like it. I think with a drop, it'll look 100x better. I got bored and decided to throw my "spare" set of OEM wheels on. I wanted to wait until I had swapped the rears out to 225/40's and got some coilovers, but I got bored. Hopefully I'm able to source some decently priced coilovers soon. I'll update with pics when I get the coils, pull the fenders and throw 225/40's on the rear.

Here are the current specs after the adapters:
18x8 +22 225/40
18x9 +1 255/40

 

I thought those were off the e46. Last pic confirmed it. How many mill spacers are you running? Interesting and not bad. Will look better with different stance like you said.



John ny

 

not bad

 

fender pull + lowering + lil neg camber and thinner tires should be fine. Im not sure if your trying to reserve those wheels still if they ever have to go back on teh e46. Still cool, kudos for doing it.

but if i had a e46 m3, i doubt i would want to play with the fc anymore lol

 

They're 25mm adapters from 5x114.3 to 5x120.

Thanks for the comments.

 

Nah, they'll find their permanent home on the FC. I have OEM 19s on the M3 so they won't need to go back on. Thanks for the props, I'll update when it's dropped and fitting properly.

 

lower it and roll the quarterpanel

 

E46 is my next DD. I bet I'll still play with the FC even when I own the E46. FC is so much more raw and fun...... at least mine is

I was wondering about the different bolt patter. Shame, it looks like rear is about an inch too far out too.

 

please lower it!

 

haha yeah, it looks kinda DONK right now

 

holy mexican

 

haystack in the house! lol... not too bad looking, just lower it, add less meat, and you're good to go!

 

haha, thanks for the comments all. I knew some of you would start commenting about how it wasn't lowered and yes, in about 5 minutes I'm actually going to be paypal-ing some money for coils. Hopefully they come soon. Once it's lowered and with less ***-meat it will look a lot better. There'll be a little stretch in the rear, but I believe I can even get it to fit with the 255's if I did an aggressive pull.

The M3 is fun out of the box. I like being able to drive without slowing too much for speed bumps. I came from a ridiculously low IS300 so I'm enjoying the driving characteristics of the stock M3. The handling is more than I can ask for, for the time being. I will probably throw just some springs on eventually when I'm finished with the FC. The FC's already faster than the M3, now I must make it brake and handle better.

I told myself that I'd spend money to make the M3 more of a beauty and the FC more of a beast (get it get it?). Not the other way around. Turbo kit for the M3 is ~$16k for the HPF --and that's without internals and installation. The FC is considerably cheaper to build and less worry if I break anything, hence my reasoning.

Gyea gyea what's good bay point!

Jaime

 

DROP the car and your good.

 

looks good! i always see bmw wheels cheap localy but didnt wanna spend the cash for adapters

 

why do approx 90% of your posts have pictures? Maybe not 90% of all of them, but 90% of the ones I see have a pic in them, or reference the japanese

 

^^^^Maybe because you are new here, and lately hes been posting relevant pictures in the non technical and PICTURES section..

John ny

 

hypertek is like photobucket.
He has pictures of anything for anything if you can imagine it, he has a picture of it.

=]

 

Well, I had the wheels already, so throwing them on was only a matter of $200 for the adapters. Not too bad if you ask me. I think it's worth while cause you can find a whole bunch of aggressive offset wheels for BMWs for cheap, as you said. Thanks

 

hmm.. it gets the point across AND CONTRIBUTES to the topics, why do you have a problem with my response? this is a free forum, freedom of speech. Regarding references to Japan related things, this is a japanese car, its natural to reference to the cars homeland styling. If we lived anywhere else, and where discussing an american car, the rules would easily be reversed.

Google is easy to use to grab pictures.

 

Doesn't look bad, but not my taste. Lower it a couple inches a with a fender roll.

 

If you wanna go with that, sure

I want to see a picture of a midget dressed up like a goat, being violated by a sheep. Not just any sheep though, a shaved sheep.

That last picture contributed nothing but maybe humor to some, a slap on the forehead for others. I belong to a few American Car forums as well as a few off-road forums as well. We NEVER reference Detroit, or anyone elses rig either. Perhaps we have original thoughts. Theory dismissed.

 

All of the pictures on this thread contribute to nothing more than humor and a slap on the forehead.

 

Seeing is believing~1

 

You realize i am just messing with you, right?

john ny