First post so bear with me for any of the new guy mistakes that I am sure to make...
I recently picked up a 2003 E46 M3 with 33,000 miles on it. It has H&R coilovers, H&R anti sway bars, brembo 6 piston 15" up front, brembo 4 piston 15"in the back. The engine is bone stock other than K&N filters and intake elbow but that stuff really doesn't count... car has some pretty sexy deep dish HRE's on it. So now lets get to the fun part... tuning time...:D
I love every aspect of the car expect for the sound. I don't think its quite loud enough or a nearly good enough sound quality... to be honest I'm embarrassed of the way it sounds cause it sounds kind of like a Honda with that rasp that overpowers the exhaust sound. I don't hate the rasp just hate the fact that I hear more rasp than I do exhaust note.
Looking around a bit, I noticed that Active Autowerke is located only 5 minutes away from me so I decided to go check it out and give a listen to some of my options. Got lost on the way but the 700hp E92 they had on the dyno could be heard from miles away so I just followed my ears. Long story short they started up an E46 with headers and their exhaust so I could give a listen to it... It sounded so sexy and I was practically sold right then and there, it had a good tone but wasn't too loud in where I couldn't daily drive it comfortably, when he would step on it it would get muh louder than you would expect from the calm almost OEM that it was at idle .
I called him up today so he could price everything out for me and with their headers, signature exhaust and ECU tune installed it amounted to around $4000!!! :bawling:
My problem is that I have about $3500 to spend on this and want to be able to get the best sound and power gains possible for my money. I am younger so I don't really mind having a louder car but nothing too unbearable. This is just so frustrating... he told me they would give me some sort of discount for doing it all through them and using their products but he literally just gave me the same prices from their website :banghead:
I recently picked up a 2003 E46 M3 with 33,000 miles on it. It has H&R coilovers, H&R anti sway bars, brembo 6 piston 15" up front, brembo 4 piston 15"in the back. The engine is bone stock other than K&N filters and intake elbow but that stuff really doesn't count... car has some pretty sexy deep dish HRE's on it. So now lets get to the fun part... tuning time...:D
I love every aspect of the car expect for the sound. I don't think its quite loud enough or a nearly good enough sound quality... to be honest I'm embarrassed of the way it sounds cause it sounds kind of like a Honda with that rasp that overpowers the exhaust sound. I don't hate the rasp just hate the fact that I hear more rasp than I do exhaust note.
Looking around a bit, I noticed that Active Autowerke is located only 5 minutes away from me so I decided to go check it out and give a listen to some of my options. Got lost on the way but the 700hp E92 they had on the dyno could be heard from miles away so I just followed my ears. Long story short they started up an E46 with headers and their exhaust so I could give a listen to it... It sounded so sexy and I was practically sold right then and there, it had a good tone but wasn't too loud in where I couldn't daily drive it comfortably, when he would step on it it would get muh louder than you would expect from the calm almost OEM that it was at idle .
I called him up today so he could price everything out for me and with their headers, signature exhaust and ECU tune installed it amounted to around $4000!!! :bawling:
My problem is that I have about $3500 to spend on this and want to be able to get the best sound and power gains possible for my money. I am younger so I don't really mind having a louder car but nothing too unbearable. This is just so frustrating... he told me they would give me some sort of discount for doing it all through them and using their products but he literally just gave me the same prices from their website :banghead:
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