E46 M3 GTR Coming Home

I have just agreed a deal to bring my old E46 GTR back to Ireland , I built the car brand new myself in 2011 and sold it to strata motorsport for the 2011 Silverstone 24 hours where it finished the race first time out and was one of the quickest BMWs in the race with a totally standard CSL engine running circa 350 bhp which i was very pleased with

I know the car inside out as i built it myself and have been involved with the car throughout its life so it made sense for me to bring it back home , Everything was done in my workshop apart from welding and fabrication as i am shit at welding so leave that to the professionals , It has only run 30 hours from brand new and is fully refreshed again including being stripped completly and dipped & Repainted with brand new Engne , Drenth , Motec , Drexler and exhaust

This is how it started and during the build

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First Shake down and test

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At the 2011 Silverstone 24 hours

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Thats great Mark, will be up for a spin :D Thinking of racing it again?

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Well done Porscheman, that is superb news. I hope the plan is to get it out for some tracktime yourself? Incredibly ballsy build, I take a bow! :)

Tut Tut, doesnt even have xenons :0 :) :)

Good stuff Mark :cool:

Savage....what's on the cards for her??

Class! What sort of mpg does she get?[SMILING FACE WITH OPEN MOUTH][SMILING FACE WITH OPEN MOUTH]


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Plan is to use it myself in Ireland and enter it in either Barcelona or Silverstone 24 hours later in the year

The shell has been acid dipped and rebuilt and painted recently so its like brand new

Fuel Consumption is about 1.2 litres per minute

What size fuel tank does it use ? What octane rating of fuel do you use in racing ? I seen this car in the flesh a long time ago to says its savage in the flesh would be an understatement

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What size fuel tank does it use ? What octane rating of fuel do you use in racing ? I seen this car in the flesh a long time ago to says its savage in the flesh would be an understatement

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Its even nicer now TBH

It can use any fuel with different maps but i would always run min 99 octane and we run 102 in the 24 hours to be safe

Fuel tank is circa 125 litres

Remember reading a bit about it when u were building it!!! Good to see such a car coming back this side of the pond!!!

Great to see it coming back to Ireland, any videos of it in action?, on youtube for example...

I dont have anything but it raced in the Silverstone 24 hours and that was recorded for tv so might be online somewhere