Hello from Cairo

[springz]

welcome aboard :)

[SHkater]

Welcome! I Enjoyed reading about the project, job well done!

[Bruno]

Very well done man...i respect the ppl who try to achieve the hard goal as they want it to be, one question came to my mind coz I was planning to do the same project but the only things let me down that the traffic department here, they reject my request of swapping the engine from 4 to 6 cylinders :( wht about in ur country? Is it allowed such transform, is it registered?

yes you can do it here... as long as you either copy the engine number from engine into engine B

or sometimes if the current car has N/A in the engine number box on the reigistration card this means the engine number was never registered and therefore you can do such a swap... hence my white e30 m3

[eoudeh]

^ you right, you can swap bigger engine with smaller one but opposite its not..this wht they informed me.....:dunno:

[Bruno]

i'm currently converting my 6 cyl to 4 khawa!

[eoudeh]

^:rofl:

[ahmad.alkhalil]

never in the history of cars have been gone from 6 to 4 cylinders... Bruno is just special! more is better... for most folk at least, hehe

[///Mahmoud]

Very much interested in Bruno's E30's. I need all E30 inspirations I can get for the new E30 I've just got. Where can I read/see pics?

[Bruno]

there are no e30 m3 threads yet... but i assure you there will be a massive thread about that.

i do have a couple of threads for the e39 m5 engine builds. one being here on this forum and another one being on M5boards.

[mahmoud_bedewi]

welcome to the forum my fellow egyptian :),
I am impressed by the neat job, guys this is a typical, yet done right, egyptian project car, In egypt we can't afford any original chassis EVO, M3, cupra nor GTI so what do we do? we make our own ones by swapping engines and trying to refine the rest to the best of our limits, I know you guys are picky and you consider most egy BMW to be riced but I see Mahmoud's (not me :D) "E46 home made M3" a good example of a neat project and a good work around our stupid taxes and customs system that only works for the benefit of Zastavas and ladas that pollute Cairo's environment :locked1:
again good work Mahmoud and welcome again

[Ozimandius]

Welcome to the club!

[///Mahmoud]

Thanks brother. I'm glad you understand the system/situation very well :)

[RAFiK]

Did you get inspired by the E46 M3 (sedan) that was built and posted on E46 Fanatics ?

[Bruno]

^ that damn MIT student :banghead:

[///Mahmoud]

Yes, George aka MITE46 definitely inspired me.
If you followed the entire E46fanatics thread, you'll see that at the end the car was towed to the dealer to work on the electronics, I did that part at home and drove the S54 with SMG tranny to the paint booth. It's never been to a dealership or independent shop, infact I'm sure the dealer here would refuse to work on such a heavily modified freak-car.
I started building an ADS/OBD interface before buying the S54, reversed some BMW code to mimic the hardware/software at the dealer. This was 2006-207. There was alot of electronics+code reversing involved...and I got addicted to it. Several months ago (way after I finished the car) I've been busy building a fully functional diagnostic/coding/programming system for new 2010+ cars including the F series. Just out of love for BMW (and hatred to Java, as the new system relies heavily on it.)
I'm not trying to compare apples to oranges, nor am I trying to say that "The Ancient Egyptians were the first to drop an S54 into an E46 sedan". Simply, every car build has a different story. No doubt George is a pioneer, a genius and a great inspiration.

I never posted or spoke about my car on any forum simply because nobody's ever asked and I had nothing to say really...I've already been rewarded (and still am) by driving the car.

But when I came to join this nice forum I was asked to talk about my ride, so I just did :)

Peace Y'all, or as we say...BeaCe Ya SHaPaP :D