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It's a B.I. to install the intake, and to be honest, unless the Canadian-Spec M3 is slightly different, it doesn't fit well and in my opinion is poorly designed.
The cone sits right behind the left front wheel, unfortunatley the wheel-well has slits in it, making it really easy for it to get dirty/wet.
The Baro-Sensor, was not fitted to the intake properly,and I had to grind down the hub it sits on.
You have to take off the left front tire and part of the wheel-well to install; took myself and another one of my gear-head buddies a good 4 hours to install.
While taking off part of the wheel well, you have to remove at least one staple of 3 that attaching the front wheel-well to the top-well. These didn't exist in the AEM instructions.
The air-flow sensor and and BP sensor's wires are a stretch to attached to the intake.
The resonator is a ***** to get off, good luck. (hump)
Make sure to have a 10mm wrench head, and a Alan tool handy.
If you live in Canada and you opted for the underbody coating, have fun finding/taking out the plastic screws in the underbody.
Which leads me to my last quirk, taking the underbody panels off is easy but a pain in the ass.
The M3's Intake is certainly much harder to install then any Honda's I've ever seen.
I haven't really broke my baby in yet, I can't say there's any tangible performance boost. But @ ~3 - 3.5K you can hear the little thing sucking like mad, sounds nice.
It's a B.I. to install the intake, and to be honest, unless the Canadian-Spec M3 is slightly different, it doesn't fit well and in my opinion is poorly designed.
The cone sits right behind the left front wheel, unfortunatley the wheel-well has slits in it, making it really easy for it to get dirty/wet.
The Baro-Sensor, was not fitted to the intake properly,and I had to grind down the hub it sits on.
You have to take off the left front tire and part of the wheel-well to install; took myself and another one of my gear-head buddies a good 4 hours to install.
While taking off part of the wheel well, you have to remove at least one staple of 3 that attaching the front wheel-well to the top-well. These didn't exist in the AEM instructions.
The air-flow sensor and and BP sensor's wires are a stretch to attached to the intake.
The resonator is a ***** to get off, good luck. (hump)
Make sure to have a 10mm wrench head, and a Alan tool handy.
If you live in Canada and you opted for the underbody coating, have fun finding/taking out the plastic screws in the underbody.
Which leads me to my last quirk, taking the underbody panels off is easy but a pain in the ass.
The M3's Intake is certainly much harder to install then any Honda's I've ever seen.
I haven't really broke my baby in yet, I can't say there's any tangible performance boost. But @ ~3 - 3.5K you can hear the little thing sucking like mad, sounds nice.
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