BMW E46 M3 Air to Water Intercooled Supercharger System

Very Clever system that really takes advantage of the throttle body lay-out on the e46 M3. The Folks from VF Engineering fabricated a custom plenum in the same general shape as the stock plenum that integrates an Air to Water intercooler. What's interesting about this is, other companies have also identified the stock plenum as a weak component and provided their own replacement as part of their kits. To the best of my knowledge, VF is the only company that has integrated an intercooler into the replacement.

Fantastic video product demo, as an M3 owner myself, I really enjoyed seeing the installation shots, and step-through of the components.

[Watch Video, E46 M3 Intercooled Supercharger System]
[VF-Engineering]
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10 years for Fidanza, and a little something for the Mustang crowd

Happy 10 year anniversary to the folks at Fidanza! We've had a lot of fun hanging out with the folks from Fidanza over the past year and really enjoyed their videos as well.

While not related directly to the anniversary, Fidanza is also announcing their new line of Mustang Clutches and Fly Wheels as well. After seeing the abuse they put their Corvette through, you know these guys like to make a product you can have fun with.

[More Info: Fidanza Clutches for Mustang]
[Fidanza Anniversary Announcement]
[Fidanza Videos on StreetFire]

NEW FORUM SECTION, Car mod news :Touch Screen Datalogger

I've been getting a lot of neat info on new products ever since we attended the SEMA show and I thought it might be nice to share the info with you all as it slides across my desk. so first, we're launching a new forum for press releases and announcements from tuners and car builders, as well as new car parts etc, The Modification Parts and Tuner News Forum.

So, for the first announcement:
It looks like the folks from FAST are putting a Data Logger with virtual gauges and up to an hour of stored information with 2MB of memory (expandable to 16MB). Here is a quick summary.

Product: FASTTM XFITM Touch Screen Dash/Data Logger
Part Number: #301417
Features & Benefits:

• Six-inch touch screen features back light for easy reading, day or night
• Records outputs at rate of 1000 samples/second; data logs up to 25 input channels
• Features 8 analog inputs, 2 speed inputs & programmable inputs
• Data is downloadable through USB, C-COM XFITM or other Windows-based programs
• Standard 2MB memory stores up to one hour of data

....rats...no love for us Mac guys....oh well, I have Parallels so the best of both worlds.

[More info after the Jump]
[Modification News Forum]