New Forum Member - Jerez e92 comp

Hi everyone!

Not new to the SoCal car scene by any means, but this is my first dive into the world of M's. Picked up a 2011 E92 Comp 6MT last November and have loved every minute of it. Two-owner car with 48k on the clock, no accidents, all service records. I had the TA's replaced before delivery and am getting ready to replace rod bearings with BE upgraded replacements.

I finally started jumping onto forums to learn more about the platform. I am looking to perform some suspension/handling mods to really make the most of the handling in canyon runs and on rallies, but I don't have a lot planned in terms of power adders (it's such a fun car to drive, I don't want to ruin longevity of it).

Looking forward to learning all I can about the e9x platform! I have added a couple of pictures below from various drive events, etc.

Enjoy!

- J

This is a surprisingly effective mod.
It really does improve front tire life.

DIY: Let's pull the front alignment pins

welcome to the family, Great choice on color and 6mt!! you will definitely fine tune your M to your liking. I highly recommend upgrading your subframe bushing...will remove wheel hops when you are cruising or even going fast on highways and roads. Take your time with mods...and enjoy your M. We are basically brothers with same spec...I put over 100,000 miles on my M ....just have to keep up with maintenance and proper warmup!!! Happy Motoring...your JEREZ M looks very clean!!!

Davisca455 wrote

This is a surprisingly effective mod.
It really does improve front tire life.

DIY: Let's pull the front alignment pins

Thanks! I have noticed the car wants to understeer a little bit and I want to add a little camber to the front. I was going to wait until I installed my KW Clubsports. Did you see much handling improvement while keeping the OEM staggered wheel/tire combo?

GotV8? wrote

welcome to the family, Great choice on color and 6mt!! you will definitely fine tune your M to your liking. I highly recommend upgrading your subframe bushing...will remove wheel hops when you are cruising or even going fast on highways and roads. Take your time with mods...and enjoy your M. We are basically brothers with same spec...I put over 100,000 miles on my M ....just have to keep up with maintenance and proper warmup!!! Happy Motoring...your JEREZ M looks very clean!!!

Thank you! It took me eight months to find justttt the right one! I was lucky that a friend was in need of a larger vehicle and was forced to sell. He only owned it for two months and the previous owner put approx 4,500 miles per year when at their vacation home in San Diego.

I've heard replacing subframe bushings helps a lot with wheel hop. Would you recommend going with poly? Or would you go with the Turner solid mounts? I've heard pros and cons for both... It's my daily currently, but will become more of a fun weekend/canyon car over the next year or so.

jmeenach wrote

GotV8? wrote

welcome to the family, Great choice on color and 6mt!! you will definitely fine tune your M to your liking. I highly recommend upgrading your subframe bushing...will remove wheel hops when you are cruising or even going fast on highways and roads. Take your time with mods...and enjoy your M. We are basically brothers with same spec...I put over 100,000 miles on my M ....just have to keep up with maintenance and proper warmup!!! Happy Motoring...your JEREZ M looks very clean!!!

Thank you! It took me eight months to find justttt the right one! I was lucky that a friend was in need of a larger vehicle and was forced to sell. He only owned it for two months and the previous owner put approx 4,500 miles per year when at their vacation home in San Diego.

I've heard replacing subframe bushings helps a lot with wheel hop. Would you recommend going with poly? Or would you go with the Turner solid mounts? I've heard pros and cons for both... It's my daily currently, but will become more of a fun weekend/canyon car over the next year or so.

Better tires like ps4s at 28psi can help with traction and therefore reduce wheel hop. I have found this to be extremely effective on my non-modded stock powered DCT. The car launches hard every time with no wheel spin and therefore no wheel hop (dragy 0-60mph in 4 flat).

Where in SoCal are you located?

Car looks great, congrats! Jzb is the best color!!

The main improvement was tire wear at the track.
There was probably less push, but it's not like it made the car loose.

With pins in, my brand new PS4s wouldn't have lasted a 4th track day.

So I pulled the pins, put on a new set of PS4s and I got noticeably more tire life after 3 track days.
I added camber plates got another track day in on the same tires and am about to add another track day at the end of the month.

Camber Plate Installation (Vorshlag)

I also did solid rear subframe bushings as well, and that was a legit DIY.
The very high effort level was well worth it though.
It cured the lateral twitching at the rear of the car that I was experiencing in high speed sweepers.

Solid Rear Subframe Bushings/Power Flex Purple Diff Bushing

DIY: Rear differential and Subframe solid aluminum bushings

Sup dude. Car looks great.

welcome to the Jerez Black club

Welcome to The Club man, and congrats to a stunning looking car!

+1 for the solid subframe bushings and beautiful car man, welcome.

timothy2001 wrote

+1 for the solid subframe bushings and beautiful car man, welcome.

Thank you! General consensus seems to be to go with solid rear subframe mounts. So they are high on my list now!

Davisca455 wrote

The main improvement was tire wear at the track.
There was probably less push, but it's not like it made the car loose.

With pins in, my brand new PS4s wouldn't have lasted a 4th track day.

So I pulled the pins, put on a new set of PS4s and I got noticeably more tire life after 3 track days.
I added camber plates got another track day in on the same tires and am about to add another track day at the end of the month.

Camber Plate Installation (Vorshlag)

I also did solid rear subframe bushings as well, and that was a legit DIY.
The very high effort level was well worth it though.
It cured the lateral twitching at the rear of the car that I was experiencing in high speed sweepers.

Solid Rear Subframe Bushings/Power Flex Purple Diff Bushing

DIY: Rear differential and Subframe solid aluminum bushings

The rear end movement is definitely noticeable on faster corners and chicanes. I’ll probably have one of my local shop connections do the work for me (currently in an apartment with and underground garage spot), but I do want to start wrenching on the car myself once I’m situated with a house and room to work on it.

Vuu wrote

Where in SoCal are you located?

I’m in Marina Del Rey. I’m down in OC often if you are in for an Ortega cruise

Helmsman wrote

Welcome to The Club man, and congrats to a stunning looking car!

Thank you!

roastbeef wrote

Sup dude. Car looks great.

What's up man! Good seeing you on here! Just tossed you a follow from my car's IG. Let's go for a rip soon.

Bimmerpost notified me that this thread was "trending", and while I doubt that's actually the case, here's a current pic of the car's current setup. She's come a long way since my first weeks owning her.

I'd get the oem engine and transmission mounts swapped with new from go. Enjoy dude.

THEROK wrote

I'd get the oem engine and transmission mounts swapped with new from go. Enjoy dude.

Thanks man!

Since this car has seen a lot of track, I swapped out engine/trans mounts with Bimmerworld Group N and RevShift 80A. If I were to do it again, I'd replace the trans with fresh stock ones. The NVH addition was more than I wanted, but I didn't want to deal with swapping them out again.

Congrats! I bought a Jet Black E92 M3 ZCP earlier this year. Based in San Diego and looking for more drives in OC and SD.