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Originally Posted by sgreer78
1. Personal Preference.
2. Apex is the easy button.
3. Dinan seems to be the go-to, Hotchkis is a great company and I'm sure their bar is top notch too.
4. no bolts, pull pins then max front camber, rear is personal preference.
5. A lot can be saved, it won't be more quiet.
I'm sure all of this can be found by reading in the nearly 40 page thread dedicated to the subject.
http://www.m3post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=981788
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1. The 'M' button loads your preset options. Go to idrive settings and modify the M option for autocross settings. I put everything on the maximum, but you may choose a bit differently. Then you just need to push the M button and the DSC button at events.
2. Yep. Apex is the easy button. Great looking, light, strong, and reasonably priced. Someone recently had some TRMotorsports in 18x9,18x10 for sale. I had just bought some or I would have bought them. You might search for them on M3forums. Another nice option is M4 18" wheel option M513 style wheel. I think they look great and they are surprisingly very lightweight. Tough to find used though. Search here in the F80/F82 section.
3. Is the Hotchkis bar adjustable? I recently bought one 2nd hand, but haven't seen it yet. I thought it was not adjustable. Both Dinan and Hotchkis are 32mm. Most seem to like a lot of bar up front. I didn't bother with endlinks.
4. Yep. Pull the pins and get max front camber. Rear - maybe a little less. Toe to preference. I find 0 toe front works well and at least a little toe in for the rear. (I'm erroneously running quite a bit of rear toe in 9/32", but talking with my co-driver I am not sure that it is really too much. Drives great, but I'd suggest more like 1/8" rear toe in.)
5. Stock is 54lbs. Akropovic is probably the favorite with what I understand is great sound and weighs only 23lbs. Costs $3700 - and used if you can find it is not much cheaper. Remember that coupes and sedans have different mufflers (coupe is longer - some are adjustable to work with both). BMW Performance is 34lbs and less pricey - nice sound. Borla sounds good and is probably relatively cheap - I don't have a weight on it. (I'm still on stock waiting to find a well timed Acropovik deal from someone that doesn't realize what it is worth - 1.5 years into that search... )