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Originally Posted by Eddien123
Has* but yeah you're probably right I really wasn't too into the bmw scene around the spawn of the E46. In America we never got it so in my case, yeah it would be easier to just shave weight off of a standard e46 m3
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SMG ---> conversion takes around 10 hours of work and ~$1000 in parts, most of which you can recoup by selling your SMG pump.
Making an M3 CSL weight, with CSL mindset (read: 50:50 weight distro and not ruining the car by gutting it or putting an obnoxious zero weight "muffler" on it) is tens of thousands of dollars worth of parts and dozens of hours of work. Beyond that, "convert" (which is what you actually said) would take that cost to more than a new M3, and some parts are NLA these days.
Said as someone with a ~CSL weight/mindset (a little lighter but not 50:50) e46 M3, that's converted a couple e46 M3s from SMG to 6mt.