The exhaust sounds amazing! I feel like you shouldn't add the widebody fenders and just do some carbon bits like a front lip and rear diffuser then she will look mint!
It always worked great in my M140i 😁 mine wasn’t tuned though and yes expecting it to launch like an RS3 will lead to disappointment. It still wasn’t bad though
@@Holdeenio I always tend to just brake boost mine, only used launch control a few times but I find it’s quicker just giving it like 1.5k revs and letting off the brake in sports +
@@jsl82837 no they aren’t buddy? The front wheels are very slightly into the arch by a few mm. Widening the rear arch so close to rear door is a bad idea.
@@sidrens5292 the car has a wider body in the front than the rear, and with the spacers to compensate for that they now are wider out in the front than in the rear, it needs to be wider in the rear.
No better way to watch a Matt Armstrong video than sat in benalmadena, makes me feel like a big kid getting excited when the notifications come through ☀️🇪🇸
Mat, no need to widen the rear. It looks amazing as it is now, although, how about replacing the rear lights with the type you got for the M4? This exhaust looks fantastic! Just wrap it and you're done on this one! 👌👌👌👌
@@henrik5360 No it isn’t. Not every car needs a wide front and rear, that’s just the standard way of doing things. This is a special kind of project and the combination of it all suits it well. The wider arches are just going to ruin the rest of the “lines”.
Hi Mat, These have the B58 engine in which is shared with the BMW M240i and the toyota Supra, not forgeting various other BMW's, the B58 in these is set to 340 bhp but more often than not puts out 360+bhp in stock form, one guy i know got 372 bhp (or there abouts) on 2 different dynos, with a stage 1 remap 410+ is very obtainable, stage 2 which is what you are nearly at should see you around the 465+ bhp area!
I’ve seen stock m140i read over 360bhp when run on premium fuel ⛽️… with an off the shelf stage 1 map they can hit over 410bhp so the B58 engine is a complete beast 👌🏼 with your exhaust mods, if you do the intake too and stage 2 you’ll hit 450bhp no sweat. That’s why this is a fantastic daily.
Mate this has got to be hands down the best uk car channel on UA-cam. Followed you from the start, found your channel when I was looking up lowering spring fitment to a golf years ago. Only channel I actually watch religiously. Deserve every success mate!
Love the sound of the new exhaust and downpipe, Once your fitted the Downpipe the turbo spool sounded even better!!! You absolutely right that’s how M140i should sound from the factory. 🔥🔥🔥
I am a huge 140i fan and I love what you have done with it. Even the M2 part give this car a new fresh look. Bro the 4 pipe insane. I have always imaged this car with 4 pipes and today you made my dreams come true.
Nailed it with the exhaust. As far as the bodywork goes just wrap it or paint it. Don’t wide body it. Also don’t worry about the hub centric spacers. They’re not driven wheels at the end of the day.
That exhaust looks damn fine and sounds even better....if it were my choice I wouldn't fit the wide arches, far to much hassle for little gain. I think, once you've wrapped it it's going to look mint....👌
there will be alot of drone. i have done both my N55 335i and B58 240i. best sound but alot of drone when cruising or low gear underload. if you can, id recommend a valvetronic system. done both my cars, never going back. sounds beautiful man
Matt, are you keeping this one? It’s got your plate on it!!! Love all your vids, been watching since your black 1er, keep up the energy and sometimes craziness going
Don’t think he will really keep any of the cars it doesn’t make sense for him to keep them for the content he always has to buy , repair , modify , sell he uses the money from the sales of each car to buy his next project
@@jonawilk he does keep some for longer than others like the Maserati has been here for a long time all the cars he had when he got the Maserati are gone now so
She looks great Matt wheel spacers are ace . Great job on the exhaust.My opinion is don’t touch the wheel arches. Can’t wait to see what you do with the exterior another wrap ? 👍👍
That’s Defo had a remap I’ve had mine for a year now and just from video and the idol you can tell it’s had a stage one map, these m140is don’t really like launching compared to the golfs and the rs3s as they have adaptive awd which sends 100% of power to all 4 wheels when launching which is really good unlike the rwd m140i that’s the only bad thing I have to say about mine! Hope this helps matt!
Nice project! love the F20 BMW.. quick question about the front wheels, wouldn't it be better to choose a wheel model with a correct Offset\ET instead of putting such a huge spacer?
Deffo need the wide rear arches! They’ll look awesome. Prob all could’ve got away with 35mm spacers on front, think 40mm would’ve been pushing it a bit.
Now the spacers are on it brings the whole front end together, looks wicked! IMO you don't need widened rear arches. Just leave the front wide AF. Hey, if the 'only flared front arches' look was good enough for the Audi S3 8L, it's good enough for this :D
Looks good already. I'd be tempted to go super aggressive murdered out look with Arches and all matt black and tint all windows and do a wiper delete at the back
These videos are brilliant. Can I make one suggestion though. Is it possible to number your clips to it makes it easier to search for them and watch chronologically. Brilliant work though Matt and keep up the good work.
The sound of the exhaust is sick, I have a feeling that the final output will be very special! Your content is just on another level , keep up with the good work!
Looks better with 30mm spacers. A lot of people say fitting spacers causes problems for the geometry set up . I have had 30mm all round on my RRS and never had a problem .
Nice Mat, I like 👌🏽 Keep the shape simplistic, it already looks insane bro. Have it colored up and see, I think it's gonna look pretty original and sick 🔥 If it were in my books; this project is done son! 😎
I'm curious regarding its mechanicals, much has been done regarding its exterior and very impressive it is too but what do we know about its underpinnings suspension, brakes, LSD. I assume it was also tuned by previous owner so wondering have mechanicals been upgraded to accommodate the extra performance. I wonder when it's finished would it be possible to get a rough estimate of total cost of build basing on owning a standard m140i to finished article
i dont think you should change too much of the body. looks quite nice and as soon as u wrap it im sure its gon be awesome looking. and that sound is straight fire!!
Bit of a random one Matt, but I have C180 and I’ve modified the appearance of the vehicle, but I now want to improve the performance. Any recommendations of what I can do to improve the performance and power?
Leave the arches the rear bumper has done a job at making it look all balanced and aggressive front and rear. Love to see this wrapped in a satin red or purple with the bronze alloys to match the m4
Sounds like my old ibiza pd130 on tick over with the downpipe 👍 sounds mint i recon you shouldnt wide arch bike and black ⚫whole thing out blowers they are mince golf rs etc stage one 🤘
Mate that car is sounding mint, don't ruin the rear leave it and wrap it in a matt electric blue with carbon accents. So love watching your builds coming along and now with Hannah aswell it's double the fun!! Keep the amazing content coming.
The exhaust sounds amazing! I feel like you shouldn't add the widebody fenders and just do some carbon bits like a front lip and rear diffuser then she will look mint!
Stick the car in sports plus, move the gearbox into sport (but not manual) then hold on left foot brake, max gas and it’ll engage launch control 🚀
Launch control isn’t that good on this since it’s rwd so not much point in it
It always worked great in my M140i 😁 mine wasn’t tuned though and yes expecting it to launch like an RS3 will lead to disappointment. It still wasn’t bad though
@@Holdeenio I always tend to just brake boost mine, only used launch control a few times but I find it’s quicker just giving it like 1.5k revs and letting off the brake in sports +
Don’t wide arch it, I’ll look good once it all one colour
I think he should because the front wheels are now sticking out more than the back ones and that’s no good
@@jsl82837 no they aren’t buddy? The front wheels are very slightly into the arch by a few mm. Widening the rear arch so close to rear door is a bad idea.
@@sidrens5292 the car has a wider body in the front than the rear, and with the spacers to compensate for that they now are wider out in the front than in the rear, it needs to be wider in the rear.
@@MrToastyman900 I would make up and stick on some bespoke arch trims to give appearance of wider rear section.
Sir Sparco it’s barely wider, nobody’s gonna come up to it with a tape measure to check, it’s not that deep
No better way to watch a Matt Armstrong video than sat in benalmadena, makes me feel like a big kid getting excited when the notifications come through ☀️🇪🇸
Soooooo jealous 😪
cracking place that! try johnnies bar if your on hols :)
@Ex troll Now living clean life 🤭🤭🤭
I was in Benalmadena before really lovely place👍
@@ratio6665 I agree mate
Car looks banging just wrap it/ paint match it all and start doing power mods, wide body will ruin it
Ofv
Ofc
I agree
I totally agree
needs lowering some more imo
Great to see how Mat channel has grown and developed since the early days. Well done.
Mad how quickly he’s become successful. Well done to the lad
Only the Audi TT video fans would understand
Mat, no need to widen the rear. It looks amazing as it is now, although, how about replacing the rear lights with the type you got for the M4? This exhaust looks fantastic! Just wrap it and you're done on this one! 👌👌👌👌
Thought I was the only one with that view
Totally agree. The rear end on them standard looks wide as f#ck anyway
Totally 🔥😎
Totally agree, no need for the rear widening. It looks great now, just go on with the cosmetic look now, colours
Sack the wide rear arches off, looks sick already
Yea, he just needs to paint or wrap it in one colour and gad damn it’s going to look hot
It is super weird that the front is wider then the rear?! He should definently go with the wide rear arches
@@henrik5360 No it isn’t. Not every car needs a wide front and rear, that’s just the standard way of doing things.
This is a special kind of project and the combination of it all suits it well. The wider arches are just going to ruin the rest of the “lines”.
front and rear should have about the same width at the moment. he could replace the spacers with m2 suspension geometry tho.
@@henrik5360 looking at it it does not seem like the front is wider than the rear.
Looking great as always, Matt! Personally feel like you shouldn't widen the rear arches more; I would go with it as it is.
Hi Mat, These have the B58 engine in which is shared with the BMW M240i and the toyota Supra, not forgeting various other BMW's, the B58 in these is set to 340 bhp but more often than not puts out 360+bhp in stock form, one guy i know got 372 bhp (or there abouts) on 2 different dynos, with a stage 1 remap 410+ is very obtainable, stage 2 which is what you are nearly at should see you around the 465+ bhp area!
Pains me how it literally sounds like my Supra did, so annoying 😂😂
Edit: so much rasp without the cat 😂😂
The best type of noise! I always thought the supras sounded a little louder 🤷♀️😅
@@MatArmstrongbmx you should do a supra build!
@@CAG914 Yes but MK4
@@MatArmstrongbmx put a 2jz in the new supra
@@MatArmstrongbmx you should put a 2JZ in there
I’ve seen stock m140i read over 360bhp when run on premium fuel ⛽️… with an off the shelf stage 1 map they can hit over 410bhp so the B58 engine is a complete beast 👌🏼 with your exhaust mods, if you do the intake too and stage 2 you’ll hit 450bhp no sweat. That’s why this is a fantastic daily.
Sport+, sports mode on gearbox, left foot brake, right foot flat down to the kick down pedal engages launch 👍🏻
So much content in one week between you and Hannah, it’s like Christmas 🥲
Mate this has got to be hands down the best uk car channel on UA-cam. Followed you from the start, found your channel when I was looking up lowering spring fitment to a golf years ago.
Only channel I actually watch religiously. Deserve every success mate!
Love the sound of the new exhaust and downpipe, Once your fitted the Downpipe the turbo spool sounded even better!!! You absolutely right that’s how M140i should sound from the factory. 🔥🔥🔥
How on earth you drove that from Mallory to just outside Litchfield with no exhaust and didn’t get pulled is beyond me! Good work!
Been watching the videos Mat, and I don’t think you the go any wider, the car absolutely looks perfect the way it is man.
I am a huge 140i fan and I love what you have done with it. Even the M2 part give this car a new fresh look. Bro the 4 pipe insane. I have always imaged this car with 4 pipes and today you made my dreams come true.
Nailed it with the exhaust. As far as the bodywork goes just wrap it or paint it. Don’t wide body it. Also don’t worry about the hub centric spacers. They’re not driven wheels at the end of the day.
30mm spacers will knock out the wheel bearings in no time though.
I'm in love with this car, absolutely mental. Your best build by far!!
Congratulations and I wish you more brilliance and success, you are inspiring in cars
That exhaust looks damn fine and sounds even better....if it were my choice I wouldn't fit the wide arches, far to much hassle for little gain. I think, once you've wrapped it it's going to look mint....👌
Best build so far! Well worth the money beats every other car you’ve done to date
there will be alot of drone. i have done both my N55 335i and B58 240i. best sound but alot of drone when cruising or low gear underload. if you can, id recommend a valvetronic system. done both my cars, never going back. sounds beautiful man
I was waiting so much about Gallardo but damn , can't wait for RS5 build
Matt, are you keeping this one? It’s got your plate on it!!! Love all your vids, been watching since your black 1er, keep up the energy and sometimes craziness going
actually a new plate his one is MA06BMX I'm pretty sure this is an 07 but doesn't mean he's keeping it he's put the 06 one on the others as well
Don’t think he will really keep any of the cars it doesn’t make sense for him to keep them for the content he always has to buy , repair , modify , sell he uses the money from the sales of each car to buy his next project
@@jonawilk he does keep some for longer than others like the Maserati has been here for a long time all the cars he had when he got the Maserati are gone now so
@@Amir.253 true mate don’t think this bm will stay though
She looks great Matt wheel spacers are ace . Great job on the exhaust.My opinion is don’t touch the wheel arches. Can’t wait to see what you do with the exterior another wrap ? 👍👍
Nice work by Jacques Fab!!! Looks perfect.
Man oh man! The exhaust transformation videos are absolutely my favourite. I've learnt so much from this channel.
'Send it'..... that's what we need more of in our lives. Awesome video Mat and Hannah
Another great video... Youre giving me so many ideas for my m140 😍
Love your videos Matt, your welder guy is a total craftsman… excellent job
That’s Defo had a remap I’ve had mine for a year now and just from video and the idol you can tell it’s had a stage one map, these m140is don’t really like launching compared to the golfs and the rs3s as they have adaptive awd which sends 100% of power to all 4 wheels when launching which is really good unlike the rwd m140i that’s the only bad thing I have to say about mine! Hope this helps matt!
Hi mate have straight piped my 140i up untill the front section where the pipes a bit flat would this make a difference to the sound
Nice project! love the F20 BMW.. quick question about the front wheels, wouldn't it be better to choose a wheel model with a correct Offset\ET instead of putting such a huge spacer?
Deffo need the wide rear arches! They’ll look awesome. Prob all could’ve got away with 35mm spacers on front, think 40mm would’ve been pushing it a bit.
Now the spacers are on it brings the whole front end together, looks wicked! IMO you don't need widened rear arches. Just leave the front wide AF. Hey, if the 'only flared front arches' look was good enough for the Audi S3 8L, it's good enough for this :D
Matt if you check on the I drive settings go to the sports clocks and if its been remapped the sports clocks bhp should be changed to 400hp
I'm in the process of buying a 140i and now it's going to have to be straight piped when I eventually find the right one ,thanks Matt and Hannah !!!!
Do a xhp gearbox flash, makes the gear changes a lot quicker, you can customise the pops and bangs on the app aswell!
Sounds great and rear en looks perfect like it is now.
JUST CANT WAIT TO SEE THE COLOUR YOU GONNA WRAP IT WITH .... I LIKE THE PROGRESS ALREADY....watching from S.A
This sounds great just got my 140 sorted after 3 other combos this is the only one for me great video M8 :)
Great sound !! The upshifts are 🔥
Matt that sounds beast can’t wait for the wrap and remap. Those pipes out the back look ream nice one matt 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Looks good already. I'd be tempted to go super aggressive murdered out look with Arches and all matt black and tint all windows and do a wiper delete at the back
Either stealth it out like rear bumper, or go with paint from m2 front and ppf, both will look sick
Matt, you are a genius.
I know that M140i is going to look gr8 once complete.
Keep up the good work👍
love the build, my favourite BMW- MATFam for life- love the videos Mat💯💯😎🔥🔥
please keep doing what you’re doing, i love the vids! much love from the USA
These videos are brilliant. Can I make one suggestion though. Is it possible to number your clips to it makes it easier to search for them and watch chronologically. Brilliant work though Matt and keep up the good work.
The sound of the exhaust is sick, I have a feeling that the final output will be very special! Your content is just on another level , keep up with the good work!
Yo matt on the m140 if you stick it in sport and then click the traction button it will make it crackle much more
I can't wait to see this wrapped! It looked odd before the new rear bumper was on but now looks mint 👌 might even look better than a coupe M2!
Don’t add a wide body but I would recommend upgrading the air filter. Cheap and has a big effect
Agreed. Airflow is often very restrictive as stock, in cars & bikes.
Looks better with 30mm spacers. A lot of people say fitting spacers causes problems for the geometry set up . I have had 30mm all round on my RRS and never had a problem .
Keep it as is mate its wicked at the min, loving this build well done Matt keep them coming
Omg Mat! That exhaust makes the 140i sound so sick! Once again a great vid with great content as per usual! 👍👍
im getting VRSF 200 cell downpipe tomorrow excited!!!!!
The fact when you start the car it doesn’t “cold start” every time could be a good indicator that it’s been mapped
Yea 100% be mapped out, m240i was deafening with an exhaust on oem cold start
@@Richjtj it’s a m140i
@@jamesdanielsfanpage7610 same engine
@@TheDarkhorse82 ik
@@TheDarkhorse82 I have a m140i and my dad has an m2 and an m240i
Nice Mat, I like 👌🏽
Keep the shape simplistic, it already looks insane bro. Have it colored up and see, I think it's gonna look pretty original and sick 🔥
If it were in my books; this project is done son! 😎
I would leave the rear as is.. once wrapped will look lovely
I'm curious regarding its mechanicals, much has been done regarding its exterior and very impressive it is too but what do we know about its underpinnings suspension, brakes, LSD. I assume it was also tuned by previous owner so wondering have mechanicals been upgraded to accommodate the extra performance.
I wonder when it's finished would it be possible to get a rough estimate of total cost of build basing on owning a standard m140i to finished article
love the sound, is this legal? stright piped?
M140i have always sounded good
i dont think you should change too much of the body. looks quite nice and as soon as u wrap it im sure its gon be awesome looking. and that sound is straight fire!!
Bit of a random one Matt, but I have C180 and I’ve modified the appearance of the vehicle, but I now want to improve the performance. Any recommendations of what I can do to improve the performance and power?
Smashed it my slime. It's looking perfect. Doing a brilliant job 😘
That sounds amazing Mat love the content, im a new subscriber from 3 days ago, your videos are kinda addicting not gonna lie keep it up
Brilliant video again Mat. Once it's got a complete paint job or wrap it will look stunning. Head Turner for sure
Dont do rear wheel arches. Looks 🔥 already. What colour you thinking? Dont know why, but thinking Burnt Orange?
Beautiful motor, perfect mix the M140 and M2
Another epic video Matt.. legit highlight is watching these project car videos!
Looks mint as it is and definitely doesn't need the planned flared arches.
that sound😍😍
Love it as it is. Don’t wide arch it.
Once it’s all one colour will look mint
The M140 is a beast!!! Can’t wait to see what it will b like when it’s Wrapped 👍🏻👌🏻
Sounds mental! Car looks sick without the wide arches IMO.
fitment is not bat at all at the end, but must go a bit down at the front. nice work!!!
SOUNDS LOVELY
Leave the arches the rear bumper has done a job at making it look all balanced and aggressive front and rear. Love to see this wrapped in a satin red or purple with the bronze alloys to match the m4
Gotta go wide at back .. make it a complete 1 off .. found this channel by accident and absolutely love it 👍🏻👍🏻
the m1and a half is coming along nice but I would deffo but the stock downpipe back on
Yeah matt u smashed it on that one. !!!! Good job mate !!!!
Epic work! Please change those tacky mirror caps though. See them everywhere now and look so cheap. What colour will you be wrapping this beast?
Bruv really beautiful that 140i has now become by dream car defenitly gonna buy 1 next month
Those wheels are awesome, you really smashed this one Matt
I love wide arches but I don’t think it will look right, looks good already.
Amazing build! But really don’t like the spacers it looks good but it isn’t good. Thanks for the content
Exhaust sounds great Matt really love it
The 140i is a really nice hot hatch aka pocket rocket
Yeh I agree with all the other comments, don’t wide arch it !!
Sweet start to a Friday night 👊
Sounds like my old ibiza pd130 on tick over with the downpipe 👍 sounds mint i recon you shouldnt wide arch bike and black ⚫whole thing out blowers they are mince golf rs etc stage one 🤘
You actually jumped when Hannah revved 😂love your natural reactions mate, another mental motor🔥
The best sounding and looking car you have done Matt. Awesome vids, keep it up 👍
Mate that car is sounding mint, don't ruin the rear leave it and wrap it in a matt electric blue with carbon accents. So love watching your builds coming along and now with Hannah aswell it's double the fun!! Keep the amazing content coming.
Sounds epic Matt, great to see Dave Jacques at Jacquesfab on the video, what a guy!!!
No wide arches looks class already, sounds the part too!
That sounds SICK! Love it! Don't do the wide arches in the rear... less is more. 👍