My E36...

[Chigga]

Those Azev really set off the car, I think they are my favorite so far!

[Evil Panda]

<3

[BenKoflach]

Thanks!

Better pic here:

[G535]

Love the Azevs

I know the car has quite some camber but in the last pic it almost looks positive

Rears are sitting great but the fronts need to come down a tad...

[BenKoflach]

Love the Azevs

I know the car has quite some camber but in the last pic it almost looks positive

Rears are sitting great but the fronts need to come down a tad...

Thanks. And yeah I don't know why it looks like that - it's got less camber than it used to have at the back but it's still got a couple of degrees. The front has about 3.5 so maybe it's just the comparison.

Front will come down a touch once I can afford alignment. I do shitloads of mileage so can't afford to be chewing tyres up.

[BenKoflach]

As seen above I'm now in possession of a set of staggered 18" Azev As - 18x8.5 and 18x10.

I threw them on with no suspension or arch adjustment and they looked amazing, especially at the rear - the photos don't do justice to how good it looked or how little arch gap there was - I couldn't even fit my little finger up there around the rear half of the rear arches.





The rubbing was horrendous, and I can't stand not being able to drive a car properly, so set to work with my arch roller.



This is the result - pulled out a slight bit more than I had hoped but it was the only way to stop the rubbing - it'll now tuck those 10s under hard cornering without even a slight rub! Happy days.





Also tweaked the rear bumper alignment to match.



Plans are to see how it looks with the adjusters removed (currently has them but set as low as they go) and obviously hope that it doesn't rub, which I'm confident it won't. We have a track day in Feb which I'll put the Rotas back on for, then after that it'll be going proper low again

[Anonymoose]

Looking good steve

I can see some of the pictures at work too

[BenKoflach]

Arrg bloody Steve, haha, not my name! Curse of my workplace...

Good good, the IG ones by any chance?

[BenKoflach]

Who else has been enjoying the snow?

[MommysLittleMonster]

Action shots are awesome. New wheels look awesome as well.

I wish we had snow to play in.

[Minuki]

I have too

[Logotech]

Looking good !

[R. Jani]

Nature is favoring RWD and who would not use that opportunity to have some fun. I have

[BenKoflach]

Not much of an update, but got a couple of jobs done today which had been niggling me for a while.

First up, my passenger side rear door lock hasn't been operating with the central locking since only a couple of months after I got the car. So today I replaced the actuator, having got one from a car someone (bnum3 on E36coupe) was breaking for just a fiver - bargain!



It's a fiddly git of a job - got most of the way through dis-assembly then had to resort to this rather handy guide - http://www.m3forum.net/m3forum/showthread.php?t=114414

In that guide it says that you have to take the glass out to replace the actuator - thanks to my weedy hands though, I managed it without resorting to that. Took a while but got there in the end.

This is where it is - I had to fit it through the opening for the door handle.



With that done I moved onto the next job - replacing the seized aux fan, which was diagnosed last time I was up at DynoTorque. Again bought one from a car being broken, though I think it may have been off an M3 as the cowling was different.





Quick switcheroo of the motor and it was ready to go back in - after I'd cleared the mountain of leaves out that is.



Back in - top right bolt is a bugger so had to pop the headlight out for a mo.



Put it all back together and went for a test run, crossed a funny number - and yes, I need to redo my sharpie needles.



No matter how hard or slow I drove the fan just wouldn't come on but there's no reason to think it's not working. Will just have to wait until a warm day I guess. Numberplate also fell off so need to get some sticky pads, and I've gone back to smoked lights.

[nhojyauq]

i wish my rear fenders would roll like that. i have sealer in mine that wont come out...