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so as promised in my "hello thread" a build thread its not so much as a build thread as its already done well not done but mk1 version is up and working great
anyway the history is i bought the car over a year ago in a very sorry sate, needed lots of welding, bushes etc the previous owner was going the scrap it, so i saved it arse from the crusher, and have been abusing it on a daily bases ever since
this is a short time after i bought it, notice the 4x4 ride height and the monstrous high offset wheels
not long after that i got stuck into the welding and making it handle and look awesome
so in comes a heap of solid bushes in the rear end,
a e36 double wing diff cover with tigged in alloy bushes, which then mates up to a e30 medium case diff with a 3.64 ratio, which suits the m42 while drifting and general driving much better than the 4.45 that was horrible,
For the sub-frame i had steel bushes machined so that they lift the subframe 12mm to reduce camber/ toe, does make a massive difference, along with new wheel bearings and trailing arm bushes the back end now grips like it should, and handles like it should, all the people that say solid bushes make loads more road noise are crazy my car is stripped out and i noticed NO difference in noise just the awesome handling
heres the 36 diff cover with my custom bolt in diff bracket, not pictured is the crush tubes and spreader plate the sits above
up front im running a e36 m3 evo steering rack with 5mm lock spacers, no p/s the very light m42 makes it way to light and had very little feel plus 5mm spacers pop the seals
Strut wise im running e30 struts shortened by about 95mm and running mk2 golf dampers with weld on coilover sleeves along with modified ackerman angle and pivot point
all that combined gives me plently of lock and alot better handling, i cant believe how good it drives/drifts ive drifted a few sorted s-bodies and this is just as good
this is my front bump travel at my pretty low ride height, yes thats a full 5" problem is there's only 1.5" to 2" max of ground clearance haha
anyway enough of the boring stuff now to the cool bits my wheels
one day searching ebay for random stuff i came across a set of 4 jap 6 stud 3 piece split rims so i stuck on a cheap bit not rely thinking i would win then but dam i did at £43 haha so after picking them up seeing they was et-14 and 6x139.7 i hacked a plan on making them fit, rang up my machinist and got him to make a set of adapters up to take the stock 4x100 out to 6x139.7 and then set about making them fit at et-44 oops
but results are this
tucks lovely
the front does need a splitter badly sit way to high
got lock
some more general drift pictures
there is other bits and bobs which i will upload another day but for now what do you guys think
anyway the history is i bought the car over a year ago in a very sorry sate, needed lots of welding, bushes etc the previous owner was going the scrap it, so i saved it arse from the crusher, and have been abusing it on a daily bases ever since
this is a short time after i bought it, notice the 4x4 ride height and the monstrous high offset wheels
not long after that i got stuck into the welding and making it handle and look awesome
so in comes a heap of solid bushes in the rear end,
a e36 double wing diff cover with tigged in alloy bushes, which then mates up to a e30 medium case diff with a 3.64 ratio, which suits the m42 while drifting and general driving much better than the 4.45 that was horrible,
For the sub-frame i had steel bushes machined so that they lift the subframe 12mm to reduce camber/ toe, does make a massive difference, along with new wheel bearings and trailing arm bushes the back end now grips like it should, and handles like it should, all the people that say solid bushes make loads more road noise are crazy my car is stripped out and i noticed NO difference in noise just the awesome handling
heres the 36 diff cover with my custom bolt in diff bracket, not pictured is the crush tubes and spreader plate the sits above
up front im running a e36 m3 evo steering rack with 5mm lock spacers, no p/s the very light m42 makes it way to light and had very little feel plus 5mm spacers pop the seals
Strut wise im running e30 struts shortened by about 95mm and running mk2 golf dampers with weld on coilover sleeves along with modified ackerman angle and pivot point
all that combined gives me plently of lock and alot better handling, i cant believe how good it drives/drifts ive drifted a few sorted s-bodies and this is just as good
this is my front bump travel at my pretty low ride height, yes thats a full 5" problem is there's only 1.5" to 2" max of ground clearance haha
anyway enough of the boring stuff now to the cool bits my wheels
one day searching ebay for random stuff i came across a set of 4 jap 6 stud 3 piece split rims so i stuck on a cheap bit not rely thinking i would win then but dam i did at £43 haha so after picking them up seeing they was et-14 and 6x139.7 i hacked a plan on making them fit, rang up my machinist and got him to make a set of adapters up to take the stock 4x100 out to 6x139.7 and then set about making them fit at et-44 oops
but results are this
tucks lovely
the front does need a splitter badly sit way to high
got lock
some more general drift pictures
there is other bits and bobs which i will upload another day but for now what do you guys think
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