lowered touring

[Cloggy Saint]

Cheers for all the advice people, i'll see how things develop before panicking too much!

[toby]

don't panic
you can buy a set of lowering springs specifically for a touring from gsf for about £45 and get them sent over to you. Let me know if you need some help finding new springs

[oze30]

if the higher spring is on the drivers side.. id leave it. Its a common thing to do in 4x4's.. so why would it be different to a car?. When I checked my new(thanks quaser) springs, they were uneven in length (just slightly but still.. then i just put the taller spring to the drivers side.

[cougar]

no camber adjustment on the rear beam, I have an adjustable beam I made, will stick pics up of it, corrects about 5 degrees -ve at max setting I think.

was it hard to make?

[Jos]

no camber adjustment on the rear beam, I have an adjustable beam I made, will stick pics up of it, corrects about 5 degrees -ve at max setting I think.

was it hard to make?

Not really if you have the right tools, well tool.. you will need a mill to do it basically.

Get a length of steel flat bar 50mm x 10mm x whatever length and machine a channel the same width as the diameter of the e34 eccentric bolts(38mm I think it was), I machined to a depth of 7mm, leaving 3mm of base on it. Then mark it every 50mm along the bar and mill through on 1/2" and ream out towards the raised areas. Mount on the subframe and weld all the way round. The hardest bit was milling out the existing holes on the frame, I used a dremel to do it, not fast but was the only thing I could use to get in there with, a gas axe would do it ok too but would need finished off with the dremel anyway. Mine is painted with Vactan and coated with Dinitrol, missed a couple of bits as you can see :p

Bolt PN 33321095102
Nut PN 33326751446
Washer PN 33321092310

The idea was taken from http://e30m3performance.com/installs/in ... /index.htm

The part numbers they have listed are wrong though, check it off against realoem, the ones I have listed are the correct parts.

Subframe1
Subframe2
Subframe3
Subframe4
Subframe5

[jamesc]

This is my car with the 60/40 H&R kit fitted.......



James

[ad318i]

can see your in the dam.....

all the bloody bikes about lol i remember everywhere you turned there another bike was there!!!


car looks b good neway hope you get the camber sorted

[Cloggy Saint]

This is my car with the 60/40 H&R kit fitted.......



James

Sorry to regurgitate an old topic, but i've been away for a couple of weeks. Jamesc, if that's a 40mm drop at the rear then I'm certain I either have saloon springs or something lower than 40mm....

[jamesc]

Sorry to regurgitate an old topic, but i've been away for a couple of weeks. Jamesc, if that's a 40mm drop at the rear then I'm certain I either have saloon springs or something lower than 40mm....

That was a couple of weeks after fitting, it as dropped a little more but not much. This is 2 up after a 400 mile drive across Europe



James

[Cloggy Saint]

Your front looks just about the same as mine and the back looks higher. I'm sure i don't have 40/40.