Track/fast road 2013 built and tracked

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Smashed it today
All hands on deck.. pete (psyko) did my welding and I got on with the mechanical
Replacement handbrake cables ,shoes, springs, pipe fiited all working and one side fully bolted up

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Cracked on with the drivers side today and also made a spanner so I can get adjustment on the rear beam, camber/toe adjustment

Bastard bolt-


The 'warrior' spanner 17mm ground to a 18mm then slimmed down


Lack of parts led me to stop untill bmw get my parts in



I also fitted the ashley exhaust... im going to shorten the exhaust hole on the rear valence so it fits nice and neat

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Delverys!
New dished wheel
Lightweight wheel nuts
D1 short shifter with weighted knob
EBC red stuff pads
Door pulls
And all the last bits to get the mechanical and brakes finished


Also my lexen plastic windows have arived courtesy of templar performance soooo light

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So today ive got the drivers side rear end all on and both arches 2k painted in anthracite gloss. Weve also cut the front panel out to fit the rad in with the fan... nightmare... and fitted the exhaust system.. which due to poor workmanship... it doesnt fit. Its not bent low enough to fit under the fuel tank :/ back serching for a decent lightweight system...

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Another busy day,
With thanks to pete we got lots done
Painted the innerwing



Refitted the majority of the engine parts... only acouple of bits to do


Ive binned the viscose fan and fitted a electric fan with had caused a issue.. the pully on the front of the engine wouldnt let the unit fit so weve mounted the fan on the front and also flipped the fan blades so it blows the correct way.. upon refitting it we had issues were it wouldnt fit because of the front panel.. so we took a section out of the front panel and used some edging strip to tidy it up... ill be spraying the front panel next weekend.


New bonnet.. well old but new to me


Calipers and disks on route to blast and coat.

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Just received these pictures back from pete (psyko) hes formed some spring cups for my rear trailing arms to seat the modified spring in, basicly because of the weight saving the car is sitting higher with a 60mm spring than standard... and not wanting to run coilovers I wanted to run (I know its frowned upon) cut springs safley on the rear to get the correct ride height im heat forming the spring so the spring sits flat at the bottom... so here they are.. excuse the old spring that was just to measure up ect

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My genuine ASHLEY black series exhaust system has turned up... its a single 2.5" pipe front to back which has thrown another issue... my down pipe is twin pipe... so ive got back on the dog and bone and ordered the race fown pipe.. and mani...what a nightmare

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Spare wheel well.... gone


Front shock covers given a freshen up with some hammerite and new hub assembly and bearing


Spring seated in with the poly cup

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Unfortunately ashley emailed to say the down pipe and mani will be 7 weeks.... this pushes my car over D day... I need it done and on the road for mid may as im of to nurburgring. So I dug out my welder and knocked up a adaptor pipe to join my 2.5 single pipe ashley system to the twin pipe down pipe... ive not used the welder in a long time and its a gasless thing so not great... not pretty but it does the job-
Adaptor pipe - ill stick some uht paint on tomorrow.



Strut fitted




I also found this... more worryingly ive been doing track days at upto 145ish in it... the track rod end bolt was just sloted over!!!

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Another update for those following.
Uht painted the custom exhaust reducer and got the system fitted snug


Also fitted a plate into where the spare wheel well 'was'. And made a hanger for the exhaust on it



Got the disk on but not the calipe.... I may need new calipers...


D day is looming... I have 4 weeks to get it complete... thats the pain... every little niggle thats left get it running... and mot.... the 5th week is nurburgring weekend.... so thats 8 days working on it (i work away in the week)

[Rav335uk]

Looking Good Graham

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You work quickly!

Very nice

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Cheers guys

Little update
Dash nearly together, replacement ignition and steering colomn fitted, door cards inplace not fitted and inside carpet re dyed

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Cheers guys

Little update
Dash nearly together, replacement ignition and steering colomn fitted, door cards inplace not fitted and inside carpet re dyed

[ImysE30]

Liking the blue

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Cheers imy

Today ive got the brakes on and all bled up, all the little bits and bobs tied up and it all running. Just some tidying in the bay left to do with wireing ect.

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Updatings:
Today ive set about on the bodywork. I was ment to get it to the unit yeaturday but unfortunatly the keys are lost... there found now so itl be going tomorrow at some stage.

I Repaired any dents found and 800 rubbed the body, also the exhaust sits in a different location now and is also a single pipe instead of twin 3.5" which meant I had to shape a piece of sheet steel to shape and weld it in place. I also straightened and filled the rear valance which was battered then stone chipped the sills and rear valance























Tommorrow ill be 2k priming all the repaired areas

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Finally got it down the unit and got the rest stripped and primed




Scuttle panel is mint. I expected rust.

[Duke137]

I recognise that unit!

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Haha ive just started renting next door dude

[ImysE30]

Laguna Seca Blue is going to look amazing

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Painted today

[leeparkes]

I like it, different.

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Cheees lee. Ive always loved the e46 m3 in laguna seca blue... we'll see if it works lol

[Rav335uk]

Not too sure on the colour Graham....
What works on other cars sometimes doesn't work on the E30.

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Ill see rav its no show car its jyst going to be abused on the track
Should look alittle somthing like this with black wheels ect and possibly sighn written up

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Ill see rav its no show car its jyst going to be abused on the track
Should look alittle somthing like this with black wheels ect and possibly sighn written up

[Rav335uk]

The Green looked better mate imo.
Mean and to the point.

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I hated the green mate too many 'drift' types have done it dude

[ImysE30]

Well mint, i mean blue

Me likey very much

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Cheers geeza.
Today.. mike templar lexan windows fitted and polished the body

[ImysE30]

What wheels you got for this?

[Rav335uk]

What wheels you got for this?

RH Toplines

[ImysE30]

What wheels you got for this?

RH Toplines

Haha, good choice innit

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Got my wheels on and afew little wireing jobs done this weekend






Also my carbon boot needed a touch of colour I hated having a black boot before so ive high built the top of it, the plan is to paint the top body colour have a lip spoiler and leave the back edge carbon