First off big thanks to mercdriver for the help tonight, made this a whole lot easier with an extra pair of hands around!
Well bet you all forgot about this heap of shiit....
DanThe wanted the manual rack out of it for his quick rack project so thought seeing as it had stopped raining now I would get the front end up in the air and drop the front subframe and steering bits out as I knew it had a fair few parts that wanted replacing.
Out with the old... including 45mm struts, solid brake discs, numerous worn out bushes and a mullered sub frame.
Started building up some recon parts to drop on, I was going to paint the wishbones but I’ve got a bit more of a deadline with this and they are pretty good tbh complete with M3 eccentric lollipops. Got some powerflex anti roll bar bushes with new shackles from BMW, the old subframe had one shackle completely missing and the front tab is also 'gone' it bolts to so the old subframe unfortunately is scrap.
Also bolted in some brand new Q-drive drop links from ECP, got Lemforder stuff for the IS but couldn’t stretch to that for this turd sadly. Still, new is new.
Ignore the 2 blobs of copper grease on the right hand side. I patched this frame up with a bit of a weld as other than some pitting in that area (which had just started to go through) the sub frame was very good.
Little shot of the powerflex bushes in situe...
Just need to tighten up all the bolts on that lot then think about an E36 rack and getting the 51mm struts in.
Progress is progress, comments welcome.
How do you pronounce 'either'? I say 'either', but some say 'either'. Either is correct.
i wish you'd smashed your glass like a muppet to get it back 'cus then i would of pointed and laughed at you for weeks! Good work, nice to know the chav is safe as houses!
