E30 Zone

This cannot continue due to very high costs. Thank you to every one involved forr your help and input.


I have emailed Quaife about doing a quick rack for the E30. They don't currently do one but have expressed interest if there is interest from us.

They can only manufacture manual racks so you'd need to source a manual one to fit it to. From others I've seen they'll be in the region of £100 each. They can make it any ratio we require so if we can come to a decision on what ratio would be best that'd be good, I presume something like 2.5/2:1?

The catch is I need a certain amount of interest/orders before anything goes ahead so if you'd be interested please put your name down.

Could be interested.
Whats the current manual rack ratio, ?

It'll be the same as the PAS rack about 4.5 iirc or something chronic?

I've just fitted a manual rack to what was a pas car.

When you say fit it to a manual rack is this somthing that anyone can do or would a garage need to add on the quick rack to the manual rack?

I'd want a pretty quick one 2.5 lock to lock

deffinately count me in

Me too!

LHD?

Very interested.

/subscribed

Been there before you need a manual pre face lift rack if you are going to do this

Jason

Can somone confirm if its a big job to fit the quick rack, i'm just trying to working out if its a garage jobbie or not.

I'd be interested in this for £100. I can see manual racks getting snapped up quickly on here and Ebay now though!

Edit: I assume it would still fit if I were to go 5-stud using E36 M3 Evo parts?

The rack kit will be about £100 you still need rebuild a donor rack with requires some 8 sided box spanners (I had to get one made)

Jason

ZF? were advertising near the front in a recent BMW club magazine, manual E30 racks for very little

so did they indicate how many people are needed before they would do it?

They email I had today indicates almost 20 although if we can get something close then hopefuly we can sort something.

Jason, whats the difference between the pre and post facelift racks?

Jhonno, I'll ask if the racks can be made either way.

Hi I tried to do a group buy a few years ago so looked into this in detail early cars have a round rack bar which means quaife can cut the teeth, later racks are triangular so you cannot get the teeth cut.

Jason

jason, have you had one made in the past?

if so who buy, was it a one off and how much?

ill be watching this closey and will be checking the 3 manual racks ive got.. im sure 2 are pre face lift but not sure about the 3rd

if it goes ahead, could i buy one off you?

ross_jsy wrote:if it goes ahead, could i buy one off you?

youll have first refusal. ill check them tomorrow and pm you with the outcome. pm me to reming me though

will do, cheers mate

This is exactly what i've been after since i bought an e30!

4 turns is waaay to slow

I take it we can have 2.1 or 2.5 if the group buy goes ahead?

Ok just read the original post again. Doh.

I would prefer something close to a 2.1 but would be happy enough with a 2.5

I had some made a while ago but it was a one man band old school setup and they Guy died as few years ago and the tooling etc was all lost

Jason

e21Jason wrote:I had some made a while ago but it was a one man band old school setup and they Guy died as few years ago and the tooling etc was all lost

Jason

you have mail Jason

e21Jason wrote:Hi I tried to do a group buy a few years ago so looked into this in detail early cars have a round rack bar which means quaife can cut the teeth, later racks are triangular so you cannot get the teeth cut.

Jason

If BMW did.....

Well Ture BMW can make them but Titan, Quaife and a few others at the time did not have the gear to cut teeth to suit the later racks.

Jason

lets get a list of names going, will make things easier

1. rix313
2. ross_jsy
3. mattrs
4.

1. rix313
2. ross_jsy
3. mattrs
4. Scot

i'll put my name on this list

1. rix313
2. ross_jsy
3. mattrs
4. Scot
5. jbh

Jhonno wrote:LHD?

Also wondering about this

1. rix313
2. ross_jsy
3. mattrs
4. Scot
5. jbh
6. dsm2002

1. rix313
2. ross_jsy
3. mattrs
4. Scot
5. jbh
6. dsm2002
7. Motorhole

2.1 on a manual rack... Hope you guys have muscles for city driving

2.5 would be my choice :oD