Making the POS fun... parts list. Anything missing?

[houstonh]

** just working on the handling right now... any power stuff will come later (this car is a bit down on power, but has a 4.10 which makes it feel zippy)

Suspension:

• H&R Sports (Or Eibach Competitions)
• Bilstein Sports
• Alpina upper mounts
• RRT fixed camber plates
• IE Green subframe bushings
• IE Trailing arm bushings
• ST Sway bars
• Turner rear sway bar reinforcement
• Treehouse Lollipops
• BeerTech rear Strut Bar
• Sparco Front Strut Bar

Steering

• Z3 2.9 Rack
• New steering Rods

Brakes

• SS lines for the brakes
• **(caliper rebuild/rotors/pads to come later)

Wheels

• 16x7.5 Azev A's with 30 offset (need a machine shop to open centrebore 1mm)
• 4 20mm H&R spacers/bolts
• Stud kit
• **undecided on tires

Engine

• IE Poly engine mounts
• IE Poly trans mounts

Trans:

• Z3 3.0 shifter
• Shifter parts

Wants

• some diagrams/measurements for adding M3 style swaybar tabs to my front strut housings. Also some ideas on DIY fabbing up these mounts.
• Extra set of hands in the North Dallas area that will work for beer.

[TwoJ's]

What are you using the car for? Strictly street use? If so, you may want to consider not going with all poly bushings. And if I were you, when you do the SS lines, you'll want to buy the best fluid you can get, and might as well do the caliper rebuilds at the same time so you don't have to bleed it twice. Plus, the rebuild kits are pretty cheap compared to some of your parts listed. Might as well give them a nice cleaning/painting while you're at it.

Sounds like you've got priorities straight with dealing with suspension before any engine upgrades. If you are doing motor mounts, I think you may as well do front subframe bushings and control arms and tie rods while you're at it.

[houstonh]

It will just be my "fun" car for spirited weekend driving and maybe some DE's when I get the kinks sorted out.

BTW: Updated with some stuff I left off! CAB's/Rack/Steering Rods
As far as front subframe bushings I don't know of other ones I can replace.

I am fine with Poly... it may suck, but I have fairly decent roads around here, and I am willing to sacrifice comfort for better handling/response

[Jesse30]

st sways are junk IMO everything else is cool though.


if its just occasional DE use i would advise just running m3 offset CAB's.

[houstonh]

I already bought all this stuff so its all going on :)

so far new Rack is in, Front LCA's, lollipops mounted, shifter/shifter parts in, RRT plates mounted to alpina mounts (wasnt easy)
I got the subframe out, new bushings in. Had a helluva time with a sawzall gettin the old fuckers out. Will be changing the RTAB's tonight.. then hopefully I can start sewing this car back together.

My ebrake pads were all but gone so those are on order...

[nando]

poly bushings aren't that bad. I'm actually thinking of going up in stiffness - AKG 75D look pretty nice. :)