Suspension was in need of a full refresh, every single bushing was shot and the shocks were completely toast, We even found that the rear spring had broken into multiple pieces
After ordering 90% of what actually needs replacing, all the parts decided to show up yesterday on New Year's Eve. We decided that we can tackle all this in just a few hours as I was going to a party at 8pm, Needless to say we finished everything except putting in the passenger side control arm thanks to the stupid location of the ball joint nut.
box 1 of goodies out of 2
Ripping the rear end apart
Just about everyone said that the JOM coilovers use rebranded KYB shocks all around, this may be the case but these are for certain different than the shocks that were on before, Much shorter.
e46 RSM's installed, the old one's were so bad, that as soon as be unbolted the shock from the trailing arm, they fell out.
Said broken spring.
Rear installed
Time was running out so didn't have time to document as well for the front, but here is everything buttoned up, New control arms and m3 CAB's, new upper strut mounts.
And here's how she sits in the front, she settled another half an inch after a quick drive around the block, Rear still needs to come down alot, too much forward rake right now.
That's all for this week, Alot more parts in the mail as we speak!
After ordering 90% of what actually needs replacing, all the parts decided to show up yesterday on New Year's Eve. We decided that we can tackle all this in just a few hours as I was going to a party at 8pm, Needless to say we finished everything except putting in the passenger side control arm thanks to the stupid location of the ball joint nut.box 1 of goodies out of 2
Ripping the rear end apart
Just about everyone said that the JOM coilovers use rebranded KYB shocks all around, this may be the case but these are for certain different than the shocks that were on before, Much shorter.
e46 RSM's installed, the old one's were so bad, that as soon as be unbolted the shock from the trailing arm, they fell out.
Said broken spring.
Rear installed
Time was running out so didn't have time to document as well for the front, but here is everything buttoned up, New control arms and m3 CAB's, new upper strut mounts.
And here's how she sits in the front, she settled another half an inch after a quick drive around the block, Rear still needs to come down alot, too much forward rake right now.
That's all for this week, Alot more parts in the mail as we speak!
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