thanks man, I am hoping the looks mute the ride quality delta #r3versover30
The quiet calm of a clean tail light stack overlooks the chaos
Jake said he'd make a pnp standalone if I wanted to use my car to test- crank signal from bellhousing pickup doesn't play nice with standalone so would have to convert to front trigger wheel. Need to get the car running on motronic first so I can test my spare bits. Wish I could go standalone from the get go so I could put a light flywheel on it w/o reference tab for significant savings over the sport evo flywheel that is now $1k. Can't win em all. Have to do stock flywheel for now due to general cost of the project
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Cleaned up housings and unwrapped the front sub I had coated/reinforced for the car a while back.
Learned my lesson with front 51mm Konis- 8641-1210 vs 8641-1021
Ordered 1210s, went to install them with the GC plates and H&R Sports (50406) and was confused why the piston wouldn't release all the way. Then found out the 1210 extended height is much shorter than 1021s, requiring a terrifying amount of pressure to compress the springs to get it all assembled. Spring compressors kept sliding around under pressure on the fresh springs until I used fiber paste from the MTB tool kit. I have an upright spring compressor for things like this and it wouldn't compress the spring enough so I entrusted my life to maddox. Required every bit of thread they had.
Koni notes the 1210s have "minimally stiffer dampening than the 1021s" and an internal rebound spring that limits unloaded extension height.
No mention of internal bump stops, and both 1210s and 1021s are externally adjustable, so I think next time I'll stick with the latter for ease of installation.
Used new dust shields, 9mm M3 upper spring pads, and lowers. GC touring camber plates, e36m3 bump stops. Had to buy Vorschlag bolt rings for the camber plates since I bought the plates used and the GC bolt rings were badly distorted.
Broke down and bought the s14 valve bucket tool so once that's here I can lash the spare engine, change a few gaskets, install a water pump, and generally get it prepped for installation.
Almost done pulling the rear subframe, which will get refreshed with new bushings/bearings/lines/etc. Looking forward to the car being a roller again.
Untitled by bimmertown, on Flickr
The quiet calm of a clean tail light stack overlooks the chaos
Jake said he'd make a pnp standalone if I wanted to use my car to test- crank signal from bellhousing pickup doesn't play nice with standalone so would have to convert to front trigger wheel. Need to get the car running on motronic first so I can test my spare bits. Wish I could go standalone from the get go so I could put a light flywheel on it w/o reference tab for significant savings over the sport evo flywheel that is now $1k. Can't win em all. Have to do stock flywheel for now due to general cost of the project
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Cleaned up housings and unwrapped the front sub I had coated/reinforced for the car a while back.
Learned my lesson with front 51mm Konis- 8641-1210 vs 8641-1021
Ordered 1210s, went to install them with the GC plates and H&R Sports (50406) and was confused why the piston wouldn't release all the way. Then found out the 1210 extended height is much shorter than 1021s, requiring a terrifying amount of pressure to compress the springs to get it all assembled. Spring compressors kept sliding around under pressure on the fresh springs until I used fiber paste from the MTB tool kit. I have an upright spring compressor for things like this and it wouldn't compress the spring enough so I entrusted my life to maddox. Required every bit of thread they had.
Koni notes the 1210s have "minimally stiffer dampening than the 1021s" and an internal rebound spring that limits unloaded extension height.
No mention of internal bump stops, and both 1210s and 1021s are externally adjustable, so I think next time I'll stick with the latter for ease of installation.
Used new dust shields, 9mm M3 upper spring pads, and lowers. GC touring camber plates, e36m3 bump stops. Had to buy Vorschlag bolt rings for the camber plates since I bought the plates used and the GC bolt rings were badly distorted.
Broke down and bought the s14 valve bucket tool so once that's here I can lash the spare engine, change a few gaskets, install a water pump, and generally get it prepped for installation.
Almost done pulling the rear subframe, which will get refreshed with new bushings/bearings/lines/etc. Looking forward to the car being a roller again.
Untitled by bimmertown, on Flickr
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