South African e30 S50b30euro Race Car

[drifty340i]

Oh my this is going to be awesome

[Ral]

For the carbon-fiber dash, dig around s14.net. It's an e30 M3 site, but they have a lot of good, high-quality CF parts for sale occasionally, and I've seen carbon dashes fairly frequently.

[PiercedE30]

^^^Clearance is clearance no matter how you look at it.

[SA E30]

Here are the rims... Going to be painted Satin Black, with a Laguna Seca Blue Lip, and the outer edges of the spokes are also going to be Laguna.



Here are the doors after getting Acid Dipped, so much easier than paint stripped :P





I'll post up pictures sometime in the week of the rear brake setup and front strut setup, with brake (excluding calliper)

The rear barely fits under the rim with prob 4-5mm space between the calliper and rim.

[SA E30]

Lol, impatient bunch you guys are :P

but yeah, got the 1st set of rims on saturday, 17x8 ET 34 AC Schnitzer replica's... I will take some pictures this evening.

Still need 2 get another 2 sets of these rims, one for another set of Semi Slicks and another one with Rain tyres.

Waiting for stock on the tyres, 235 40 17 Bridgestone RE ... something, lol

[e30love]

updates please

[e30325ic]

Sweet car you have going on there. Cant wait to see the finished car.

[SA E30]

How did you adapt the E30 struts to accept an E46 hub?

And will you need E46-offset wheels, then, or can you use E30 M3 offset?

The offset is changed to the E36/E46 offset, so those wheels will have to be used, but on this car there are quite big spacers, on behind the disc to clear the rack ends, and then on the rims to so the calliper clears the spokes... all in all it's about a 30mm front spacer, the rear will have around a 35mm spacer, as the front offset is due to the new hubs is greater than the rear.

It's not that hard to do if you have a decent engineeing shop, but the main problem lies in that the E46 bearing is longer than the e30 one.

A sleeve is made that is case hardened on the outside, and then heat press fitted onto the spindle, thats the easy part... It takes a bit more thinking to make the entire bearing run on the shaft, but still not a complex solution.

On another note, 300mm.de does something similar with an e30 srtut but they use what looks like a custom made bearing casing to make the E36/E46 hub fit onto an e30 strut... we preffered to keep the beefy bearing for race purposes.



With regards to the dash, I think it would be possible to get a CF one made up... but I think it will be for nothing as I already have a nagging feeling that I will have to add weight to the car to make the min weight in my race class...

[uofom3]

awesome! The finished product will be SICK.

[Jparkr]

awesome!

[CorvallisBMW]

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[iflytii]

Very nice looking and sorted project! Can't wait to see more progress...

[GoKart]

How did you adapt the E30 struts to accept an E46 hub?

And will you need E46-offset wheels, then, or can you use E30 M3 offset?

[DarkWing6]

Awesome!

Couldn't you go carbon fiber on the dash to lighten it?

[SA E30]

We're hoping for late June/ early July... I want it's 1st outing to be the event that I last tracked my 2.9lt .

There isn't that much 2 do, but it's taking time with work and study, and my father also working... so we got a lot done over our december holidays.

On a plus we went and ordered the front springs today... 8inch long 2.5inch 750lbs and 800lbs front spring.

Aswell as I sent the engineer the specs for the ally blocks for the solid rear rose jointed control arm rear mounts, and the Ally Diff bushing.

We still not 100% sure on the brake master cylinder and booster setup... that for me is the biggest concern ATM