My 24 Hours of LeMons racer was assigned a residual value of $375 after our last race, which means we have $125 to spend on the car before our next race at Buttonwillow in August. The car is still running pretty well and there's not much we have to do to make it race ready again.
Here's a rundown on the car so far: '87 325e with 160K? miles. Bone stock engine with new plugs, valve adjustment, and clutch fan delete. Cat cut off the exhaust and replaced with a Cherry Bomb. Stock trans, stock spec clutch with single mass flywheel conversion. Limited slip. Rebuilt shifter, new guibo/CSB, new stock motor/trans mounts. Most front bushings replaced with stock rubber replacements. Junkyard sourced Eibach lowering springs, new Bilstein shocks/struts (yes, we were within budget). Ghetto notched strut towers for extra camber. Stock spec brakes with some decent pads, steel braided lines, and ATE Blue fluid (this doesn't count in the budget anyway) and stock bottlecaps with Falken RT165s.
I need some ideas for cheap upgrades. I'm leaning towards a crank scraper tray for the engine (mainly for oil pressure issues on long left handers - we were getting a bit concerned at Thunderhill). Or, we can replace some of the rear suspension bushings. When I lifted up the car from the rear diff, I could see the subframe move a good half inch compared to the car. So I'm thinking new subframe bushings and maybe trailing arm bushings while we're at it. But aftermarket bushings (aluminum or urethane) would eat up the whole budget.
Any suggestions? Feel free to move this thread to another forum that may be more appropriate.
Here's a rundown on the car so far: '87 325e with 160K? miles. Bone stock engine with new plugs, valve adjustment, and clutch fan delete. Cat cut off the exhaust and replaced with a Cherry Bomb. Stock trans, stock spec clutch with single mass flywheel conversion. Limited slip. Rebuilt shifter, new guibo/CSB, new stock motor/trans mounts. Most front bushings replaced with stock rubber replacements. Junkyard sourced Eibach lowering springs, new Bilstein shocks/struts (yes, we were within budget). Ghetto notched strut towers for extra camber. Stock spec brakes with some decent pads, steel braided lines, and ATE Blue fluid (this doesn't count in the budget anyway) and stock bottlecaps with Falken RT165s.
I need some ideas for cheap upgrades. I'm leaning towards a crank scraper tray for the engine (mainly for oil pressure issues on long left handers - we were getting a bit concerned at Thunderhill). Or, we can replace some of the rear suspension bushings. When I lifted up the car from the rear diff, I could see the subframe move a good half inch compared to the car. So I'm thinking new subframe bushings and maybe trailing arm bushings while we're at it. But aftermarket bushings (aluminum or urethane) would eat up the whole budget.
Any suggestions? Feel free to move this thread to another forum that may be more appropriate.
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