Only have minor plans for this car. I like the way the M20 drives, so I am going through and replacing broken stuff. Some parts are getting upgraded when replaced. Bought the car from the second owner, has somewhere in the neighborhood of 150K miles, odo stopped at about 116K. The speedo wasn't working, I traced it to the speedo itself being dead, couldn't find any cracked solder joints, etc, so I bought a used one off of ebay, that one seems to work, though it needs odo gears also. Some of the pics you may have seen from my thread when I bought the car, but I'll repost them anyway.
All this is going into the car:
The front valence was just beat, and I don't really car for the look too much anyway. I got a new lip from Blunt, that is low on the list though for install.
I thought this was cool. I tore the front suspension apart and found the original Bilsteins. These were built/installed while the Berlin wall still existed. These things were just toast, passenger side didn't dampen at all, and the driver's side was seized.
Installed some stuff.
Cut up and modded some other stuff. I messed up the passenger side a little and cut one part a little too low, had to go back and weld up a couple of beads to make sure the sleeve was properly supported. Thinking about going back and bridging the two beads, but I don't know how much heat the tubes can take before they warp. I am not an experienced welder and I only have 110V flux core at my disposal.
Shop is a disaster.
I have these washers left over from the old struts. I am wondering if I need to use any of them with the GC setup. it looks like the top hat will be a little loose even with the nut bottomed out. Anyone know for sure? ETA: GC said to slip one of my left over washers that were originally on the car on top of their perch to take up the slack.
Anyway, car is stuck like this for now since Lemforder LCA's were on backorder, and BMW obviously doesn't send you new lock nuts when you buy their LCA's. Turns out I needed FCABs also, though that isn't terribly surprising.
After I finish the suspension, I need to replace the last two rubber brake lines that are over the diff, then rebuild the shift linkage since it is crazy loose.
All this is going into the car:
The front valence was just beat, and I don't really car for the look too much anyway. I got a new lip from Blunt, that is low on the list though for install.
I thought this was cool. I tore the front suspension apart and found the original Bilsteins. These were built/installed while the Berlin wall still existed. These things were just toast, passenger side didn't dampen at all, and the driver's side was seized.
Installed some stuff.
Cut up and modded some other stuff. I messed up the passenger side a little and cut one part a little too low, had to go back and weld up a couple of beads to make sure the sleeve was properly supported. Thinking about going back and bridging the two beads, but I don't know how much heat the tubes can take before they warp. I am not an experienced welder and I only have 110V flux core at my disposal.
Shop is a disaster.
I have these washers left over from the old struts. I am wondering if I need to use any of them with the GC setup. it looks like the top hat will be a little loose even with the nut bottomed out. Anyone know for sure? ETA: GC said to slip one of my left over washers that were originally on the car on top of their perch to take up the slack.
Anyway, car is stuck like this for now since Lemforder LCA's were on backorder, and BMW obviously doesn't send you new lock nuts when you buy their LCA's. Turns out I needed FCABs also, though that isn't terribly surprising.
After I finish the suspension, I need to replace the last two rubber brake lines that are over the diff, then rebuild the shift linkage since it is crazy loose.
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