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Re: Jersey E30 rally car rebuild
Frustrating day in the garage today more than anything, rear arms were dropped off from the powdercoaters. these were an experiment to see if im happy with the finish. Im chuffed with how they turned out. The problem came when I went to press the e30 325 bearings in - they were clearly too big. The arms came off a facelift 325i so I immediately thought I had the wrong bearings. however once I measured the bearings and the hubs with the verniers I realised I appeared to have 323i trailing arms. The good thing was that I could still go five stud with these as they use the same bearings as e36 compacts, the annoying thing is that I couldnt use the brand new genuine 1 series drive flanges and bearings that I bought. This meant I had to piss 200 quid up the wall to buy compact bearings and some compact drive flanges :roll: Moral of this story is measure your bearings before you start spending money on your arms!!!
Over the weekend I modded the rear beam. lifted it almost 40mm up to correct the rollcentres, this brought about the usual problems of the diff carrier, top of the beam and trailing arm brackets hitting the body. will need a combination of panel beating and chopping and welding to rectify. I also ordered high tensile bolts to chassis mount the diff so this is tomorrows job
Chopped the spare wheel well out as I was going to fit a flat floor anyway and because it made the next job easier. I cut out the turrets and made some new ones, wanted them to look fairly standard which I think they do. They are 35 mm higher than standard , will get some 2 way avos made with rose joints top and bottom.
I'm Not happy with the rear cage legs for two seasons, they mount on the arch tubs which is very flimsy and the position of the harness bar is such that the harnesses point upwards with the seats in their current position, will get some roll cage tubing ordered and re-do them to pick up at the turrets.
Frustrating day in the garage today more than anything, rear arms were dropped off from the powdercoaters. these were an experiment to see if im happy with the finish. Im chuffed with how they turned out. The problem came when I went to press the e30 325 bearings in - they were clearly too big. The arms came off a facelift 325i so I immediately thought I had the wrong bearings. however once I measured the bearings and the hubs with the verniers I realised I appeared to have 323i trailing arms. The good thing was that I could still go five stud with these as they use the same bearings as e36 compacts, the annoying thing is that I couldnt use the brand new genuine 1 series drive flanges and bearings that I bought. This meant I had to piss 200 quid up the wall to buy compact bearings and some compact drive flanges :roll: Moral of this story is measure your bearings before you start spending money on your arms!!!
Over the weekend I modded the rear beam. lifted it almost 40mm up to correct the rollcentres, this brought about the usual problems of the diff carrier, top of the beam and trailing arm brackets hitting the body. will need a combination of panel beating and chopping and welding to rectify. I also ordered high tensile bolts to chassis mount the diff so this is tomorrows job
Chopped the spare wheel well out as I was going to fit a flat floor anyway and because it made the next job easier. I cut out the turrets and made some new ones, wanted them to look fairly standard which I think they do. They are 35 mm higher than standard , will get some 2 way avos made with rose joints top and bottom.
I'm Not happy with the rear cage legs for two seasons, they mount on the arch tubs which is very flimsy and the position of the harness bar is such that the harnesses point upwards with the seats in their current position, will get some roll cage tubing ordered and re-do them to pick up at the turrets.
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