Jono's Z4 Coupe
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JDavis21 said:synthedup said:I’m running ST XTA coilovers with PS4S’SI’m
Sure you’ll love it!
Nice! One question, did you get away with standard length front droplinks?
Good question!
I was actually using the recommended on here 407 drop links for a while but they started knocking last weekend. Fitted the OEM one and they are fine. I'm also running pretty low
Had a car day on Saturday with a few others.
Including cleaning the throttle bodies on a mates 350Z HR, so he can aim for the magical 300whp number.
Replacing the rocker cover gasket on Joe's 130i.
This took longer than I'd hoped, as I hadn't realised how much plastic had to be removed before you could uncover the mammoth amount of wiring that then had to be disconnected! Finished by 7, and rewarded ourselves with a curry 8)
Whilst doing all that, I'd dropped my Coupe off to have Joe's Michelin PS4's from his 740i (just sold) fitted. They'd only done about 2000 miles on his car to Worthersee and back last May - so were pretty much new for a fraction of the cost. So glad to be rid of the run flats on the front, and traction has been much improved as the old rears didn't have much life left.
Plus I managed to find time to spray my kidney grille slats satin black, leaving chrome edges as OEM (for now).
Gave her a wash on Sunday which gave me an excuse to take some pictures.
My private plates arrived this morning, so now I'm just waiting for the V5 to be returned so I can put them on. Should clean it up a little.
Fingers crossed my coilovers are delivered this week, can't wait to fit them!
Including cleaning the throttle bodies on a mates 350Z HR, so he can aim for the magical 300whp number.
Replacing the rocker cover gasket on Joe's 130i.
This took longer than I'd hoped, as I hadn't realised how much plastic had to be removed before you could uncover the mammoth amount of wiring that then had to be disconnected! Finished by 7, and rewarded ourselves with a curry 8)
Whilst doing all that, I'd dropped my Coupe off to have Joe's Michelin PS4's from his 740i (just sold) fitted. They'd only done about 2000 miles on his car to Worthersee and back last May - so were pretty much new for a fraction of the cost. So glad to be rid of the run flats on the front, and traction has been much improved as the old rears didn't have much life left.
Plus I managed to find time to spray my kidney grille slats satin black, leaving chrome edges as OEM (for now).
Gave her a wash on Sunday which gave me an excuse to take some pictures.
My private plates arrived this morning, so now I'm just waiting for the V5 to be returned so I can put them on. Should clean it up a little.
Fingers crossed my coilovers are delivered this week, can't wait to fit them!
Sendapidgeon
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Loving this thread so far, great car by the looks of it. I just bought an E86 in the last two weeks and loving it so far, will have to start a thread with some pics as well.
Sendapidgeon said:
Thanks! Yeah, would be great to see yours
In other news, it's new number plate day as the V5 has now come through with my reg on. Plus a large box of Meyle HD parts has arrived, and I'll be picking up my coilovers from the depot after work. Exciting!
Not sure if I'll have chance to fit anything this weekend due to prepping the better half's Twingo RS Gordini for it's first track day on 24th Feb at Snett 300.
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JDavis21 said:Sendapidgeon said:
Thanks! Yeah, would be great to see yours
In other news, it's new number plate day as the V5 has now come through with my reg on. Plus a large box of Meyle HD parts has arrived, and I'll be picking up my coilovers from the depot after work. Exciting!
Not sure if I'll have chance to fit anything this weekend due to prepping the better half's Twingo RS Gordini for it's first track day on 24th Feb at Snett 300.
Trust you know you can do all the change of reg or owner all online now... so is immediate...
Today's deliveries!
I spent a week at the KW factory in 2017 on a suspension and vehicle dynamics course, so it feels nice that I know and have seen the process the dampers have been through before being sent out to customers. As always with KW/ST the quality is outstanding, looking forward to see how they perform!
I'm not going to bother with polybushing the lollipop just yet, as a fresh Meyle HD item will be a huge improvement over the current parts. I'll keep the lollipops that come off the car for fitting of polybushes/spherical bearings in the future depending on how serious the track action gets.
Booked in for alignment and corner weighting with RJ Developments in Peterborough on 2nd March. The guys built the race engine for my R53 MINI Challenge car last year and know what they're doing, they ran a multiple race winning E36 M3 last year and have two very capable E46 M3 track cars between them 8)
I spent a week at the KW factory in 2017 on a suspension and vehicle dynamics course, so it feels nice that I know and have seen the process the dampers have been through before being sent out to customers. As always with KW/ST the quality is outstanding, looking forward to see how they perform!
I'm not going to bother with polybushing the lollipop just yet, as a fresh Meyle HD item will be a huge improvement over the current parts. I'll keep the lollipops that come off the car for fitting of polybushes/spherical bearings in the future depending on how serious the track action gets.
Booked in for alignment and corner weighting with RJ Developments in Peterborough on 2nd March. The guys built the race engine for my R53 MINI Challenge car last year and know what they're doing, they ran a multiple race winning E36 M3 last year and have two very capable E46 M3 track cars between them 8)
Best place to get those Meyle HD control arms? I need to get mine done.
tee.gilding said:
I found ebay was the best priced, this came as a kit with arms, lollipops (already installed on the arms) and new droplinks with all the required nuts. I probably didn't look around as much as I could have, as I had money in my paypal account from selling bits from the MINI - so always intended to use that.
Link below for the arms I bought:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BMW-E46-...e=STRK:MEBIDX:IT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649