Project 328i - a lot to learn

[sideways-theonlyway]

Few things you need to do;

1: Cut 25mm of the steering knuckles and reweld - see page 2 of the thread
2: Add 35mm on to the control arms or fit e46 control arms
3: Get 4 2 euro coins, knock the centre out and put them onto the steering rack to act as rack spacers
4: Wheel spacers, I have 25mm on mine

or go and buy an expensive steering modification kit

These changes are for an e36

[sideways-theonlyway]

Haven't updated this in a long time.

Not a whole lot of changes to the car since I last updated it the last time.

Went to mondello, drifted for a while, had a few little crashes , repaired it and drifted it again

Had a local drift day in Longford back in October, just a big yard, was a right bit of craic. Poor car got a bit dirty

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Had a bit of rub off one of the lads



Went to the Just Jap day at the end of November. Shouldn't have went as my brakes weren't working and hand brake was gone, should have stayed at home. Anyway, I went, drifted one lap, crashed on the second, came in fixed it, went out again and had a bad enough crash then into a grass bank. needless to say the car looked rough on the way home

Video below

http://youtu.be/JjGfazW97uU







Anyway nothing that couldn't be fixed.

All fixed now, made a diy front lip from an old bumper that was lying around,



Also got proper front tyres, they make some difference an I treated it to a 4 wheel lazer alignment. So snappy on the front now.




I've also removed the ABS unit, replumbed the brakes inside the car and cut the underside of the bonnet out.


And I finally got the car out for a few spins yesterday, instagram links below;

http://instagram.com/p/kxGldqzaH7/

http://instagram.com/p/kxFuqyTaGh/

[stephen180]

Seen ya in mondello a few times well able to steer her , nice lip aswell

[sideways-theonlyway]

Seen ya in mondello a few times well able to steer her , nice lip aswell

Thanks lad, saving for IDC at the minute so no practice days for me for a while unfortunately, even though I need the practice badly, but I can't have it every way

[lady89]

thats what i call a true missile car ha!!

[sideways-theonlyway]

Few photo's from the IDC logging day. Looking forward to seeing the professional photo's for the website.

All went well anyway, car is logged.

The new IDC visors are a lot nicer than last year

[sideways-theonlyway]

After the logging day, and with the help of the local lads at the garage we polybushed the rear of the car, installed new wishbone bushes, fixed the problem with the hydro and got my seat mounted correctly along with a few other little bits.















Car has developed a problem where it's rev's are limiting at 5500 which is a bitch but hopefully we'll get it sorted tonight.

4 Wheel alignment will be done on thursday and then we'll be heading to mondello for friday practice and saturday's competition and my first serious competition, buzzing already!

[mike e30]

Best of luck saturday man dien to see how ya get on. If your stuck by the end of the week give me a shout and ya can borrow my ecu if want its chip/mapped with higher rev limit and all the gay shit removed

[sideways-theonlyway]

Best of luck saturday man dien to see how ya get on. If your stuck by the end of the week give me a shout and ya can borrow my ecu if want its chip/mapped with higher rev limit and all the gay shit removed

Ah that's fair sound of ya lad, thanks.

I think we may have solved it though.

Plugged in into laptop and crank shaft sensor fault was showing up. Turned out that all 3 wires at the crank sensor connection were stripped and touching each other. Hopefully that's problem solved. Let's see how friday's practice goes.

Can you PM me your number just in case I am stuck on friday? Thanks a million

[mtyn2]

Love this car, looking forward to seeing it in action at the weekend. Best of luck with it.