If you wouldn’t fit spacers, but proper alloys, what would be the offset so it would clear the sway bar and shock by the looks of it. Great video, looking forward to doing this myself
Cool upgrades and good parts! I think you should consider an X-Brace (if it is not already the case) , regarding the tires and the agressive driving you foreseen ;)
I love your videos they are really helpful and make me wanna work on my e30 more.maybe do some cosmetic mods like a new front lip or maybe a mtech2 body kit??? Then it would really transform the car. Keep up the cool vids
Which front sway bar do you have that is rubbing? Did MRT provide any caution about that w/ their bump-steer correction piece? You are basically doing eveything that i plan on doing to my 87 sedan. I might use a e46 rack de-powered rack though, and had been looking at the SLR kit instead... Thanks for the details, especially grindding smoothing the knuckle shaft binding points. Keep it up!
Sean S basically with any type of angle kit you’re going to run into rubbing issues. I will either make some rack limiters or get wheel spacers and possibly longer lower control arms.
Cool, thanks man. Limiters/stops are good to me, maybe small width wheel spacers. You have the stock sway bar mounting points or the M3 ones on your coilover setup?
Welcome To The Madness no problem!I have a z3 rack in my e36 M3, it completely transformed the car. Probably the best mod on the car. You absolutely won't regret it.
Great video--well shot and well explained. It makes me cringe, though, to see you using the palm of your hand as a hammer on suspension parts. After a lot of years doing the same thing, my hands are now pretty arthritic. Use a soft hammer, Blake!
Don’t really like the idea of the tire hitting sway bar at under full rotation. Say you are in autocross and turn full lock and hit the sway bar real hard you can probably damage it and/or cause temperature lock up of the wheel
Thanks for making this video. I'm about to do the z3 rack swap, so this is really helpful. Some of the r3v write ups mention swapping the Power Steering reservoir and low pressure line. It doesn't look like you did that. Is it not necessary? will the stock low pressure lines reach the z3 rack? Thanks!
Did this swap a couple of weeks ago and it turned out great. The lines were a pain. I might swap them eventually. But, I wanted to thank you for your video. It was a huge help. Keep it up!
Please tell me you didn't leave on the plastic shipping cover for the inner balljoint boot...? Right? Edit: Yes still clearly visible. Would be a wise move to take the control arms back off and remove the plastic covers! Take care!
"Hi, I'm Blakes Garage, and I make no mention of how much of a pain in the dick it is to get the 22mm nut that attaches the control arm to the subframe off on the passenger side." First time I did this, I couldn't get it to budge. Ended up supporting the engine and dropping the whole subframe.
