The idea was to plough and roll a field after harvest to create a track to race on. My mate was telling me he was going to get a car to compete against this, although the jammy git managed to get a E30 318i for £200. There was no way my badly running 315 1.6 was going to compete with that, so it went back to the drawing board. It was already very light, but I had some tricks up my sleeve with 323i suspension and a spare good M10 1.8 with a weber carb.
Out comes the 1.6
In goes my good 1.8 with weber.
2 and a half coils were chopped from each corner. I had fun with the rear shocks since the extra slack due to shorter springs would of caused the springs to dislocate. To sort this, the top and bottom spring cups were drilled in three places each and the springs were zip tied in.
Has anyone lifted an E21 door? Well I have and they were far too weighty for my liking! Out came the grinder and I gutted the fookers. Much more acceptable!
I had some 30mm (each) spacers kicking about, and a lovely set of 14 x 7 et25 hartge rims. Set it off a treat
I took the mountney wheel off my yellow beast (can you tell?), and since the key broke we've been hotwiring it. This soon got tedious, so I've made it run on switches. One for ignition, one for starter (although the starter one is missing since I broke it
). Switches make it feel like a proper racer
The finished article
Notice my newly sprayed rocker cover, it's all in the details on a car like this
