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ive welded in a length of heavy duty shelving support upright into my lower cross member cus it looked weedy. think its doing a similar job!

i was gonna use a bit of angle iron myself.

ahh, ive got some square tube welded into my car round there, does the same trick.

i always thought the shimmy was because of the suspension design, not the flimsiness of the chassis?

I made up the bar mark has when I swaped my knackerd Leda coilovers for gaz a few years ago. When we dropped the front stuts of you could grab the arb and see the chassis flex at the mounting points hence the need for some extra strength really it is a lower strut brace. Now I have the tension struts on which use the arb mounts a new box section has been fabricated and welded in with some stiffing as well.

Jason

Photos by Simon Teagles

One of the most beautiful E21 I've EVER seen...!!!

And being driven (and photographed) the way it should...

BRAVO, I 'd like to reach an as good look for my car too

Cheers for the positive comment - appreciated.

Due to the rush to get my car ready for the track day my 6 branch still needs welding up. Anyway, thanks to Stevo, I'm going to bolt this one on instead.

mark, you telling me dave had your car for weeks and "f*** all" has been done? did dave manage to do any mods to the 6 branch? if so did it get messy beyond repair e.t.c.?


J

No, he just wouldn't have finished welding it up in time for my trackday. The manifold was one thing on a long list of jobs and not something I wanted rushed.

ok, make sence really, dont wank the piping knocking against the chassis when turning and all that crap...

Did you get my PM mark regarding my car?


J

Yep, replied.

And recieved!


J

Well I've had my car back for a week or so now and have had time to get used to some of the changes that were made.

The brakes have been a vast improvement over the standard set-up and the EBC Green pads have bedded in nicely. I'm not sure how they perform when compared to other makes but one thing I do like, is the reduced amount of brake dust left on the wheels.
The only change left is to fit a pair of Mini One brake discs. They are about 21mm larger than stock but require a hubcentric spacer to centre them properly. The hub bore is 1.1mm larger than stock hence the need for the spacer and you need to drill for the locating screw. These are only £49.99 a pair.



The steering rack has made the steering feel much sharper and more direct although it is obviously quite heavy now. It's OK so long as the tyres are kept up to pressure and I'm running them at 32psi. The K-mac top mounts are also fitted and despite my concerns, have proved to be OK for road use. I've made sure the bearings are kept well greased beneath the dust covers too.





My new engine will be going in over the next few weeks although I'm not sure it'll be before Gaydon? Probably just after. I'll be fitting new cambelt, tensioner and water-pump while its out of the car too. I'll be bolting the 6 branch on too so hopefully it'll crack 200bhp once I get it on the dyno and 220 with a live re-map?



Then it's a lot of small jobs like finishing the gauges, fitting harness & rear cage etc.

Mark

You do know you will need a new caliper bracket to work with those disks and have you checked they will fit under a 15 wheel as the Volvo calipers are quite tall

Jason