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Not sure what happened there...Fixed now though
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Sadly, I won't have this car out on the road this year. Expenses are tight with two kids in daycare for the next year. I did take it out and give it a wash this weekend though
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What beauty.
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Looks awesome Scooter, you’re a great caretaker for that beautiful car. I hear you on the cost of daycare 😱
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I thought I had posted something here more recently than last July, but maybe not. Since then I've been working on a few things.
FINALLY removed the headlights and flipped the projectors. I haven't had the car back on the road to test them yet though. Here you can see the two settings for the projector. Simple as remove and reinstall for LHD traffic. Here's the projector reinstalled after rotating for LHD. Also finally got around to replacing the bump stops and top hats on the rear shocks and installing reinforcing plates. The hardest part of this was removing everything from the trunk to get access! The washer bottle in the trunk doesn't help, and no way I was going to remove this as well. Old New Installed with reinforcing plate. |
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Next onto the front suspension. I don't have as many photos of this, but I'm replacing a lot:
Old sway bar parts Tie rod removed And this is where I got stuck for a bit. I replaced the control arms in my wife's 2000 330i before, so I thought this would be similar....not quite. The ball joint separator I usually use didn't fit under the shock, so I had to go out and buy a pickle fork to remove the control arms. Once removed I noticed the control arms used offset bushings which is where I got confused and had to do research. Before I started I looked at the control arms. They are the serviceable type found on non-M suspension, so I assumed it was all non-M in the front. The parts brochure for the car (from Alpina) is usually pretty good about specifying Alpina specific or M specific items. However, there is no mention of the front suspension being M components. Further, this car left the BMW factory in 1995. The 1995 BMW M3 uses the standard control arm with offset bushings and all models after, have a different control arm with centered bushings and different sway bar end links. Ugh, so I had the wrong control arm bushings. Also, I couldn't find the offset bushings already pressed into the "lollipop." I went back and forth trying to decide if I was going to spend the money on the special tool to remove and install the bushings on the control arm, but in the end decided to since I can use it on both my car and my wife's, and it will pay for itself after one use. This is pretty much where I'm at now. I got the tool after waiting for 3 weeks. Basically, everything is still disassembled. Oh, I also noticed a few cracks in the brake lines, so I have purchased all new brake lines as well. I don't feel like doing these myself, so I'll have the shop do it when I take the car for an alignment after the front has been reassembled. |
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No photos because the battery on my phone installed, but I installed the new tie rods last night. I'll probably get the sway bar back in tonight, and I might get the bushings on the control arms as well, but we'll see.
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alpina b8 4.6, bmw, fast, photo, saloon |
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