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Having taken the wife to the airport to visit her Mum for two weeks, I've started to prep my Z3 ready for the kit from Chris and Dan in the next couple of weeks hopefully
Wheels are powder coated chrome Jag XJS 7 x 15 with 205 60 tyres
The car is now lowered on sports shocks, front is about 30-40 lower, but the back is far to low, I think the eBay seller sent 60mm lowering springs not 30mm, the front has also had powerflex front lower wishbone bushes fitted making the steering much more predictable
Rear shocks were originals with 80k on them and completely shot,
Yes, good luck with the build I will be watching with interest. Looks like you went for the open top option, just what I am hoping to do.
BTW how long did you wait for the kit from point of order. I have sent a contact form via the tribute website asking what delivery times are but still waiting for a reply, guess they are a bit busy
Also I like the wheels with the spinners attached, I have been looking at options for wires and doesn't look promising, I want 17" and to keep them wide, there's some on Ebay in Germany but are around £1k for a set adn not sure PCD matches. So Wire look-a-likes with Spinners are my next thought, how do you get the spinner to stay on?
All the best I look forward to seeing lots of pic's hoto:
I ordered the kit 4 or 5 weeks ago, be patient and Chris will get back to you, he and Dan are snowed under
The plastic spinners screw onto a centre piece which screws into the centre cap, I don't have centre caps for these wheels and will probably use tow ball covers fitted into the wheels first as the centre bore on these wheels is quite small
I was surprised by how quick it was to strip the BMW, take the wheel arch liners out first for access to everything, thanks Dan for the tip!. the aerial was a pain but I googled it all first
Looking good already Bill. Those wheels suit it. If the Z300S Barchetta didn't exist, I would have one of these.
I agree, you're certainly getting a move on. I must say the ease of which the Z3 is stripped quite surprised me, mind you it's the same with the mx5, stripped one of those back to the tub in next to no time.
Why not use something like Flicker or Photobucket, up load them, if they need rotating you can do that after uploading and before posting here. It can't be that hard if I can do it with my thick thumbs.
We bought a Microsoft surface tablet, it takes good photos, and you can upload directly from the camera roll, I must have taken them with it upside down
If you are uploading pics to your control panel on the forum (There is a sticky in general chat)
Once it is in your picture folder on the forum, start a message/post, click on the add picture icon.
THIS IS IMPORTANT copy paste the lower of the 2 links, this displays the image instead of the URL link.
REMEMBER to delete the pre typed [IMG]http:// so its just on the link once, and you get
[IMG]
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a shocking quality muddy Spaniel. This method can be done straight from a phone or tablet Ed
Nothing wrong with your picture posting now, cars coming along nicely I like the wheels, looking forward to seeing a soft top finished to a high standard with the attention to detail you are taking. Ed
The wheel and tyre choice looks just right . Slightly retro design and the 205/60 - 15 tyres fill the arches and look in proportion .
What have you done with the front grill surround , looks like chrome.
Spent lots of time over the weekend messing with the door handles, i'm planning on keeping the BMW lock, have bent some aluminium flat bar to clip onto the bmw handle mechanism which then gets moved by the push rod on an mgb door or triumph 2000 rear door handle, no pics, it rained but it works
has anyone tried using a BMW mini cooper fuel filler cap the remote locking mechanism is the same as a z3 and it cant be too hard to make a mould / bit to mount it in from the back of the filler surround piece as its detachable.
Don't buy a new one they are hideously expensive, but ok on ebay if you take into consideration the time saved on messing with the fitting of an aston type filler
Has anyone tried one of the many solenoid door opening kits that are readily available ? Would be an easy fix rather than modified levers and door handles etc etc .
There are plenty to chose from on ebay.
I flushed my door handles in and have went through that many solenoids ive removed them and instead of a remote button to pop the doors open mine now drops the windows for me to reach in and open the door. The z3 door handles are just too strong.
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