YAP (yet another project)

[VSIIISU]

geez h f**king christ the amount of work you spent on that beemer is insane. How much does those new parts cost ya from wreckers now?

 

[hakhawk]

$45 per strut housing(came with hubs, but i took them off so i didnt damage them, and to take rotor backing plate off).

also got some rear side windows that im going to "lighten" up a bit

 

[VSIIISU]

`lighten up' I hear you say? sounds like you are planning to use something like those dragsters use? what are they called? perspex type glass? heh.. more like plastic to me.. hard clear plastic and they have metal bolts and nuts holding the whole thing onto the door frame.

 

[hakhawk]

yeh, perspex most likely, probably just for track days and the like, keeping stock ones if i get told to change them.

the good thing is, being one of those pop-out style windows instead of wind down, i can just undo the frame, remove glass, cut perspex same as glass, bolt frame back around. thats the plan anyway

 

[VSIIISU]

Speaking of perspex, I wouldn't mind changing my glass ones to perspex lol.. Mind you, these are all theoretical thinking and wishful thoughts. As long as it works that's all I care about.. sometimes the law is too obnoxious and redundant for simple things we take for granted

 

[hakhawk]

not bad for an afternoons work i think. i ended up doing the cutting and grinding, and dad welded them, i need to hone my skills more before doing something as critical as this. cut 3.75 inches of tube out to get shocks to fit, and had to thin the tube down a bit to get the sleeves over, in the end they were a tight fit, having to hammer them down 2 inches or so, then dad welded them, so theyre not going anywhere i reckon.

springs are on their way, so next is getting the spring tops machined a bit and boring out the strut top bits to fit the 14mm thread of the shock.

 

[yZoH]

not bad for an afternoons work i think. i ended up doing the cutting and grinding, and dad welded them, i need to hone my skills more before doing something as critical as this. cut 3.75 inches of tube out to get shocks to fit, and had to thin the tube down a bit to get the sleeves over, in the end they were a tight fit, having to hammer them down 2 inches or so, then dad welded them, so theyre not going anywhere i reckon.

springs are on their way, so next is getting the spring tops machined a bit and boring out the strut top bits to fit the 14mm thread of the shock.

Pure sex man!!! Can't even tell they've been cut!

 

[hakhawk]

springs arrived today, so i slapped the rears in the shocks. just gotta get some bumpstops and theyll be good to go.

 

[ephect]

looking sweet, what exactly did u cut on the front shocks? coz i cant pick it

 

[Pub247]

He would havecut the tube on the strut that hold the shock in. He cut it down so it would be the right height for the retaining nut to hold the strut insert in