Spring has finally arrived and with it also come the spring projects. I've done a lot of work to the car, but I just haven't posted it, so this next post will be split in two parts covering almost 2 months of on and off work on the car.
The first thing to do was to weld the diff. I've ran a welded diff on the E30 and I was very satisfied with how the car handled with it.
Next came a ridiculously big box, for what was in it... a FIA homologated helmet.
I also replaced the visco fan clutch with an electrical one of an Opel Astra.
I then set about to install the master kill switch, which required to solder some very thick wires. I connected all the wires and zip tied it under the dash.
Next I tried to install the dash, but of course, the rollcage was in the way. I proceeded to hack the dash and to my surprise I did not have to cut any of the heating vents.
The cage clears the vents with just a few millimeters to spare. I am more convinced each day the the E36 was designed with motorsport in mind.
One of my friends booked an hour of track time at our local carting course. So we gathered up for what was our first track day...
My cars suspension was 100% stock and I only had a welded diff help me drift a bit better.
The very soft stock suspension posed quite a challenge
My friends Nissan going all out. We used the same part of the track that the drift championship guys do.
The entry speeds were at around 90 km/h and that was enough for the leaning tower of drift...
After the track day it was clearly that I desperately needed better suspension. I managed to find some used KW V2 coilovers kit for both the front and the rear. But more on that in the second part of the post.
