Hello fellow Spoolstreeters, it's been a while!
I bought two E9X 335i cars a couple of years back with the idea that one be a street car that could be taken to the casual trackday and the other a dedicated track/racecar. This one is about the dedicated track/racecar build. I've had it for about 2 years, worked on it on and off, now it's finally getting to a stage where it is interesting enough to share.
The car is being built mostly for research purposes but do plan to do some casual races here and there such as BMW Club or NASA. I've always been an "old school" BMW guy and raced BMWs with NA motors so this will be interesting for me.
I wanted to have the liberty to do whatever to the suspension and engine and not be limited by rules (other than safety of course) so it will fit in BMWCCA Mod class or NASA GTS, or similar.
Going to keep it simple for now and put a few picutres up. I'll update this 1st post with links to future posts that are interesting as they come. I also hoping to lean on some of fellow Spoolstreeters for engine knowledge and parts!
I bought this car from fellow forum member @NoQuarter. The car was in an accident and was "totalled" by the insurance company so therefore a prefect candidate for a track car.
This first thing was to strip it down...
Next was do the cage work so I set the car on stands that were laser leveled and got the cage done...
Cage build progress... picking up the shock tower and subframe pickup points...
7 point "node"...
A few pics of the dampers, I'll go into more detail about this later but figured i'd post this up for now...
More to come!!
Cheers,
Barry
I bought two E9X 335i cars a couple of years back with the idea that one be a street car that could be taken to the casual trackday and the other a dedicated track/racecar. This one is about the dedicated track/racecar build. I've had it for about 2 years, worked on it on and off, now it's finally getting to a stage where it is interesting enough to share.
The car is being built mostly for research purposes but do plan to do some casual races here and there such as BMW Club or NASA. I've always been an "old school" BMW guy and raced BMWs with NA motors so this will be interesting for me.
I wanted to have the liberty to do whatever to the suspension and engine and not be limited by rules (other than safety of course) so it will fit in BMWCCA Mod class or NASA GTS, or similar.
Going to keep it simple for now and put a few picutres up. I'll update this 1st post with links to future posts that are interesting as they come. I also hoping to lean on some of fellow Spoolstreeters for engine knowledge and parts!
I bought this car from fellow forum member @NoQuarter. The car was in an accident and was "totalled" by the insurance company so therefore a prefect candidate for a track car.
This first thing was to strip it down...
Next was do the cage work so I set the car on stands that were laser leveled and got the cage done...
Cage build progress... picking up the shock tower and subframe pickup points...
7 point "node"...
A few pics of the dampers, I'll go into more detail about this later but figured i'd post this up for now...
More to come!!
Cheers,
Barry