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Z3M Chassis Issue... HELP PLEASE!!!
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/// Exdos ///
"Men who try the impossible and fail spectacularly are infinitely superior to those who reach for nothing and succeed" --Napoleon Bonapart
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Chris and Exdos,
Thanx mates!!! I will look for H&R sway bars now... do you guys have any suggestions where to get those from? We only have 22 of M coupes in Australia... so finding a set of them locally will be close to impossible....
Thanx!!!!
cheers,
richieM Coupe from Australia
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Originally posted by MCOUP View PostChris and Exdos
Thanx mates!!! I will look for H&R sway bars now... do you guys have any suggestions where to get those from? We only have 22 of M coupes in Australia... so finding a set of them locally will be close to impossible....
Thanx!!!!
cheers,
richie
He might wish to go international?/// Exdos ///
"Men who try the impossible and fail spectacularly are infinitely superior to those who reach for nothing and succeed" --Napoleon Bonapart
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Exdos,
This question just came up when I revisited this thread.... since my driver side front and rear wheels tucked in a bit more than the passenger side, if adding spacers to those 2 wheels, the centre line of the drivetrain will be shifted towards the driver side and wouldn't it make the car feel more balanced? If the whole drivetrain is off the centre now, won't 2 spacers help to bring the off-centre issue back to normal cosmetically and functionally?
Thanx mate
cheers,
richieM Coupe from Australia
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Originally posted by MCOUP View PostExdos,
This question just came up when I revisited this thread.... since my driver side front and rear wheels tucked in a bit more than the passenger side, if adding spacers to those 2 wheels, the centre line of the drivetrain will be shifted towards the driver side and wouldn't it make the car feel more balanced? If the whole drivetrain is off the centre now, won't 2 spacers help to bring the off-centre issue back to normal cosmetically and functionally?
Thanx mate
cheers,
richie
I can't see why you keep coming back to this.
Your bodyshell is just a covering for you to sit inside and it doesn't really matter whether it covers the wheels more on one side than another, although it seems to be driving you nuts that it is not perfectly symmetrical. I agree it would look best if it were perfectly symmetrical but it won't affect how the car drives unless the car is twisted and thus the thrustline is way out of "centre".
Do you really think that your two half-shafts coming off the diff to the left and right rear wheels are of different lengths and that is the reason why the wheels on one side seem to tuck in less/more on opposite sides of your car?
Think about this carefully!
If your car won't drive straight and pulls to one side and/or the tyres are wearing very unevenly on opposite sides, then get it properly aligned, otherwise forget about it.Last edited by exdos; 27-12-2007, 01:07 AM./// Exdos ///
"Men who try the impossible and fail spectacularly are infinitely superior to those who reach for nothing and succeed" --Napoleon Bonapart
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Exdos,
Thanx for that mate!!! Just a thought about because I was going to put spacers are 4 corners and came across this question... that and I also thought about the uneven length of drive shafts from the rear diff too if I only put spacers at 1 side of the car... that will surely affect the car too as you pointed out... BMW did an alignment on my car a couple of weeks ago and they said it was fine too... so I guess I should just put this behind my head and never get back to this topic.... :)
cheers,
richieM Coupe from Australia
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