Brakes, bigger = badass

Found a great deal on a Massive Brakes sport kit. 300x21mm rotors with Wilwood Superlite 4 piston calipers. Estimated 10lbs of unsprung weight off of the front corners. The calipers required some minor material removal from the ends to clear the barrels of my wheels. Lee Vuong (of Massive) was kind enough to provide 3mm spacers free of cost which improved my clearance with the spokes of my D-Force LTW5's.

Kill Switch

Finally got around to wiring up a kill switch. Which meant making a new battery cable. Since the power distribution block is on the passenger side firewall I decided that was as good a place to splice the switch in as any. After spending 2hrs squeezing all the wires in the small area in the cowl I discovered that the hood interfered with the switch. This lead me to have the rewire the switch after rotating it 180°.

PAINTING SUCKS!!!

POR15 Flexcote gray paint used for the body panels.

POR15 Hardnose orange 2-part paint used for the cage. Unfortunately its not true orange, not sure what I am going to do about that if anything.

Painted the rear package shelf flat black to eliminate any reflections in the rear window.

Steering Rack Swap

I was tired of the 432 turns lock to lock of the stock e30 rack and found a screamin' deal on a rack off a wrecked '95 m3. So here I begin the process of swapping the racks. I still need to order the e36 HP hose and some new washers for the banjo bolts before I can put things back together.

The linkage between the steering column and rack needs to modified due to the new rack being a little bit longer.