Track-day wannabe - e36 325 Coupe

Hz, having to 'distance-check' my old e30 track-day car due to the 'tin-worm' infestation, I moved 'up' to an e36. My fetish for a 2dr/coupe as a track car made the search a little difficult. I eventually managed to neg a fair price on this car.
En-route home after the purchase.



Managed to do the mandatory strip ect within a week before it's 1st outing at Dezzi's. Work inc stripping the interior(inc the sound deadening), aircon delete, e46 steering rack swop, clutch and flywheel swop/replace ( distance-checked the dual mass), rear main seal, replaced 2 broken studs on the exhaust mainfold, fabricated a new steering coupler, replaced tie-rod ends, installed a short-shift, fabricated new gearlinkage bush, repaired mounting flange on the gearbox, fabricated an extension for the steering wheel, fabricated a new A-frame, mounted/fitted 2 x seats, and a very basic wheel alignment set up.



As she was for the 1st event....note the increased body height due to the weightloss



This resulted in the car being very tail-happy and the back locks up under hard braking, to be expected though.....ride height , insufficent rear camber and brake bias needs attention. Barring the handling issue's the car ran faultlessly and we had an absolute gas.....good to be tracking again.

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As with most of us cashflow is an issue when building a toy. Next up was a solution to the poor handling albeit a tempoary one until funds allow for a new set-up. At this point the set-up is homegrown being a combo of e36 and e30 parts not ideal but it has improved the car dramatically.
Here is the 'new' front strut, half e30/e36 to allow for the use of an Bilstien insert.
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A poor pic but it does give an indication of the ride height.


Another of the resultant rear camber.



Next on the agenda is a swop to et20 offset wheels and some c/plates up front. Cheers