Like I said, I got a bag of new red urethane bushings from BMP. So I abandoned my shiny new engine and tranny and pulled my suspension apart. This is my buddy Blunts fault. Looking at his shiny new everything and my wife saying, " why doesn't yours look like his?"  Even though I promised myself that I would just make it run. It wouldn't hurt to clean it up a little.

Front Out

Rear Out

Why I did this?

Big Sway Bars from p/o. Big useless brakes

Bead Blasted

Took a few parts to get the hang of the POR 15. Reggie says its all in the stroke. He said, "stroke"

Bilstein struts. Almost bought Ground Control coil overs and camber plates but decided I need to ride in a car that has them first. I'm scurred they might be loud and super ruff. If you have em , had em, or have an opinion let me know.

Got better with the POR.

Plasticote Krinkle paint. Before Jose backed over it with a car. Then pulled forward over it again. to see what he backed over. While it was drying in the sun.

I used 2002 axles with 320i cv's at the differential. New boots por'd. I wasted a lot of time taking pics of the whole process, none of which i'm going to post.

I finally got my 3.91 Lsd. I had 1 core 3.64 lsd that someone ran without oil. And another that turned funny. Plus 3.91 is closer to the 4.10 that the e30 M3 came with. Someone posted on the faq that there were three 320is' at the Oaktown pick n pull. So me and Asian Rob drove down there and sure enough they were there. But only one car had the diff in it. And Asian Rob drove. So being the good Christian I am, I sat there and watched while this nutjob pay $67 for it. Everyone on eBay wants $250 plus $75 shipping for one. I almost won a whole 320is for $500 but lost. Got a call from Bavarian Auto Recycling. They had one. Worked it out. I was so happy, I dorked out. painted it and polished the S 3.91 tag.

From the way the output shafts pulled out of the diff I suspected I did something wrong. After proper research, I discovered that I was supposed to use 320i axle shafts with 2002 cv's outboard.