Rear strut brace - options...

[shimmy]

touchē

thats what i would do, and will do if that happens. but some people dont want the headache.

All well and good but you are presuming your dealer doesn't make notes of modifications that they think are serious when the car is in for a service :whistle:

[AlexGTT]

All well and good but you are presuming your dealer doesn't ake notes of modifications that they think are serious when the car is in for a service :whistle:

Quite. This I know they do. My dealer refused to replace a passenger side curtain airbag under warranty after a random deploy when driving over a sunken drain cover. Without even seeing the car they knew it had after market suspension. Cooonts.:whistle:

[toofastforyou]

All well and good but you are presuming your dealer doesn't make notes of modifications that they think are serious when the car is in for a service :whistle:

and you are assuming i dont know the service manager personally.:blalalala:

all it would cost is a few beers..... :hahaha:

i spat a shim on my e46 m3 coupe, matey told me to remove my nos, shrick cams and gruppe m ram air and it got done on warranty.:thumbs:

[_Nathan_]

lol, NOS, you haven't done yourself any favours with that admission :P

[shimmy]

and you are assuming i dont know the service manager personally.:blalalala:

all it would cost is a few beers..... :hahaha:

i spat a shim on my e46 m3 coupe, matey told me to remove my nos, shrick cams and gruppe m ram air and it got done on warranty.:thumbs:

It would have been cheaper to do the shim yourself surely rather than remove the cams ( not that they would ever have noticed) :smokin:

[toofastforyou]

It would have been cheaper to do the shim yourself surely rather than remove the cams ( not that they would ever have noticed) :smokin:

i'm not that good technically, i find it best to leave that stuff to the professionals.

i don't know about cheaper, from what I recall it was a 2-3k job. I spat the shim while doing some top speed runs on the autobahn for about an hour, and the moment i slowed down there was this awful tapping sound coming from the engine. I remember there were a few complications, and i was glad i did it on warranty.

Matey said as they are going to open up the engine it was best to remove the cams, so i did.

[toofastforyou]

lol, NOS, you haven't done yourself any favours with that admission :P

lol. i went down the nos route cos it was new to me at the time. and a couple of my mates had amg 55s and i had to even things up a little on the straights, but it turned out i did a bit more than even things out! it was actually bags of fun. wouldnt mind another car with nos, maybe an r32 turbo:whistle:

never put nos on any of the csls i owned though. different car, different respect

[_Nathan_]

You shouldve had the car trailered to them with no cams at all in it, that would've confused them

[alexk]

You could also claim that NOS is good for cooling down the internals of the engine :thumbs:

[The Gorilla]

Hi,

This started with Rear Strut Brace, now ''Nos''
how long before, Welded Diff and then Fluffy Dice ?

''Tokoyooooooo Drift'' here we come.


Regards,

The Gorilla.

[glendog74]

Hi,

This started with Rear Strut Brace, now ''Nos''
how long before, Welded Diff and then Fluffy Dice ?

''Tokoyooooooo Drift'' here we come.


Regards,

The Gorilla.

But... Just look at what can be achieved with some 'vision'... :bigcry:

[toofastforyou]

But... Just look at what can be achieved with some 'vision'... :bigcry:

:hahaha::hahaha:

i always wanted an m5 bumper on my csl:whistle::banghead:

[toofastforyou]

Hi,

AlexGTT- The rear strut brace will do nothing to
prevent the rear subframe ripping out the boot
floor, if anything it will accelerate it.

The rear subframe seeks to leave the E46
shell due to the ''torque twist' of the diff under
extreme load.

That is why the rips in the boot floor in most
cases follow the same pattern.

By stiffening up the rear end of the shell the
loads when transmitted from the torque of the
diff into the boot floor via the diff mounts will
be greater as that area has been made more 'rigid'
and the laods which can be partially disspearsed by 'flex'
now have nowere to go.

This will accelerate the point load, which is the sub
frame mounts to the boot floor.

Hence your 'ripping' dynamics increase not reduce.

Regards,

The Gorilla.

dear gorilla (or anyone else with an answer)

if one decides to use a rear strutbrace, how does one avoid the issues you have mentioned above associated with the use of such a device? i'm assuming other modifications will have to be made, what are they?

regards

tffy

[shimmy]

But... Just look at what can be achieved with some 'vision'... :bigcry:

Is that Lawsys Evo?

[toofastforyou]

Is that Lawsys Evo?

:gayfight::gayfight: