Black & Tan 332iT

[m3_tristan]

You can reach out to @limited.slip on instagram if you’d like to pick one up that’s ready to rock! I just don’t have the free time to pack, ship, distribute.

thanks! I just shot him a message.

[Bry5on]

Thanks to George Hill I believe we’ve found the remaining flexiness in the front suspension. George has an e46 front clip handy (the man has dedication), so during a visit to TX we ran a test yesterday to prove my next hypothesis. With the fender off, we attached a dial indicator as in the image below, measuring longitudinally, then I pushed on the fender mount vertically with about 40lbs by hand. You could see the dial indicator move .002” from this ~40lb push. This is significant because just sitting on the ground, the car sees about 20x that load, meaning it’s displacing about .040” or a full millimeter from just placing the car on the ground. View of what’s behind the right front fender, with dial indicator setup:


So every time your suspension loads/unloads or hits a pothole/bump, this joint is flexing and allowing the strut tower to move up/down out of sync with the car. This will be noticeable in driver feel.

So we took some scans, including of the other side which had a pothole damaged tower, and I’m going to design some gusseting that will live invisibly under the fender to stiffen the front suspension up nicely.

Thanks George!

[Bry5on]

Got some work done on the flight!

[karter16]

Oh man - that's huge! Well done - very impressive to have figured that out! The E46 is going to be like a platform that's 10 years younger by the time you're done with it!

[Obioban]

lol.

do want.

awesome!

[0-60motorsports]

Got some work done on the flight!

Thats awesome! Great work and Thanks.

[Obioban]

Seems to now be NLA.

Go, team!

... glad to have mine in hand...

[Carbonvert]

Alright, here’s a link for those in the US where you can purchase this v-subframe brace directly if you so desire: https://cart.sendcutsend.com/styxqbkx1nth

Reminder, this link is not me selling anything, I make no money on this, and I’m not affiliated with sendcutsend other than really liking their service.

Just stumbled onto this. Thank you for sharing. I'm thinking this will compliment the redish v3 kit being installed right now

[discoelk]

Good updates with the braces. Out of curiosity, did the front clip have the windshield and lower subframe brace installed?

[Bry5on]

Good updates with the braces. Out of curiosity, did the front clip have the windshield and lower subframe brace installed?

Good questions, it did not. I wouldn’t expect much of a change from those two though.

I’m planning a modified re-run of this experiment when I pull my fenders off. Basically set the dial indicator up and watch it as I lift the car up and place it back on the ground. We’ll see what happens!