brake and suspension rebuild with poly bushes etc.

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Just completed a suspension/brakes/steering rebuild on my CSL.
fitted a set of Bilstien sport shocks , BMW progresive springs and polly bushes, E12 M535i thicker antiroll bars, new steering arms, and brakes have been refurbed with new drilled discs, also fitted new stainless steel exhaust with 6 branch which i bought from Fritz bits ,car now sounds much better without been to loud, and hopefully it might squeeze a couple more bhp from it. it also now handles 100% better than before with much less body roll and feels nice and tight ,even on rough roads (which we have plenty of here in the UK).


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Total BMW car mag as doing a feature on the car later this year.
hope you like the pictures Neil.
 

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Calipers

Neil,
Great job. I'm curious about those calipers. Did they come that color or did you have them painted/powder coated ??

As I am considering similar treatment, do you happen to have a photo of the wheels taken from the outside of the car so that I can see how the caliper looks through the wheel ??

TIA.

-David
 

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Great looking undercarriage, thanks for sharing. David, I would caution against powdercoating as the process calls for heating the object ~ 400F 200C which would cause the seals to melt. If you are thinking about disassembling the calipers to powdercoat you would need new bolts and nuts which I believe are NLA and o-rings between the caliper halves. I am opting for a good epoxy paint. They do look really nice and with the drilled disks even better.
 

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Hi David,
The calipers are painted with smooth hammerite paint, funny thing is , i had the calipers clean ready to go on the car and at the last minuite after not being able to find the right colour i wanted :cry: , I came across this gold hammerite that looked terrible on the lid colour ,but i thought well it will have to do for now ,yet when i painted it on it came out more or less exactley the colour i wanted. and luckily not the colour of the can lid :lol: I will post a couple of picture so you can see the calipers through the wheels.
Thanks Neil.
 

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Hi David,
Here is a picture of the disc's and calipers through the wheel.

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thanks Neil.
 

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Wow, your undercarriage looks too nice to spoil by driving!

Your undercarriage looks beautiful. And you say the car is used primarily for off roading? :)Is your garage hermetically sealed?

Now I have to ask, when you park a car that nice, can you sleep at night if the steering wheel is not perfectly straight?

Outstanding!
 

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I use this car more than most owners proberbly do, i have just posted a short film of it racing the standing 1/4 at Santa pod race way against a E46 330d sport and the week before it was being raced around castle donnington race track on a CSL/M power track day!! where i came off the track hitting the gravel trap at around 70mph.
This car gets well used. There is a 4 page spread on the car in Novembers Total BMW magazine available on 19 Oct 07.
Thanks Neil.
 

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brake line question

Maybe its my monitor or my eyesight, but while admiring your undercarriage I noticed what appeared to be copper-colored hard brake lines.

Are they copper or the more traditional steel, but copper toned or colored?

Thanks
 
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