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To be honoust it hasnt got a build thread. Might get onto that. Tonight ill post up a link to my FB album of it for you

Its a BMW 525 E34 pretty rare in a wagon an yeah bagged heaps of work done. Just needs me to leave the R34 alone so i can save up some $$$ to finish it lol

^^ cheers buddy, the slicks were running are off a 911 Gt3 this set has 70 laps of sandown on them. I know the guy pretty well so i have a consistent supply at $250 a set...

http://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/452046-r34-gtt-first-track-build/ Can I change it to "R34 Sports Sedan Build" Cheers mate

Hey, just wondering if it's possible to change the name of a thread I started in the build thread? Cheers

Haha cheers dude its possibly the single most expensive part that i have bought for the car to date... Managed to pretty much finish the splitter there is still abit i want to do to it to get it 100% but for now its good. Just gotta build an airdam off it to get the most potential. So with the splitter almost completed i have started looking at the undertray so now im going to have to redo the whole exhaust system to sit between the rail and floor. But unfortunatley the side skirts i hated have made a reappearance.. they sit perfectly inline with the rails so coming off the rails to the skirt would make a decent support. Have been chatting to Josh from MCA and its looking like im possibly going to be saving my pennies and getting some red's as the next major purchase i think.

Either cosmetic of maybe a sub forum in motorsport?

Hey guys, I guess this is the time old tale and i have been looking into a whole heap of different suspension packages for my R34 and i seem to be coming up with some wildly different setups. I have noticed that the likes of MCA and BC seem to be going for the hard spring, soft ARB approach and then bilstein, Supashock are going for a softer spring firmer ARB. Obviously valving for each package is going to be different but dont really want to get into the nitty gritty of that (just yet). I personally am going for the softer spring approach. In my opinion this gives more weight transfer F&R but then keeping roll seperate and having the bar do that for you. With the firmer spring i wouldnt think that you would get that initial squat/bite plus you are making your shock controll 2 aspects your F&R weight transfer and the roll. What are your opinions? Like i said im just about ready to go down the path of shocks

After abit of a curveball with work next week i didnt get to my mates place to throw the car over the pit to have a look. But i did manage to have a look at the front splitter and start designing it up. So shot over to bunnings and got a 12mm MDF sheet and started cutting. Have mounted it to the front X member just infront of the steering rack, then also have 2 more bolts off the front caster arm mount and another 2 off the rad support. I have run 8mm threads down so that i was able to wind a nut ontop of the MDF so that i can lift or lower the splitter. So currently i have it level with the chassi rails so i think that will be a good starting point. Under acceleration it will lift up and chanel extra air into the rear diffuser and hopefully increase rear DF then under brakes it will dip and hopefully increase front DF. But i figure that there wasnt much point fitting the wing as ots just going to unbalance the whole car so see how it feels with the splitter. Next will try filling out the floor pan and flatten that out then look at the rear diffuser and mounting the wing. Cutout the undertray for wheel clearance but hopefully keeping air off the arms Splitter mounts just need to cut through the front bar for the supports Will be cutting out the bumper profile soon just want to get it all mounted 100% so then can do my 100mm for the maximum splitter length.

I know this is an old thread but i actually purchased a lithium battery for my R34 and i will never own another one. I was luckily only on the dyno doing a couple of test runs and we had an alternator failure that inturn sent a 16v spike through the system and sent the lithium battery into meltdown... now sitting in a car that is getting sprayed in lithium wasnt fun at all!! It has basically spiked one of the cells and it in turn ruptured now if i was at the track i think it could have been a whole lot worse. We ended up junping out, killing it and cutting the battery loose and turfing it out the workshop. So for me i have just gone for a small AGM optima yes its abit heavier but i have no stress that anything is going to go wrong.. Just my 2c

Unfortunatley after having a read if you dont have clean air in the diffuser you wont want to go out the relm of 5-7* they say for an average flat floor around 10* and a good floor upto 15* but obviously it all depends on situation. Hence why im going with 12 and ill have a play with some wool tufts and the go pro and see if i can get abit more out of it without upsetting the balance too much.

sounds like were in the same boat. ive just been reading about rear diffusers etc. trying to findout/workout angle of attack to start from and its looking like im going to start at about 12* and going to be doing a full flat floor prior to the diffuser.

Well my new wing has arrived... to say im excited is a major understatement. Cant use all 3 elements in Sports Sedan can only run a single element at 1830 wide or dual element at 1600 wide. The dual element will provide slightly more downforce but i think im going to just run the single for a while and try get the balance right. I dont think the wing will see the car for a while tho lots to do before hand. With the long weekend approaching i am moving the car to a mates place to look into abit more aero design, so going to try make an undertray, front splitter and possibly look at starting a rear diffuser.

what kinda info are you chasing mate?

Hey Guys, Just wondering if you have in the past had a section dedicated to aerodynamic discussions? i understand that it would be a section that may have alot of arguments but for some of us hopefully we can get some usefull information. Just a thought as im looking for aero info currently and beside the search tab theres no way of scrolling through. Cheers

Didnt get quite as much done this weekend as i would have liked but new shift lights are fitted after abit of a headache. So a 5000, 6000 and 7000 rpm light so will now have abit more of an idea of where were at Also tidied up the brake ducts that were once under the front bar i have now fitted them to the original indicator position and have moved the indicator to the original parker lense.

Well i have been trying to pin down a couple of the little odds n sods jobs on the car that have been bugging me for a while, one being we have had no wipers for ages as when i was splicing the loom somewhere along the line they stopped working.. so traced back through and have rewired them so now we have fully functioning wipers.. yay haha will be good as were coming into crappy weather. Also when we went to the dyno the E-Boost wasnt working and couldnt for the life of me workout why so just ended up running a boost tee until we could fix the problem and as it turns out with the E-Boost there are several boost maps and i was on a different boost map that i never even knew about so thats now fixed Also wired up the E-Boost to display tach and have been wiring up some LED shift lights to the Haltech and that has been a drama in itself lol. Weather is pretty crappy this weekend so will maybe try get brake ducts modified on the LHS of the car now and tidy up a couple of other loose ends. Will post some pics tonight for everyone reading Cheers

Oh and there 18x9.5 front with a 245/64 and rears are 18x10.5 and 305/68.wish the fronts were abit wider but it all comes down to a price and i get these sets cheap

Yeah i love the look of it, yeah going to be going to about -3 and see how we go but i have a feeling were going to see -3 rear and -4 front in the end but at the moment i have absoloutley no data on them but do have abit of a plan of attack from a guy at racing ready in canberra he has been awesome giving advice and just chatting on FB etc..

Cheers mate yeah were now pushing the 1900 mark for track width. Will hopefully get some time this week to play around with the rear diffuser abit more and will try add photos abit more regularly, i think i say that every time tho..

Well new fuel setup worked amazing and i have a feeling looking back on the dyno sheets that filter was actually holding us back so we might head back to the dyno in coming months. In the meanwhile we have gone to a new rim/tyre combo so have just been fitting it all to the car and hopefully have another track day on the 11th to test the new tyres. I have a feeling that the current alignment is going to be an issue after chatting to a couple of people im going to need to change it up abit. But hey ill let the pictures do the talking.. And as silly as it sounds for some reason this was the point for me where i realised that this car was never going to see the street again haha And just one to put in perspective how much wider we are going. Front and rear flares are the same front is the new tyres and rear is what we were on..

Looking good buddy, i did a similar thing with mine but instead of the mesh i just used steel wool, seems to have worked pretty well i dont have a catchcan setup at the moment i just have 2 air filters and it doesnt seem to breathe oil at all. How has the pedal box gone mate? What size masters are you running and how is it feeling for you?

Hey buddy whats the width of the voltex wing?

Is there a website for sandown just for general practice days. Sorry for the dumb question with mallala down here they have general practice days go there pay ya $110 entry and go play around does sandown do days like that?

Ahk awesome! well i would love to have a play at sandown and then step up to PI, what kinda $$$ are you looking at for the events and what kinda format do you run?