Thought I would provide a quick update.
My Pelican limiters arrived in no time and looked about $20 worth. I took a day off and with a following wind expected to get these in, change the H&R's to Eibach's & at the same time get my new rear pads on.
Despite its age (2006)and 59k miles, everything underneath was clean so all came apart easily. Rears were dead easy and completed in around 2 hours.
Fronts were a bit more involved but again straight forward. I managed to fit one spring upside down, which isn't a problem for performance but my OCD kicked in preventing me from fitting the other upside down.
Faffing about completed and by 6pm all was done and booked into BMTR in 2 days later.
£85 and the geometry was done to my spec. The car felt very planted, which is possibly placebo, but the lack of movement from the rear is very noticeable now that it has been reduced. Turn in and front grip is brilliant and overall the car feels more balanced.
I would recommend fitting limiters and getting a geo on any car, well worth it.
Next up is to get a track evening at Donington booked, but first is ZFEST on Sunday; hope to meet some of you there.
Tom
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I made my own if you can use a lathe they are very easy to do.
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Couldnt agree more as they are a simple component. I did look into material availability but lack of access to a lathe led me to give up and just go with the Pelican bits. I've used Pelican before for 911 parts and found them to be a good supplier, had to swallow hard to cough up for the delivery charges though!
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So we'll start seeing "Machine Monkey Limiters" now Mat?Machine monkey wrote:I made my own if you can use a lathe they are very easy to do.
I'll get my name in for the first set please
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Can you remember the dimensions? I'm changing my bushes soon and as I have use of a machine shop I might as well make some up.Machine monkey wrote:I made my own if you can use a lathe they are very easy to do.
Thanks
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I can't nate I think I used 1/4 or 5mm plate. The ID and OD is easy to figure out as is the taper needed. Get the trailing armed off and go from there buddy
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Do a search, this has been covered before. They used to be about £10 plus postage. Probably a little more now we're all poorer.
http://www.rmeuropean.com/Products/0930 ... FG523.aspx
http://www.rmeuropean.com/Products/0930 ... FG523.aspx
'07 Z4M Interlagos Blue. All options except extended leather.
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Thanks, that was my plan B but I thought I'd see if anyone knew the answer to save taking it apart and then putting it back together while I make the spacers, I'll update this once I've done it incase anyone wants the measurements in the future.Machine monkey wrote:I can't nate I think I used 1/4 or 5mm plate. The ID and OD is easy to figure out as is the taper needed. Get the trailing armed off and go from there buddy
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Think I paid around £19 all in from Ebay in the end. The difference is noticeable though..
Mike
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