I spent my Saturday

maxum · Post by **maxum** » Mon 21 Mar, 2011 20:06

Spent all day Saturday fitting new drilled and groved Brake disc's with green stuff pads, and of couse the Spanky new LM Reps
18inc with 225/40/18 ET38 Front and 255/35/18 ET45 rear

The before shot

I stripped down all the Brake calipers last weekend and painted them in Red

Ready for the new larger 300mm Front disc's and Green stuff pads ( As fiited to the 3lt model ) I painted all the hubs of the disc's in silver, and aplired some BMW decals to the calipars

Then on went the new wheels

It has a fair old wheel gap

But with the freshley painted calipares and new disc's the job is getting there

The ride is good, better than i was expecting from the upgrade from the 17inc

I just need to sort out that wheel gap which i have a set of Eibach for that little problem, i'm hopeing they do not kill the ride. i will update when that job has been done

swamper · Post by **swamper** » Mon 21 Mar, 2011 21:05

looks much better

Jonttt · Post by **Jonttt** » Mon 21 Mar, 2011 21:15

Very good

The exaggeration of the gap is common when you fit lower profile tyres ie its the same as before jus looks worse with bigger alloys fitted

Have you owned an S2000, the reg looks wierd on a BMW

nobynom8ss · Post by **nobynom8ss** » Mon 21 Mar, 2011 21:32

They look good The wheels are spot on . did you get the white BMW stickers off of ebay

I did my wheels /brakes last week in blue photos may get on one day when or if i can ever figuure how to do it . Any way as above they look spot on time well spent.

maxum · Post by **maxum** » Mon 21 Mar, 2011 22:46

Jonttt wrote:Very good

The exaggeration of the gap is common when you fit lower profile tyres ie its the same as before jus looks worse with bigger alloys fitted

Have you owned an S2000, the reg looks wierd on a BMW

No to the S2000,

But i had one of these

I think the plate suited the JCW Cooper S Better

g8jka · Post by **g8jka** » Mon 21 Mar, 2011 23:07

Car looks great now, excellent choice of wheels

Will look fantastic when its lowered on eibachs! Where did you get the BMW centre caps from by the way? I'm tempted to change the centre caps on my wheels to these but never really knew if they would look right on LM's but they seem to suit them

maurice the martian · Post by **maurice the martian** » Tue 22 Mar, 2011 10:02

Looking good Maxum ,love those wheels,just got my Z4 and been told NO MODS

But with the m tech suspension its ok for me anyway.
Maurice

maxum · Post by **maxum** » Tue 22 Mar, 2011 22:38

g8jka wrote:Car looks great now, excellent choice of wheels

Will look fantastic when its lowered on eibachs! Where did you get the BMW centre caps from by the way? I'm tempted to change the centre caps on my wheels to these but never really knew if they would look right on LM's but they seem to suit them

The centre caps came with the wheels which i got from BW Autosport

http://www.bmautosport.co.uk/index.shtml

Give Mark a call i'm sure he can sort you out a set

jontymo · Post by **jontymo** » Tue 22 Mar, 2011 22:49

Looks great.

jontymo

Jonttt · Post by **Jonttt** » Wed 23 Mar, 2011 01:18

Small World, snap

Did 35k in it in 12 months from new averaging 7k from a front set of tyres

maxum · Post by **maxum** » Wed 23 Mar, 2011 17:54

Must say the Cooper S was one of the best car's have owned

230hp a right little terraway, i think people underestamate the power
and speed of these little car's, a well tuned Cooper S will give an M3 a kicking

up the strip and around a track

Good times for me but time to move on hence the Z4