BMW 2002 FAQ

Edit post

Username

Subject

Message body

Font colour: Font size:

Close Tags

[quote="bmw1602.com"]Nice stuff!

I'm sure we'll end up a some events together!

After color sanding this weekend I'm just about to get it rolling again.

Soon I will be refreshing my suspension. Welding in the I.E adjustment plates on the rear subframe and also boxing my rear trailing arms and front control arms.

I used my miller 130xp MIG on a ton of stuff on my project, but once I got a hold of my 180SD tig I havn't used the mig in awhile...they make great stuff.

did you clamp/jig the rear trailing arms before you welded them?

I hope so or else you wouldn't be the first person to try to reinstall them and find out they don't fit anymore! Seriously!

I'll be boxing mine in using my tig and I will be making some sort of fixture to make sure I don't get any warpage. Also I'll be weldling in a cross bar ala Mcoupe trailing arms.

as seen here,
http://e30m3performance.com/now_showing/m-coupe-arms/index.htm

I've been welding alot lately, projects for my mom,stepdad, my car....made some nice furniture out of stainless steel.....

It always really important when welding to REALLY make sure you understand what the heat does to the metal. How you may weaken stuff inadvertently and most of ALL as metals cool down they do weird stuff! THings bend and pull and you need to be consious of this or else you MAY end up with a cool reinforced, nicely welded bent part! You should check out one of my nice tables......it's also nicely warped!

Just as a precaution I would take some measurements or a stock peice and make sure nothing got tweaked.

Just like painting, 90% of welding is the preparation. Cleaning/clamping/jig'in/cleaning

just some advice I should of paid more attention to myself![/quote]

Options
HTML is ON
BBCode is ON
Smilies are OFF

	Disable HTML in this post
	Disable BBCode in this post