parts and motor porn(safe for work)

[BlindRhino]

So Dave(Chamonix72) showed me his ITB setup, and I see Armond is looking for an A4 airbox. I started to google and found this...

Some cool stuff!

enjoy,

Russ

[cxzsaq]

you. are. very. sick. did you see that aerial shot with all the parts out? AWESOME!!!

[BlindRhino]

I think it might be CD's cousin!

[Jeff]

Hahaha,

You found my flickr stash, some of the parts are mine most are photos that I collected around the web for future reference.

-Jeff

[SteveJ]

Safe for work---My ass!

Let's see, do I order parts for the monitoring system in Surgery, or do I go on RealOEM and send an order into Blunt?

[williamggruff]

Sweet sister of the rear.

[Swiftus]

Mmmmmm... Diff cooleeeeerrrrrrrrr..... (In my best Homer Simpson voice)

[markmac]

That is the supension if you want to go fast on the track. Alot of work to put one like that together, but gives "real" adjustability. Notice teh 4.22 75% LSD? Those are worth a few duckets.....

[Jeff]

That is the supension if you want to go fast on the track. Alot of work to put one like that together, but gives "real" adjustability. Notice teh 4.22 75% LSD? Those are worth a few duckets.....

Hahaha,

Now you guys have seen all my rear suspension secrets....

[markmac]

My good friend Dave Foley (who had seen a number of BMW factory race car suspension work, Schnitzer, ALPINA etc.,) told me that is where it happens with a trailing arm suspensioned car since their isn't a whole heck of alot you can do with the front. It reminds me very much of my ALPINA car's rear suspension, although my car uses 2002 Turbo rear trailing arms (modified of course) which use slightly larger bearings than a 02/tii trailing arm (and 4x more expensive).....anything for that "advantage" don't you know. I have a 75% LSD as well only with 5.86 gears (it ended its life as a hillclimb car not a road car).

www.alpinabmw2002.com

[Jeff]

I carried three ZF 75% LSD with me., 3.90 4:22 4:44

The 3:90 was only used at California Speedway With a close ratio gear box the engine would rev to 8,200rpm in NASCAR turn 2 on the speedway

The 4:44 was used at Las Vegas on the small track and Phoenix

The 4:22 was used at Laguna Seca, Portland, Seattle, Willow Spring, Buttonwillow,

[Guest Anonymous]

Ok mr. schmartypants, most people don't have one limited slip diff, let alone three, let alone three that are 75% lockers. NLA for some time, optimum lock for race cars and fun street cars AND they rarely EVER come available. Saw one this past year but can't recall what it sold for (it was over EUR 2,000- though).

www.alpinabmw2002.com

[Jeff]

At California Speedway I lost a pinion bearing in my 3:90 ZF 75% LSD and had to install my only other spare, a 3:90 with Quaife unit in it. the car was 1.5 seconds slower after that. The Quaife could not put the power down like the ZF 75% diff.

[markmac]

That I think is pretty interesting (based on the "propaganda" Quaife publishes). My last recollection was that once upon a time you could take a 40% LSD and add various clutch plates to get it to about 70%, but that was many years ago and now I believe that some of those clutch plates required are NLA. I want to say that somehone here posted up a really nice mini-article on that (?). Come to think of it that would be a good one to retrieve, although I am pretty lame at using the search funcition here and it had to be at least five or more years ago.

www.alpinabmw2002.com

[Jeff]

Yeah the Quaife was a big disappointment.

The early 40% LSD can be converted by removing a spacer and adding clutch plates.

I believe that you can use VW LSD clutch plates from a late 70's Rabbit or Scirocco. I ordered some about 10 years ago from Maximillian and they showed up in ZF packaging and was told that it was a VW part.