Chazzy
Zorg Legend
Hi,
I'm new to the forum and thought I'd share my current project.
It's a '99 Z3M roadster which I 'obtained' last summer. It used to belong to my Mum who bought it in 2004, but sadly she died in 2009. Since then it's been sat in my Dad's garage doing around 300 miles a year, with a little summer driving, and yearly servicing and MOTs. It's currently at 103k miles. He was considering getting rid of it a couple of years ago, but was given a load of crap information about the car saying it was an import and was worth next to nothing. After doing some digging, I found out it was originally registered in Northern Ireland and so had a different plate on it. It was reregistered in England in 2002, and so is not an import. Anyway, I cheekily asked my Dad last year if I could have it, and he said yes, on the condition that if I sell it, he gets the money. Fair enough.
It's not in the best condition, it's been regularly serviced but there's a long list of things wrong with it which I'm going to start working my way through. I went through all the documentation and found out some interesting items which my Dad was totally unaware of. Mainly the work done to it at West Tuning in Thruxton shortly before we bought it from Munich Legends. In there was a dyno sheet with the registration showing 354bhp.... I gave them a ring but sadly due a fire a few years ago they didn't have any information on the car. It does have a Gruppe M induction kit on it, and I wouldn't be surprised if it's been re mapped and got feisty cams in it. The plan will be to take it to a rolling road at some point to see what it's really putting out.
Anyway, the list of problems are (and growing!)...... Shocks are all knackered, bushes are all knackered, rear top mounts need replacing, seat bushes need replacing, cracks in the boot floor, crack in the rear cross beam, scuffed alloys, temperamental oil temp sensor, failed outside air temperature, worn seats, oil fill light comes on during fire up, big ding on the near side sill, scuffed alloys, scratches on the underside of the front bumper, alarm/remote lock doesn't work, various marks on the paint.......
...and it needs new tyres. It currently has Hankook V12s but I'm not convinced...!
It wasn't very nice to drive at all, Ioved the engine and having the top down, but the handling was pretty scary. It was time to get on and fix it. I took it off the road when the tax ran out in October, and have only just started working on it. (I also have a kit car which took priority at the time which needed a complete engine rebuild).
Anyway, here are some pictures, they are in chronological order and I'll add some info for each.
On the day I got it!
It definitely needed a wash, and it came out looking a little fresher:
I used it a little but didn't want to due to the handling problems so it got parked in the garage (which I painted over the winter!)
Then the work started:
I've ordered a full set of powerflex bushes, an H&R ARB kit, koni sport suspension kit, ally rear top mounts, and a racing line strut brace. It's all coming out!
Subframe out and jet washed
Boot floor - it actually looks like some work has already been done on this due to the paint and some additional welds along the back.
Crack in cross bearm and hole where the spot welds have failed
Paint taken off and then bolted together through the failed spot welds. I've seam weld this and then weld up the holes.
Cleaned up crack - the bolt on the RHS has pulled all the floor back together and in doing so helped close up the crack. I'll need to reinforce this with some sheet metal.
I started welding it all last night, and since found more horror which needs to be welded. I'll put some pictures up of this when it's finished. My ARB kit and bushes have arrived as well so the rear subframe can start going back in soon once I've given it some paint!
I'm new to the forum and thought I'd share my current project.
It's a '99 Z3M roadster which I 'obtained' last summer. It used to belong to my Mum who bought it in 2004, but sadly she died in 2009. Since then it's been sat in my Dad's garage doing around 300 miles a year, with a little summer driving, and yearly servicing and MOTs. It's currently at 103k miles. He was considering getting rid of it a couple of years ago, but was given a load of crap information about the car saying it was an import and was worth next to nothing. After doing some digging, I found out it was originally registered in Northern Ireland and so had a different plate on it. It was reregistered in England in 2002, and so is not an import. Anyway, I cheekily asked my Dad last year if I could have it, and he said yes, on the condition that if I sell it, he gets the money. Fair enough.
It's not in the best condition, it's been regularly serviced but there's a long list of things wrong with it which I'm going to start working my way through. I went through all the documentation and found out some interesting items which my Dad was totally unaware of. Mainly the work done to it at West Tuning in Thruxton shortly before we bought it from Munich Legends. In there was a dyno sheet with the registration showing 354bhp.... I gave them a ring but sadly due a fire a few years ago they didn't have any information on the car. It does have a Gruppe M induction kit on it, and I wouldn't be surprised if it's been re mapped and got feisty cams in it. The plan will be to take it to a rolling road at some point to see what it's really putting out.
Anyway, the list of problems are (and growing!)...... Shocks are all knackered, bushes are all knackered, rear top mounts need replacing, seat bushes need replacing, cracks in the boot floor, crack in the rear cross beam, scuffed alloys, temperamental oil temp sensor, failed outside air temperature, worn seats, oil fill light comes on during fire up, big ding on the near side sill, scuffed alloys, scratches on the underside of the front bumper, alarm/remote lock doesn't work, various marks on the paint.......
...and it needs new tyres. It currently has Hankook V12s but I'm not convinced...!
It wasn't very nice to drive at all, Ioved the engine and having the top down, but the handling was pretty scary. It was time to get on and fix it. I took it off the road when the tax ran out in October, and have only just started working on it. (I also have a kit car which took priority at the time which needed a complete engine rebuild).
Anyway, here are some pictures, they are in chronological order and I'll add some info for each.
On the day I got it!
It definitely needed a wash, and it came out looking a little fresher:
I used it a little but didn't want to due to the handling problems so it got parked in the garage (which I painted over the winter!)
Then the work started:
I've ordered a full set of powerflex bushes, an H&R ARB kit, koni sport suspension kit, ally rear top mounts, and a racing line strut brace. It's all coming out!
Subframe out and jet washed
Boot floor - it actually looks like some work has already been done on this due to the paint and some additional welds along the back.
Crack in cross bearm and hole where the spot welds have failed
Paint taken off and then bolted together through the failed spot welds. I've seam weld this and then weld up the holes.
Cleaned up crack - the bolt on the RHS has pulled all the floor back together and in doing so helped close up the crack. I'll need to reinforce this with some sheet metal.
I started welding it all last night, and since found more horror which needs to be welded. I'll put some pictures up of this when it's finished. My ARB kit and bushes have arrived as well so the rear subframe can start going back in soon once I've given it some paint!
Good to see another zed rising from the ashes,
