Another bit of an update - had a delivery of polybushes the other day including - Rear Beam Mounts, Rear Trailing Arm Bushes, Diff Mount and Front M3 Wishbone Bushes. Decided to rip the whole rear setup off in one go and start stripping it down..
I burned the bush out of my LSD ready for the poly bush to be fitted sometime soon..
Then removed the bushes from the trailing arms..
I'm going to be running braided lines to the back so decided to cut off the copper line mount and drill a small hole so the braided line can be fastened to it easily..
Also removed the stubs from the hubs on the rear so the threads can be drilled out to 1/2" and studs pressed in like I did on the Clio. More on that when I've had time to machine them..
Lastly removed the rear beam/subframe bushes which was a bit harder...
I was planning on dropping the trailing arms and beam/subframe off for powder coating but I need to get it built back up and the place I usually use are busy so that will have to wait until over winter. I will probably give everything a quick clean with a wire wheel and put some hammerite on it all for now. The ideal thing is with poly bushes they can be removed as and when required then re-fitted
The engine was also pulled out the other evening so I could remove the steering rack and column linkage - basically to give me an idea if the down pipe was going to fit past the column. Mounted the turbo to the engine and then the down pipe to the turbo and dropped the engine back in..
Needless to say the column is going to have to be moved slightly and a custom linkage making up. If the column was extended at its current position it would just fit past, it does look deceiving in the picture, although its not ideal. I also somehow managed to source an E36 M3 rack thats LHD from a forum member which was very lucky. E36 will be slightly better for me also as the pinion is in a slightly different place, hopefully giving me a bit more room to work with regarding the column linkage!