Gauging interest: powder coated subframe / trailing arms

How would you prefer supply?

  • Bare trailing arms / subframe

    Votes: 2 14.3%
  • With renewed backing plate & bearings

    Votes: 9 64.3%
  • With renewed backing plate & bearing + new bushes

    Votes: 3 21.4%

  • Total voters
    14

Mnbrennan

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Hi all

Just want to gauge interest on the forum

I'll soon have spare sets of Z3 and Z3M subframe and trailing arms

I'm thinking of offering an exchange service, with freshly stripped and powder coated parts

I'm a fair way off as need to judge pricing but what would forum members prefer?
 

Sean d

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If your going to do back plates you'll more then likely have to do bearings anyway as they are pressed and could be damaged removing them to fit the back plates
 

Mnbrennan

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Yeah that's why I've grouped them into the same option
 

smiffy

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I'm interested, it is something I was planning on doing. What has stopped me is the thought of my Zed stuck on my mates ramp while my subframe and arms get blasted and powder coated.

Options and prices please
 

mrscalex

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I’m taking this approach to the whole rebuild of my 3.0 Sport. As opposed to leaving the car laying around for months while subassemblies are worked on.

I’m building up duplicated parts of every major refurbishable assembly. So sway bars, front subframe, king pins, fuel straps, spare wheel carrier and rear beam.

Then when we start work on the car the idea is strip out. Clean/paint underside. Refit from a complete pile of parts almost as if it was on the production line.

That way I’m hoping the car will be in the garage for weeks rather than months like normal.

Then the parts that come off will feed the next car and so on.

The one thing I’m not 100% on yet is if I strip and blast the trailing arms. Or leave assembled and just clean up/epoxy. Due to the agro involved.

But in theory I would prefer to strip. If the price of what you are doing is effective I’d use it. But I’m trying to industrialise my restoration process for time and cost and more likely to go direct myself.
 

Jjim

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Option B sounds good to me
 

Mnbrennan

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I’m taking this approach to the whole rebuild of my 3.0 Sport. As opposed to leaving the car laying around for months while subassemblies are worked on.

I’m building up duplicated parts of every major refurbishable assembly. So sway bars, front subframe, king pins, fuel straps, spare wheel carrier and rear beam.

Then when we start work on the car the idea is strip out. Clean/paint underside. Refit from a complete pile of parts almost as if it was on the production line.

That way I’m hoping the car will be in the garage for weeks rather than months like normal.

Then the parts that come off will feed the next car and so on.

The one thing I’m not 100% on yet is if I strip and blast the trailing arms. Or leave assembled and just clean up/epoxy. Due to the agro involved.

But in theory I would prefer to strip. If the price of what you are doing is effective I’d use it. But I’m trying to industrialise my restoration process for time and cost and more likely to go direct myself.
Thanks for the input...
 

Gremlin

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I would have been but I’m not stripping mine out again. But I’d think for any one considering doing the rear end it would certainly be a good idea.
 

Brian H

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If your going to do this type of work on your car, changing the backing plates is a no brainier.
 

2DunnsZ3

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you guys friggn never cease to amaze me. That conversation could have been in French or German and I would have understood the same amount, NONE=))=))
 

Ianmc

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you guys friggn never cease to amaze me. That conversation could have been in French or German and I would have understood the same amount, NONE=))=))
"Two countries separated by a common language", I believe the poet said!:)
 
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