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Ryan McGuinness
Wheels, brakes, and coilovers - Pt. 6 Properly setting up your new coilovers

Wheels, brakes, and coilovers - Pt. 6 Properly setting up your new coilovers

The aftermarket coilover industry has been peddling misinformation and poorly designed spring packages because they don't know what they're doing.  I think there's an "old saying" that goes something like, if you have an adjuster you can screw it up.  Maybe not but that is certainly the case when it comes to independent spring preload adjustment.

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Ryan McGuinness
Wheels, brakes, and coilovers - Pt. 5 Brake kit progress!

Wheels, brakes, and coilovers - Pt. 5 Brake kit progress!

Catch up on the latest developments of the F3X brake kit.  Parts arrive and are inspected!

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Ryan McGuinness
Wheels, brakes, and coilovers - Pt. 4 Almost done the brake kit

Wheels, brakes, and coilovers - Pt. 4 Almost done the brake kit

The PdV-01 wheel is done!  Kind of.  I'm being lazy because I know manufacturing these wheels can not happen before both the brakes and coilovers.  Lets recap and cross out what is done and highlight my current priorities... Objective 1 - Develop the perfect wheel design (IMO) for my personal car, an Estoril Blue BMW F30 Key Result 1 - Square setup, 18x9 ET30, 3-piece, forged rim and wheel center, custom color combo incorporating some version of a dark bronze Design basically done but I want to redesign to hide the hardware.  Also need to remodel it to fit 19" wheels....

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Ryan McGuinness

Wheels, brakes, and coilovers - Pt. 3 Status Update

Let's get technical with the wheel load rating.

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