products GAZ Camber Adjuster Plates for BMW E21 3 Series The camber angle of the front struts on the classic BMW E21 3 Series is fixed as standard. For racing purposes a more negative camber would be desirable, so to enable this leading suspension specialist GAZ has developed an adjustable camber plate to allow the angle to be altered. The plates are made from anodised aluminium billet and come with a top bearing incorporated into the centre. The adjustable camber plates are
recommended for competition only as they would be too harsh / noisy for general road use. In order to obtain the maximum adjustment GAZ can supply a specially shortened coilover unit for use with these plates. GAZ BMW E21 front camber adjusters with two piece sliding mounts retail at £165.38 plus VAT per pair. For further details visit the GAZ website: www.gazshocks.com
M-Style GTS Metal Bonnet for F8x M3/M4
M-Style is now offering the GTS Metal Bonnet for BMW F80 M3 and F82 / F83 M4 to both enhance the looks and reduce the weight of these cars. The GTS bonnet is made from lightweight aluminium and includes a power bulge and functioning air scoop. The GTS bonnet is listed at £1,095.00, but as an introductory offer it is currently on sale at just £995.00 including VAT. M-Style offers a painting and fitting service for the bonnet
for an additional £550.00 inc. VAT. For further details e-mail info@mstyle.co.uk or call 0208 598 9115
Sticker Trickery John Paulding shows how to renovate the engine bay stickers and VIN plate on a classic 2002 Having repainted the engine bay on my 2002 during lockdown the next step was to finish it off with some new engine bay stickers and VIN plate. These are all available from the aftermarket, but since I had done all the work myself I wanted to tackle this item too and it turned out to be quite simple. Taking the stickers first I scanned the old stickers and downloaded images of the ones that were missing from the internet. Then I imported the scans into a desktop publishing program and checked the images for size against the actual stickers. I used Quark 2020, a professional publishing program that I use for my business, but others are available and if you only intend to use the program to make these stickers there are some that you can download for free for
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a month’s trial. That will give you time to learn how to use it and print the stickers. I then used the desktop publishing program to work over the scanned sticker on a new layer and make up new artwork, typing new words over the original and adjusting the size and
spacing to get it as close to the scanned example as possible. New white lines were added over the old and finally the scanned layer was deleted and a plain black background dropped in. The black and white stickers use a Helvetica Bold font which most computers will have already. The blue ATE sticker uses what I would say is DIN Condensed Bold and DIN 1451 Engschrift. If you don’t have the right fonts on your computer you can download them, either for a small fee or free. Technically there is copyright on fonts so you should be paying a fee to download them, but I found a website that offered downloads for a donation or for free if you gave them a nice mention on your social media page. Sounds like a deal to me, so we’ll give them a plug here too. Check out https://fontshub.pro. While I was making up the artworks I took the opportunity to modify a couple to match the modifications I made to my car. I changed the tyre sizes on the www.bmwcarclubgb.uk
