-- My '92 EG : The Frame-Scraping Journey --

[06tiburonofdoom]

Well, here in Oklahoma it is 2:10 a.m., and I just got home from a fierce 7-hour wheel fitting session. "Surely, it must be done.", you might say. Ohhh, how wrong you are... Now let me explain (I would post pictures, but I'm too tired).

We left off with the control arm bottoming out on the strut tower. So today, our first plan of action was changing the location of the arms. We cut some shims out of 1/4" steel in order to drop the control arms further away from the strut tower. What this did was give additional clearance, as well as a bit more camber due to the steeper angle it could obtain, now. It worked! But something was still holding it up...

After going back and forth with ideas, as well as pros and cons for each, we finally bit the bullet and cut quite a bit more out of the strut towers towards the struts. This ensured that we would no longer have to worry about that issue. Again, it worked! But STILL...something was in the way.

After searching for the issue for a good while, we finally saw it. The arm from the spindle to upper ball joint was hitting the entire spring because of the camber, AND hitting the bottom of the control arm because of the steep angle. So we started grinding. And grinding. And testing. And grinding. For about 3 hours this went on, until FINALLY...the height was looking about right. Which is where we left off for now.

So I will now call the front 'done', at least for now. So modifications so far:
-Enlarged adjustment slots on control arms for more camber
-Cut a hell of a lot more out of the strut towers
-Made shims to lower the mounting point of the control arms
-Cut/grinded the arm from spindle to ball joint for clearance
-Grinded the bottom edge of control arm to clear the aforementioned arm on spindle

A shit load of work to sit a little lower, basically. Luckily my dad is the shit and is ALL OVER helping me out with projects like this. For an idea of the camber, the Diamonds for the front are now sunken (10-15mm spacer would make them sit nice). So it has all definitely made a difference!
The rear is next...

[244Brick]

as a wise man once said " The harder the work: the unlikeliness it will be duplicated!" hahaha

[daniel93]

Holy s**t thats a load of work man!! Glad you've got the front sorted though! Surely the rear wont need as much work?

The car is absolutely stunning mate! Keep it up!

[Minuki]

Awesome progress. Shame about the set backs, but good to see you kept going and got it sorted, nice one!

[06tiburonofdoom]

as a wise man once said " The harder the work: the unlikeliness it will be duplicated!" hahaha

Woah... That's pretty much EXACTLY what I said when we were working on it. Hahaha You made me think twice and check to see if I typed that in the last post.

Holy s**t thats a load of work man!! Glad you've got the front sorted though! Surely the rear wont need as much work?

The car is absolutely stunning mate! Keep it up!

Thanks a lot!
Yeah, the rear should be easy. Only thing I'm worried about is keeping the wheel from hitting the spring without having to machine the inner edge of the wheel... We had to with the Diamonds, so we'll have to figure something out. We have a few ideas, though.
Might do a liiiitle more to the front, too, but we'll see how it looks once I get the Meisters back on.

[apuapina]

need pics, NAOW. Love this EG, got one myself im getting resprayed atm. What color is urs? That white is adorable.

Edit, nvm found the color.

[240benzo]

dont you have a lower rear offset? so you shouldnt rub youd think?
you guna be ready by tomoro?!?!? im guna bug and call you to see if i can snap some pics before hand xD

[GTIKole.]

I have never wanted to see wheels finally be on car more than this. It's killing me!!

[06tiburonofdoom]

dont you have a lower rear offset? so you shouldnt rub youd think?
you guna be ready by tomoro?!?!? im guna bug and call you to see if i can snap some pics before hand xD

Yeah, it's a lower offset, but it's going need a tiny bit more camber to fit properly, so it'll still be right on the spring! I'm hoping the camber helps give it extra room, though.

I'm waiting to hear from a friend to see if he's going to get off early so we can go check out another BMW, but I'll probably be heading to the Civic shortly, otherwise! Hopefully I get it all finished up tonight. If not, I have until 2 tomorrow! Haha

[240benzo]

same here. i have to take off all of my wheels and unbolt the coilovers bottom mounts to slam my wagon...wish me luck having like 5 tools xD

[06tiburonofdoom]

Well...I drove it. With success.
I was SO nervous to test drive it, expecting some huge problem to arise. But it went flawlessly! It feels A LOT different, though. And holy hell, does it ever need an alignment. So I'll do that tomorrow morning! One thing I'll probably end up tweaking a bit is the front ride height. It'll take some work, but I'll get to it soon enough. Expect pictures tomorrow! I love the shit out of it.

[SeanDub]

Seriously lacking pics

[Lukey]

Seriously lacking pics

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[egmouse]

Your car looks just completly and uterly amazing wish mine could turn out like this lol

[06tiburonofdoom]

Alright, just got back from getting it aligned! Had to raise the front an inch to get it on the in-ground alignment rack. Haha Ended up having -10.2 degrees in the rear and -7.5 degrees in the front!
It's still pretty nasty from getting everything fitted, but here's a couple of teasers.




Now I'm off to get things cleaned up for the CupCake Meet!