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[Marsss]

great work!!

[Bra1nl3ss]

Very nice e21,love the look. Only things I would change is relocating the licenseplate to the recess under the rearbumper and try to source some e21 Recaro sportseats.

[e21Robb]

Very nice e21,love the look. Only things I would change is relocating the licenseplate to the recess under the rearbumper and try to source some e21 Recaro sportseats.

Have a set of euro rear valance pieces in the shed and at the time of a respray ill do the necessary bodywork to have a euro valance and mount the license plate underneath; as for seats ill eventually get previously mentioned seats whilst doing new carpet

[j_cuck89]

Love. This. So. Hard. I got an e21 off craigslist for 850 not too long ago, converted to carbs (very shitty job, so many cut wires laying around, everywhere) I don't know how long ago and I'm slowly teaching myself how to do work on it, so far I've managed cut springs which returned me with scary alignment issues, currently saving up for coilovers and the like. I drive the hell out of it (Jimmy Johns deliverydriver) so it's slowly falling apart on me, sad face. But premium work you've done here, sir.

[Spados.]

fantastic.

[e21Robb]

Love. This. So. Hard. I got an e21 off craigslist for 850 not too long ago, converted to carbs (very shitty job, so many cut wires laying around, everywhere) I don't know how long ago and I'm slowly teaching myself how to do work on it, so far I've managed cut springs which returned me with scary alignment issues, currently saving up for coilovers and the like. I drive the hell out of it (Jimmy Johns deliverydriver) so it's slowly falling apart on me, sad face. But premium work you've done here, sir.

Thank you, i can reassure you with all suspension components in tact, regardless if you still have a stock m10, e21s are a blast to drive.. especially when you daily drive

[Masonbarnard]

wow great owner you are, cant wait 2 weeks to start my build

[D'artagnan]

Dope fa sho man. I like it.

[e21Robb]

Visited the Chula Vista Ecology junkyard the past weekend and came up on a 360mm Nardi woodgrain steering wheel A friend and i were laughing at how ghetto this merc 300e was, so i took a peak inside and caught eyes with this. Plan to polish the metal and revarnish the wood.


Started to remove the tacky paint job with some fine steel wool

[seffer]

i love this so much.

[e21Robb]

[e21Robb]

getting to my nardi restoration when i find time to spare



the rear camber finally caught up with my tires, even after swapping the rear to the front 2k miles ago


Picked up a sweet deal in my exact tire size off craigslist, (2) riken raptors that are pretty much brand new and (2) falken ziex ze912s that are lightly worn


Next up was to finally weld in my Ireland Engineering adjustable trailing arm mounts that i had TIG welded onto the inner mounts for vertical slotting to adjust the rear camber. Pretty sweet design once i had everything hooked up and found out how it worked











Also acquired some red poly rear subframe mounts from Eurometric (Jesse, Jester)



Heres the adjustable mounts hooked up and at the stock position (lowest point)


With the bolt welded to that washer you simply act as if youre tightening or loosening the bolt and it uses the notches in the mount to guide the washer up and around in a circle. Heres the highest point of adjustment, ended up giving me ~2 degrees of positive camber at my low height.







extreme positive camber at full down travel hah


one bolt had become stripped slightly so i custom made a new factory driveshaft to differential bolt


I ended up setting the adjustment slightly above the center of the mount, took a couple tries to get it where i liked. Also my new exhaust that is relocated above the cvs' isnt quite high enough for these new mounts so it slightly rubs/vibrates while driving


So here is how it sits now measured from the rocker panels to the ground, both furthest front and furthest back on the rockers are 4 1/2" off the ground. Set the fronts at 0.5 degree negative camber and comparing to the fronts, the rears look to be ~1 degree of negative camber. Also now am only running 10mm spacers in the rear with no spacers up front.

[softg]

great work man, love the front plate

[e21Robb]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J31xp-rcUds"]GoPro e21 Run to Bimmerfest 2012 - YouTube[/ame]

[e21Robb]

Few pictures from Bimmerfest 2012 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Ca
More pictures in the Bimmerforums 2012 Bimmerfest Plans Thread