e23 love...

[244Brick]

It's a perfect car and i like it alot, but fake wheels dumb down the car IMO. I understand the money thing, but honestly the money you'll spend on wheels and tires you could've bought rebuildable wheels. It's no race to perfect a car, so why buy temps to reach your goal.

My car hasn't had any wheels in months and i've owned 2 sets of 3pc for 1100 combined (1st set 700.00/ 2nd 425.00), but i'm waiting until i can buy legit. Fake wheels steal from our community and it urks me a little.

Need-less-to-say. the e23 is a beautiful car and i love the mods up to this point. Keep it going man!
just my .02, which means nothing haha

[Rob&co]

Boy! So good!

[mike-81-240d]

Clean as fuck.

[oprahhwinfreyy]

oh god its so clean and perfect.

[D Unit]

It's been a while since I posted, but I finally got my suspension sorted out. After trying a few things (the wrong way), I PM'd Eric on mye28.com for some help. The end result is fantastic. Car handles exactly how I want now.

350lbsF/375lbsR
e23 Billy Sports fronts, e28 Billy Sports rear

Also got some new wheels that I'm sure will piss off a few people here. Of course that's not my aim, but I'll post pics for those who can tolerate my car so far.

[theseeker411]

Damn that looks good. Great job!

[e21]

Big/Small euro set up on these lights finishes off the front end so nice. Im hoping to have mine done at some point, probably next year lol.

[D Unit]

Small update...

I picked up some euro "style" lights from demetk a couple of weeks ago and finally had some time to install them. He basically modified a pair of H4 lights with euro grills and sent me a relay schematic for the higher wattage bulbs. Awesome seller BTW...

Before





After

[D Unit]

[PugLife]

[D Unit]

Here's how it currently sits...

[Rob&co]

your in the BAY! PM me your number! Cars amazing too!

[D Unit]

Long story short, I relocated the sleeves 4" lower and can now drop the car on the bumpstops.

QUESTION #1 - If I adjust my ride height to "barely" sit on the bumpstops, how much higher do I need to set it to have adequate suspension travel for daily driving using 600lbs spring rate?

I know Zic and SheaMoose suggested shorter struts/housings, but after thinking about it, most of the suspension travel is taken up by the stack height. If I reduce the stack height, I can regain suspension travel and potentially lower it even more.



After talking to NegativeCamber, I am going to try to replace the stock strut hats with shorter Cosmos Racing camber plates. Cosmos (or anyone for that matter) doesn't make a camber kit for the e23, so if anyone knows a place in the Bay Area where I can get them modified, please let me know.

PICS BELOW ARE NOT MINE BTW...

[kpg2713]

After thinking about it, I am going to avoid using the 4" shorter springs. Even though I can dial in my ride height in respect to the strut, a compressed 4" spring will seriously reduce the usable stroke once the spring is compressed. If the e23 weighs about 3400 lbs, then I'm assuming the front springs need to carry the load for roughly 900 lbs for each front side. At that rate, a 4" spring will compress 1.5" leaving 2.5" left! That to me sounds like a very flat spring! Sure I could run a higher spring rate for the 4" springs, but I doubt the Billy sports can handle that high of a spring rate.

Solution? Mount the threaded sleeve lower and run spacers. I was trying to avoid running spacers but oh well. Stay tuned...

Honestly, you got the right Idea. I'd rather run spacers and still keep a good amount of suspension travel than the opposite. On the bright side, you can always get lower offset wheels in the future

[grantbbee]

I have the same interior and the leather so insanely nice