e30 Calypso build

[FunfGang]

Hopefully yours last longer than mine! Currently talking to GC about my Koni that completely blew in 8,000miles of street driving...

[Cadaverous]

Hopefully yours last longer than mine! Currently talking to GC about my Koni that completely blew in 8,000miles of street driving...

Wow, I will be very irritated if that happens to me. Those Konis aren't cheap. Was it a front or rear?

[Cadaverous]

Since school has started I have much less time to work on the car, but I squeeze work in whenever I can.

Tonight I got the rear driver sock and spring installed.

My room mate said my dimes should be closer together



Starting height




The old shock came out easy enough. It had fantastic dampening ability.





Dirty. Added a reinforcement plate; the photo was blurry.



Cut my finger on the spring compressor.


fixed






The spring is adjusted a majority of the way down. I'm a little disappointed. It's not very low. I don't know if it's because the front end is still on jack stands, if the other side isn't done, my shock is too short, or it just needs to settle. I'm really not sure.

[Smeeeb]

I've got a new toy though..

Said it yourself hombre,

car is rad but, get rest of coils in and it'll settle nice and pretty.

[parttimeprojectionist]

great work so far, i really like the tan houndstooth! you should just restore those and stick with em, although i know why youd want all black with vaders haha.

those welds look just fine, concave with plenty of penetration.

the gc's on e30 just dont get very low in the rear. you might have to remove the adjuster and hope that the shocks are short enough. that may also require adj. sway bar links i think, its been a while since i have had an e30 but i definitely remember being chronically disappointed when lowering the back end.

[1jze30]

Nice thread dude trying to figure out what sort of suspension im going to run on my 323i
not alot of options down here in Aus.
Keep up the good work?

[Cadaverous]

Said it yourself hombre,

car is rad but, get rest of coils in and it'll settle nice and pretty.

Yeah, well see how it settles.

great work so far, i really like the tan houndstooth! you should just restore those and stick with em, although i know why youd want all black with vaders haha.

those welds look just fine, concave with plenty of penetration.

the gc's on e30 just dont get very low in the rear. you might have to remove the adjuster and hope that the shocks are short enough. that may also require adj. sway bar links i think, its been a while since i have had an e30 but i definitely remember being chronically disappointed when lowering the back end.

Yeah, the hounds tooth will do for now. I like it, just prefer back.

Well see how the coils settle. I might end up going to a 4" rear spring, that will give me an inch got sure. I'm not going to run it off the adjuster, I'll get 4" spring before that.

I know loads of e30s on GC coils and they are plenty low, so we'll see.

Nice thread dude trying to figure out what sort of suspension im going to run on my 323i

not alot of options down here in Aus.

Keep up the good work?

Yeah, well I'm sure you'll find something.

I'll do my best?

[Cadaverous]

Well, I won't be going with those Enkei wheels. They hit the coil real well up front. They are a +38 offset, so I could get some spacers I guess, but meh.

I've had some et28 Alulines sitting around for a few years I picked up on CL. They were going to be ran on my brothers golf, but that project has stalled and probably won't ever be completed.

All four wheels need blasted and some tires, but I think after being blasted and polished up they will look real nice. They are 15x7 and I have center caps, covers, and caps for the covers. There is actually three ways you can run the caps.

Some photos on the car, it's up in the air, and dark. I'll get better photos tomorrow as well as seeing about getting them blasted.





I'd love to know what you guise think about the wheels. I am kinda temped to sell them and get something else that's a weave and bigger, but also enjoy how unique they are.

[Cadaverous]

Welp. I got her low.


and also smashed my oil pan on day one :shocked:

Low
**missing crappy images of my car low**

So I had about 900 lbs of people in my car and and my breaks aren't the best. a few cars stopped short because some ass wipe only went half way into the median.

I slammed on my brakes and and we slow motioned towards the dodge caravan. Right before we were going to hit the van I swerved left up onto a divider, narrowly missing the caravan. We all jumped out and pushed the car off the divider and into a parking lot. I don't think the van even noticed.

I took out the cone.

**broken links to smashed oil pan**

[Chuckdee]

Lovin' the progress so far, sucks about the pan. Got any plans to protect the pan, now that you're about the low life? lol

[Cadaverous]

Lovin' the progress so far, sucks about the pan. Got any plans to protect the pan, now that you're about the low life? lol

It happens. I needed to redo the gasket anyway haha.

Plans:

[valhovden]

so far so good !! ^ :P

[Chuckdee]

It happens. I needed to redo the gasket anyway haha.

Plans:

Nice, link to where you can one??

[Cadaverous]

Nice, link to where you can one??

info on skid

http://www.r3vlimited.com/board/showthread.php?t=269486&highlight=skid

Where to buy

http://www.red46.net/store/c1/Featured_Products.html

I've actually already ordered mine. Just isn't' here yet.

[Farbin Kaiber]

Damn, that car would look hot on some euroweaves.



Danny's car with one of my old sets of euroweaves I sold a few years back. (don't mind the extra ingress/egress portals.)