Vice City

[oprahhwinfreyy]

your no fun. It's hard to tell it's even dropped. I'm not even sure wich pictures shows what.

where is the drop. WHERE IS IT

I love the car but I just feel it's got so much more potential to look good.

I measured before and after the new springs, and the car is 2" lower than before. Some of that is because of the smaller tire. If I went any lower Id be banging the fender on the tops of the tires over large bumps.

Yes I could get stiffer springs that would be lower but screw that. My last car was so stiff I could catch air going over the junctions where a road meets a bridge.

[Meeve]

We'll see where it sits after a couple hundred miles when the springs settle. At most, Ill put E90 drop hats in to lower the front another .5" and take the spring pads out of the rear.

your no fun. It's hard to tell it's even dropped. I'm not even sure wich pictures shows what.

where is the drop. WHERE IS IT

I love the car but I just feel it's got so much more potential to look good.

[oprahhwinfreyy]

No, not spring removal or super slammed, just a little bit lower...

We'll see where it sits after a couple hundred miles when the springs settle. At most, Ill put E90 drop hats in to lower the front another .5" and take the spring pads out of the rear.

[xispaki]

[DER E30]

No, not spring removal or super slammed, just a little bit lower...

[Dremetos]

Such high quality photos, damn. Needs spring removal. Entirely. Then to be driven haha.

[oprahhwinfreyy]

Moar lowwws haha
Seriously diggin this thread

Im not going for slammed. Going for OEM+ + ITBs

[Laef]

Moar lowwws haha
Seriously diggin this thread

[oprahhwinfreyy]

Still waiting on an alignment. Couple photos.








Canon 5D MKIII
Canon 50mm F/1.4
Natural Light

[oprahhwinfreyy]

After finally receiving the right parts, I've gotten everything put back together and on the ground. Only thing left to do suspension wise is take it to work to a lift and replace the tie rods then align it.

For now: Crap Cell Phone Photos

[oprahhwinfreyy]

Don't know how many times now since I've been ordering car parts that I've ordered something and it comes labeled and bagged with the right part numbers yet the part is completely wrong.

[oprahhwinfreyy]

Oem+

So today, I've gotten the new rear H&R Super Sports in. Pretty simple, unbolted the bottom shock bolt and the rear sway link, then used a 3' pry bar to remove the old springs. New springs just pushed in by hand.










Then, I started on the front. Got everything disconnected from the strut and the struts pulled out and pressure washed in about an hour.

Those pesky inner ball joint nuts are awful. I never want to do that again without a lift. Was trying to get them off with a standard length 22mm wrench and a shit ton of penetrating liquid, and just couldn't get enough force to crack the nut loose. After some choice words and a lunch break, I took the sway bar out and it made a world of difference. Had both nuts loose and off the ball joint stud in under 20 minutes. Tedious and slow but good enough with me.

I HIGHLY RECOMMEND REMOVING THE SWAY BAR WHEN REMOVING THE INNER NUTS.




So now it sits, with everything disconnected except the tie assemblies because with jackstands, I cant get enough room to bend those retaining clip, washer things to be able to thread the inner tie rods out.

I'm also waiting on new control arm bushing brackets because the old ones never have had the bushings replaced and they're impossible to remove.

I've got the struts in my trunk ready to take to work to use the spring compressor so I can replace the strut inserts and put the new H&R Super Sports in.




Canon 5D MKIII / iPhone 5s
Canon 50mm F/1.4
Natural Light

[oprahhwinfreyy]

Fuck 22mm inner ball joint nuts.

[oprahhwinfreyy]

Suspension going in soon. Maybe next week. In the mean time I removed the faded mirrors and painted them.







Canon 5D MKIII
Canon 50mm F/1.8
Natural Light

[oprahhwinfreyy]

Dude you seriously need to teach me how to take amazing photos.

Also I guess your car is pretty cool too.

How do you edit your photos? Those B&W shots are awesome, really like them.
And this one is awesome too, really want to know how you edit it https://www.flickr.com/photos/elijahlane/17323583436/

I take all my photos that aren't with my phone with a Canon 5D MKIII and a Canon 50mm F/1.4 with a Circular Polarizer.

I use lightroom to edit and basically just put the brightness where I like it, up the contrast a tad, lower the black slider a tad, desaturate, up clarity a tad. Then use the HSL sliders to saturate or desaturate annoying colors.