Bronzit Ballin | e30 shit

[12vsex]

love it man ! keep it up

[eethirty]

NIce! I've always had a soft spot for early models...Question: How is your suspension setup holding up? Meaning, are the rear sport shocks strong enough to withstand how low you are? How's the handling?

Don't mean to sound annoying, I'm looking to run this exact setup in my E30 and would like some feedback. Thanks.

You're all good, and it rides amazing, super stiff and i love it. there is not much travel in the rear and sometimes the struts bottom out if you hit a big bump or railroad tracks, but other than that its awesome.

hey this is nice.

also what paint did you use to paint your block?

Thanks man, i'm pretty sure it was just high heat engine duplicolor paint.

love it man ! keep it up

thanks dude, will do

[Mr.]

[QUOTE=eethirty;1385637]You're all good, and it rides amazing, super stiff and i love it. there is not much travel in the rear and sometimes the struts bottom out if you hit a big bump or railroad tracks, but other than that its awesome.


Sweet, thanks. I'm looking to go about a few hairs higher than your current height, but you said the front struts tend to bottom out? Or the rears? Would stiffer spring rates remedy that problem?

[eethirty]

Sweet, thanks. I'm looking to go about a few hairs higher than your current height, but you said the front struts tend to bottom out? Or the rears? Would stiffer spring rates remedy that problem?

the rears tend to, no problems with the fronts. I think the best solution would to just find a shorter strut all together. When my car is on the ground there is only about an inch or two of travel on the strut.


Oh and this is happening. Going to pick up this weekend hopefully. Not even sure if i will run them but i have a chance to get a super good deal and i'd love to have them.

[12vsex]

^^^
Oh hell yes. Any plans for bigger lips or anything ?

[walkbyfaith]

Those wheels look awesome! Definitely think you should run them. Maybe get them powder coated a color.

[K-Line]

Oh hey ian nice wheels, i think i saw someone else with them...

http://stancewords.stanceworks.netdna-cdn.com/forums/showthread.php?t=48705&page=13

[eethirty]

^^^
Oh hell yes. Any plans for bigger lips or anything ?

probably not, not sure

Those wheels look awesome! Definitely think you should run them. Maybe get them powder coated a color.

hell yea i do powder coating myself so i will powder coat them if i run them or not so i can re sell them.

Oh hey ian nice wheels, i think i saw someone else with them...


http://stancewords.stanceworks.netdn...=48705&page=13

Haha our cars will literally be twins if i run them, that picture of you testing them makes me want them hahaha. we'll see.

[eethirty]

sooo this happened. unfortunately im putting the car away soon for the winter, so no progress but i will collect parks and keep you updated

[philohlean]

Putting cars away for winter sucks... better away than on snowy NY roads though haha. Keep it up! Looking forward to seeing everything together.

[walkbyfaith]

Man I am really looking forward to this coming summer. Always see some sweet rides come together. Winters are good for collecting parts though.

[eethirty]

Putting cars away for winter sucks... better away than on snowy NY roads though haha. Keep it up! Looking forward to seeing everything together.

i know man, it sucks, if it wasn't for the salt i wouldn't care. hell yea will do

Man I am really looking forward to this coming summer. Always see some sweet rides come together. Winters are good for collecting parts though.

i know i cant wait! its going to be a longggg winter hahaha

[eethirty]

Finally have somewhat of an update!

Got my adapters in the mail today from 42 draft designs (which are AMAZING quality btw, I highly recommend them.) I decided on running these wheels after all. I went with a 20mm adapter all the way around to give me an effective offset of +5. I have been just collecting parts while this Syracuse winter drags on.

Wheels will be powder coated and finished soon, Hardware will be refinished, and custom center caps are ordered

So right before I went to put my car away for winter, we got some snow, so I obviously felt obligated to go drifting since i had summer tires and rwd. Wellllllll here's the disadvantage of not having ABS- You can't stop. Long story short I ended up sliding into a curb, destroying my valance and cracking my oil pan. (I will never hear the end of this from my buddies) Luckily I have a extra oil pan I'm going to powdercoat soon to replace it.

So this is how the car sits now, with a temporarily jb-welded oil pan.

IMG_0996 by e30ian, on Flickr

better yet, I scored a mint new front valance of my buddy Greg (K-Line) for a great price:

IMG_20150126_151806 by Greg-Kline, on Flickr

Got some Subframe, RTABS, Differential and shifter bushings from Condor Speed Shop to tighten everything up:

IMG_1093 by e30ian, on Flickr

And the new adapters

IMG_9988 by e30ian, on Flickr

IMG_9989 by e30ian, on Flickr

IMG_9990 by e30ian, on Flickr

IMG_9993 by e30ian, on Flickr

Until next time

[philohlean]

Duuuuuuude nice. I wanna see this next time I'm upstate haha. Can't wait for winter to be over already

[eethirty]

Duuuuuuude nice. I wanna see this next time I'm upstate haha. Can't wait for winter to be over already

we can arrange that! I know dude I'm itching so bad. I'm a snowboarder too but I just wanna drive my car.