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Recently started making progress on my 97 328is coupe. Its my 5th BMW and my 3rd e36 and it has been by far the most well maintained, and i must say it makes such a difference buying a car that was taken care of. When I got it had had an M3 interior and front bumper and some Bilstein coil overs.
When I got it it looked like every other grandpa e36, This was the coils on the lowest settings front and rear, they were quality, but they had seen better days and where better suited for a track build so I sold them to offset the cost of my next purchases.
I came home for Christmas break and had ordered Jom coilovers ( I know everyone thinks that unless you are on BCs or Broadways then your doing it wrong, but it doesn't matter to me and I'm not going to buy coilovers that cost half the price of my car so I don't care what you say in regards to coil over choice /rant) Some Camber plates with pillow ball mounts to replace my worn out top hats, started searching craigslist for wheels.
Now, the camber plates never showed up so i started to investigate and the Ebay seller was SUPER helpful, and even sent me a new set free of charge, we are guessing UPS lost the package. (Tuningpartsmaster have great customer service) They should be arriving tuesday hopefully.
So I cleaned the shop and got to work took about 4 hours to take off the old stuff and put on my new coils and wheels. The rears have no adjusters and need to be cut, or shorter springs purchased. The fronts I removed the helpers and they are less than half way down.
Rears (17x9 ET good enough) URL=http://s1113.photobucket.com/user/dimitri_a/media/FullSizeRendercopy2.jpg.html]
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The final result made me happier than i could have imagined with such little time and effort.
I still need to order some spacers and new tires and then find a appropriately geared diff and put a rebuilt oem LSD in it. I was going to weld it but my last 2 welded diffs kinda wore me out, especially on a daily. Im going to run about 3 degrees up front 0 toe and 3 in the rear max, I know a lot of people are trying to be super jdm, Formula drift, whatever you want to call it, and run zero rear camber but it looks goofy on a street car and ruins every other aspect of handling other than forward grip and I don't think ill have a problem considering I have 180hp.
Idk let me know what you think, honestly my tumblr and IG or the best place to keep up with the build, usually nobody comments on my builds so i don't update often. Thanks for your time
IG: dimitriantoniou
Tumblr: Downshiftproductions
When I got it it looked like every other grandpa e36, This was the coils on the lowest settings front and rear, they were quality, but they had seen better days and where better suited for a track build so I sold them to offset the cost of my next purchases.
I came home for Christmas break and had ordered Jom coilovers ( I know everyone thinks that unless you are on BCs or Broadways then your doing it wrong, but it doesn't matter to me and I'm not going to buy coilovers that cost half the price of my car so I don't care what you say in regards to coil over choice /rant) Some Camber plates with pillow ball mounts to replace my worn out top hats, started searching craigslist for wheels.
Now, the camber plates never showed up so i started to investigate and the Ebay seller was SUPER helpful, and even sent me a new set free of charge, we are guessing UPS lost the package. (Tuningpartsmaster have great customer service) They should be arriving tuesday hopefully.
So I cleaned the shop and got to work took about 4 hours to take off the old stuff and put on my new coils and wheels. The rears have no adjusters and need to be cut, or shorter springs purchased. The fronts I removed the helpers and they are less than half way down.
Rears (17x9 ET good enough) URL=http://s1113.photobucket.com/user/dimitri_a/media/FullSizeRendercopy2.jpg.html]
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The final result made me happier than i could have imagined with such little time and effort.
I still need to order some spacers and new tires and then find a appropriately geared diff and put a rebuilt oem LSD in it. I was going to weld it but my last 2 welded diffs kinda wore me out, especially on a daily. Im going to run about 3 degrees up front 0 toe and 3 in the rear max, I know a lot of people are trying to be super jdm, Formula drift, whatever you want to call it, and run zero rear camber but it looks goofy on a street car and ruins every other aspect of handling other than forward grip and I don't think ill have a problem considering I have 180hp.
Idk let me know what you think, honestly my tumblr and IG or the best place to keep up with the build, usually nobody comments on my builds so i don't update often. Thanks for your time
IG: dimitriantoniou
Tumblr: Downshiftproductions
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