UPDATE on my E36 (got my vans on but they look like my wheels?)

wheelfetish · 03-20-2010, 07:40 PM

Today was nice so I decided to do some test fitting. I sold these wheels to a buddy a few months ago with the intention of parting out or selling my E36 since the transmission was going out. But after a fluid change (royal purple ftw) the problem I was having was fixed so I bought the wheels back and started my original plan

. So grab some food and sit back and enjoy. PS. I know my wheels/car is dirty and there is no air in my tire.

Heres my car. 1993 325is Laguna Grun with 152xxx miles on her already. Theres a bunch of performance mods that I already done. The paint is shitty but after talking to my grandpa and telling him I fixed my car, he decided to help me with repainting her. In the right light, the car has a blueish tint so im hopping to make that blue pop more when I go repaint her. He is also helping me re-do the interior. Im thinking dark grey with grey burberry plaid headliner, door stills, and pillers. Along with Corbeau FX1 seats.

Here is the front on BBS style 19 17x8 et20. There is cheap pepboys 8mm spacer on there now and it is already almost flush. This worries me because I just placed a order from Rotiform (highly recommend btw) for studs, 12mm spacers all around, and hubcentric rings. Ill probably have to run a few degrees of negative camber and pull/roll the fenders.

Here is the coilover, spacer, and clearance under the car. The coilover still has 10 threads left so there is plenty of room to make it lower. I scrape the exhaust every time I pull out/in my drive way haha. Im going to go as low as possible once I get the wheels mounted. The pepboys spacer is all out fail. It makes the wheel unbalanced so anything past 40mph turns the steering wheel into a hi-performance sex toy

. I had to use painters tape to keep them semi centered on the hub while I put on the wheels.

This is my rear. Coilover is all the way down and there is no spacer, but that will change once my 12mm spacers come from Rotiform this Tuesday. Its not as low as I like, so i will probably take out the adjuster to get to the height im setting myself for. Ill will defiantly have to run some negative camber and do a lot of fender pulling and rolling. Good stuff tho.

My tires are Nitto Neogen 205/40. As you can see, the stretch is almost un-noticable, especially in person. Hopefully I will get enough income tax back to get Falken 512 in 205/40 since they stretch a lot better.

Thats about it. After seeing the wheels Ive been working on since before christmas on the car, I realized I don't like the colors haha. After I get the fitment on point im going to redo them, and I have something up my sleeve for this time

Next time I post in this section will be a full photo shoot with everything mounted.

Morbid · 03-20-2010, 08:00 PM

205's are a little too skinny for my tastes, on an e36 at least. What coils you running?

wheelfetish · 03-20-2010, 08:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Morbid

205's are a little too skinny for my tastes, on an e36 at least. What coils you running?

Agreed, but 215 don't give me the stretch im looking for. And im on racelands.

cabezzz · 03-20-2010, 08:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Morbid

205's are a little too skinny for my tastes, on an e36 at least. What coils you running?

Haha true, but that's what most use when running style 5's or 19's,,,, great looking set of wheels OP

Average_Jerk · 03-20-2010, 08:27 PM

nice. cant wait to see how they look with the 12mm spacers

wheelfetish · 03-20-2010, 08:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Average_Jerk

nice. cant wait to see how they look with the 12mm spacers

Me either. What sucks is that they come tuesday and I wont be back at my house untill easter weekend

Dr.AK · 03-20-2010, 08:30 PM

Nice!

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Originally Posted by wheelfetish

Agreed, but 215 don't give me the stretch im looking for. And im on racelands.

You're redoing the wheels anyways, go build up the rears to be 9s, then you can run 215s with stretch.

wheelfetish · 03-20-2010, 08:37 PM

I thought about it, but after seeing them on my car, I don't like them haha. These are just going to be my temp setup until something better comes along. Really want a set of salad shooters haha

e36cruiser · 03-20-2010, 09:33 PM

throw some 205 ZRi's on for some stretch. I had 215's and they had more stretch than that.

13tsp · 03-21-2010, 03:58 AM

So? How many fingers can you fit between your fenders?

Wheels look hot.

wheelfetish · 03-21-2010, 01:50 PM

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Originally Posted by e36cruiser

throw some 205 ZRi's on for some stretch. I had 215's and they had more stretch than that.

Do you have any pictures with 215's?

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Originally Posted by 13tsp

So? How many fingers can you fit between your fenders?

Wheels look hot.

Thanks, and with the 8mm spacer and the coilovers with 10 threads left, one maybe? virgin status haha just wait till the 12mm spacer and with the coilovers at the lowest setting I can go

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dinanm3atl · 03-21-2010, 02:16 PM

Like the overall look. Not white centers.

wheelfetish · 03-21-2010, 03:41 PM

^agreed. Im not feeling the white centers, or even the style 19's haha. Something is missing IMO. Like I said, after I get the fitment where I like it, ill probably do the centers/blots in a new color. Right now I have the urge to do multi-colored wheel for each corner or paint splattering them so we will see where that goes.

dinanm3atl · 03-21-2010, 05:15 PM

Or....

Silver with a mirror polish. Just my 2 cents

wheelfetish · 03-21-2010, 09:49 PM

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Or....

Silver with a mirror polish. Just my 2 cents

Yeah. Silver/grey on a green car just looks the best to me. When I go to repaint the car, im going to see if I can make it more like a blue tealish color. Idk, ideas are bouncing around in my head now so ill probably refinish them again in May.

MikeG · 03-21-2010, 10:04 PM

I love those wheels as is....can you post some better pics those are tiny as fuck

BeemerBuyer · 03-22-2010, 01:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Morbid

205's are a little too skinny for my tastes, on an e36 at least. What coils you running?

205 is the stock tire size for the E36 3 series.

RedE46Bimmer · 03-22-2010, 01:47 AM

Looking good Dan!! I like what you did with them personally! keep it up mang.

wheelfetish · 03-22-2010, 09:21 AM

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Originally Posted by The Golden Raspberry

I love those wheels as is....can you post some better pics those are tiny as fuck

Ill post better pics once I get everything together. Still waiting on all new tires and trying to find a fender roller. This was just a test fit.

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Originally Posted by RedE46Bimmer

Looking good Dan!! I like what you did with them personally! keep it up mang.

Thanks dude, they were shot with your camera

wheelfetish · 03-22-2010, 09:28 AM

Heres some bigger pictures of the fitment on the front and rear. Front has a 8mm spacer, rear has no spacer.

e36cruiser · 03-22-2010, 11:49 AM

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Originally Posted by wheelfetish

Do you have any pictures with 215's?

I sold the M3, old pic. Heres the 215's on 17" e46 reps

Little bit of stretch, but if you want more go with 205/40s, plently of guys with them, check out slamdm3 when he was on style 5's or daredrocket on his Msystems if you want to see what it looks like.