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Sup Guys!
My name is Austin, I'm 18 and I'm a drift kid from the fail state, Florida.
Long story short I've been around drifting my entire life and I picked up
what I thought to be my dream car about 8 months ago,
an SR powered s14 'missile' covered in bondo and cheap primer.
I spun the megan coils all the way down, welded the diff and drifted the piss out of it.
I loved it.
I fucked around on the street daily. did burnouts everywhere I wasn't supposed to.
and as a result got in a lot of trouble..
In a span of 6 months I had racked up 2 careless driving tickets and a reputation with every cop in Jax.
After the second ticket I decided I needed to get rid of the car to keep myself out of trouble.
Sold the car for more than I picked it up for. And decided I needed something to squad around Sowo with my Browo's in. Hitched a ride down to Orlando the next weekend to get this:
An absolutely MINT 1995 E320 Estate, 130k on the clock and full service records dating back to before I could walk. (I have more non-iphone stock pictures to upload tomorrow)
The night before I drove down to get the car (risky), I placed an ebay order for every part I'd need to get it on the ground... and wheels
TA Technix E36 coilovers
Non SLS rear control arms
Non SLS swaybar endlinks
Saab 900 Rear struts
spacers/extended wheel bolts
..AND 16X9 +20 ESM 002's in the 5x112 flavor
(I know they're fake wheels, but they were college-kid budget friendly wheels to hold me over til I can build cool wheels this summer.)
While I finished up my first semester of college up in Jax, parts were showing up daily at my parents house in Tampa.
The semester ended last Wednesday, I drove down Thursday,
and Friday was suspension install day!
I tried to document things well but as I dug farther into it I stopped taking pictures:
Loosened the strut bolts with everything else still bolted up.
stock suspension, strut dropped down, spring being compressed.
If you don't have a MB spring compressor tool you can use advance style hook compressors with some massaging. WARNING Using the incorrect tool on these springs can be dangerous, I've done this a few times and thought I was gonna break my face before I got them fully compressed. Also, Your life will be 10 times easier if you remove the sway bar, letting the control arm drop all the way down, learned that the second time around.
Goofed around and skated for a while. (1UZ miata project on the side
)
IMG]http://i1080.photobucket.com/albums/j340/AlloydHigginsphoto/58351B37-6C07-4D4B-AB24-721552B96EFE.jpg[/IMG]
Got the fronts out and the TA Technix coils in, helper spring only spun all the way up, and 2 coils cut from stock spring.
Then we went to grab food and I snapped a pic of just the fronts in.
When we got back from food it was dark and I put the phone down in favor of trucking through the rears. I'll grab a picture of the rear setup tomorrow, but the install was as follows.
-Unbolt everything from the rear control arm
-drop control arm and spring
-cut SLS (self leveling suspension) line and cover yourself in hydraulic fluid.
-install new (used) non-SLS control arms/Saab struts and stock springs sans 2 coils.
-plug the remaining SLS line with a big bolt wrapped in teflon tape and RTV around the head to ensure no seepage occurs.
After everything was done I ran up to the gas station for a picture:
More horrible iphone pictures from the last few days:
I'm waiting til the end of the month to put tires on the wheels. Though I did a testfit yesterday and I'm going to have to get way gnarlier than I thought I was with the front fenders. My understanding was that I'd need a 3mm spacer up front to clear caliper, but because Mercedes used floating calipers on these models and the car has brand new brake pads, I barely cleared caliper with the 15mm's I had for the rear. And these cars have no stock front camber adjustment..
So instead of being 16x9 +17 up front it's going to be 16x9 +5.. I have a solution, but first, Pictures.
And the rears with natural camber and the 15mil spacer I planned on running.
I found a set of camber plates I can make work locally. I'll have Front suspension progress to post in the next few days. Hope you like the wagon, thanks guys!
My name is Austin, I'm 18 and I'm a drift kid from the fail state, Florida.
Long story short I've been around drifting my entire life and I picked up
what I thought to be my dream car about 8 months ago,
an SR powered s14 'missile' covered in bondo and cheap primer.
I spun the megan coils all the way down, welded the diff and drifted the piss out of it.
I loved it.
I fucked around on the street daily. did burnouts everywhere I wasn't supposed to.
and as a result got in a lot of trouble..
In a span of 6 months I had racked up 2 careless driving tickets and a reputation with every cop in Jax.
After the second ticket I decided I needed to get rid of the car to keep myself out of trouble.
Sold the car for more than I picked it up for. And decided I needed something to squad around Sowo with my Browo's in. Hitched a ride down to Orlando the next weekend to get this:
An absolutely MINT 1995 E320 Estate, 130k on the clock and full service records dating back to before I could walk. (I have more non-iphone stock pictures to upload tomorrow)
The night before I drove down to get the car (risky), I placed an ebay order for every part I'd need to get it on the ground... and wheels
TA Technix E36 coilovers
Non SLS rear control arms
Non SLS swaybar endlinks
Saab 900 Rear struts
spacers/extended wheel bolts
..AND 16X9 +20 ESM 002's in the 5x112 flavor
(I know they're fake wheels, but they were college-kid budget friendly wheels to hold me over til I can build cool wheels this summer.)
While I finished up my first semester of college up in Jax, parts were showing up daily at my parents house in Tampa.
The semester ended last Wednesday, I drove down Thursday,
and Friday was suspension install day!
I tried to document things well but as I dug farther into it I stopped taking pictures:
Loosened the strut bolts with everything else still bolted up.
stock suspension, strut dropped down, spring being compressed.
If you don't have a MB spring compressor tool you can use advance style hook compressors with some massaging. WARNING Using the incorrect tool on these springs can be dangerous, I've done this a few times and thought I was gonna break my face before I got them fully compressed. Also, Your life will be 10 times easier if you remove the sway bar, letting the control arm drop all the way down, learned that the second time around.
Goofed around and skated for a while. (1UZ miata project on the side
)IMG]http://i1080.photobucket.com/albums/j340/AlloydHigginsphoto/58351B37-6C07-4D4B-AB24-721552B96EFE.jpg[/IMG]
Got the fronts out and the TA Technix coils in, helper spring only spun all the way up, and 2 coils cut from stock spring.
Then we went to grab food and I snapped a pic of just the fronts in.
When we got back from food it was dark and I put the phone down in favor of trucking through the rears. I'll grab a picture of the rear setup tomorrow, but the install was as follows.
-Unbolt everything from the rear control arm
-drop control arm and spring
-cut SLS (self leveling suspension) line and cover yourself in hydraulic fluid.
-install new (used) non-SLS control arms/Saab struts and stock springs sans 2 coils.
-plug the remaining SLS line with a big bolt wrapped in teflon tape and RTV around the head to ensure no seepage occurs.
After everything was done I ran up to the gas station for a picture:
More horrible iphone pictures from the last few days:
I'm waiting til the end of the month to put tires on the wheels. Though I did a testfit yesterday and I'm going to have to get way gnarlier than I thought I was with the front fenders. My understanding was that I'd need a 3mm spacer up front to clear caliper, but because Mercedes used floating calipers on these models and the car has brand new brake pads, I barely cleared caliper with the 15mm's I had for the rear. And these cars have no stock front camber adjustment..
So instead of being 16x9 +17 up front it's going to be 16x9 +5.. I have a solution, but first, Pictures.
And the rears with natural camber and the 15mil spacer I planned on running.
I found a set of camber plates I can make work locally. I'll have Front suspension progress to post in the next few days. Hope you like the wagon, thanks guys!
. I've spoke to several people who've all pointed my lack of brake clearance issues to the Mercedes floating caliper design (floating calipers expand with new pads reducing clearance). My first thought was that the wagons had a larger front caliper being a heavier car, but from what I can tell online the wagon brakes are no different from the sedan calipers you're running, Mr.Wheelwhore. 
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