17x8" ET25: Lightweight Track Wheels: APEX ARC-8 HERE NOW!

[ngcreese]

Eddy,

PM Sent...

[Bimmerman325i]

Ok, Eddy take your pic and I can link you direct or whatever, if they won't work, I can take more. I just snapped these quick in the driveway.

1) Front wheel cocked slightly

3) Front on (to show off my meat)

Holy hell these just look better and better! I'm going for broke.

That's an insane amount of meat....my car needs that. Now.

[Bishop]

Yeah, it looks really good. I just need to decide if I wanna go lower, or leave it and then get aligned

[Beemer323]

Where is your mirror?

[Bishop]

In my basement, in like 10 pieces. I'll be lookin for a new one tomorrow at the junk yard, if not, there's some local ones available.... Does anyone know if the early and late model, 318 and 325 side mirrors are all the same?

[ngcreese]

Bishop, your car looks wonderful! I'm looking forward to setting up my car. Going to use Toyo Proxes 4 215/40/17 tires.

[Bishop]

Cool, what suspension? I'm a huge fan of the 235's even though I never used 215's.... The car is seriously scary how well it grips on the street.

[rneedham1979]

Anyone interested in a complete set in hyperblack? If so, PM me.

[cactusjacks1]

You have PM

[ngcreese]

Cool, what suspension? I'm a huge fan of the 235's even though I never used 215's.... The car is seriously scary how well it grips on the street.

I'm running Eibach Pro-Kit springs & anti-sway bars (set to medium up front and max on the rear) with Bilstein Sport shocks and a bavauto rigid front shock tower brace. I use a pair of 15mm spring pads in the rear to keep the butt from dragging.

Hehe.. and when I have rear shock mounts that aren't torn apart... everything feels really good too. :)

Man, I'd love to run some 235s but I'm kind of worried about the rubbing issue. 215/40/17 seems tbe the way. I forget how much my suspension setup dropped my car, but you can see it in the photo below. I've been reading that the Kumho Exsta AST and/or ASX are decent tires as well.

[Bishop]

Can you adjust camber in the front with that kit? I'm not sure.

[ngcreese]

Can you adjust camber in the front with that kit? I'm not sure.

I could install camber adjustment plates for that but I haven't. Camber hasn't been too bad with this setup. Tire wear has been pretty good for being a DD clocking 80 miles a day.

Man, I'm tempted to follow up with a set of Massive Lee's 300x21mm brakes (very sexy) with stock rear brakes... but my wife is starting to clamp down on my car project.

She's starting to float the "B" word. Yep, time to reset our budgets... sigh... lol!

I guess I'm lucky I was able to grab a set of rims.

[Bishop]

Well the 215 will be fine I'm sure, but if you wanna push it and install some camber plates, you can make 235s work.

[rneedham1979]

I would highly recommend going with a 235. You should be able to avoid rubbing with minimal fender rolling an dca,ber adjustments. Again I highly recommend the 235 over the 215.

I'm running Eibach Pro-Kit springs & anti-sway bars (set to medium up front and max on the rear) with Bilstein Sport shocks and a bavauto rigid front shock tower brace. I use a pair of 15mm spring pads in the rear to keep the butt from dragging.

Hehe.. and when I have rear shock mounts that aren't torn apart... everything feels really good too. :)

Man, I'd love to run some 235s but I'm kind of worried about the rubbing issue. 215/40/17 seems tbe the way. I forget how much my suspension setup dropped my car, but you can see it in the photo below. I've been reading that the Kumho Exsta AST and/or ASX are decent tires as well.

[ngcreese]

I would highly recommend going with a 235. You should be able to avoid rubbing with minimal fender rolling an dca,ber adjustments. Again I highly recommend the 235 over the 215.

Hmmm... let me give it some good thought. I think I'll to get a test fit at a local tire shop aroound here. I won't jump the gun too quick on the rubber. I had motivation to get in the good deal with these rims. But, there's no discount on rubber.

In the mean while, I've had some spear BBS 14" baskweaves in storage, cheery picked one, that wasn't wobbling as bad, to hold me over. In the end, I'll get them straightened, re-coated and possibly put them up for sale.

Bishop, what suspension setup r u running?