my 88 m60b40 build

[bongo78]

I keep wondering why do you guys keep using spacers when that is absolutly not needed??? And throws the balance of the suspension out of wack???

[Jean]

"Out of wack" may be pushing it, the whole goal is to keep the drive-line in you guessed it, in line.

I plan on using spacers first, but have a couple spare oil pans to see if they can be modified enough to fit w/o spacers and have the angle right.

[Northern]

Is keeping the driveline aligned only to prolong the life of the guibo and CSB? Or is there anything else that it affects?

Not sure how out of alignment an M60 is for comparison, but my m20 is shimmed up from (shitty)aftermarket motor mounts by about 15mm and the original guibo/csb is still there 2 years later.

[bongo78]

Engine itself is a bit tilted anyway, I can swear 101% that my lines are more then perfect. Gearbox--Driveshaft--Diff are perfectly lined, fabricating and using spacers was my first idea but when I begun putting the engine in for my complete surprise all was alligned perfectly. There is no stress anywhere on the linkages, even without bolts just 1 for mockup all is perfect. I am not a drifter, but a spirited driver and for me the car to handle sharp corners at 100+ speeds is a must. Also we have more then maybe 15 cars running on the tracks here, have spoken to nearly all of them and the answer was always same - Spacers? What the f*ck.

ps. And my 5 lug swap (complete setup from M3 Evo) main idea was to make perfect the front stance nothing more (driving a well looked after bone stock 3.2 makes you feel really silly owning an E30, the handling is just astonishing. And not talking about pimped up rides where that feeling increase exponentially), rest was a bonus for me :)