The Good Question and My Answer.

[Miasma]

i don't participate in the childish r3v drama.

Apparently.

[homegrone30]

Alright well I dont know if Ive caught everything but Dan seems to be a good guy. If yall dont trust him then stop postin. I wanted to read about his r@d but I read another 3 pages of bullshit. All I know is he gave me a killer deal on an ignition swith, fog lights, and a few other parts. But Dan in everyones defence I would like to buy your brace at some point but like everyone has said I would like to see some form of data to prove your brace is better. And it does appear from my point of view that you keep ducking and dodging with the specs. So give the people what they want so they can shut the fuck up.

[Farbin Kaiber]

Alright well I dont know if Ive caught everything but Dan seems to be a good guy. If yall dont trust him then stop postin. I wanted to read about his r@d but I read another 3 pages of bullshit. All I know is he gave me a killer deal on an ignition swith, fog lights, and a few other parts. But Dan in everyones defence I would like to buy your brace at some point but like everyone has said I would like to see some form of data to prove your brace is better. And it does appear from my point of view that you keep ducking and dodging with the specs. So give the people what they want so they can shut the fuck up.

So, your request is for us to STFU, then you ask the same questions, so by defaut, STFU!

[Jean]

I'll either have to get them for you latter (my book is at the shop) or try to guess from memory.

I do know that the front struts moved inward more than 12mm in and out laterally and twisted fore and aft 22mm on the raw chassis.

And I need to correct something: The car did have new H&R Race springs and Bilstein sports installed on it.

What year / model e30 chassis was this? Just curious.

[ldsbeaker]

Wow, I must have missed something.
A private businessman is trying to expand the aftermarket for a 18+ year old car, puts said car on a machine that NO OTHER aftermarket company has bothered with, and you guys are crucifying him for it?
DC, maybe you do need to get your head examined.
I, for one, am glad that there is SOMEONE willing and able to do this stuff. Yes, it's expensive, and I understand why.
This is the last crowd I would have expected to pull this shit. If it's too expensive for your mommy to put it under the christmas tree, then you need to piss off.

[CorvallisBMW]

wow, i must have missed something.
A private businessman is trying to expand the aftermarket for a 18+ year old car, puts said car on a machine that no other aftermarket company has bothered with, and you guys are crucifying him for it?
Dc, maybe you do need to get your head examined.
I, for one, am glad that there is someone willing and able to do this stuff. Yes, it's expensive, and i understand why.
This is the last crowd i would have expected to pull this shit. If it's too expensive for your mommy to put it under the christmas tree, then you need to piss off.

qft!

[Eric Giles]

wow, i must have missed something.
A private businessman is trying to expand the aftermarket for a 18+ year old car, puts said car on a machine that no other aftermarket company has bothered with, and you guys are crucifying him for it?
Dc, maybe you do need to get your head examined.
I, for one, am glad that there is someone willing and able to do this stuff. Yes, it's expensive, and i understand why.
This is the last crowd i would have expected to pull this shit. If it's too expensive for your mommy to put it under the christmas tree, then you need to piss off.

x10

[Stephen]

wow, i must have missed something.
A private businessman is trying to expand the aftermarket for a 18+ year old car, puts said car on a machine that no other aftermarket company has bothered with, and you guys are crucifying him for it?
Dc, maybe you do need to get your head examined.
I, for one, am glad that there is someone willing and able to do this stuff. Yes, it's expensive, and i understand why.
This is the last crowd i would have expected to pull this shit. If it's too expensive for your mommy to put it under the christmas tree, then you need to piss off.

+1

[Axxe]

We are not crucifying him for that, rather for the 2250 lb m42 powered street car with "light weight wiring harness, composite stock seat frames, and alloy aircraft rivets" not to mention a 11,000 RPM M42 making 280 hp and no prior knowledge of S42, even though it was listed on his website. If he can't provide photo proof of his spot-welded front fenders (takes about 30 seconds), then how can we possibly believe all his other, unsubstantiated claims. It's because he's an engineer, we are supposed to believe him. What a crock of shit.

If he is lying about claims that are very easy to prove (put said car on scale, take some pictures of said modifications), then how do we know he isn't lying about claims that are more difficult to prove? No logical person will ever believe him.

[VacMan]

Wow, I must have missed something.
A private businessman is trying to expand the aftermarket for a 18+ year old car, puts said car on a machine that NO OTHER aftermarket company has bothered with, and you guys are crucifying him for it?
DC, maybe you do need to get your head examined.
I, for one, am glad that there is SOMEONE willing and able to do this stuff. Yes, it's expensive, and I understand why.
This is the last crowd I would have expected to pull this shit. If it's too expensive for your mommy to put it under the christmas tree, then you need to piss off.

You did. The threads are locked.

[TDE30]

I felt compelled.

[Farbin Kaiber]

Where am I in this .bmp?

[rwh11385]

We are not crucifying him for that, rather for the 2250 lb m42 powered street car with "light weight wiring harness, composite stock seat frames, and alloy aircraft rivets" not to mention a 11,000 RPM M42 making 280 hp and no prior knowledge of S42, even though it was listed on his website. If he can't provide photo proof of his spot-welded front fenders (takes about 30 seconds), then how can we possibly believe all his other, unsubstantiated claims. It's because he's an engineer, we are supposed to believe him. What a crock of shit.

If he is lying about claims that are very easy to prove (put said car on scale, take some pictures of said modifications), then how do we know he isn't lying about claims that are more difficult to prove? No logical person will ever believe him.

A con artist has a hard time making money off a logical, intelligent person. Gullible and uneducated Socal Lyfe people make easy targets. They are too high to think critically.

[TDE30]

Where am I in this .bmp?

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[DCColegrove]

What year / model e30 chassis was this? Just curious.

It was a 1990 325i 2dr with less than 50k on it... Quite the find in it's self.

It had been in someones garage for a dozen years and was totaled because of rodent damage, it wouldn't run and you couldn't sit in it but the chassis was as close to pristine as you can get for really cheap.

Now... Floor pan support (rear brace system)

This is the why:

Not the best image ever but what happened here is the spot welds on the frame channels and trunk floor pan failed.



The new rear brace, specifically the floor-pan support was developed and tested in the old tried methods.

We built a jig from the already developed rear brace and used a sprung dial indicator with a double tell tale. We moved the indicator in order to map the flexing (oil can lid effect) of the floor-pan.

This was tested on an 89 325is, 90 325i and a 1991 318is.

Under hard acceleration and downshifting the floor-pan directly over the rear differential mount channel dropped as much as 10mm on the 89 iS (solid urethane mounted) and rebounded as much as 4mm.

The floor pan brace is built with those joints at the pan mount in order to allow for adjustment because a wide variance was found between all three of these cars and several others.

Added: I should add here that the rear brace is "Over built" because:

1. Weight loss in the back side on the e30 is not a problem

2. It will offer additional support for a true Coil Over suspension

(I didn't make it into work today so I still don't have the exact numbers from the earlier shaker test in the rest of the chassis)