dude man bro...

[dnova89]

Yup, sucks I put so much money into it but I learned my lesson. I wasn't even going that fast too, after the cop measured my very faint skid marks he calculated 28mph, WTF?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?! I don't know how the fuck I lost control going so slow, I wasn't even trying to drift or anything just take the turn fast.

I gotta say though I'm fucking amazed at my peerless skid plate. I wish I took a picture of how much curb it ate up and it's still perfectly straight on my car. Paint is missing, but the metal is perfect lol.

Anyway, if I don't keep my parts for the next car, I'm definitely goin with cheaper options. I didn't even get to take it on the race track!!!!!!! :( Hopefully my suspension is still usable.. but yeah the important thing is I'm fine, and I'm not even sore! e30s come with natural roll cages baby!

[E30_fiend]

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Im glad youre ok man but that really sucks. After all that time, effort and most of all, money that went into the car, for something like that to happen is just tragic. Once again, glad you're ok.




Taylor

[dnova89]

So I had one hell of a night, came back this morning to get my car out. Flipped it 3 times down a hill. Won't go into details, all I gotta say is thank God I'm alive and in perfect condition, but in the next few months I may start shopping for an e30 rolling chassis or shell to start swapping shit over or part it out and start over with a whole different car.

I'll let the pictures do the rest:




Getting it towed out:

[skatingzooyork]

Great progress man! Thanks for the details!

[dnova89]

Well you guys have a valid point, I guess I am just going too crazy with my first project car. Im actually going to keep the width and go with 225/45/15 rs3s if someone buys my tires. Those would probably a better choice for the track anyway than my bfg's

Plus I have the peerless skid plate so I'm not scared of much haha, I already had a few nasty encounters which my skid plate made short work of

Oh and about the rear fenders, they're not flat because for some reason there's body filler in between the fender lip, but golde30 rolled them once and then I had them rolled again by Tim @ TFB a 2nd time and he also hammered the inside of the fender well a bit for even more clearance. Golde30 was able to roll the front fenders paper thin the first time and then Tim went around with the mallet and hammered forward the front part of the fender well so now I have absolutely no rubbing issues except when I turn the wheel at near full lock the tires rub against the sway bar.

[Mike The Bavarian]

Did you roll the rear fenders flat?

I see you want to sell the G Force Sports to get a narrower tire. Honestly, I love that you've done up a sick suspension, but it seems weird that your priorities are to slam the car rather than maximizing suspension performance or giving your oil pan a fighting chance of not getting taken out by a stack of dimes.

yup. especially after you go with such a hard bushing and track oriented coilovers. I would never spend that much on coils just to go low and break shit every week.

[FredK]

Did you roll the rear fenders flat?

I see you want to sell the G Force Sports to get a narrower tire. Honestly, I love that you've done up a sick suspension, but it seems weird that your priorities are to slam the car rather than maximizing suspension performance or giving your oil pan a fighting chance of not getting taken out by a stack of dimes.

[dnova89]

It must have been like a light switch swapping all of these parts at once!

Couldn't have said it better myself. lol

[Yeee30]

Gmw ftw!

:up::up::up::up::up::up::up::up:

[E30_fiend]

now install that Husco!!!!

car is looking great man, I didnt know you were putting so much time into it. Good luck in the future with that thing




Taylor

[FredK]

Yeah... bone stock suspension with worn bushings is horrible. Even bone stock suspension with fresh bushings isn't altogether that great.

It must have been like a light switch swapping all of these parts at once!

[dnova89]

Thanks I love the AKG bushings. I can't say that it's because of AKG I like it because I've never driven on any other brand, but it made such a difference even without the coilovers the car stiffened up nicely and handled much better even on my whack alignment, factory springs and blown-leaky shocks. They are noisy but I've never heard of someone upgrading to polyurethane to reduce road noise so you just got to deal with it haha but it's really not that bad.

Then when I got my coilovers and alignment on the new wheels.... I really can't describe it. It's perfect and surprisngly it's SOOOOOOOOOOO smooth compared to other coil overed cars i've sat in for daily driving. I mean you still feel the road and every bump in it but for some reason it's just bearable and I have no complaints about the ride quality. From the outside you can tell the car is stiff as hell and it doesn't have that bouncy-wavy look you see sometimes when honda people put cheap shit on their car. I have the front struts are on 4 out of 12 clicks and the rear shocks 6 out of 12 clicks and love it. It's so fucking streetable I almost want to go with stiffer springs.

It does really well in the mountains too when I went up with my friend back when my e30 was stock he had to wait a good 5-10 minutes for me at the top in his miata but now I have no problem closing up the gap between us during the twisties.

[87e30]

That suspension is FTW. With such a serious suspension setup you should keep the agressive look and lift 'er a little, I'd say.

[balbonrsx]

howd you like that akg subframe bushings?!

[dnova89]

Did you leave the ASTs at the lowest ride height?

That's a pretty serious suspension you have there!

The fronts are spun all the way down and I'm going to get the 5mm shorter bearings for my vorshlag camber plates (they're only $20 so why not?) because I made the mistake of getting the single-row bearing when I ordered. It won't make a big difference but for now it's the only way I can go lower in the front until I can get new tires. It probably wasn't very wise of me to for AST's right off the bat as my first suspension lol, I probably should've went with Gaz or something but I got a pretty good deal on the set-up. (Not as good as the deal elephant motorsports is running though, fuck that's damn cheap!!)

The rears however are not spun all the way down because they were rubbing like crazy. Once I get my next set of wheels/tires I'm going for a more slam-friendly set-up.

Thanks for all the kind comments everyone!