All my overseas penny-pinching...

[Motorsports]

[/quote] Love this pic, and i love the car. Definitely one of the cleanest M3s ever. Nice drop Anu. How does it ride on the race springs?

[Simon S]

* drool *

[balzak]

SO fly. Money well spent

[RainierHooker]

Looks real sweet! You are a lucky guy!

Thanks!

Thank you for your service to our country.

That said.....

Im jealous, envious and continue to resent those that find cars I actively seek and can't find. You suck, the World sucks and Bimmers suck. Only because I am self-centered, selfish and unrepentently arrogant, thinking I OUGHT to be the one to find these beauties.

Ok. Most of that is BS, but man, I wish I could find a well sorted ///M.

Congrats on the pick up. Im sure you will be a good ///M owner.

Thanks, I think ;)

Anyway, yes this ///M is going to be babied a bit. However, my living less than 10 minutes away from Pacific Raceways ensures that it will be getting its obligatory tracktime. I'm already planning a momentous roadtrip for it later this year as well...

When do you get back again? I've just started looking for another one myself ;-)

I should be back just in time for the picnic but it will be very close (fingers crossed).
I will be back in the states on a short leave in little over a month (woot!) but most of that time is going to be taken up by family and whatnot, although the wife and I will be driving the 325e down to Disneyland and back with a few stops along the way.

[Court M3]

When do you get back again? I've just started looking for another one myself ;-)

[txtorquemade]

Thank you for your service to our country.

That said.....

Im jealous, envious and continue to resent those that find cars I actively seek and can't find. You suck, the World sucks and Bimmers suck. Only because I am self-centered, selfish and unrepentently arrogant, thinking I OUGHT to be the one to find these beauties.

Ok. Most of that is BS, but man, I wish I could find a well sorted ///M.

Congrats on the pick up. Im sure you will be a good ///M owner.

[dlm01156]

Looks real sweet! You are a lucky guy!

[M-technik-3]

[cobraken]

Hell ya! That makes it worth it!

[constructor]

Great! That settles it, going square!

You won't regret it.

Constructor, what's your suspension setup? That stance is perfect.

Thanks. H+R Race, 1/2 coil cut up front, e90 drop hats, Bilstein Sports.

[IronJoe]

Constructor, what's your suspension setup? That stance is perfect.

[RainierHooker]

Great! That settles it, going square!

[constructor]

225/45/16 square on 8's et15 and 9's et19. no fender roll. no rub:

[M-technik-3]

They are not 95 each I got some last month while in Germany for less. What I should have done was bought a bunch of sets and made my money back.

215/225 is not bad but 205/225 is too much and the car will start to plow/understeer. a 7.5 with a 225 is really not bad if you want I will dig thru my other photos to give you side shot.

There was a guy in Washington making reproduction stickers that are spot on. I used him sometime ago but then my jackass powdercoater folded and beat feet with materials and goods of mine and others. So i lost two sets of caps.

[RainierHooker]

Those wheels will look much better. When do you get back to the PNW?

Thanks! I should be back to the PNW sometime before Summer. I'll be back for a couple of weeks for leave between now and then though.

These threads make me so jealous, but at the same time are very motivating.
so thanks and CONGRATS

Can't wait to see more pictures of this cleanass beast

Thanks!

Here's what Mystikal quoted me when I had my set:

205/45/16 front and 215/40/16 rear (mild roll in rear)
205/50/16 front and 225/45/16 rear (more aggressive roll)

Keep in mind that's for a non-M car, so you can probably get away with the second setup.

Finding two decent brand/model tires in a staggered size was kind of difficult and I ended up selling my set anyway. But good luck, can't wait to see how this turns out.

Also, keep an eye on those tabs with the snap ring. They are very brittle and new centercaps are NOT cheap, and I believe they are NLA.

Thanks, the second set-up is very close to Hartge's original spec...


So that one is pretty much sure to work. My main concerns though are dissimilar contact patch between the front and rear axles, understeer being the biggest fear. That's why I was looking at the 215 in the front or the 225's all around. The second concern was tire availability. So far the staggered selection has been somewhat limited.

As for the caps, I'm gonna be super carefull. It looks like Hartge does have some new ones in stock, but at 95 Euros each!

I am running Falken FK452 right now, was running Hankook RS2 on them. RS2 have more sidewall than the FK452's do.

I hadn't looked at the Falkens, but I certainly will now. My main question for you is, just how noticable is the sidewall difference/stretch when running the 225's on the staggered wheels. If you say it's not noticable at all, or only under close inspection, I'd just as soon order the rubber and be done with it. Any sort of rubbing issues in front?