E28 Spring Choppage

[iamsam]

backstory cliff notes:

- auto E28 for $250
- Swap to manual (net: $0)
- needs low
- shocks are beyond toast
- chop springs!! (2.5 coils front, 2 coils rear)
- E38 Style 5s for $100

Before:


After

[monkeytaco]

So much better. now about that color....

[quikveedb2]

Nice.

[slammin.e28]

That's all you took off? Damn....I like 3.5 to 4 minimum....as I have lowering springs ;)

Haha, looks 100% better! Love e28s!

[iamsam]

So much better. now about that color....

[Peterkaczynski]

sickk looks much better

[MattAvino]

What can be accomplished with a rattle can

do it

[5Toes]

Bronzit is a pretty color!

[iamsam]

it's actually not Bronzit. It is some Beige or something. I forget the exact name. It is slightly darker than Bronzit.

[5Toes]

Looks hot.

So why was car so cheap???

[iamsam]

Looks hot.

So why was car so cheap???

because racecar.


JK, the auto trans was shot, and the car had been sitting for two years, and the interior was not so glamorous, and it was overrun by mice, and the guy was asking $400 and I offered $250 and he took it. He didn't think it ran either but after adding gas it fired right up.

needless to say i had to do A LOT of cleaning.

[george graves]

How does it handle?

[iamsam]

How does it handle?

Like a $250 E28 with chopped springs and inoperable shocks.

In other words, perfect!!!!

However, if you are looking for handling upgrade options, I would suggest that blown shocks and chopped stock springs is not one of them.

[freeride53]

paint it zinno, hot it'll be

[iamsam]

paint it zinno, hot it'll be

what I WANT to do is find an M60B40 (I already have a 6-speed sitting in my garage), slap it in, straight pipes, gut interior (which sucks anyway), flat black, done.

and by straight pipes I mean from the headers, x-pipe, then straight out the sides right before the rear tires.