First Low Euro Project

[NC318e30]

E30 house up here in by uncc if you ever wanna come by. We are working on my roommates soon to be m50 turbo drift car and swapping my 318is in the next month or so. Love that color. You can say you won't spend much on it all you want. Eventually you will be lying to yourself lol

[dillon7]

E30 house up here in by uncc if you ever wanna come by. We are working on my roommates soon to be m50 turbo drift car and swapping my 318is in the next month or so. Love that color. You can say you won't spend much on it all you want. Eventually you will be lying to yourself lol

That sounds awesome and I would love to stop in sometime. I'm new to this scene so I really don't know anybody around here into e30s and could use a little guidance, especially when it comes to where to get parts. I know all about saying to not spend a lot, I said the same about my jeep I have now and that didn't turn out well at all.

If you know anybody in the area selling an early model front air dam let me know because I'm currently looking for one.

[NC318e30]

Give me a pm bud

[DonFico]

Was thinking about GC but honestly I'm not trying to spend a lot on this car right now so I might just go with some JOM ones.

My car is sittin on JOM Coilovers, works great! :)

[IronFreak]

I hope by "cheap" you mean like BC Racing or something. They'll set you up to get your car really low, but I'd contact them first to tell them your plan so they can work with you to make sure you're getting what you need. I wouldn't do any cheaper than BC. It's not easy getting these cars low from what I can tell.

BC isn't bad but you can go low for less then that. $400 from GC and send you struts to me for install ;)

One thing on Just DDing these.......yeah I started there too. I bought mine to save gas and have fun in.......Look at my build thread in my sig.......the original plan didn't stick around long....THANKS R3V!

[dillon7]

My car is sittin on JOM Coilovers, works great! :)

This is what I'm going to go with.

BC isn't bad but you can go low for less then that. $400 from GC and send you struts to me for install ;)

One thing on Just DDing these.......yeah I started there too. I bought mine to save gas and have fun in.......Look at my build thread in my sig.......the original plan didn't stick around long....THANKS R3V!

I know I would love to build something like yours. Thankfully I don't even have that option because I don't have much money and am on a tight budget, so for now it's cheap stuff, but you never know down the road.

[will61]

Good Luck man, that color is like way real dope. Just to you let you know, with coilovers especially, you get what you pay for.

[IronFreak]

This is what I'm going to go with.



I know I would love to build something like yours. Thankfully I don't even have that option because I don't have much money and am on a tight budget, so for now it's cheap stuff, but you never know down the road.

Let me say this much, save your money, JOM's are going to cost you what? $300?

GC kit is $429, made in America minus the eibachs, you get great support from them, they custom fit you with the proper spring rate for your car. Oh.....and they have a lifetime warranty.

Something to think about.

http://www.ground-control-store.com/products/description.php/II=121/CA=98

[KevinC]

BC isn't bad but you can go low for less then that. $400 from GC and send you struts to me for install ;)

One thing on Just DDing these.......yeah I started there too. I bought mine to save gas and have fun in.......Look at my build thread in my sig.......the original plan didn't stick around long....THANKS R3V!

I had forgotten about that haha. Do you shorten the struts as well I'd assume?

[dillon7]

Let me say this much, save your money, JOM's are going to cost you what? $300?

GC kit is $429, made in America minus the eibachs, you get great support from them, they custom fit you with the proper spring rate for your car. Oh.....and they have a lifetime warranty.

Something to think about.

http://www.ground-control-store.com/...p/II=121/CA=98

Don't you need adjustable shocks as well?

[evandael]

^no, just different (shorter) inserts. 325ix, G60 corrado, even Toyota MR2 rear inserts fit in there with the correct spacer. rears you can leave alone, or if you want more travel, swap for shorter units (Camaro shocks can be adapted), or use the tall rear shock mounts from GC.


welcome to r3v btw. i really like the color, good luck getting your car up to speed (aka, swapping it :up: )

[dillon7]

^no, just different (shorter) inserts. 325ix, G60 corrado, even Toyota MR2 rear inserts fit in there with the correct spacer. rears you can leave alone, or if you want more travel, swap for shorter units (Camaro shocks can be adapted), or use the tall rear shock mounts from GC.


welcome to r3v btw. i really like the color, good luck getting your car up to speed (aka, swapping it :up: )

Ok I think I'm following you. So I can keep my rear shocks I have now but up front I keep the same shock just swap on the shorter insert?

I really want more speed, this thing is so damn slow. Looking around on here just makes the need for a swap even worse.

[dillon7]

A little update from tonight.

Decided to get started on some body work tonight, got the hammer and steel block out and used that to get rid of all the dents on the hood and trunk.



While I was doing that my buddy wired up the head unit only to find out the fuse was blown. Apparently so was the speedo fuse so hopefully that will work now. Anyways, got the fuses replaced so the stereo works now. Also, my ghetto antenna. New trend?





Then it was time to move on to the big boy stuff and Dad got out the porta power. He showed me how to use it and we got to work on the right rear quarter panel dent. Just got the big part of the dent out and will finish all the more minor stuff in the quarter panel over the rest of the week.







And here is how she sit right now and will probably stay like this for a little while.





Tomorrow I plan on doing the front bumper tuck and possible painting some of the trim black.

What did most of you do for the moulding around the windshield where there is chrome. All of my chrome fell out and now there is nothing there and I can't decide whether to find more chrome or just fill it with something black.

[dillon7]

Did a little work on her yesterday.

Removed the back seat to plan the wiring for the rear speakers.

Then I just took off the fog lights that didn't work. One of the nuts was too rusted to get off so I had to cut it off so that took a little while.

Next it was time to do the bumper tuck. Looked up the how to thread and saw that it was a piece of cake. The 86 front bumper is mounted a little different than the 88' on the thread. There is no hole in the bottom of the bumper that goes to the bolts. Instead, you have to reach up and unbolt the bumper shocks from the body. That was a tight fit but got it done. Got the shocks off then went to drilling.



Got through both layers pretty easily so I was pretty happy this was turning out well. I was curious to how hard it was to compress them so I tried hitting them with a hammer and that didn't work so I got out the jack and tried using the car as my compressor. Well I just used the car and a jack extension because it lifted the car 3 inches without budging the shock. This little SOB deciding to be the biggest pain and after trying and trying I still couldn't get either one of them to compress. My Dad got home and couldn't figure it out either so he got the sledgehammer and after about 5 hits finally got it to compress.

Now I thought the hard part was out of the way but with the 86 bumper design the way it is a pain to get the bumper back on. I just decided to leave the bumper off for now since I have to have it off to do some body work anyways.

Found this on the camera while uploading pics, guess my friend thought he was being funny.



ohhhh and I test fitted the new shoes. Am I doing this right?

[Aufbau Principle]

Did a little work on her yesterday.

ohhhh and I test fitted the new shoes. Am I doing this right?

Could use a roll but this guy pulled off something similar pretty well.