Cirrusly Blue - The Daily Driver E30... now SUPER powered

[2mAn]

Excellent work! I should have the strut housings and the other steering rack for you by this weekend hopefully.

Glad it’s treating you right!

[dasmanschaft012]

Yep, new owner here. Car's doing just fine. Dunno if i want to put in the effort of a thread for my boring daily...

Things i've done in the last month:
Oil change (kinda sparkly...)
Valve adjustment (still noisy AF, probably just time for a fresh head)
New PCV hose
New front pads/rotors, resurfaced rear rotors, new fluid
All 4 brake lines, as one was damaged
Replaced and rekeyd trunk lock with central locking mechanism (trunk didnt work with central locking prior)
New side mirror switch, so those work now
New pass window motor
Pressure washed engine bay and underside (grosssssssssssss)
Built reverse switch wire for reverse lights

Plan is to do power steering soon (leaking bad), and then trans output shaft seal (leaking) along with all the rear bushings soon, as they clunk pretty bad.
Also waiting for a set of front strut housings from 2mAn to replace the non-abs, cracked housings currently on the car. Basic stuff.

Overall the car's been great and I'm happy to be in an e30 again. Too bad I'm also BMW-disabled and can't stop thinking of swaps for it...

[Jokester]

New car has a lot more potential.

[jeenyus]

Wait... What? Sold?

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[freeride53]

When did you sell this? :-( lol

[jeenyus]

I like the vogtland coilovers more. The stance is more practical. Rear wheel tuck is weird.

[wworm]

^lol

looks good on 14" weaves

[E30Bastard]

Showed my frauline your E30 and took a pic.

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[luckybk]

I second the 14" weaves. Maybe some spacer and done.

Sucks to hear about the rocker but at least you caught before it got lodged somewhere.

holy moly, that must've been a harrowing week.

Ride height looks even better to me too. Sounds like you're liking the set up! Psyched to see what you ordered...

[BlackbirdM3]

I follow what you are saying, but who actually wants the car to be tall enough, such that the strut height is an actual limiting factor? The only application I can see wanting that much height is for offroad. I do not see strut length being a limiting factor here.



With my GC Koni setup, I still have several inches of positive height, before I've maxed out the damper length. My car is not slammed either, it's similar in height to the BMW literature pictures of Mtech II cars.

Regardless, sorry for hijacking this thread with talks about suspension.

Anyone who wants correct suspension geometry. Mine is topped out and its too low. (Turner J stock setup with externally adjustable Koni Sports.) You can't have " several inches of positive height, before I've maxed out the damper length" There aren't several inches to spare. A Bilstein is 7 inches from the shock body to the flat for the strut mount fully extended. Fully compressed its 3 inches giving a total of 4 inches of travel. (Koni sports have less) It you walk those spring collars down, you are removing travel, so if you have "several inches of positive height" that means you only have about 2 inches of useable travel. Possibly less due to suspension sag with everything on the ground. That doesn't sound like a hot setup at all.

Will

[2mAn]

I second the 14" weaves. Maybe some spacer and done.

Sucks to hear about the rocker but at least you caught before it got lodged somewhere.

Ive thought about this and since I already have studs, it would be really easy to do.

[amcp]

I second the 14" weaves. Maybe some spacer and done.

Sucks to hear about the rocker but at least you caught before it got lodged somewhere.

[2mAn]

so this happened last week.... Intake rocker on Cylinder #1 broke...



Not knowing what I was going to do and generally not trusting that head to begin with, I made a big purchase. My big purchase was supposed to arrive this past Friday, but the plan didnt work out. After having limped the car on 5 cylinders for a week, my friend had confidence the broken rocker could be replaced. I grabbed a few rockers from Ian from my old destroyed head, and after a few hours of fighting for every mm we could get, we got that little bastard out and replaced.

Im so grateful for this community and the friends Ive made who are willing to work for an In&Out double double. Best money Ive spent.... and the best part is that I still have that big package yet to arrive and I can install it when Im ready, or have it done when Im out of town

[freeride53]

Actually looks pretty sexy on weaves. I like it.

[2mAn]

I might be brave enough to throw the SSRs back on soon, once I get some fresh tires. Going with 205/50 though since I dont need the width