I love everything about this thread. The buzz bomb motor swap, the scrapy coil over setup. Your badass solidaxle Toyota. And the fact that your oregonized. It can't be easy doing all this stuff up in the PNW. (minus the toyota stuff)
I lived in Roseburg from 2000- 2005.
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yea, I'm most likely going to stick with the stock stuff in the back, one of the dudes in my car club is hopefully soon going to design a drive line adapter for me so I can run FB (1st gen RX7) drive line ends on both ends of a drive line rather than one.. which also means I could have a driveline shop make a legit drive line for it, rather than something like the pile I was running. should be a lighter setup, so I might even get more power on the ground! While I do plan to run brand new CV's, they still have me a bit worried, I'm going to be afraid to do burnouts and stuff in this car for fear of making the CV's ready to break. at car shows that have burnout competitions I can always pack some spare old CV's (which I already have) so I don't have to worry about highway mishaps.. it would be worth the 20 minutes or so to swap them out.
I would hate to do it after having the drive line adapter, but if i could pull it off.. which I probably could, it would be a lot nicer... but, that's a lot of time, money and effort I don't really want to put into this car right now, and I don't know if S13 CV's are any stronger or anything as well.
it's going to take enough effort and money for everything else I have to do without trying to mount a new rear suspension... I need at least 2 new tires... these tires were brand new in june.... :(Leave a comment:
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Keep that thing and fix it ...btw the s13 rear sounds like a good and more reliable idea ...Leave a comment:
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I'm planning on completely new CV's/axles through my friend who can get me them at a whole sale cost. I do have a spare pair of CV's from the 82 E21 that I parted out a year and a half ago, but for good reason, I wouldn't trust them.
also tossing around the idea of swapping to an S13 rear suspension and diff/axle setup so I don't have to worry about the oddness of the BMW drive flange so I can run a drive line that is completely legit, instead of a slightly iffy one like I had.. also, I'm not the biggest fan of the current rear suspension that the car has.Leave a comment:
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get cv boots from autohauz if your looking to rebuild, $36 for all four plus shipping for an e30.
Really hope you keep it!Leave a comment:
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yea, we'll see. I'll most likely just stick with the same one though, the only significant damage to the body is the bashed drive line tunnel... that's just more room to route the exhaust!
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Holy carnage! Given the prices of E21's, I'd probably find another shell.Leave a comment:
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SHIT man that SUCKS =( sad to see all that happen. Whether you decide to fix it or start over I wish you luck!Leave a comment:
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well, it appears that one of my CV's bound up and made me loose control of my car... the drive line kinked real bad and ruined the gas tank and exhaust while heavily modifying the trans tunnel and ripping the transmission mount out of the factory slots on the body... yea, I'm just lucky I didn't hit anyone. I was passing my friend, then I hear a really bad noise, followed by tire noise and metal on pavement noise, then I did a 360 infront of my friend's bug that has crappy drum brakes, came out of the 360, and kind of did a drift onto the shoulder of the road. it took two tow trucks to recover it. a regular one to get it on the road, and a flat bed to get it into town...
here's a few carnage pics, I should have pics of the scene of the accident soon.
it's going to be a little while till I fix this I think... I was thinking about scrapping it and starting over with something else, but I think i can fix it.Leave a comment:
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I would love euro bumpers, just not going to spend that kind of cash... unless I find them really cheap... considered a simple tube front bumper that would have the top plated and follow the lines of the car. on the back, I have to move the rear valance out to make euro bumpers or no bumpers look good... don't even know about the sides where that stupid rubber stuff is.
I'll probably do a front bumper tuck soon at least... also, euro bumpers or no bumpers would show off my bent up front valance too much. ;)Leave a comment:
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