Dave-gerous E21

[xwill112x]

nice. slammed. looks good, but i would almost go back with the stock front turns, i think it would go with the blue nicely.

[Dave-ger]

a friend of mine really likes taking pics and editing them, here are some of the results, I'm quite happy with them.

[Dave-ger]

[Dave-ger]

overall, the new suspension works amazingly, probably going to bring the back down a touch.



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[Dave-ger]

it's at stock height, LOL

[Dave-ger]

well, the steering parts I thought were going to work won't, I found out I can get by with stock rod ends, that's what I'm running for now since I don't want to pay $70 a piece for the only heims that I can find to fit my tie rods. it's probably going to bump steer like a mo-fo, but at least I'll have suspension for once rather than being bottomed out all the time.

getting anxious to get it back on the road, I miss my rotary power! It's a complete pile, but it sure is fun.

[ck_taft325is]

Holy smokes that's nice! Can't wait to see it on the ground...

[Dave-ger]

lmost there, just waiting on the steering parts. I could technically run the stock rod ends temporarily despite the fact that they are in poor shape, but I stripped one out trying to get the castle nut back on.... yea, they barely didn't bind at nearly full bump, and only at full lock, other than that, they'd be okay i think. the good news is that i know I don't have to space a heim down very far at all to be much better off than I would be with stock rod ends.


full droop, possibly less fender gap than stock height? :)


basically full bump




I was a bit concerned about this ball joint, but I gave it a good look over at this nearly full bump setup (coilovers are in the same place as before with 2-1/4" off the strut tube and I added 1/2" of bump stop since the bumps weren't doing the trick on their own) and they look like they still have a bit further to go, and it turns beyond lock to lock without binding, the rod ends however, that's another story... although not nearly as bad as I thought they'd be as stated above.

[AndrewBird]

Looking good Dave.

PS - I want those wheels back so bad. They fit so well on the Jetta.

[Dave-ger]

thank you sire.

strut housings are done!



I also got rid of the sharp edge on the DOM spacers, they fit the bottom of the struts pretty well now. getting excited. my biggest hold up now is the steering parts that I'm waiting for.

[yberther]

ooooo :D even moar leux.

[Dave-ger]

Bought some struts for a toyota Mr. 2 cause they are shorter than stock:


if you can't tell which strut is which, you need to be slapped.


shortened next to unshortened, I took 2-1/4 off each housing in the end.



one of the struts mocked up with the cap dealie


you may have been wondering why i took 2-1/4" off the housings when the struts were a bit over 3.5" shorter... well, these 1-5/8" spacers made of some .120 wall 1.5" DOM (that I scored for free!) should explain that well. going to smooth out the side that goes against the strut. I made them a bit bigger than need be so I'd be sure to have enough threads available on the cap type dealies to really be able to get the strut nice and tight in the housings. I fully intend to weld these up and maybe install them tomorrow morning.



oh, cutting most of the spring perch off too.

[Dave-ger]

in the process of trying to figure out which struts to get, so between that and other things going on in my life, progress is a little slowed. with the subframe out of the way, I think the future for the car is looking good though.

had the exhaust off the replace a faulty U joint, so I added some uglyness to it where it was all scraped up to prevent wearing through it. I rarely scrape it besides some parking lot entries and most speed bumps (which I have to go over in a strange manner)

[Dave-ger]

mostly welded up:



control arm angle at the height I was riding at, pretty damn good. I plan to keep the approximate height I had, I think it will handle the bit of up travel I will achieve just fine.


added a plate on the bottom of the sub frame so I have some beefage to rub off instead of digging into the tinny sub frame material like I was.


in these last two pics, you can kind of see the added supports that were only templates in earlier pics.

[Dave-ger]

thanks doods!

gah, I'm about to go cut the springs on my e21 and pull out that itty auto m10... for now though it will sit and wait. love What you've done so far!

quit waiting and cut them! if you want to get semi low like my car, you'll maybe want to wait though, E21's are not "low friendly". notice, I only stated that my car has only been semi low. if it were really low, I'd be scraping that thick material the cross walks are marked with like my friend's audi.




E30guydownunder, I see what you're saying. unless I end up cutting and re-tapping my tie rod ends, I think they'd end up too long that way. I appreciate your creative input though, and that may be what I have to do. I have found female metric rod ends, I just need to attempt to find my thread pitch now, I has an idea for that.



anyways, got lots done on the sub frame tonight.


the card board is templates of stuff I still need to add in



"cad board" as a friend of mine calls it.


putting these back on, on the other side, I managed to cut everything without having to remove them... I was being more creative.


lil supportive dingie.


I don't know, might not hold up...