Wishno's winter beater project thread(+misc vert action)

[ck_taft325is]

You figure out if the wheel is still good? Those seemed to be pretty strong.
Still blows my mind that if happened though. Especially to one of the good tires. Had you been driving for a while and maybe the heat caused the blowout?

Ordered new tires and having the wheel checked for true and then hopefully, if it is still copesetic, mounting 215/40/16F and 225/40/16R. Should give them a bit more meat. Anything bigger and I'd have to step up to a 50 series. And that's just for 245's.

[Wishno87]

Nice! You could probably use the extra tire anyway huh? A rear camber kit would probably help your contact patch too.

[ck_taft325is]

Well the tire failure wasn't due to camber. The camber was actually a bit further towards the outside of the wheels. That was just utter tire failure.

[Edev]

Well the tire failure wasn't due to camber. The camber was actually a bit further towards the outside of the wheels. That was just utter tire failure.

I was thinking about this. Since you loaded your car with so many e30 parts, could it have made the car lean to that side and caused it to rub on anything, filing it down? I'm just trying to figure out why it happened the way it did.

[ck_taft325is]

I was thinking about this. Since you loaded your car with so many e30 parts, could it have made the car lean to that side and caused it to rub on anything, filing it down? I'm just trying to figure out why it happened the way it did.

Ironically the side the was rubbing was the passenger side. The driver's side is the one that explodededed. There was zero evidence anywhere on anything remotely close to the tire showing any un-dirty-ing from rubbing. Not to mention it blew right after I unloaded the subframe, a arms, half shafts, ect. All I had in the trunk was a diff. and a drive shaft in the back seat. Close as I can tell I could have run over a razor blade standing on edge perfectly and just sliced the shit out of it?

Sorry to thread jack your shit, Josh lol.

[gregslow318i]

looking at that tire Im almost 90% sure it was run under inflated for a while and the side wall gave out... happened to my dads e36 a month or 2 ago

[Wishno87]

Ya that would make sense. Chris did you remember to check the pressure after we traded? I remember saying "these have been sitting for a long time so be sure to check them when you get a chance"

You could probably put the wheel on one of your front hubs and spin it up to make sure its still good.

[ck_taft325is]

Yup I checked them before having left for that infamous adventure.

[Wishno87]

[BoxDriver86]

Your windshield says it all. Bravo!

[Wishno87]

Your windshield says it all. Bravo!

Haha thanks man. It feels like its finally coming together.

[Matt-B]

I saw the so good decals on ebay. Is someone here making them? I need to adorn my shop and tool boxes

[Wishno87]

I saw the so good decals on ebay. Is someone here making them? I need to adorn my shop and tool boxes

The guy on bf.c sells them but I have also seen them on Cl. A guy In Seattle.

[MR 325]

I got mine from eBay.

Car looks awesome with the front bumper on there!

[Wishno87]

Thanks man! Other than Mtech 1 skirts I'm pretty much done modifying the aesthetics except for tweaking the wheel fitment. I still want to get the tree sap off the paint and try to buff it out to a nice shine.