The Ultimate Poor College Student's Daily Racecar Build Thread

[ROLLingKING]

did GC say anything about running the coilovers with shocks not correctly valved for them?

cause some ppl on BF.com swore up and down I was going to fail at life if i didnt get the same 1700 complete coilover's they paid for. I just bought some bilsteins when I got my car and can not justify spending 1700 on suspension for this car when the coilover conversion works so well!
But i hate bimmerforums. they were so pissed with me cause i was asking for advice but wouldnt build my own car how they were telling me to.they said I will only get sideways if I have a 1700 suspension set up.haha
whats your spring rates on that bad boy??

[lolcantturn]

Here's some before and after's. The rear subframe didn't come with brakes or anything. Put some brembos on with generic pads, bilstein sports, and 600lb GC coilovers in the rear. the trailing arm bushings looked awesome in the rear, and it definitely showed since when I lowered my car I had very little negative camber. With my old car, my bushings were so shot I probably only had an inch of contact patch on the tire! Now I have an entire 195's worth of contact patch.

[lolcantturn]

how are you subscribed you know more about me building this car than I do...

[Jafxod]

Sub'd


LMK if you know anything about turboing an m50

thanks

[lolcantturn]

Bilstein sports all around..but if I need MOAR LOW i'm gonna go to corrado shocks in the front and billies in the rear

[acolella76]

What shocks are you going to use?

[freeride53]

^based god.

[lolcantturn]

oh god.

[lolcantturn]

Nope did a few more searching and the Mfree cams won't work.

I need to get more power out of this non-vanos...naturally aspirated for now...ugh.

[trackjunkie21]

How does one weld cast aluminum?

Not very easy but very doable and expensive. Need a special spool gun.

Why wouldn't I be able to put S50cams in an M50NV? What problem would I face? I thought people do that all the time hah.

You can put them in, you need to swap in the cam trays along with the cams.

[acolella76]

How does one weld cast aluminum?

I want to say TIG welding gets it done? But I know it's possible... how else would people weld in oil feeds, you know?

What I want to know is who the hell pays any amount of money for an E36 pan? I've scrapped so many!

No one! Maybe scrap?

[MR 325]

What I want to know is who the hell pays any amount of money for an E36 pan? I've scrapped so many!

[White325is]

shouldnt..

[lolcantturn]

Will it need to be milled or anything?

[White325is]

from what I hear its better to swap the exhaust NV cam to the intake side and run a s50 exhaust cam in its place. But Im going off something I read a long time ago.