The Ultimate Poor College Student's Daily Racecar Build Thread

[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

[Jafxod]

Sub'd


LMK if you know anything about turboing an m50

thanks

[lolcantturn]

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

[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.

[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??

[broke30]

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??

You can build your car any way you want to. Bf.c is quite biased however their advice to match spring and shock combinations is completely justified. As a spring mass system, you can have a underdamped, overdamped, and critically damped system. If you are running stiff as shit springs with soft as fuck shocks/struts, you are far to underdamped and just riding on the spring rates. However, that being said, you can run your car any way you like, dampers are not all that control MaD tIgHt drifto oversteerz or whatever it is you're doing.....

Max

[lolcantturn]

Got a bit more done...things got a bit carried away so I'll just post the pics in chronological order.



So we kinda started with something that looks like this


Then in the midst of cleaning my engine bay a little more..


And yeah......



Don't really remember how, but they ended up looking this good.
GC 500lb's in the front, brembo rotors and bilstein shocks


Looking really good mocked up!



Also got the peerless skid plate hooked up! This thing is awesome!


Next and final episode: Engine and trans ;)

[lolcantturn]

I'm skipping a lot through parts but to recap, when I got the car it did not have brakes on any corner, now it has a bitchin Brembo/hawk pad setup all around, it was on stock springs with terrible shocks and now it's on GC coilovers 600/500lbs on bilsteins. The bushings were really good on the TAB's and subframe so we didn't touch that, the CAB's are getting replaced to M3 ones.

The motor setup is a NV M50 with a Getrag 240 that I got for free.

[mRodiek]

The reason tou shouldnt use the coilovers without revalved shocks is because there isnt enough shock travel. If you lower it the right amount & dont slam it, youll be fine without the $800 revalved shocks, Im planning on doing the coilover conversion, going low but not dumped, and getting the shocks a few months later.

Looks like a good build, although those wheels are too heavy for a racecar

[lolcantturn]

motor is in




got power to everything, just gotta get the motor ready to start (MAF isn't there, coil packs aren't attached completely)

Though my starter is sparking a WHOLE LOT and spins very very slowly, don't know what it is.

[DREWHALL]

Looks awesome. Any reason you didn't pull the ABS pump before you painted?

[Hick]

because racecar

[bataangpinoy]

what the hell is this shit

good luck gais

[lostbeachbum]

good work man, was really not expecting to see such quality work.

[jdvorwe]

Nice work! Wish I had your connections. My only hook-up is illfornoreason :)