Vivek's Vert.

[Vivek]

I'll look into it soon. For now I'm just happy that I got the new muffler on and the car's running great. The rear is now actually as low as my sig haha.

[CHIF8008]

need to find a way to tuck all of that up. from the cat back it looks like it goes down= no good for a lowered car

[Vivek]

indians go barefoot everywhere man. real talk
either that, or some thong sandals hahaha

Ahah thats so true. Or sandals and socks (which I never wear). I was wearing brown leather thong sandals today.


I'm gonna have to see if I can turn these clamps 90*. I hope they're not welded like that...it's ~1" from the ground.

[RUFFLZ]

Put some shoes on man.LOL

jk.


My driveway is worse. At least your driveway is as slanted as mine. Im probably gonna park on the street when I lower the car.

indians go barefoot everywhere man. real talk
either that, or some thong sandals hahaha

[ak-]

you have those northerner cali curb driveways

[ohthejosh]

Put some shoes on man.LOL

jk.


My driveway is worse. At least your driveway is as slanted as mine. Im probably gonna park on the street when I lower the car.

[RUFFLZ]

that driveway is nutty

[CHIF8008]

awesome driveway pic

[Vivek]

Awesome. I got it all together, new exhaust on, spring pads removed. I can clear my driveway by about 1mm at this height.
I'll polish the tip later today.

If I hit it slightly wrong: :rofl:

15mm spacers coming soon


And I completely forgot to take pics of the whole car :/

[Vivek]

I had KYB's on my last e30.. hated them.
Replaced them with billie sports and the ride-height dropped about an inch in the back. KYBs i think are gas charged shocks, and bilstein's are oil shocks with a gas cushion, gas charged shocks will push the car back up even if you get lowering springs. If I had to get new shocks again I would get Koni's. The car handled great on the billie's but the ride quality sucked.

I may get better performance shocks somewhere down the line, but for now these are fine with my driving ability. The main issue is that they were super low earlier, but now it won't drop that low.

[Vivek]

I'm not really understanding..do you have pictures? Maybe that will help...

I'll take pics tomorrow (if I still don't get it off). Basically there's a main pipe going to the resonator towards the front of the car. Onto this pipe is a larger diameter pipe, with some slits in it (so it can be clamped) that fits over the main pipe going to the headers. This pipe is clamped on, but someone welded it together at some point. I have to cut those welds to get the muffler off.

Headers====cat==resonator=======clamped joint (that's welded on my car)===muffler=

[pandaboo911]

I had KYB's on my last e30.. hated them.
Replaced them with billie sports and the ride-height dropped about an inch in the back. KYBs i think are gas charged shocks, and bilstein's are oil shocks with a gas cushion, gas charged shocks will push the car back up even if you get lowering springs. If I had to get new shocks again I would get Koni's. The car handled great on the billie's but the ride quality sucked.

[jaywood]

I'm not really understanding..do you have pictures? Maybe that will help...

[Vivek]

From what I can see, there's really no reason for it to be welded. The clamp seems to be holding it perfectly fine, but there were two welds on it.

[Court M3]

Good luck with that, try to see if there is some other reason it's welded on. Poke around a bit no telling what else is waiting for you.