Vivek's Vert.

[Pantless Spency]

yay, your car is complete since you have now removed the eyebrowz.

good move LBV

[RUFFLZ]

lookin good vivek khan

[Vivek]

Pics from the bbq today:



And right after people took awesome photos I decided that eyebrows suck and took mine off (yes, at the meet):

[spike68]

Glad you enjoy my input! and Im not ready to part with my rims just yet! I just got them not to long ago.

I seriously think you should just weld the exhaust. those clamps are just going to cause more trouble. Youll probably end up scraping them off lol.
Mine is all one piece. I dont see the sense in clamping them, they cause leaks anyway. if you want to replace a section, just cut it off. Youre not changing pieces very often on it. Thats just my view.

[Vivek]

That thing is stupidly low. Get a lexus gs or something. CAMBERRRRRRRRRR

I actually just thought of something with this comment. It seems like many people think my car is not that low at all, and you think it's stupidly low...

And keep posting in here, spike, I like you. Oh and give me yo rimz.

I PM'd kalib0y...it's $30 for 8, $33 if I want them black. That's almost $4 a lug, I'll have to pass. I think EAS is like $2.75 a lug, I may just get that eventually.

Got a bit more done today. Pushed the muffler back on, made the clamp nuts stupidly tight (although they're soaked in PB blaster so they may get loose) and sawed off the parts of the bolts that hang really low.

Hopefully no more weird noise:

And..this is what you do when you only have two jack stands and you're using them on another car:

[spike68]

Im having a really tough time picturing your car with a's for some reason....

Im guessing every time i post here its makes the obsession worse ;)

[Vivek]

I kinda agree. IMO silver centers would set this thing off.



Motorsport Hardware, maybe? PM kalib0y.

I really, really want Borbet A's. Although I do like the way my black centers go with the polished lip, aluminum caps, and black hardtop (when it's on).

And i'll PM him. I looked on their site and it's $30 bucks for 8 extended bolts :shock:

[lambo]

What size are your wheels? Your car never looks low to me, purely because of the front.

I kinda agree. IMO silver centers would set this thing off.

Ugh I'm having a hard time finding bolts for a reasonable price. All I need are 5 extended lugs.

Motorsport Hardware, maybe? PM kalib0y.

[Vivek]

When I do my rear bushings I'm getting raised subframe ones to correct a bit of camber. I do drive it like I stole it and rarely scrape considering how low it is. Those exhaust bolts are the single thing I scrape about 85% of the time, so if I do something about that it'll be a big improvement.

And I guess I did steal it from my dad. I just gave him a 4 thousand dollar car as an apology

[Habla]

That thing is stupidly low. Get a lexus gs or something. CAMBERRRRRRRRRR

Raise it up and drive it like you stole it (from your dad).

[Vivek]

It was a speed bump that I didn't even have to go over. Trust me, I'm not doing that again. The clamps hold the muffler on, and I'd rather not weld it just because the clamps are easier to work with. If they continue to fall off and get loose then maybe I'll weld it eventually.

[spike68]

What are the clamps there for? exhaust hangers? or hoding the pipes together?

I would just get rid of them all together. Weld that shit. Thats what i did with mine. My exhaust used to hang cause it was on one rubber hanger, but i got fed up and got an exhaust shot to cut me and deal and weld the shit of my setup. Those pipes dont dare to budge anymore.
And what the heck did you hit that took that much metal off the pan? any more of that and you will make a hole in no time.

[Vivek]

Because I can drive it just fine this low. I was just frustrated and pissed off for 1 minute and I fucked up and I've just been mad at myself ever since. I should never have scraped the pan but I was just stupid for like 20 seconds and messed up.

Anyways, here's the damage. The rattle over bumps was my rear shock metal cover thing, which had fallen off and was just sitting there. I shoved it back on and put some JB weld on it (no I don't care what anyone thinks of that. it was extremely shittily kinda squeezed on to begin with, this will likely be better than it was new). The exhaust noise was this:

Caused by this:


So I'm soaking it all in PB right now and I'm gonna try to turn those clamps so they don't hang so low. Does anyone know if they're held on in some way? They don't seem to want to move but I can't see anything stopping them.

And this is my pan:



It's also leaking tranny fluid, but I think one of the plugs is just loose (started only after i changed the fluid, leaks quite a lot), I'll look into it after typing this. There's also a little oil leak that I'll have to track down. Ill start by checking the tightness on all the pan bolts because it seems to be from down there, although I'm not sure. Looking under the car, there doesn't appear to be any damage at all from being low other than what I've pictured and a couple scratches here and there on non structural things.

[M3Philipp]

I think your M42 Cabrio looks very good.
Why dont you go up a bit with the height?
I think it would not make your car looks worse.
Who cares if it may looks a bit better that low in some peoples opinion, if you damage your car that way...

[Vivek]

Telling myself what? The the scraped pan and oil leak aren't related? I wish they were! Imagine the difference in the level of work involved in replacing a lower oil pan and replacing, say, the profile gasket. I even have a spare oil pan gasket sitting in my garage.