NOR-CAL General Chat.

[CabbE30]

Need some cash.

Story: Bought these off some Santa Cruz bums not realizing that one of the wheels was fucked up. Ran the 3 good ones for like 2 months. Planned on buying another but now they've been sitting in my backyard for like a year.

Size: 16x7; 205/15R16. ET35. What you see is what you get. Tires are about 30%.

Quantity 3; $220 this weekend.

[decay]

yikes @ last pic.

maybe see if MotionFab can fix it, though? i've seen worse "before" pictures on their site.

[canakami]

MemoryFab? Or am I missing something...

[decay]

MemoryFab? Or am I missing something...

no, you're right, brainfarted, busy day at work.

[bastianshaw]

verts twist and shake and creak on STOCK springs

[kronus]

apparently e36 x-braces fix it pretty good

[decay]

i've got the mason one, the sparco knockoff strut tower bar, and the aforementioned hardtop- pretty happy with it now.

[Cabriolet]

apparently e36 x-braces fix it pretty good

it would need to go from rear subframe to front subframe.

[Pantless Spency]

I like to fart

[P.Kelly]

verts twist and shake and creak on STOCK springs

True dat (even with stock m-technic shocks and springs). Need a cross brace badly... Kicking meself for selling the E36 cross brace off my donor car. Didn't realize it could be retrofitted easily.

[Pantless Spency]

On my way to sf :) weeeeeeee

[Cabriolet]

interested to see how much this 318is fetches

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1991-...#ht_500wt_1182

~$5200

[decay]

it would need to go from rear subframe to front subframe.

this... i did notice a nice difference from the mason x-brace and a strut bar, but the hardtop is the only way to address the issue that the structural center of the car consists only of the floor, and flat pieces of metal are not generally good for torsional rigidity.

[bastianshaw]

this... i did notice a nice difference from the mason x-brace and a strut bar, but the hardtop is the only way to address the issue that the structural center of the car consists only of the floor, and flat pieces of metal are not generally good for torsional rigidity.

Interesting, I dont find the hard top ads much rigidity

[decay]

Everyone else says that, but it was an instant difference for me.

Maybe that's because I've got urethane bushings everywhere and the chassis is doing more of the compliance as a result, but you may want to periodically check and tighten the rear mount points. I do that once a month, because the hardtop starts rattling over bumps if I don't.