NOR-CAL General Chat.

[Steven]

I honestly did not get any grease with them nor did I put grease on them.

[mtech325]

Eric makes a good point. Rubber is what makes for a nice street car. I started out with poly in the motor mounts, rear trailing arms, and the subframe (granted in an e36), but the ride quality deteriorated quickly and got noisy after a year even with grease (this was all AKG street grade stuff too). I put fresh stock rubber back in most of those spots and felt it was the right decision. Still have to do the rear subframe, but dropping it is going to be a pain in the ass.....

My friend has new stock rubber aside from subframe bushings (poly) in his e30 and I feel it rides fairly nice without any noises.

[YosemiteSam]

Monday I'll be ordering new sways from IE. I'm not sure weather to order the 22/19 kit or the 25/22 kit. I'm already on H&R Race and Konis, and there is still a lot more body roll than I'd like. That being said this is not a track car, it will be driven daily and will be driven "spiritedly" on mountain roads of varying conditions so I'm unsure how the thicker setup would cope with rough roads. Anybody have any opinions about the two?

[pandaboo911]

Sway bars will just get you a bunch of oversteer. Get stiffer springs, those will have a greater effect on body roll.


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[Toodaloo]

I enjoy my 22/19's!

[YosemiteSam]

Sway bars will just get you a bunch of oversteer. Get stiffer springs, those will have a greater effect on body roll.


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I appreciate the input, but as I said I'm on H&R Race already. I might go a bit stiffer when I get coilovers but for the time being there's nothing I can do as far as stiffer springs.

[BlackbirdM3]

Monday I'll be ordering new sways from IE. I'm not sure weather to order the 22/19 kit or the 25/22 kit. I'm already on H&R Race and Konis, and there is still a lot more body roll than I'd like. That being said this is not a track car, it will be driven daily and will be driven "spiritedly" on mountain roads of varying conditions so I'm unsure how the thicker setup would cope with rough roads. Anybody have any opinions about the two?

I think I've got a 22 up front with the stock M3 rear bar and the car feels pretty good. H&R race springs as well. I have the bigger rear bar sitting here, but haven't felt the need to do any cutting and welding on the car to make it work.

Will

[kronus]

we had a 25/19 setup on our lemon with a heavy nose and a light tail and it oversteered a lot. 22/stock or 22/ix would be good in an e30 without the trunk stuff in it.

[Cabriolet]

we had a 25/19 setup on our lemon with a heavy nose and a light tail and it oversteered a lot. 22/stock or 22/ix would be good in an e30 without the trunk stuff in it.

I could not agree more. 22front/stock rear makes a good safe fun car. nothing more scary than sliding your e30 you havent paid your dad for yet bc your 410 rear and stiff sways bit you... possibly personal experience

also before you install it make sure you have done the subframe reinforcement kit. i know you broke yours but idk if you fixed+reinforced it yet.

[kronus]

yeah, we broke the sway mounts off with a 19.

interestingly, the front has been fine unreinforced with a 25, so I'm not sure what that says regarding front sway mount reinforcement.

our front subframe's unreinforced motor mount area has also remained intact despite about 300 hours of hard racing.

[blazinxpk]

Drive this Sunday

this is the route:

https://goo.gl/maps/pzFTe

meet time is 8:15am.

hosted by Bay Bimmers.

Tomorrow folks!!!

[YosemiteSam]

I could not agree more. 22front/stock rear makes a good safe fun car. nothing more scary than sliding your e30 you havent paid your dad for yet bc your 410 rear and stiff sways bit you... possibly personal experience

also before you install it make sure you have done the subframe reinforcement kit. i know you broke yours but idk if you fixed+reinforced it yet.

Yeah, you know I've paid for every bit of my car. I already did all the reinforcement on the front, the rears will be welded in at the time of install. BTW, I started working at BTM in Campbell so I'll put it all in there. I do want the car to bias just a little bit toward oversteer.

[mr2peak]

Finally looking like an E30 again.

Have springs, will lower ;)

[Cabriolet]

My last night.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/43859025@N08/sets/72157651423989596/

[bastianshaw]

Finally looking like an E30 again.

Have springs, will lower ;)

looks good! you happy!?