PNW Chit Chat thread

[5Toes]

Well then obviously they are fitting for my car?

[Edev]

CWU ftmfw.

[HippyEarly]

I haven't been listening, wth did you dodo to your control arm?!?

[e30austin]

He r3ved his car, Hippy.

[KenC]

Well control arms on car, I added a thin coat of grease to the shafts then slid them in.

Now you get the joy of taking it all apart and re-doing it. The shafts are tapered and are a compression fit into the strut housing and subframe. That's why they don't drop out when you remove the top nuts. You need to clean the grease off really well and reinstall them.

[5Toes]

^ Thanks for noticing that Ken, otherwise I never would of redone it. I had asked here and somebody had said that that wouldn't be a bad idea. No big deal, I havn't torqued them down yet or anything.

[e30austin]

Well, my amp took a shit. Time to buy another one. Looking for ~500w and preferably 1 or 2 channels. Anyone have one for sale?

[LuckyHenriksen]

Been browsing the IE website for a few minutes, I am quite tempted to spend an awful lot of money lol

[5Toes]

Cut my front springs today to M3 spec

[Ryann]

Now you get the joy of taking it all apart and re-doing it.

lol

[e30austin]

Oh boy...

[5Toes]

For all the haters... people put m3 springs on their car often.

Stock 325i*-----------------------106------------------------245
Stock 325is*----------------------118------------------------265
Stock 325ix*----------------------106------------------------308
Stock M3*-------------------------114------------------------314

Those are the stock spring rates. Notice how the m3 is ever so slightly higher in the front? The m3 and m20 cars have the same front springs, just the m3 has 1 coil off. Same wire thickness, same diameter... and the higher spring rate makes sense because cutting springs increases spring rate a little.

[Keith M]

Same thing I wrote on your fb post:{sigh}

[george graves]

^(5toes)you have the odd ability of being able to talk yourself into thinking you know something about something.

[e30austin]

^(5toes)you have the odd ability of being able to talk yourself into thinking you know something about something.

Rofl hahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!!!!!