E36 Turbo "Special" REAR Alignment Specs

[someguy2800]

Its exactly right

[Butters Stoch]

Its exactly right

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[Robocop]

is that why i used to see all the muscle cars back in the day with a raised ass air shocks all the way pumped up?
Thanks for sharing coilovers it is. maybe get some 19s with a tall tire.

but basically the stiffer the better?

[chikinhed]

Good write up, thanks, now all I have to do is tube frame the car with adjustable suspension mounting points if I want to go fast.....


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[someguy2800]

Good write up, thanks, now all I have to do is tube frame the car with adjustable suspension mounting points if I want to go fast.....


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Be a lot cooler if you did. If you know what's wrong with it you can at least take steps to make it less wrong. For example even if you had it set up the way you want alignment wise for handling, but were going drag racing on a weekend crank up the coilovers an inch in the back and turn up the compression side of the shock. That would take camber out, increase anti squat, and keep it from caming over the trailing arms on the launch.

[someguy2800]

The difference between those two launches I showed in slow motion was lowering the front of the lower 4 link bars 1 hole and loosening the shocks two clicks. Small changes to instant center make a big difference. I later put it back to up one hole again and the car wheelied so hard it almost went on the back bumper.

oh and since I haven't said it yet, IRS sucks, live axles are better

[Jkpgt96]

This is great info. I had my alignment setup per this thread but I have stock springs and konis out back so that’s pretty much killing my alignment when I try to put 700+wtq through it..got it. Anyone make stiffer springs for the back that aren’t physically shorter also?


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[dburt86]

“Making it work” is a relative term. I made small changes (spring rate and alignment specs) and my car went bottom 1.4 60ft a million times and 1.38 a handful of times.

considering the average good 60ft in this sub forum is a 1.5x, then I guess you could say my car worked, but to me it was far from working good.

my point is that if you wanna go 1.1 60ft, then yea, this suspension sucks.

but if you want a car that drives well and launches decent, this suspension is good.

i wrote on all my suspension components what I’d need to do to put it back to a normal alignment. I could switch from the goofy drag alignment to street alignment in less then 15minutes, including a spring swap.

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That was before my car turned into a yard sale in the middle of the highway, of course

[dburt86]

this needs to be bumped because its hands down some of the most useful info in this forum.