my suspension build thread...1337 diy status

[ltw97m3]

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[jensklemp]

looks like you just rip your car apart in random places lol

But very nice, I wish I had some cash to do some of this stuff!

[jensklemp]

looks like you just rip your car apart in random places lol

But very nice, I wish I had some cash to do some of this stuff!

[BeastinM3]

Awesome overhaul!

[yoda888]

Nice pink contour in the last pic! :P

[KnudsonsM3]

Work in progess, you will love the change. Careful when you take you first ride in that thing lol

[RRSperry]

I love the use of the stock jack in the first pic. That thing is just waiting for a Darwin Award winner... Are you homeless?

[ChosenGSR]

very nice, do you know what you're doing or are you following DIYs? My issue is anything I do is the "first" time for me.

[brosher]

Do you know the factory jack is called the "widowmaker" for a reason?

[AJ M3]

Do you know the factory jack is called the "widowmaker" for a reason?

Its ok there's a wheel and a spring supporting the car too. Note: Sometimes it is ok to sacrafice a "friend" to improve your suspension.

Great build up.. all nice things, looking forward to pink contour pics too.

[Jrdeamicis]

FFL, if you can make it down to the bay, you can work at my place. I have a press and jackstands :-D

Awesome build man. Godspeed.

[Nadroj]

lol why were you doing this in some random parking lot. were you just driving around and decided to do your oil pimp nut...............

[millertimebmw03]

VIDEO NOW!!! hahaha

[MIMI1]

looks like you had fun


i wish i could do it again on mine i love working on things

[wheresmym3]

You could have pulled it into the garage as long as I had room to enter the attic

The side of my hill does look a little in the "open".

[s1ick]

LOLZ the fire is epic

[jworms]

while you've got the subframe out, have you considered welding in the turner sway bar reinforcements? i had the shop take care of that for my subframe swap out. while i have stock sway bars and no real plan to swap them out anytime soon, i still think it would suck to have to go through the process again if it did tear.

here's the kit turner sells: http://www.turnermotorsport.com/html..._ID=TSU3675001

[vjlax18]

You should use the stock rear sway if you're going with 650 out back.

[vjlax18]

I am running the same rates, but I'm also running a car that weighes ~3000-3100lbs and 265front and 29rear tires. I'm also running an Eibach rear bar, but with stock tire sizes I would run a stock rear sway. When my car was for autox it was 2700lbs, I ran 650F and 850R with no rear sway

[3literheater]

Looks good so far Dave. You do have the resources out here, but are not interested in using them. I have a 120V Lincoln MIG welder sitting in my garage right now along with plenty of scrap sheet metal. All you need to do is come over here or I will pick you up.

[RRSperry]

2700#s? Wow, you all must have stripped almost eveything out. I weighed mine the other day and it was 3300#s without me in it...lol

[raoke]

On the radowski bracket there is a spacer that fits inbetween the diff bushing and the bracket. id leave a 'cunt hair or so' of space so that you can slide that spacer in with ease otherwise it will be so tight and hard to get it aligned for the bolt to slide through.

[3literheater]

raoke, on the diff bracket:

If you put a washer in between the bracket and the spacer while it was being welded do you think that would be enough room? Once its welded and you take the washer out do you think you will still be able to tighten all the way up correctly?

Thanks!!

[epj3]

The fact you're doing this in totally random spots is +5 in my book. Now I feel spoiled working in my sloped driveway!!

[3literheater]

They aren't random spots. They are where he lives. The parking lot outside his dorms on base, his old house back in CT, and my brother-in-laws driveway where Dave lives.