Rollin on dubs -5

Finally decided on some wheels.

Rota RB w/gold centers and polished lip: 15x8, 4x100, et+04, 67.1 hub bore with rings to bring it down to 57.1

Tires to be:Hankook rs2 225/45/15

Also finally figured out what to use for the rear suspension.

Bilstein 2" large body race shocks, 230/78 linear valving with coilover sleeves and upper perch for 2.5" inside diameter coil springs. 10inch, #200 springs on order.

Next up:

Install complete Massive/Wilwood brake assembly.

Mount tires and drop car on wheels to check for clearances(with fingers crossed).

Fabricate mounts for rear shocks. Reinforce rear strut towers to support upper strut mounts.

Roll car back and forth just because i can.

Fabricate mounts for, and install, wilwood pedal assembly.

saga continues

Welded on some flat stock to complete the triangle bolt pattern of the e36.

Still need to fill in the old holes, then shes done.

Before:

After:

End of day

The day ended with rear end installed, front suspension almost complete.

A shot of the fronts, need to get some paint on those seam welds.

Steering rack needs to be mocked up. But i couldnt set the front suspension height because the wheels i have for mockup are way too narrow.

I was hoping to get it on four wheels today, guess Ill have to settle for one.

Low...ri...der. is a little........

I finally got my rearend together, literally.

I needed to get this put up so i can determine what stroke shock i will need.

max drop is 25", fully tucked is 15" but i will never see any of these extensions. I figured 22" was a safe fully drooped. Still with me? Im gonna go with a 7 inch stroke.

Obviously these arent the wheels im going to be using. This is max tuck without hitting. A little unsafe for mass. roads.

Yes, i have adjustable camber in the rear, so hopefully some of this will go away instead of my tires.

Ha, the I cant imagine how this would look driving down the street. I guess if i wanted an idea i could go check out some hondas in dochesta. You can kinda noticed i started the blending on the rear fenders.

Finallyyyy

So, i had to wait over two months for my kmac camber plates. Then they got lost by ups. Then ups claimed they found them in the woods by my house. Done laughing? So a week later i finally got them. Completely crap. Looks like something that came out of a freshman shop class. I had to send them back and find another solution.

So I believe kmac and ireland are the only ones that make plates for the 2002(i think ground control might, but my roommate had a horrible experience with them). I refused to give in to buying something more from ireland. My roommate had bought some e30 ones from Vorshlag. Unfortunately they dont make them for the 2002. So i ordered the ones for the e36 with camber and caster adjustments. Hopefully i can make them work(fast forward-theyre already installed, so theyll work)

Heres some pics of what had to be done:


Camber plates with crazy good engineering and machine work.

Everything fit beautifully with correct parts to accomodate my 2.5 springs and inverted bilsteins

A little geometry with levels, straight edges, etc.I forgot to mention, the e36 bolt pattern and center offset is completely different. So i had to drill two new holes, and them im going to weld a plate to support the third hole. Soon to come.

Markings for new holes

And installed