FuturisticConcept Art BMW E36 with a V8 on a bottom dollar budget

[SteelBlue]

Jdesign said:

I cant make any promises.

Can we expect to see you at RA again?

[straight6pwr]

Jdesign said:

I haven't updated this in awhile, but I figured I could do a check in. 

I have a mound of parts to install in this car and haven't had time to touch it. BUT since Halloween is right around the corner, I might need to get this thing on the road again, as it's perfect for the holiday. 

I did manage to finally find a cam that I will use with the gear drive. It's a Comp cams camshaft spec'd at 236/242, .363"/.361" lobe lift and cut on a 111+4 lsa. I am not 100% if it will work, but I mean, what's the worst thing that could happen?

smoke machine?

[Jdesign]

SteelBlue said:

Can we expect to see you at RA again?

See last response;

Jdesign said:

I cant make any promises.

straight6pwr said:

smoke machine?

[Jdesign]

Did a thing last night and its closely relates to this car. Some of you may have already saw this posted on my snapchat (jhenrysnapp if you're a snapchatter) yesterday, but I have been cleaning and moving things in my shop and decided to get the old tires off of the spare style 5's and mount the new tires on. There is still a large amount of work to be done before I can actually mount the wheels on the car, but I was able to remove the tires, and install the new ones and flip the faces and the outcome was quite satisfying.

  OEM back pad and barrel                                                  Flipped face and semi cleaned barrel                          New tire installed on flipped face wheel

 

A video of the wheel next to the car:

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[SteelBlue]

bruh

[Jdesign]

SteelBlue said:

bruh

Im sorry, is there something wrong?

[straight6pwr]

how did you attempt to center the face? that could be a lot of wobble with such a heavy tire!

[Jdesign]

straight6pwr said:

how did you attempt to center the face? that could be a lot of wobble with such a heavy tire!

It self-centered 🤪

[straight6pwr]

Jdesign said:

It self-centered 🤪

i've had a set of these in hand and thought it might be iffy, since the centering lip is on the face side, and the splined bolts are a loose fit into the holes on the face. did you mount the wheels on the car and give em a spin to check for run out?

[Jdesign]

straight6pwr said:

i've had a set of these in hand and thought it might be iffy, since the centering lip is on the face side, and the splined bolts are a loose fit into the holes on the face. did you mount the wheels on the car and give em a spin to check for run out? 

I know what you mean about the lip on the front of the face, BUT the overall diameter of the face also fits tightly inside of the barrel. So tight, I had to pound it back together with a 6x6 and all my might to get it tight. If you look, you can see I left the bolts in their place so that the nuts are on the "new face side." I did this because the bolts are splined, tapered, shouldered, and press tightly into the barrel before passing through the face. Leaving them in this orientation was the best (technically only) option for a secure hold, and the shouldered portion of the bolts also aided in alignment of the face. I did not mount them on the car, BUT I did mount them on my tire balancer to testy runout and they spin true for the most part, but the tire is a hell of a lot of meat, and I might run balancing beads instead of wasting a ton of sticky weights.

(Sorry for portrait mode, this is from snapchat) UIJW7639.MP4

[straight6pwr]

nice! i thought that there was a gap around the face from the barrel, but I'm probably mistaken.

these will be hilarious when mounted. please put a cat or a $100 bill inside the barrel to exaggerate the size of the lip, like when deep flat lips were a thing.

[REKIII]

Dude.....language.  Had to have a meeting with HR after watching the vid.  

Awesome wheel/tire combo though.  Totally worth it.

[Jdesign]

REKIII said:

Dude.....language.  Had to have a meeting with HR after watching the vid.  

Awesome wheel/tire combo though.  Totally worth it.

OOPPPPPEEE

[Jdesign]

SO.... Did a lil test fitting this weekend...

NOW.... mind you this is at lowered height, no lift, no cutting. With the jack under it I get about 3" of droop and the wheel spins freely. I think with the lift I should be able to clear everything up front. I will just need to trim the bumper and I should be okay.

I have yet to test the rear, and I will be a little concerned with running into the subframe mount.

[REKIII]

Wow.  

Now, I agree that from a utility standpoint, this wheel/tire combo will be much better, but I'm still on the fence aesthetically.  I'm excited to see how the final stance (I hate myself for using that word) will be.

Very cool.

[Jdesign]

So I ran across this today now....

which gives me a lot of hope that this will work just fine!

[B C]

It took a beating pretty well!

Are those wheels custom built?

[Jdesign]

B C said:

It took a beating pretty well!

Are those wheels custom built?

Which wheels?

[Jdesign]

Not much to look at but I made a little progress on this. Cleaned up the new subframe, painted it and installed new bushings. I also removed the trailing arm bushings and ordered new Ball joints for the trailing arms. I will be painting the swing arms next before installing all the new stuff.

I still need to order new brakes for the rear, but then should have everything to complete the rear end swap/upgrade.

[B C]

@Jdesign in the future