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

[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

[Jdesign]

B C said:

@Jdesign in the future

 I never realized Biff had euro bumpers

[jc43089]

Jdesign said:

 I never realized Biff had euro bumpers

Duh, it's the future!

Also are you doing upper and lower ball joints on the trailing arms instead of the non M style with one ball joint and one bushing?  I did that on mine and I don't see any reason why not to.

[Jdesign]

jc43089 said:

Duh, it's the future!

Also are you doing upper and lower ball joints on the trailing arms instead of the non M style with one ball joint and one bushing?  I did that on mine and I don't see any reason why not to.

Yes, although I stupidly forgot that I have new bushings that I made from delrin for the lowers already on the car as seen here: 

https://www.wibimmers.com/board/index.php?/topic/4537-futuristicconcept-art-bmw-e36-with-a-v8-on-a-bottom-dollar-budget/page/18/

Im also contemplating if I should just find a cheap fuel cell instead of replacing the fuel tank.... Thoughts?

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[jc43089]

Jdesign said:

Im also contemplating if I should just find a cheap fuel cell instead of replacing the fuel tank.... Thoughts?

What's wrong with the fuel tank?  Maybe I missed it.  The stock tank seems like a good design, it's low and fits around the components of the car well.  Any fuel cell is going to be further back and higher up.  Also capacity might be an issue, it would be annoying to stop for fuel every 150 miles.  I would think tanks should be all over from junked cars, there isn't anything to go wrong on them unless it gets punctured.

[straight6pwr]

roof rack +

[straight6pwr]

another idea: put a hole in top of the trunk lid and put that tank in the trunk so you can see it. maybe leave the filler hanging out a hole in the lid or the fender.

[Jdesign]

jc43089 said:

What's wrong with the fuel tank?  Maybe I missed it.  The stock tank seems like a good design, it's low and fits around the components of the car well.  Any fuel cell is going to be further back and higher up.  Also capacity might be an issue, it would be annoying to stop for fuel every 150 miles.  I would think tanks should be all over from junked cars, there isn't anything to go wrong on them unless it gets punctured.

It has a hole in it. When the car bottoms out, it smushed the floor into the tank a poked a small hole in it. I patched it, but I have a new tank I got from TJ. But since the floor is all destroyed, its likely to happen again unless I smasheth everything with a BFH. Not that I dont mind doing that, but I thought it might be smarter to just get a fuel cell. IDK you are probably right about keeping the stock tank. 

straight6pwr said:

another idea: put a hole in top of the trunk lid and put that tank in the trunk so you can see it. maybe leave the filler hanging out a hole in the lid or the fender.

LOL. I plan on cutting the whole floor of the trunk out while im doing the subframe and all that stuff back there. I think its a smart move to relocate the battery between the strut towers vs. the stock quater-panel location in case I hit something. With that, I figured it might be easy to run a fuel cell but in the end it more messing around that I dont need to do right now. I just want to get this thing road worthy again.

This is similar to what I was thinking:

[straight6pwr]

you'd never have to stop for gas with 45-50 gal.