'88 E30
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Unfortunately I didnt paint them because I was lazy about it. I thought they were media blasted then painted in something already..?
That's what I thought too, the finish looked really nice but I'm like 99% sure they were just raw steel with an oil coating. Once the oil washed off mine rusted in about two or three weeks, but keep in mind this was the middle of winter with super salty roads and driving like 40+ miles a day so yours may go way longer before showing anything. I was planning on giving mine a coat of paint this summer if I ever get around to it.
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Picking up a caliper after work today. Then gonna go home, remove all my calipers and put some paint on them. No reason to not do this right the first time.
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Picked up the caliper. Thought about painting them all, then decided not to because I am a lame person and just want to drive this stupid thing. If/when they start to rust and look shitty I will remove them, think about painting, then probably just upgrade the brakes anyways.
The caliper still leaked out of the threads where the line gets attached, hooray. Found that out while bleeding. Removed the line from the caliper, cleaned crap as best as I could, reinserted and tightened it back up, no leaks during bleeding process or when brakes were being stomped to check for hissing/crap like that.
My buddy came over, we had some beers. Then decided to finish the car. It's 4:31AM and I'm tired but it's back on all fours
Still need to get the endlinks on and mess with front ride height/preload. The rears are basically where I want them, they will settle a tad yet. The front is a touch high yet. Still haven't touched the camber plates either.
Goodnight/good morning (?)
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Pls don't write off my car because I didn't paint the calipers lololol. I taped one off and it drained all of my patience and desire to work on this turd
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Adjusted the ride height again today, slapped in the endlinks, moved some brake lines to betterish spots and yeah...just have to install the exhaust tomorrow as well as the strut bar. Fired it up today, I left the battery disconnected in the car since October outside in the garage, car still immediately popped off. Open headers sounds terrible, even for the 15 seconds it was running.
I pretty much rechecked every bolt I had removed for proper torque. I really hope everything goes smoothly on the test drive tomorrow...
pic of ride height, compare with above photo. I may need to bring the fronts up a touch
Endlinks from AKG
Rears
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Dont you go around increasing the market value of e34 oil pans now, ya hear?
Trust me I'm not going for "the lows" I'm still learning how adjusting the coilover changes the ride height (how much movement on the threads change it) it's also on 15s so it seems like it's nose diving. And I also have a monster skidplate that hopefully helps protect the hard to find e34 pan
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AHHHHH ITS WORKING
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Nice work!
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Thanks dudes!! I need an alignment in the worst way but holy crap it's a million times better to drive.
Only thing I'll have to get use to is a constant noise from the rtabs. Like a popping/cracking (?) sound as the suspension travels
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Did you grease them? What kind are they? I have poly rtabs on my e36 and they squeak.
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They are solid delrin
No grease on them besides some Antiseize from the bolts.
I'm okay with the noise, I'd just like to know where it's coming From.
The poly bushings in the subframe I robbed some grease from the sway bar poly bushings (came with a few packets) Could it be the sways with adjustable endlinks? Only happens when car is traversing uneven surfaces or hitting decent bumps in the road. I can try and mount my GoPro up there and see what I can hear
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After sending multiple videos to snapsby he confirmed it is most likely the fact that I have aluminum cans for suspension. Actually it's the rtabs.
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After sending multiple videos to snapsby he confirmed it is most likely the fact that I have aluminum cans for suspension. Actually it's the rtabs.
Snapasaurus only speaks da truf!
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Yeah greasing any bushing that isn't rubber is always a good idea for no/less squeaking
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Yes now I can see why. I am not all that concerned with the noise, I'm just glad it's pinpointed. For the time being i sprayed a touch of silicone on them to see if it would quiet them a tad.
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Mixed emotions today...
Got the car aligned at a local place I was recommended to. Went with snapholes' suggestion of -2.5 camber in the front and 0 toe. It was going great (was literally in the place with the dude) until he turned the wheels full lock to lock and the alignment tool on the wheels dented my fenders. I was standing on the left side of the car, so he turned the wheel hard left at first, so I couldn't see what was happening to the right fender. As he turned the wheels back I noticed his alignment device was getting close to the fender and told him to stop after the knob contacted my fender. The drivers side is not as bad as the passenger side (I caught the DS as it happened) it can be massaged flat. The passenger side (my only actually really decent fender) has a nice dent and the fucking paint cracked
Granted it's a ~30 year old car and has its fair share of Knicks and bumps. But that's not the point. Point is I've basically done everything myself and this is the one, the basically LAST thing I let someone else do and my fender gets toasted. Sad day.
At the time it happened the guy looked very upset and we weren't close to being done yet. I told him not to worry about it and to just keep doing it.
I paid and was on my way
I called later today and talked with the manager. I told him I want to be able to recommend his shop and that I didn't want my 30 year old fenders to ruin some guys job. I just don't want this shit to happen to someone else.
I don't think I really know what to do when I go in there tomorrow to talk to him and show him the damage because we will both be looking at a 30 year old car that has some character. I don't want any crap to come down on the tech because I'm not like that, shit happens. I do not want to make a scene or be that guy that complains about everything but it's just disheartening as all fuck when you're right there at the fucking cusp and then someone pisses in your Cheerios.
On the way home I did a burnout because I got cut off by a ford and I went and drove for about 30 mins on some back road twisties.
This car rocks
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