4 door e30 opinons
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Yea I was gonna ask how do you tuck the bumpers? Also whats the word on the JOM coilovers? Looks like decent reviews for the most part. Because I watched a vid on a h&r race spring install and the after pics the front still hass like over a inch of wheel gaaaaap
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Struts and springs will still lead to wheel gap. JOM's ride like cheap coilovers. The springs/sleeves, corrado inserts, and rear bilsteins is really the way to go on a budget.
Tucking bumpers involves drilling a small hole in the bumper shocks and smacking the bumpers in.
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Yea I was gonna ask how do you tuck the bumpers? Also whats the word on the JOM coilovers? Looks like decent reviews for the most part. Because I watched a vid on a h&r race spring install and the after pics the front still hass like over a inch of wheel gaaaaap
You can snag a set of e90 spring hats for $30 from the dealer to even out the front ride height with h&r race
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Struts and springs will still lead to wheel gap. JOM's ride like cheap coilovers. The springs/sleeves, corrado inserts, and rear bilsteins is really the way to go on a budget.
Tucking bumpers involves drilling a small hole in the bumper shocks and smacking the bumpers in.
Theres a thread over on r3v where someone got a face full of the pressurized gas/oil while drilling and it really goofed up their lungs
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Cheap stuff is cheap stuff, IMO it isn't the worst to have a tiny wheel gap, I would rather not be paranoid about my oil pan and enjoy driving my car. That car looks awesome, stick with tasteful upgrades not cheap stuff like Racelands/Joms etc and ruin it. Beautiful car and congrats on the purchase, don't be taking that out in the salt.
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We were riding to get that bitch lol
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Cheap stuff is cheap stuff, IMO it isn't the worst to have a tiny wheel gap, I would rather not be paranoid about my oil pan and enjoy driving my car. That car looks awesome, stick with tasteful upgrades not cheap stuff like Racelands/Joms etc and ruin it. Beautiful car and congrats on the purchase, don't be taking that out in the salt.
Allready have one beauty queen in storage. Was gonna roll this one off and on all year long. I will drive my pos truck when its really bad.
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You can snag a set of e90 spring hats for $30 from the dealer to even out the front ride height with h&r race
Could you be a bit more specific as to what I need to get and do? Will this get rid of all the wheel gap. I would rather not use cheap coils. Actually Submuzik Boss still has all the stock e90 sport shocks and struts from his 325i. Are the spring hats part of the front strut assembly?
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Ok I looked into the drophats and thats the plan, struts and h&r race springs. Submuzik Boss indeed has some stock e90 sport struts and I am just gonna snag the hats off of them. I am going to install them next weekend as I will be ordering the parts tomorrow. Will post pics.
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Wow that thing looks really clean!
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Ok I know I can search this info but figured you e30 guys would know. What fluids for MT and the tear diff? And what is recommended for oil?
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Between Valvoline ATF, Valvoline synthetic MTF, Lucas synthetic MTF, and Redline MTL there is a very tangible difference in shift quality when using Redline MTL.
Between Royal Purple, Redline, Lucas, and Valvoline in the diff I have never heard/felt any real difference between any of them.
I like valvoline max life 20w50
For temperatures consistently under 45F i run 10w40
The engine stays very clean inside and i have never had any issue running the engine extremely hard with that oil.
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Between Valvoline ATF, Valvoline synthetic MTF, Lucas synthetic MTF, and Redline MTL there is a very tangible difference in shift quality when using Redline MTL.Between Royal Purple, Redline, Lucas, and Valvoline in the diff I have never heard/felt any real difference between any of them.I like valvoline max life 20w50For temperatures consistently under 45F i run 10w40The engine stays very clean inside and i have never had any issue running the engine extremely hard with that oil.
Ok so some synthetic 20w50 for the diff and am I good with RP in the MT? Thats what I used in my e39 and my e46 M3. and are we talking syn 10w30?
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Oh ok. Got confused as to what you were putting 20w50 in. So either or, ir are you saying mix 10w40 with 20w50?
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Ordered the KYB shocks/struts and the H&r race springs today. Will hopefully arrive before next weekend. If so I willbe installing them Saturday. Can't wait to do some work on it.
Tomorrow I am going to change the fluids and maybe tuck the bumpers.
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