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Tom_Maverick
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Fri Jan 27, 2012 2:11 pm
BATTS91 wrote:ye same tyre profile i have gonna get 195/45/16 same as will tucks in the arch more less rubbing and looks awsome
i can vouch for will and his subframe alothough theres no photo proof it wass fooked took a right scraping and bashing , i do belive he has cracked the subframe on bm once already but if you want low gta suffer consiquenses and we know this and youve just gotta be prepped with spare cash
i dont know if you were refering to wills car but he has m52 not m5 :/ there has been a great deal of money and effort gone into that car although alot of it was on the previous engine taken out about two weeks ago like you say money is only money its here to be spent hats what i say fella
I'm not talking about Will.. the M5 lump is a different car altogether!.. and before you hit the subframe on the BM you'll lose your sump.. it's a lower point on the car.. much like on a mk1 golf (my caddy was in PVW.. and I spent a few years working at a VW performance specialist.. just thought I'd add that) but yes.. money is only money! although I've a lot of repect for some peoples cars who have had a relatively small amount of money spent on them.. often above someone who is very noisy about the fact they have thrown a chequebook at the car!
anyway.. back on topic, low is fine, a little stretch is ok... 'stance' 'poke' and all that other rubbish on gash|works can do one..
also I'd say your tyres are too small but hey, again your car, your choice!

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Fri Jan 27, 2012 2:12 pm
Must have to repaint his arches after every drive....stupid dubwanker
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Fri Jan 27, 2012 2:12 pm
Jhonno wrote:Jozi wrote:

That is retarded.. A bit of stretch looks cool imo. 215 on an 8.5 is about the very limit. That just looks stupid and no way would I be driving that above walking pace.
also.. lets be honest.. it looks fookin gash..
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Fri Jan 27, 2012 2:17 pm
This thread is shite!
Full of bollox, nearly every zoner has mod'd their car in some way. Some more than others. Loads spend good money on them too. OEM old man crack is wrong and just idiotic drivel. The fact that people are expressing negative opinions on your cars is they look sh1te, drive shite and you just look like sheep. There is nothing different about slamming your turd over wheels that are too wide! All the d1ckheads are doing it!!!

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Fri Jan 27, 2012 2:23 pm
Dezzy wrote:This thread is shite!
Full of bollox, nearly every zoner has mod'd their car in some way. Some more than others. Loads spend good money on them too. OEM old man crack is wrong and just idiotic drivel. The fact that people are expressing negative opinions on your cars is they look sh1te, drive shite and you just look like sheep. There is nothing different about slamming your turd over wheels that are too wide! All the d1ckheads are doing it!!!
POW! that'll do..
I'm out..
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Fri Jan 27, 2012 2:29 pm
now that looks uber cool to me , wouldnt suit the e30 but a mk1/2 golf would look the mutts nuts
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Fri Jan 27, 2012 2:30 pm
It's a failed idealology created by individuals who want acceptance, its a mini subculture for them because they are failures in normal every day society
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Fri Jan 27, 2012 2:34 pm
Dezzy tottally uncalled for saying tht cars look shite and were all dheads thats steeping across the line the wiping you arse across it and running a mile
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Fri Jan 27, 2012 2:46 pm
BATTS91 wrote:Dezzy tottally uncalled for saying tht cars look shite and were all dheads thats steeping across the line the wiping you arse across it and running a mile
That's our dez lol.
To sum up the thread -
1. Stancec0cks gon stance.
2. Anyone who wants a functional car thinks it's daft.
3. we are all boring old men who only like OEM cars?
lol.
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Fri Jan 27, 2012 2:55 pm
Anyone seen camber shims before? The idea is you bolt your hub over these bits of plastic which is angled to get camberzzz:
A friend of mine ones bypassed this by just bolting in some washers on the lower bolts...
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Fri Jan 27, 2012 2:57 pm
BATTS91 wrote:Dezzy tottally uncalled for saying tht cars look shite and were all dheads thats steeping across the line the wiping you arse across it and running a mile
I'm dyslexic so I think I understand the above drivel.
I'm running nowhere. I wouldn't wipe my ar5e on "stanced" cars. They are bigger turds than even Kos can manage!

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Fri Jan 27, 2012 3:01 pm
mr_dink wrote:BATTS91 wrote:Dezzy tottally uncalled for saying tht cars look shite and were all dheads thats steeping across the line the wiping you arse across it and running a mile
To sum up the thread -
1. Stancec0cks gon stance.
2. Anyone who wants a functional car thinks it's daft.
3. we are all boring old men who only like OEM cars?
lol.
Pretty much it I reckon..

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Fri Jan 27, 2012 3:08 pm
BATTS91 wrote:Dezzy tottally uncalled for saying tht cars look shite and were all dheads thats steeping across the line the wiping you arse across it and running a mile
I still think
THIS is the most dreadful / amazing stance I have EVER seen!

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Fri Jan 27, 2012 3:16 pm
Good to see I've come in from cleaning my "piece of $hit" (as some of you think) would I clean if I though it was cack? No... I'd leave it muddy and all dirty.... At the end of the day I like my car and so do many, vie seen a lot of cars on this forum and although not in my opinion nice, I respect the work people have put in to get the car HOW THEY WANT IT, not how some1 else thinks it should look. Its all down to personal preference at the end of the day, for a older person who see the e30's when they were 1st built and liked them then then yes, making them fully original is down to them. And yes, my sun frame on my golf wore through in some places, I'll have a search for a picture on my computer later. And batts is also correct subframe om bm is worn and was cracked same as chassis rails scraped and the suspension lollypops as some people call them it's my car and I'll have it as low as I wish

195 45 on 9j, and coil overs... Best I get my coat and hat and walk away from this place now.
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Fri Jan 27, 2012 3:17 pm
ross_jsy wrote:.......bits of plastic..........camberzzz......washers on the lower bolts...
Hellaflush, y0!
Sorry, I mean hella dangerous.
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Fri Jan 27, 2012 3:22 pm
Will, no-one is saying that you don't have a right to modify your car as you please.
Some members on here have also been known to modify cars.
The point here is that if your car is as low as that then it most likely handles badly and is not pleasant to drive.
In my humble opinion, of course.
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Fri Jan 27, 2012 3:23 pm
VW-will wrote:Good to see I've come in from cleaning my "piece of $hit" (as some of you think) would I clean if I though it was cack? No... I'd leave it muddy and all dirty.... At the end of the day I like my car and so do many, vie seen a lot of cars on this forum and although not in my opinion nice, I respect the work people have put in to get the car HOW THEY WANT IT, not how some1 else thinks it should look. Its all down to personal preference at the end of the day, for a older person who see the e30's when they were 1st built and liked them then then yes, making them fully original is down to them. And yes, my sun frame on my golf wore through in some places, I'll have a search for a picture on my computer later. And batts is also correct subframe om bm is worn and was cracked same as chassis rails scraped and the suspension lollypops as some people call them it's my car and I'll have it as low as I wish

195 45 on 9j, and coil overs... Best I get my coat and hat and walk away from this place now.
Why didn't you say earlier? Fooking hell, if I'd known you were polishing your turd I'd had no problem with it...
Oh and


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Fri Jan 27, 2012 3:26 pm
VW-will wrote: Its all down to personal preference at the end of the day, for a older person who see the e30's when they were 1st built and liked them then then yes, making them fully original is down to them.
whoa whoa.. watch it.. some of the old boys on here are the worst modders! (and there are a lot of young OEM homo's) no-one said it wasn't about personal taste.. that's the whole point.. it's up to you what you do to the car! doesn't mean people won't disagree and put up a healthy argument!

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Fri Jan 27, 2012 3:32 pm
Dezzy wrote:VW-will wrote:Good to see I've come in from cleaning my "piece of $hit" (as some of you think) would I clean if I though it was cack? No... I'd leave it muddy and all dirty.... At the end of the day I like my car and so do many, vie seen a lot of cars on this forum and although not in my opinion nice, I respect the work people have put in to get the car HOW THEY WANT IT, not how some1 else thinks it should look. Its all down to personal preference at the end of the day, for a older person who see the e30's when they were 1st built and liked them then then yes, making them fully original is down to them. And yes, my sun frame on my golf wore through in some places, I'll have a search for a picture on my computer later. And batts is also correct subframe om bm is worn and was cracked same as chassis rails scraped and the suspension lollypops as some people call them it's my car and I'll have it as low as I wish

195 45 on 9j, and coil overs... Best I get my coat and hat and walk away from this place now.
Why didn't you say earlier? Fooking hell, if I'd known you were polishing your turd I'd had no problem with it...
Oh and

Ah crap.. This must mean because I don't polish mine, it must be a turd. I like 'em filthy

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Fri Jan 27, 2012 3:33 pm
Tom_Maverick wrote:VW-will wrote: Its all down to personal preference at the end of the day, for a older person who see the e30's when they were 1st built and liked them then then yes, making them fully original is down to them.
whoa whoa.. watch it.. some of the old boys on here are the worst modders! (and there are a lot of young OEM homo's) no-one said it wasn't about personal taste.. that's the whole point.. it's up to you what you do to the car! doesn't mean people won't disagree and put up a healthy argument!

PMSL!! As if it has anything to do with age..
It's all about taste and class..

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Fri Jan 27, 2012 3:35 pm
I can understand "healthy argument" but from the quick read over I've just had (will read more later when I'm not busy) seems like things were getting a bit too hot IMO! Lool, and the fact you didn't believe me about my subframe on golf doesn't really bother me... And my e30 subframe sits lower than my sump, as I made it so the sump wasn't the lowest point

(thinking ahead for the lows!) either way once I've cleared my computer of all the virus's (watching way to much porn probably) I'll upload some pictures

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Fri Jan 27, 2012 3:47 pm
will your pc has been full of porn virus's for over a year lool i think a few people should calm down now i did its just tinternet boyss we all love an e30 no matter what the hight o it is or how much camber
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Fri Jan 27, 2012 3:50 pm
VW-will wrote:I can understand "healthy argument" but from the quick read over I've just had (will read more later when I'm not busy) seems like things were getting a bit too hot IMO! Lool, and the fact you didn't believe me about my subframe on golf doesn't really bother me... And my e30 subframe sits lower than my sump, as I made it so the sump wasn't the lowest point

(thinking ahead for the lows!) either way once I've cleared my computer of all the virus's (watching way to much porn probably) I'll upload some pictures

hey, I just asked for pics! none appeared.. and hey, it's Friday, I've got bugger all to do at work.. and I hate the word 'Stance'.. and the current trend for everybody to follow the stance scene like mindless lemons without much of a clue.
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Fri Jan 27, 2012 3:56 pm
Lol, I run my own little business done all my work in about a hour this morn and set on cleaning mopping and polishing the bm... Dw, there will be pictures pretty sure there's some on there.
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Fri Jan 27, 2012 4:06 pm
i don think our taste in lowering and wheels ect are that diffrent tom , stance is extreme camber i couldnt do it to my daily car but to a weekend car yee why not looks wicked with an inch worth of tyre touching the ground lol ,
get uninstallin all shite software wills and get some antivirus ;) defragging it wont hurt neither x
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Fri Jan 27, 2012 4:09 pm
BATTS91 wrote:ye oh ye stance as they call it is definatly beyond giving extra grip from what the pictures show but i dont see the problem its somthing that some people like as verde said i think as we go on here its the word "stance" that ridiculed with hatred
so far a i see it its e30zone vs 3 lads with what i could say for me and will have alot money into our cars not just the stuff you see on the outside , and im sure these people that go extreme stance ect plunge alot of money intto there motors aswell i ddont see the problem i might not like somthing you do to your car sir but sure as hell wouldnt rip into you for your taste/choice at the most id simple say i dont like it not as whaters his name said bout wills bm n mates merc thats what this argument is really about here RESPECT and i dont see none i see what people keep saying about this place and the abuse ect joke ive never seen it on another forum i dont get it
Stance is a joke, and it deserves all the ridicule it gets. It's about a pack of sheep taking a functioning car, and making it just about undriveable. Whoa, that's so cool.
Stancecocks.

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Fri Jan 27, 2012 4:24 pm
VW-will wrote:And my e30 subframe sits lower than my sump, as I made it so the sump wasn't the lowest point

(thinking ahead for the lows!)
So you raised the engine? The single heaviest item in the car?
All it needs now is an m30. It's got the handling of a tug, just needs the engine
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Fri Jan 27, 2012 4:33 pm
Tom_Maverick wrote:Jhonno wrote:Jozi wrote:

That is retarded.. A bit of stretch looks cool imo. 215 on an 8.5 is about the very limit. That just looks stupid and no way would I be driving that above walking pace.
also.. lets be honest.. it looks fookin gash..
Utter toss.
Just looks like he bought the wrong wheels and tyres, couldnt be bothered to take them back so bodged them together anyway.
What sort of mong do you have to be to think this looks good

e30topless said : Proper BMW's have 4 headlights, last of the run was the E30 and E34/E32 anything after that is just complete shite
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Fri Jan 27, 2012 4:40 pm
replying to my lowering advice 2 pages back
i thought 40 in the rear and 60 in the front woulda been more appropriate rather than a lower rear and higher front as the back already sits kinda low. i do like to do things full on and think 60 all round would be sweet but il probably just do 40 because i cant be bother grind my steering rack sump along every road in aberdeenshire.
think il just go 40.40 on the 316 and the white shitter can get the full on poverty drift drop
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Fri Jan 27, 2012 4:52 pm
That's my turd with a 60mm drop all round. Was pretty gash to drive like that.
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Fri Jan 27, 2012 5:07 pm
ross_jsy wrote:VW-will wrote:And my e30 subframe sits lower than my sump, as I made it so the sump wasn't the lowest point

(thinking ahead for the lows!)
So you raised the engine? The single heaviest item in the car?
All it needs now is an m30. It's got the handling of a tug, just needs the engine
Oi oi , leave out the M30's


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Fri Jan 27, 2012 5:13 pm
thanks for the pic ross. thats on 15s aswell, mine would be on 16/9. i think il just go 40
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Fri Jan 27, 2012 5:13 pm
Rav335uk wrote:ross_jsy wrote:VW-will wrote:And my e30 subframe sits lower than my sump, as I made it so the sump wasn't the lowest point

(thinking ahead for the lows!)
So you raised the engine? The single heaviest item in the car?
All it needs now is an m30. It's got the handling of a tug, just needs the engine
Oi oi , leave out the M30's

This has turned into a thread about shit things to do to E30's.. They were bound to be mentioned at some point. Painting them baby blue will come up soon I am sure..

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Fri Jan 27, 2012 5:16 pm
You'd be surprised... It handles pretty well, where my cars low the engine is still probably lower than yours, yes I know it can mean more body roll etcetc and all that shit
