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That looks like a pretty exciting amount of front tire clearance.
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Very scientific approach.
You are in deep.
Damn that's an amazing color. Wish I could find one like that
That looks like a pretty exciting amount of front tire clearance.
I'm kidding I got one, 76 245 in berkshire green
Gotta get back to working on it soon, but no wild swap here, just some daily driver mods. Its been hiding in the back yard, seeing your back on this car makes me want to do some fixing on matcha
The extra year may hurt for smog but OHC does make a lot better starting point. The few times I've driven it it definitely gets more love then any of my other volvos. Keep up that effort to not cut too deep into the exterior, too good looking of a car to turbobrickx too hard
Tire to strut housing indeed.
Did you consider other front suspension setups too or go right to E36? I'm curious as to how this idea came about, but it seems like a reasonable one.
Have you looked into using the 240 crossmember and control arms, but with the bmw struts? It takes about 5sec with a ball joint reamer to make the volvo ball-joint fit the BMW knuckle.
I have been thinking about doing this on my wagon project, but I haven?t had a chance to mock it up and run it through the travel to check for any bump steer issues.
When we're in this deep, there is no red tape and there aren't any forms to fill out. That's the benefit of digging this far into these systems.
Haven't tried that yet, but probably could mock that up. Right now the engine is in the way but whenever that isn't the case I can try it out.
Just found out that E46 spindles clamp around the strut tubes, as opposed to the 2-bolt flange arrangement on the E36. I like the E36 style strut better. However the E46 LCA is aluminum, which might be quite nice if it works out with my geometry.
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Yeah, stay with the e36 knuckles and struts if you can. It?s much easier to live with.
The e46 arms will bolt up to a e36. You just have to either use an adapter FCAB for the hex end of the e46 arm or grind/sand the hex-end round so it?ll fit in the e36 FCAB.
I think the e36 m3 arms and e46 aluminum arms have the same forward offset, which gives BMWs all that nice feeling caster that 240s struggle to get. Btw, you can get a 240 to have that much caster, it just takes some KL Racing control arms and offset upper strut mounts.
Just stumbled upon this build thread. As an E36 M3 and 240 owner this all makes me very happy
Looks amazing so far, and excellent choice for wheels!
I'm looking forward to seeing e36 front suspension conversion kits for sale on cflomoto.com