Sweet or Sacrilege: "stanced" E30 M3

[redsvt04]

Personally I think its one of the more tasteful cars to come out of the "flush" movement, but something about doing it to an E30 M3 rubs me the wrong way.

[Egz]

Pass.

Fix the suspension, and change out the wheels to a couple inches smaller, and it would be hot.

[schwein]

the camber is a bit extreme on that car, it looks cool, but i feel like the tires would melt away pretty quickly not being flush with the road...

love e30 M3 though!

[deucestudios]

Dog.
Dumb, dog.

[SuperGroove]

Personally I think its one of the more tasteful cars to come out of the "flush" movement, but something about doing it to an E30 M3 rubs me the wrong way.

Looks amazing, but it would be quite the shame to not be able to thrash an E30 M3 the way it's supposed to be driven, on any given notice. That setup doesn't allow for anything but cruising, IMHO.

[That1njguy]

Sacriledge

You asked

[Tiero]

Looks broken tbh.

[ATL_Av8r]

Foul ball. Time to change the batter's stance.

[Impeccable]

I'd rock it

[OptimusGlen]

I saw this car in person this past weekend and I about fell over. It's absolutely beautiful.

I vote sweet, especially because it has an S52.

[big byrd]

That europlate says it all.....

[Fritz27]

Wheels 2" too big. Stupidly low to the point of being undrivable except for cruising and looking cool to girl pants-wearing VW scenesters. Pass.

[Heffernan]

Sacrilege in my book.

[91gti20v]

Stanced, hellaflush... Whatever adjective you use to describe this trend... Please god, make it go away.

[4cefed]

lower it

[motronicmalfunction]

The license plate -FPURISTS- says it all.

PURISTS are the people who appreciate the car for the motorsports heritage and would not hesitate use/show it off for what it is capable of: tearing ass of a track or nice road. Function over fashion, yes please.

The "other crowd" are prolly running out of cars & scenes to leg hump (stance & put on internetz). Seems they try to do anything that will cause a buzz and ruffle feathers. Stance a E30 M3, miata, civic si, rusty trailer, school bus, dump truck, etc. Fashion over function, vomit (9 times out of 10).

Sure it looks 'pretty' on the web. But if other people owned it, I'm sure it would have a more function-oriented setup. The car in it's current form was built for scenesters to nut-swing from.

[1SICKLEX]

Wheels 2" too big. Stupidly low to the point of being undrivable except for cruising and looking cool to girl pants-wearing VW scenesters. Pass.

x2

If you are going to stance, why not a big comfy cruiser instead.

[29er]

Less functional than stock, yet does not stand out to me from a looks perspective.

*yawn*

[pueblorrado v3.0]

license plate make this perfectly acceptable.

[TheDarkEnergist]

Do the people that do this all secretly own stock in Tire Rack?

2 degrees negative camber on my car = bald tires in 4k miles...

Is that not dumb?!

[undpilot757]

Stancing an M car or any BMW is stupid. This is one make that comes from the factory about as good as it's going to get. Unless you like having your spine destroyed or are purely more about how it looks.

I've yet to drive a bmw with a modified spring and shock setup(including coil-overs) that handled better than stock. Oh sure it may corner flatter and look better parked, but at the expense of ride quality(which is already roadster ish on anything up to E36/E32/E34).

For the love of god leave M cars stock!

[SpecialFX]

Looks amazing, but it would be quite the shame to not be able to thrash an E30 M3 the way it's supposed to be driven, on any given notice. That setup doesn't allow for anything but cruising, IMHO.

Agreed! Go before show on a car like that!

[undpilot757]

Do the people that do this all secretly own stock in Tire Rack?

2 degrees negative camber on my car = bald tires in 4k miles...

Is that not dumb?!

Adjust your toe-in. Chamber in of itself shouldn't chew tires up, unless your car requires a lot of toe in to keep understeer or oversteer in check. If that's the case, maybe a tortoise in the trunk to improve weight distribution would help.

[Accidental L8 apex]

2 degrees negative camber on my car = bald tires in 4k miles...

Drive faster through the corners then because I'm at -2.75 up front and got over 20K out of T1-R's (sticky when the pressures are higher than you'd think was normal).

Other than that, this car was built for nutswingers and knowing it has an awesome swap makes the "stance" even more lame.

[29er]

I agree on Go > Show, but again, I don't even see the "show" appeal here...

So basically, this car has nothing to me.

:yawn:

[smittyATL]

I think the E30 crowd has stolen the car-dragging on the ground, stretched-tire, stupid camber flag from the MKIV crowd. I see these things all over ATL scraping the ground with their wheels at some retarded angle and a 185 tire on a 10" BBS rim.

[29er]

...stupid camber flag from the MKIV crowd.

Check your facts, mk4s require shims to camber the rear, and even with them it doesn't camber very far. Thus, there are, and have always been very few mk4s running any stupid camber.

That portion of the trend can be blamed on teh JDM y0! crowd

[Cedric_s]

Rear wheels are a little too wide for my taste
And he schould not have done the work on the rear fender.
But the stance looks good, not much different from this one.
And apparently the performance on this car isn't too bad.



In before car is going around a corner nazi's and road vs race




The carbon hood and mirrors aren't my taste either

[Allsops]

[Mosbius Designs]

Pass.

[Egz]

The "other crowd" are prolly running out of cars & scenes to leg hump (stance & put on internetz). Seems they try to do anything that will cause a buzz and ruffle feathers. Stance a E30 M3, miata, civic si, rusty trailer, school bus, dump truck, etc. Fashion over function, vomit (9 times out of 10).

It would be nice if that crowd just stuck to Corollas and other cars no one cared about.

[metalmash]

Perfect stance = the tire ends where the fender begins.
The second you lost the tire into the fender I find it ugly.

[Mosbius Designs]

Perfect stance = the tire ends where the fender begins.
The second you lost the tire into the fender I find it ugly.

The hell are you talking about? It's more like the wheel ends where the fender begins for this one.

[TazioNuvolari]

So wrong

[Shawn O]

It's his car.

He never asked for anyone's option.

Hate away.