The x-brace is one if the best cheap mods to the e36. Definitely tightens up steering feel, and as a bonus it protects the oil pan. Some subframes are already threaded for them, if not, it's easy enough to install the nutserts. What a difference they make though.

Penetrating spray and acetylene or mapp gas is your friend when breaking loose stuck tie rods. The pipe wrench trick definitely helps. 5/8" is 16mm while 1/2" is 13mm. Another thing I noticed is your running the non-m front sway link setup. You'll notice a huge difference with the sway link pickup point attached to the strut, (m3 struts attach this way for a reason.) You can buy cnc'd tabs from akgmotorsport.com or cut some off a pair of junk m3 struts and weld them on. The sway bar has much more of a 'levering' effect this way. You can also buy off the shelf adjustable endlinks or make your own out of heim joints, jamb nuts and threaded shift rods like I did. Coleman racing sells the threaded shift rod, and pegasus racing the heim ends and jamb nuts. This will allow you to dial in your preload exactly like you want it. Great bang-for-buck mod if you ever track your car or drive it hard.

If those 16" wheels are from an e39 like I'm guessing they are, you need hubcentric centering rings. The e39 uses a 74.1mm hub, while the e36 is a 72.56mm. The centerbore on the e39 wheels is larger. Without the rings you'll get a vibration and put unwanted stress on the lug bolts. The hub is designed to take the weight of the car and NOT the lugs. Hope that solves your vibration issue. EDIT: just watched the end of the video. You just mentioned what I said. My bad. I should've watched the whole thing before commenting on that part.

Don't worry about you're audience your doing a fantastic job love your videos you're likeable guy hang in there we all love you

Looking forward to seeing your build completed!

I'm stoked you made this vid, I was just looking at these for my e46 but wasn't %100 sure how they went on.

Waited this video like a kid for christmas. Thanks austin keep up the good work! and keep it sideways

Nice man! Just 2 things You should have extended your lower control arms, therefore you wouldnt need to cut the tie rods, and you would have more inside clearence, it shouldn't rub anymore... Other thing, Please, use slightly smaller tyres in the front, like 215/45, or 205/45! Keep it up!

You look absolutely exhausted in these last few videos, don't wear yourself out too much man happy to wait for quality content

Another cool video man, love your e36! Liking the oem bit's that's how I would do it. Patients & you'll get there dude, I always wondered how those steering angle kits went lol

I've said it once and ill say it again, your builds are fire🔥🔥🔥

Btw I don't know if you know the trick, but if you take a BFH and hit the side of the knuckle where the tie rod link goes through the end will pop right out without possibly mashing the nut and fucking up the threads on the link, or causing premature wear to the ball joint "socket" end of the link. That being said, this trick also works fantastic on the ball joints when it comes to removing the LCA. If you are reusing anything, this keeps the risk of unwanted slop and wear in the joints. You can also put another BFH against the knuckle and hit it with another BFH which totally keeps all the hammer marks off of the knuckle. Just a tip from over 25 years of turning wrenches on these cars.

I'd check toe again it can cause that shake, and I'd go with e46 arms for sure they will give you clearance everywhere you need it!!!

You need e46 control arms Its make it a lot wider

Super stoked for a vid on how to diy angel eye halos on a budget! Wanted that on my mustang for a while so I'll follow your instructions!!

nice to see you still working on it ;-)

Awesome tutorial video bro, have just picked up a set of these adaptors with no instructions and this was an awesome help all the way in New Zealand bro.

5:42 That hammer Tho!!!

Go with lower profile tires & you will have a lot more room!

Thoroughly enjoy vids, just got my first BMW 200,000 98 323is. Your keeping me going man! Like your wrenching style, pipe over ratchet, bare hands, welcome at my garage anytime

someone buy this kid a vice

Stop promissing drifting videos and upload!!!!!

27.60$ on E-Bay work great fit perfectly and the cheaper ones are identical to the hundred dollar set. I have had expensive and cheap couldn't even tell the difference at all

so you absolutely had to cut the tie rods? couldn’t just adjust them to make them short ?

You may observed already or will very soon, your Akerman Angle is near zero and your car is understeering badly in close corners/turns like when doing a U turn in a parking. I also have this adapters and they are very nice for drifting but you should sacrifice with the steering when driving normaly. Also, going forward and sharing my experience with E46 control arms and excentric bushings, it will give you a lot wider track about 2inches per wheel but unfortunately it will not give you a lot more space for the wheel to get a bigger angle. Good luck!

firee content. moar e36 !!!

I use same adapters (but 25% extra lock on M3 knuckles). It was same story with cutting tie rods (inner and outer one). I had some headaches but it's worth it - it's cheap ghetto angle kit haha. I should extend control arms but i didn't using 30mm spacers and 17x7.5 et30ish wheels instead. I found later on full lock control arm ball joint rubbing into the brake disc WTF, might be because non arms with M3 knuckles though. So I welded some bump stops to reduce slightly the max lock. Overall car is good , definitely steering response is much different. If you have a buddy who can chop the knuckles and reweld them might be better IMO

This 36 makes mine look like a clean one!

Im using that and e46 control arms. I recommend that. Also i recommend not buying those adapters in aluminium

E46 control arms will sort out you rubbing problem also e46 60mm compact bushes will fit the e36 lollipops

you need logest arms or specers 4cm and front wheels from e23 with et10 ant tires 205/40/45

how have those ebay seats hold up?

Hey. I know you probably don't get this often but would you be willing to make a stick cam while your drifting ? It would be cool to get a shifting tutorial to while drifting !

wow it's dang good looking !!

@ Austin Ferguson, I had put e46 arms and e90 outer tie rods which I cut to be about a centimeter longer than the stock ones. I adjusted toe so that it was around 1/8 an inch in total toe out. When I don't initatie using the hydro or clutch kicking, so when I try and use a flick, I have understeer issues. Don't know if you've experienced the same issues I have. Not sure what to adjust, what do you think it could be. Drove my friends bmw who had put e46 arms, left the stock tie rods, and used the tierod ebay spacers you have, I drove his car and it doesn't feel quite right either...

Bro what did you do in this pipe I love The sound 🔥🔥🔥🥺🥺

how are the seats holding up? i wanted to buy some but im not sure if they comfortable

Do the e46 brake caliper upgrade swaps right in and braided brake lines

The E46 aluminum swingarm should be inserted and the wheel will not fall into the raincover because the e46 swingarm is 2.5cm longer than the original

Maaaaad! I just slammed my e36 👌🏻👌🏻

Dont tint front lights. Also would you like crystal clear tail lights?

tight work dude

Austin you should definitely keep the angel eyes 😍

You could simply get spacers and over fenders and the wheels won't hit the frame

whats better for more angle having a tie rod cutting and stock control arms or tie rod giving a lot of toe out and extending lower control arms or they are the same ?

Austin i'm waiting nearly few months for your turbo install and intercooler.

Remove the nuts to the adapters and put loctite on the threads otherwise the nuts will get loose.

Not sure if youll reply since its an older vid but do you remember how much you cut off the tie rods to make it work and if their was any issues with that?

It sounds like you live in the rainforest lol

Why not go with e46 control arms and e90 tie rods? Would definitely help

greetings to all friend a question that adapter only serves for bmw or is universal

Did you feel tie rod shacking?

So picking up some of these for my e30...

What was the reason you cut the tie rods? What would happen if you didn't cut them?

Why did you not use E90 inner tie rods?

you should do e46 arms next

I'm so jealous my e36 is rusted af whiles these guys that are making video of there e36 is so cool

Waiting for so long for a new vid, got hyped, expecting turbo build.. Nope no turbo build for you :(

so if u did not have rack spacers would the tie rods still need to be chopped? im assuming they wouldn't?

What have you done since the rubbing?? My e46 has same angle adapters just not tie rod spacers yet but the wheels totally hit the frame rails!!

I wanna buy a car but I have to wait till summer to work in the field bc of school any ideas of cheap ass rwd cars?

What headlights are those? I was going to do a light bar conversion on my e36, but I rather keep that OEM look to a certain extent. I'm going to start uploading videos of my car too! I installed some BC DR coilovers today but got too shy to film hahaha. keep up the videos.

Do you need to cut your tie rods if you're running E46 arms?

Those driftwork locks have taper? I got a different brand lock and had no luck, the tie rods just wallow out and get loose, not usable or safe

Try bondoing the trim on the side of the car and making it flush with the rest of the car

Rack spacers no more than 4mm or bye bye rack :)

The authorities must be easy going over there because If u were in Australia (which is a stupid "Nanny state") this car would be defected to Hell !!

Mind telling us what tire and wheels specs you have in the front? I'm going for a 17x9 wheel, yes it will be fun :/

why not buy the 30% ones? I saw driftworks only sells 20% but why?

more camber on the front :) Just get some E46 lower control arms :)

why cutting the tie rods ??

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Hey man im from Fayetteville do you know when and where is the next event

Whos the other youtuber who sent you the adapters?

Where have u been bro?!

Can someone clear up if its better to get e46 lower control arms for thus mod?

i own a e36 320ci and i was wondering if they fit cuz i could only see that you need 46s arms cuz else they wont fit, but man are you a hero. while watching ive orded them and i cant wait to get some angle on that btch :). (ive got spacers on my front wheels so i wont have that clearance issue)

Would these still work if I had e46 arms on my e36?

you only doing angle videos... what about the turbo build????

how many %% adapter do you have? 20? 25? 30?

Okkaaayyyy soooo

Take a shot every time he says "which"

Could this lock kit work on a e30?

Hey do u still have the headlights

Add your turbo

awesome

What does steering angle have to do with "bozo" ?

If you need e36 stuff i can find stuff here in Europe and ship them to you.

If you were to fit these with e46 lower control arms would you need to chop as much off of the tie rod end threads?

Bruh is you in sc. Hmu if you are. E36 squad

H2oi or bust bro

Do you know if these adapters change your ackerman?

All you had to do is install megasquirt to know and autotune

Will u ever wrap the car ???

Why I bought a 240 when I could have a e36 for half the price idk

You shouldve just used e46 arms lol, wouldve saved you so much time.

Hey man you know of any local meets around the ecu area?

What coils are you running?

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Hey Austin, I Have a 94 BMW E36 Metallic Green hood. I will be more than glad to send it to you if you will give me a shout out.