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- [Cameraman] Okay, a tablet designed for children?
- (laughing) What is this, a tablet for ants?
Hey guys, what's going on.
It's Alex from Fitment Industries
and it's about time we told you that we (beep) up.
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laid that one out on ya.
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And when I say we, I actually majorly mean
there's one individual that took the reigns on this.
Now I'm not gonna name names,
but we'll get there.
Last December we decided that we wanted to build a car
for all of us, for you, for us, for everyone,
because it would just, it would be fun.
So we flew out to Georgia,
picked up a minty fresh 1991 BMW 318i,
and we headed our way all the way back
to the great white north winter coldness area
of Appleton, Wisconsin.
We had some pretty big plans for it.
(tires screeching)
(engine revving)
- [Cameraman] And now I'm walking.
- Like putting up an update video once a week.
We were going to slam it, go fender to lip,
we'd get all the hot boy points,
have a car to bring to all of our shows.
And everything was great.
Spirits were high.
Everyone was happy and the car looked great.
And for those that have watched our E30 series
know that we had a lot of fun with it.
We put it on silver suspension,
we threw on some BBS wheels,
we installed a short shifter,
we did some more suspension bits
that kind of get everything tied in all nice and tight,
we dyed the carpet black,
we got a street defined steering wheel.
And then that was it.
Now, we're saying we messed up.
I'm not going to name names, however,
there were some points in this build
that had some heavy influence from a certain person
that just wanted to send it through as is.
And, unfortunately, the more that we listened,
the more the vehicle kind of lost its capability
of being a car.
So, what happened to our E30?
We didn't sell it.
It's right there.
No, Cory didn't crash it,
but we probably would've got more content if he did.
And, it's all here. It's all good.
Sort of.
I mean, there's some swirl marks and stuff like that,
but I'll be completely honest here...
Um...
Yeah.
What really ended up happening is the amount of time
that it took to support the build was getting
bigger and bigger and bigger.
We tried to put out a video series once a week,
but we weren't able to because of the amount of parts
that we wanted to get.
We're new to this kind of thing,
so we learned from our mistakes.
So, how does the car sit right now?
Well, if you manage to zoom in behind me,
you'll see that, I mean, it sits.
And, when I mean it sits, I mean it looks really good.
Like, in terms of Instagram photos, 10 out of 10.
It looks fantastic.
However, once you get to the point of trying to drive
the vehicle, you know, because it's a car
and cars are supposed to move and drive
with people in them, comfortably,
that's where it really starts to fall short
because pretty much all we can do is roll it around the shop
and move it out of the way
because not only is the poor thing covered in dust,
but the battery's completely toast.
The interior, for the most part,
is just set in place because it's completely torn apart
and Cory decided that when you're taking stuff out
sometimes the plastic tabs break.
We realized when those plastic tabs break,
they're a little bit harder to get a hold of
and everything in between in terms of tearing things apart
was really easy and putting it back together
got a whole hell of a lot more difficult.
So, the car does sit.
It moves around.
It's sitting on some nice wheels.
It's got some great fitment.
The short throw shifter was installed the wrong way somehow.
- Then we hit third, cause we got a nice, short shift there.
Third, wah.
Then, we go fourth, ehhh.
Then the fifth and there we go.
If you want to slam her into reverse (screams).
- The window tint looks decent.
The car itself, however,
can't actually be driven anything about 40 miles an hour.
Because when we did install the silver suspension
and we inquired about what was the maximum spring rate
we could possibly have on the coilovers for going
fender to lip in static, because static is bomb,
we decided to do like 12 or 14 case frames,
which in this little bad boy right behind us
results in it getting airborne when we hit any sort of bump
above 50 miles an hour.
Like, you think I'm exaggerating,
but we really aren't.
And that is the biggest issue faced in the car right now
is the fact that it's literally un-driveable.
Really, that's where it kind of sits right now.
And you may be thinking to yourself, Alex,
why am I watching this video?
Because we want to bring the E30 back.
We want to do series and seasons with it
versus trying to get a video up every single week,
which means we need your help on all of this
because there's a few things we're going to need to do
to clean the car up to get it back up to snuff.
But, once we get to the point
of the vehicle being driven again,
we're going to need a little bit of help
in terms of what truly do you want to see
come out of the E30.
Now, we're going to take the 14k springs out
because we have to,
and we're going to want to drive it and take it to places
because we want to.
But, everything past that is entirely up to you.
What we end up doing with the vehicle
is going to be four episodes.
They're going to be weekly episodes
and they're going to start in June.
You're going to see us fixing everything,
you're going to see us probably take it to a drag strip,
you're going to see us race it,
everything in between.
But then, the next time that we
come back with another season is when we're going
to need your help.
So, let us know in the comments section below
on what you think we should be doing to the E30.
We had some few setbacks, a few knock downs.
But, don't get mistaken,
but we're going to be coming back with the E30
because we've been asked about it a million different times.
And it's there.
I mean, look at it.
It's going some cool... it's got a cool seat in it.
I think there's only one seat.
Jils, is there only one seat in that car?
- [Jils] Yep.
- Is there a seat in the driver's side?
Oh there is. So we can drive.
So, we just got to give it just a little bit more love.
So, there's going to be some things that are probably
in the comments section below,
like how did you mess up the suspension?
Now, let me tell you.
In life, you know the right decision in certain situations.
Right? You know that you should get a meal
versus just a burger if you haven't ate all day.
But, there's always that one person that's
in the background just talking in your ear
and talking sweet nothings that make no sense,
but they're very persuasive
and you just think that maybe they have a plan
and then you realize that they, they don't.
They just wanted to mess with you the entire time.
So, while statistically, mechanically the set up does work
for a very static set up,
it does drive, it does run,
it just jumps at 50 miles an hour and above,
it does do exactly what we wanted it to do
because we planned on that,
but the person that was in charge of the certain intentions
on where we wanted the vehicle to go
and where we want the vehicle actually to go
are two very different things.
We have full seeing points no driving
and then we have driving.
And we want to go this way.
And we had a certain person that wanted to go that way.
And so, you might be wondering, Alex,
why are we changing the spring rates?
Well, because I want to drive the car.
I truly do. I would enjoy it.
It would be a lot of fun.
I drove it once. One time.
In seven months.
So, that's why.
In case you're wondering as to why our suspension
is so tight.
It's not that we didn't do it right,
it's just the reason why we did it was wrong.
It looks good when it's not moving.
I'm Alex from Fitment Industries.
Don't forget to subscribe and let us know
what you want to see next.
We'll start suspension.
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Goodbye.
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