# Bennyfizzle's dicktone 318i build thread.
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/bennyfizzles-dicktone-318i-build-thread/234986
**Category:** Builds
**Created:** [October 23, 2007, 5:16am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/bennyfizzles-dicktone-318i-build-thread/234986 "2007-10-23T05:16:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@ninety1two40](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ninety1two40)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2010, 6:18am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/bennyfizzles-dicktone-318i-build-thread/234986/501 "2010-04-26T06:18:16Z")
I dont understand how it didnt lower if you spun the coilovers down. What kind of dumpy setup do you have?
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### Author:  [@SRS\_BZNS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SRS_BZNS)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2010, 6:22am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/bennyfizzles-dicktone-318i-build-thread/234986/502 "2010-04-26T06:22:21Z")
if the dampers a nice and stiff and brand new and there really isnt any weight in the car the dampers will hold the car up withou compressing the spring at all
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### Author:  [@ninety1two40](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ninety1two40)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2010, 6:28am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/bennyfizzles-dicktone-318i-build-thread/234986/503 "2010-04-26T06:28:15Z")
True but does he only have one collar to adjust? I can adjust two collars, one for the spring and another for the lower perch
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### Author:  [@6SPD\_S4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/6SPD_S4)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2010, 6:31am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/bennyfizzles-dicktone-318i-build-thread/234986/504 "2010-04-26T06:31:24Z")
Why is this thing looking 4x4 status?
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### Author:  [@OsoiNA6](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/OsoiNA6)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2010, 6:37am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/bennyfizzles-dicktone-318i-build-thread/234986/505 "2010-04-26T06:37:53Z")
> [@Is Marcus an attention whore?](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/is-marcus-an-attention-whore/31315/60):
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> I dont understand how it didnt lower if you spun the coilovers down.
Perch was spun but “After” pic was taken with jack stands still under car!? :ponder
j/k B-Fizzle… Enlighten us though
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### Author:  [@bennyfizzle](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bennyfizzle)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2010, 6:51am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/bennyfizzles-dicktone-318i-build-thread/234986/506 "2010-04-26T06:51:05Z")
Well, they ARE brand new coilovers, however the spring lengths play a huge role here.
however, the motor and tranny is only like 450lbs, and me standing on the front subframe hardly budges the suspension. so i dont think its JUST because they havent settled.
the fronts I are fully threaded damper bodies, I could put the front subframe on the ground if I wanted to. so no problem there.
the rears springs are just too tall I think, BC offers an almost infinite amount of rate/length/spring type combinations.
I’m going to pull out the rear adjusters and see where that gets me, if it’s not low enough, the dude that sold me the coilovers, a D1/formula D drifter named Chelsea DeNofa, said I could swap springs out through him for basically just the cost of shipping, to a shorter spring.
I think without the adjusters it will be just about perfect though.
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### Author:  [@JClark](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JClark)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2010, 7:30am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/bennyfizzles-dicktone-318i-build-thread/234986/507 "2010-04-26T07:30:27Z")
Spring length is the issue, springs dont settle. And you’re going to want the adjusters in there for drifting.
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### Author:  [@bennyfizzle](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bennyfizzle)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2010, 7:44am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/bennyfizzles-dicktone-318i-build-thread/234986/508 "2010-04-26T07:44:39Z")
why?
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### Author:  [@6SPD\_S4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/6SPD_S4)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2010, 9:27am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/bennyfizzles-dicktone-318i-build-thread/234986/509 "2010-04-26T09:27:27Z")
Because. Just listen to the man will ya.
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### Author:  [@bennyfizzle](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bennyfizzle)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2010, 11:08am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/bennyfizzles-dicktone-318i-build-thread/234986/510 "2010-04-26T11:08:29Z")
All he cares about is shaving tenths of seconds off of his times at race tracks.
All I care about is that I tuck some tire and rub some fender.
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### Author:  [@bennyfizzle](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bennyfizzle)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2010, 11:09am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/bennyfizzles-dicktone-318i-build-thread/234986/511 "2010-04-26T11:09:08Z")
Oh, and it turns out I don’t have a lightweight flywheel.
sooo just ordered one, and ordered the last of the stuff i need to finish up…I hope, because I’m fucking tapped out.
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### Author:  [@ninety1two40](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ninety1two40)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2010, 12:03pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/bennyfizzles-dicktone-318i-build-thread/234986/512 "2010-04-26T12:03:29Z")
Buy my baller status rear strut bar
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### Author:  [@JClark](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JClark)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2010, 12:39pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/bennyfizzles-dicktone-318i-build-thread/234986/513 "2010-04-26T12:39:28Z")
> [@Blue Subaru Impreza RS at Swerve Motorsports Yesterday](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/blue-subaru-impreza-rs-at-swerve-motorsports-yesterday/31380/11):
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> All he cares about is shaving tenths of seconds off of his times at race tracks.
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> All I care about is that I tuck some tire and rub some fender.
No I’m trying to make your car actually handle so you can go win some drift meets or festivals or orgies or whatever you people call it. If someone set a car up for drifting an an amateur level, a monkey could dominate the field.
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### Author:  [@psi2high](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/psi2high)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2010, 12:42pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/bennyfizzles-dicktone-318i-build-thread/234986/514 "2010-04-26T12:42:35Z")
Wait so you’re saying I have a chance?
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### Author:  [@kramerbuccs24](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/kramerbuccs24)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2010, 1:07pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/bennyfizzles-dicktone-318i-build-thread/234986/515 "2010-04-26T13:07:38Z")
Cannot WAIT for the first drift festival this year.
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### Author:  [@bennyfizzle](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bennyfizzle)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2010, 1:23pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/bennyfizzles-dicktone-318i-build-thread/234986/516 "2010-04-26T13:23:23Z")
> [@FS: 92-95 CIVIC EG PARTS (HATCH)](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fs-92-95-civic-eg-parts-hatch/31390/3):
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> No I’m trying to make your car actually handle so you can go win some drift meets or festivals or orgies or whatever you people call it. If someone set a car up for drifting an an amateur level, a monkey could dominate the field.
:facepalm
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### Author:  [@JClark](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JClark)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2010, 1:49pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/bennyfizzles-dicktone-318i-build-thread/234986/517 "2010-04-26T13:49:05Z")
> [@CrazyLT1 \> Marcus](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/crazylt1-marcus/31353/40):
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> :facepalm
Only drifters could find something to do with cars on a closed course and make it non-competitive.
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### Author:  [@bennyfizzle](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bennyfizzle)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2010, 2:08pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/bennyfizzles-dicktone-318i-build-thread/234986/518 "2010-04-26T14:08:31Z")
> [@Bought me a lawn tractor](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/bought-me-a-lawn-tractor/31382/11):
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> Only drifters could find something to do with cars on a closed course and make it non-competitive.
Well that’s how it is, even when it’s competitive it’s on a subjective basis.
That being said, it’s really skill first, mechanical advantage next.
You can have a 400whp S13 that’s set up like dog shit go out and murder a 600whp purpose built D1 car if you’re willing to fucking boss on that shit.
In this ‘sport’, a better handling car is just a car that will initiate predictably, and hold a monster angle at a high speed. I havent even gotten out of second gear yet, I don’t need to worry about picking up speed or angle right now. As I progress, I’ll change the car to suit my needs.
You didn’t START in a JP car on JRZs, did you? :tongue
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### Author:  [@JClark](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JClark)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2010, 2:56pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/bennyfizzles-dicktone-318i-build-thread/234986/519 "2010-04-26T14:56:26Z")
I completely agree, and no I didnt start on JRZs. 😃
However, Ive been to a handful of small drifting events and I havent seen a single car setup to slide other than crazy camber angles probably meant for show. The pro D1 whatever cars slide effortlessly through a corner not wholly because the driver in the man, but because the car is setup to do that. Considering you’re making a car do what BMW, Nissan, Mazda, etc tried very hard to keep it from doing, mechanical changes would make life a lot easier. With a couple of wrenches and sockets, you could turn your normal daily driver champagne supernova into something that a blind Chinese woman could slide all day with one finger on the wheel.
I give you guys a lot of car control credit because you’re sliding cars that constantly want to snap back at you because to get it to slide in the first place you had to manhandle it and kick its ass to initiate in the first place.
[/thread hijack]
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### Author:  [@Mk4\_30R\_Ban](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Mk4_30R_Ban)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2010, 5:37pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/bennyfizzles-dicktone-318i-build-thread/234986/520 "2010-04-26T17:37:04Z")
> [@Safest car EVER.](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/safest-car-ever/31387/11):
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> your normal daily driver **champagne supernova** into something that a blind Chinese woman could slide all day with one finger on the wheel.
:rofl
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