I left friday morning bright an early, got to Nashville around 1pm. Friday night we were up until about 2am getting all the final touches taken care of on everyones car. Then at 5am Saturday, we were off to the show. On the way there we lost 2 oil pans. One in an 89 Accord and the other in an E28 5 Series (second one of the weekend). Took us about two hours, but we fixed the Accord on the side of the road enough to make it to our section. The E28 pan was destroyed, so we had it towed into the show on a flat bed. While we were at the show, we fixed both cars. Here is a quick list of the cars that we went with
E46 BMW Sedan
89 Accord
2nd Gen Prelude
two 5th Gen Preludes
Old school Mercedes Sedan
E28 5 Series
E30 BMW Coupe
1971 E9
E34 BMW 5 Series
One the way back to the house from the show, the Accord popped another pan. So it had to sit in the driveway the rest of the weekend. Saturday night a bunch of people came by the house, and we had beers and sat around bullshitting about the usual stuff car guys talk about.
Sunday we all slept late. A couple of us went back to the show for the second day and trophy ceremony. The rest of us spent the entire day driving around the area doing photo shoots. I didn’t bother to bring a camera. Made no sense because I was with 5 or 6 professional photographers all weekend. Anyways, here are some pics and links from this weekend. There are more still being edited. But this is a good start.
not to be a dick but whats the point of lowering a car so much you can’t even drive it without smashing the oil pan or other major components off. I mean I get the point behind doing it with air so you can actually drive the car normally, but the ultra low static drop imports just don’t make sense to me. Sure they look cool, but isn’t the point of a car to be able to drive it? Anyway, nice pictures looks like you had a cool trip.
The 5 Series that cracked the pan had a twisted motor mount, so the engine wasnt sitting properly. A new mount was made yesterday, and now it is perfectly drivable. The Honda is having the engine raised to avoid this. and if you should see the “bump” that killed the pan. it was a sudden 2-3" change in road height when the highway transitioned to a bridge. it was insane
You too man. We didnt really do anything sat night. there was maybe 20-30 people at the house. kinda quiet, drinking beers and talking shop. Everyone was exhausted. Most people I know that were there didnt even do anything that night lol
part of the risk you have to take to roll that low. you have to get used to the harshness of hitting front lips, rubbing fenders and all the horrible sounds of banging metals and exhausts and such…
it does happen, no doubt about that. some cars just have pans that sit stupid low. the 5 series has a completely custom engine swap, and somewhere along the line broke a mount. unfortunately with it being a custom job, he had to drive it like that until it could get to the fab shop.
always a cringe when i smack the pan or subframe etc. you definetly feel it in the steering wheel and the rest of the car. theres nothing like that sound…
