JohnTurbo
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Actually quite to opposite! Just feeling it out as I go along.
Bit of a catchup - had an accident with my car being left in gear by soebody who moved it. When I started it through the open window it drive into a metal bench:-
The paint crazed anf life is too short so I decided while I could face rubbing back the spoiler, I'd buy a new bumper.
Used some adhesion promoter this time which runs horribly but should make the finish more robust.
Painted and ready to go back on;
Next up I spotted some Skunk2 Pro-C coilovers for a good price. They are a height adjustable monotube design, so an upgrade over my Gaz GHA.
I spent houuurs taking the rings and springs off these as they were quite stuck. The dampers themselves are all perfect - ie no marks on the rods at all, and on lowest damping setting they slide all the way in and recover all the way out with the nitrogen charging/floating piston. Clearly well built things.
The fronts have the standard (8kg?/65mm ID) Skunk2 springs, and the rears are a softer (5kg/62mm ID) BC spring. Will try these out and may change if needed.
The top adjustment will be wonderfully convenient - and a much more sensible 12 settings (with nice audible clicks).
This is actually the after shot:
From before:-
The car they came off is this; (so I needed to free the height adjust up as the front is far too slammed to handle properly)
The EK4 rear bar I bough hadn't shipped in preety much 2 weeks after buying it on Ebay. I guess the guy was busy! I cancelled that and got an EK9 bar (which was what I actually wanted) from the blue car above (rotten and now scrapped by a local breaker).
Started to clean those up a bit. Also bought a generic 22mm polybush rear ARB clamp set as the DC2/EK9 part is not in stock anywhere right now.
Bit of a catchup - had an accident with my car being left in gear by soebody who moved it. When I started it through the open window it drive into a metal bench:-
The paint crazed anf life is too short so I decided while I could face rubbing back the spoiler, I'd buy a new bumper.
Used some adhesion promoter this time which runs horribly but should make the finish more robust.
Painted and ready to go back on;
Next up I spotted some Skunk2 Pro-C coilovers for a good price. They are a height adjustable monotube design, so an upgrade over my Gaz GHA.
I spent houuurs taking the rings and springs off these as they were quite stuck. The dampers themselves are all perfect - ie no marks on the rods at all, and on lowest damping setting they slide all the way in and recover all the way out with the nitrogen charging/floating piston. Clearly well built things.
The fronts have the standard (8kg?/65mm ID) Skunk2 springs, and the rears are a softer (5kg/62mm ID) BC spring. Will try these out and may change if needed.
The top adjustment will be wonderfully convenient - and a much more sensible 12 settings (with nice audible clicks).
This is actually the after shot:
From before:-
The car they came off is this; (so I needed to free the height adjust up as the front is far too slammed to handle properly)
The EK4 rear bar I bough hadn't shipped in preety much 2 weeks after buying it on Ebay. I guess the guy was busy! I cancelled that and got an EK9 bar (which was what I actually wanted) from the blue car above (rotten and now scrapped by a local breaker).
Started to clean those up a bit. Also bought a generic 22mm polybush rear ARB clamp set as the DC2/EK9 part is not in stock anywhere right now.