First, the good! It handles EVEN better than before, and it looks (TM Kris) the absolute nuts!
(Sorry for the poor pics)
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And the bad... my driveway is shaped like a giant speedbump at the entrance (see pic, although it doesn't show it too well), which the car scrapes it's underside on no matter which way I pull on to it bar one - and that involves driving across at a massively wide angle towards the neighbours house two doors down, then reversing into my own drive s:( :( s:(
The things we put up with for our cars!
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Yours looked lower than mine on Saturday anyway!! Looks good, I think I am going to have to wait for my new shocks to settle down before they look the same as yours again. Glad that you made the mod!!
i cant see any difference from when you had your normals on(sorry)
i think it might be the angle of your drive throwing the geometry out on the shocks.
gonna have to have a viewing without the aid of a camera.
car still looks mint as always. s:lol: :lol: s:lol:
Looks bloody low in the first pic.
Cant wait to get mine on now if looks and drives anything like yours...Good work Buddy
Trust me it's really low!
I should also say a big thanks to Markiii who did vitually all the work, who at the end of it (and he's fitted a few) said "christ, that's low!" s:lol: :lol: s:lol:
must be my eyesight. old age and all that s:shock: :shock: s:shock:
bigger pics of coleys wheels needed as well please. s:D :D s:D
does it really make that much of a difference handling wise being as you have it braced to heaven already????
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makes huge difference.
that does look a lot lower than standard, how much did you lower by?. i know what you mean about the scraping, have had cars the have been lowered in the past. Worst thing was when i had people in the back (was a puma) and going over speed bumps - SCRAAAAAAAAAAAPE! ouch.
Why did you take your 17's off? as good as the stock wheels look now, i think they would've looked much better with the new springs. Also like the black/red thing you've got goin on, the calipers really set it off!
Has anyone painted their calipers on a silver 2? cos mines silver and not sure which colour to go for
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Quote from: "Tomr2"Why did you take your 17's off? as good as the stock wheels look now, i think they would've looked much better with the new springs. Also like the black/red thing you've got goin on, the calipers really set it off!
Hopefully the 17's (which are much better looking IMO) will be back on soon, they are unfotunately slightly off with the offset, and rubbed the arch liner wihtout it being lowered, so chances are that left as they were they would eat the car now!
I'm in the process of trying to get them lathed back slightly to bring them nearer to the spec required, but obviously this all depends on whether there will still be enough strength in the wheel for this to be viable.
Pics soon...
Roll on the TTE spring group buy. If your in the area Sean anytime in the future please let me know so that you can test the ramp to my drive as I think I will have the same issue s:? :? s:?
Hmm, The ramp up into my workshop is pretty steep, and I have to drive the '2 up it at an angle as it is to prevent it from grounding, I wonder if I'm going to be left with a beached car once I fit a set of lowering springs....
looks good like the look with the lowering springs now all you need is me and you sitting in it and you wouldnt even be able to get out of the drive s:wink: :wink: s:wink:
Quote from: "Buster"looks good like the look with the lowering springs now all you need is me and you sitting in it and you wouldnt even be able to get out of the drive s:wink: :wink: s:wink:
LOL! The car did actually scrape as it was before being lowered if there was a passenger in the car, my drive is a nightmare s:? :? s:?
Heath, if I can make the Turbo meet in MK, I will follow you home and try the drive for you s:wink: :wink: s:wink:
Just be sure to keep patching up the underseal on the longitudinal beams (as they're the lowest point), as you don't want exposed steel hanging around for long. Not that I ever had the same problem... s:oops: :oops: s:oops:
I've seen two TTE equipped cars Phils and now Sean's and I'm convinced that the TTE springs settle quicker than Eibachs. I remember Phils looking as low as that straight after they were installed and now it's the same with Seans. Mine took a while and only now is my car beginning to look as low as that. s:shock: :shock: s:shock:
You could be right, it was really low straight after we fitted them, and within a couple of hours were at their lowest point!
And thanks Phil for the tip - I had noticed that it was taking the underseal off s:lol: :lol: s:lol:
any chance of a ground clearance measurement
the car looks spot on by the way
Quote from: "adz648"any chance of a ground clearance measurement
the car looks spot on by the way
No problem (and thanks!) - it has just started tipping it down, but if I remember I shall do it in the morning.
Seeing your car again, i'm not sure, i think you were ripped off with them springs. I think you would be better off trying to cut em or get some of them Barry boy spring clamps....(for show use only).
2 can play your game Mr Lacey s:wink: :wink: s:wink: s:lol: :lol: s:lol:
Quote from: "Slacey"Quote from: "Buster"looks good like the look with the lowering springs now all you need is me and you sitting in it and you wouldnt even be able to get out of the drive s:wink: :wink: s:wink:
LOL! The car did actually scrape as it was before being lowered if there was a passenger in the car, my drive is a nightmare s:? :? s:?
Heath, if I can make the Turbo meet in MK, I will follow you home and try the drive for you s:wink: :wink: s:wink:
Will do mate s:lol: :lol: s:lol:
Quote from: "pmdye"Just be sure to keep patching up the underseal on the longitudinal beams (as they're the lowest point), as you don't want exposed steel hanging around for long. Not that I ever had the same problem... s:oops: :oops: s:oops:
I have the same problem, so I have ordered two big nylon pieces, 2cm high, and around 120 cm long, to put over the longitudinal beams.
If everything works as planned, I'm going to enter my driveway skidding on nylon s:lol: :lol: s:lol:
Quote from: "pp"I have the same problem, so I have ordered two big nylon pieces, 2cm high, and around 120 cm long, to put over the longitudinal beams.
If everything works as planned, I'm going to enter my driveway skidding on nylon s:lol: :lol: s:lol:
Hmmm, that's not a bad idea (providing you can't see it) - how do you propose to fix it to the beam?
TomR2 you will find a Silver here, gold calipers
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Quote from: "Slacey"Quote from: "pp"I have the same problem, so I have ordered two big nylon pieces, 2cm high, and around 120 cm long, to put over the longitudinal beams.
If everything works as planned, I'm going to enter my driveway skidding on nylon s:lol: :lol: s:lol:
Hmmm, that's not a bad idea (providing you can't see it) - how do you propose to fix it to the beam?
mine was in teh air having a new manifold under warranty this morning.
noticed exactly teh same problem.
Quote from: "Slacey"Quote from: "pp"I have the same problem, so I have ordered two big nylon pieces, 2cm high, and around 120 cm long, to put over the longitudinal beams.
If everything works as planned, I'm going to enter my driveway skidding on nylon s:lol: :lol: s:lol:
Hmmm, that's not a bad idea (providing you can't see it) - how do you propose to fix it to the beam?
I'm thinking s:roll: :roll: s:roll: .....I'll tell you later.
The problem is much worst than I have thought. s:oops: :oops: s:oops:
Today was a gorgeous day and I have finaly taken my hardtop off.
I have done a big ride on mountain roads, top down, and I have found that the noise that I had imagined to be the wheels touching the plastic that is over them, was in fact the car touching the ground, and it touches a lot(I drive mainly in rally like roads, and I drive fast).
I have a 2003 model with TTE springs and Konis.
I think that I have to mount 16' wheels at the front and 17' on the rear.
Doesn't this happen to you guys? Have you any suggestions?
Surely if you go for the wheels you suggest you'll throw the speedo way out. And if you adjust the rubber to stop that, then you'll not stop the grounding/rubbing problem.
I've given the car a bit of a beating (with quite a lot of weight in the car), and I can't see any way that the chassis would scrape during driving s:? :? s:?
Are you running stock wheels at the moment?
Hi Guys,
I always thought the lowest point is that black plastic thingy under the driver side towards the back. looks like a protective cover for something at engine area. s:? :? s:? I'm using HKS springs and i always hear soft scraping sounds over slightly higher bumps or angled slopes. s:cry: :cry: s:cry: I went on track yesterday and i'm quite positive i heard the same sounds each time I went thru a particular chicane. Is it possible that at hard 90 deg corners, it can actually scrape the floor? s:shock: :shock: s:shock:
My 2 isnt lowered, but there are at least 2 places we goto where it scrapes the ground. One is a local resturants car park and the entrance goes over the paverment then drops at once into a field. It always scrapes here except at one small point at an angle to the road. A real pain. s:( :( s:(
I really want to get mine lowered.. bit worried about it scraping now though!
Although compared to America, at least there aren't too many places I'd be touching the floor.. I was sitting in a KFC in the states the other year, watching cars crossing a storm drain gulley at the edge of the road to enter the drive-thru.
It was such an enormous camber that even SUVs were scraping.. I nearly lost the bumper on my rental Camero on the way out too!