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thinking about it, i still need to sort the yellow fog light covers out, and adjust the coilies until im 100% happy with them,
sounds like you have your work really cut out there, good luck!
people from my area are convoying up, i meant alone in my car, hate driving to shows alone, plus i...
I bloody hope so! i was let down when i was visiting my sister in southampton and coincidently wandered past your uni house! steel wheels and high suspension FTL!!
the work for mine has already begun! going to clean it saturday and get an early night!
BIFCAIDS are you going to be at FCS...
coilies are the way forward dude,
i bought lowering springs,
then cut them basically in half to get low enough,
the ride was dire sitting on bumpstops, really bouncy until a certain height, then crash to a stop lol,
as said, get the rokkor ones!!
S23 and Tom46 are you both going to FCS...
Yup it does work, annoyingly i can now see that you dont need to change the callipers and discs lol,
tbh, after buying brake fluid and the new bolts ill need it probs wont be much cheaper than vmaxx, however, the better brakes will make for a more fun drive!
And in total, it took 2 days, but...
some punctuation would come a miss lol,
but tbh, i dont really think its the coilovers to blame for that, have to tried raising it to the same height as standard suspension and seeing if it still makes the noise??
surely if it's scrubbing, there would be scrub marks?? and odd wear on hte...
My thoughts exactly lol,
however, im not loving the departure time, will mean getting up around half 4! :(
I think simon1 needs to be taken off, just seen his tickets for sale :(
tips on getting the track rod end off the hub, all it seems to do when i undo it, is spin the bolt on the ball joint.
I and not actually unscrew,
probs because the thread on the end is abit rusty.
how are you meant to get the nut off without using an impact gun??
thanks
£25 for a set of FCS tickets,
next sunday,
joint the essex cruise up there!
sorted!
lol welcome mate,
good choise in club so long as you can laugh at yourself and arn't a chav!
Didnt want to pay so much money buying Vmaxx coilovers for my car, since its only a 1.2, i wast wanted to go looww,
i set about converting my car to the 58mm hubs,
needed,
hubs
callipers
pads
discs
COILOVERS!
heres a pic of everything i collected!
Rokkor coilovers (£168)
Callipers...
unless you're going for a proper system, id stay sealed,
more often than not, ported enclosures need to be a lot bigger than the sealed equivelant. and ports need to be a certain size and length to acousticly amplify certain speakers.
if you're good at box making, and dont mind the room then...
Has anyone got any good tips on how to remove the hub from the ball joint,
im having a hard time doing it, i can get the nut off,
but the bolt seems well and truley in there :(
any hints would be grand!
theyll probs fit, might not be too snug though
but even if they did you'd only get two springs, (hence the price)
90-98 clios had tortion bar on the back, and no springs.
so unless you're going for the nose down look, i'd stick with the later.
the only thing you take off above the arch is the top cup,
the bearings and rubber bit sit below the arch, but keep them aswell,
and remove the transport nut?? or is that optional??
if you have 43R stamped into the glass, it has a factory tint of around 30%
adding anything to this will push it over the legal limit,
what you should do, is fit a kill switch to your window motors,
police come along, down they go, flick the switch,
"sorry officer, theres no glass in them,"...
if your cats hitting the floor, why dont you raise the back??
itll make everything in front of the front wheels slightly lower, but everything behind the front wheels slightly higher?
Insurance companies arn't dumb, they have the same thought we do,
nobody will take a normal car, and put bigger brakes on it just incase you need to do a single emergency stop.
They know people who mod the performance of a car, drive like a hero,
people add brakes because they intend to...
^^ as said, shwo cages wont act as a roll cage in a crash, they are litterally just for show,
looks like someones arranging a group buy on normal cages in the for sale section,
only half cages though
i really want to find a truck like this, want to see if my clio would fit underneith it,
car looks nice, would have gone for smaller wheels personally.
renault would have balanced up performance with comfort, practicality and cost,
they would have been based on a certain compresion rate, and designed to work well with the designed shock however the speed they come off a production line, i doubt theyd be that accurate.
so yes, cheep springs...