Few more updates. elephant mod now done, cut the not needed lugs off my spotlamp bevels and started on the rear inner archs. I know it looks abit rough at the moment but I haven't had the time today to grind them down, underseal them and paint them so should look alot better after all this. first of the arch pictures are before I started

Just dropped the car off for paint again, drove it up there and i must say it got quite a few looks.should be done for tue/wens then just need to finish off the wheel archs when i get it back, so 1st of feb I'm looking to have it back on the road

Looking forward to an inspection of it in Telford in 2 months time!  

Excellent work, bet you'll be glad to get it back on the road

Looking nice. Bet it looks evil in rear view mirrors

Looking forward to an inspection of it in Telford in 2 months time!

is there a show on in telford of some kind ?

Looking nice. Bet it looks evil in rear view mirrors

is there a show on in telford of some kind ?

Yeah ultimate dubs pal 9th march

Has it settled anymore or are you still suffering with a bit of arch gap.

Still got abit of an arch gap Steve, was thinking of putting a few bags of cement in the boot for a week or two when its back on the road just to get the rear spings working abit and then hopefully they'll settle in and it'll sit abit lower

Just thinking are their any other springs out there that will lower the rear any more than ap coilovers with the adjusters out? I'm just thinking ahead incase it doesn't lower anymore after they've been run in. Anyone have any ideas?

Rewound springs?

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Was hoping for it not to be a custom kind of job

I am sure the cement will help for now. A mate has a mk2 golf and is re-engineering his whole suspension set up so it sits lower. Its all custom work and must be so pricey

It looks like a rally car.

 

A bit of arch gap isn't a problem IMO.

Smaller wheels bigger tyres so its in mud/gravel setup.

I have some 15inch steelies that i was going to put some gravel tires on but they will only be good for the snow,

It looks like a rally car. A bit of arch gap isn't a problem IMO.

it may just be me being abit picky lol

I have some 15inch steelies that i was going to put some gravel tires on but they will only be good for the snow, show!

 

Corrected.

 

Corrected.  

no boss i did mean snow lol they would wear out very quick on tarmac in dry weather

I was thinking more for when you do shows.

Kind of like display tyres.

 

Anyway, keep up the good work, it's looking nice.

I was thinking more for when you do shows.Kind of like display tyres.  Anyway, keep up the good work, it's looking nice.

i may do that in the future boss but funds are getting abit tight now plus to be honest i just want to get the dam thing on the road now, I'm sure you have the same feeling with the mental monster currently in progress at your end

Ultimately you could consider fitting shorter springs, as in "making" them shorter.  If there is a proper way to do this to retain the true integrity of the spring, I do not know and have no experience of it.  All I have seen are chavs taking an angle grinder to them, and usually it not ending well....

As said my mate is doing it but he is milling all new rose joints etc etc and he paid 1k for a computer program to see how it was set up before he fabricated it

Think I'll be leaving it as it is then as i don't want to chop the springs or spend bucket loads of cash getting some specially made

Eibach and a few others do custom springs on demon tweaks but you need to know length, diameter, load rate and rebound rate etc.

Eibach and a few others do custom springs on demon tweaks but you need to know length, diameter, load rate and rebound rate etc.

don't suppose anyone knows the dimensions/ load rating on the ap spings at all? this could be my solution, thanks for giving me a point in the right direction joe