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Model specific boards => Golf mk3 => Topic started by: stainesy on 14 January 2011, 13:21
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i have coilovers on my mk3 gti.
and my car is quite low as it is. i always seem to scrape on ramps tho.
its the metal bracket thing that hangs right down in middle of car that exhaust runs over.
do most people remove this when lowering very low?
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i have coilovers on my mk3 gti.
and my car is quite low as it is. i always seem to scrape on ramps tho.
its the metal bracket thing that hangs right down in middle of car that exhaust runs over.
do most people remove this when lowering very low?
They tend to get ripped of, it is classed as a torsional beam but I cannot see it doing much.
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i have coilovers on my mk3 gti.
and my car is quite low as it is. i always seem to scrape on ramps tho.
its the metal bracket thing that hangs right down in middle of car that exhaust runs over.
do most people remove this when lowering very low?
They tend to get ripped of, it is classed as a torsional beam but I cannot see it doing much.
oh right so removing it is ok then?
nice1 its doing my head in.
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i have coilovers on my mk3 gti.
and my car is quite low as it is. i always seem to scrape on ramps tho.
its the metal bracket thing that hangs right down in middle of car that exhaust runs over.
do most people remove this when lowering very low?
They tend to get ripped of, it is classed as a torsional beam but I cannot see it doing much.
oh right so removing it is ok then?
nice1 its doing my head in.
Mine got ripped off, never refitted it so you should be fine.
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I modified and flattened mine and it stopped it catching (as much!). I think it's only there for safety incase the exhaust drops at the front (if that digs into the road!! your in big trouble)
I know people run with them off but if your exhaust fell off I guess you insurance could cause hassle if you damaged anything/anyone?
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I just pulled mine off and made a nice stainless steel one that is flat to the underside of the car.....just incase the exhaust drops off! :grin:
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Yeah think I will just flaten it or make one then. Many other cars don't have one so how do they stop exhaust drop?
Also with a low low car how is the best way to jack car up as my trolly jack no longer fits under my car. Is there a well known way to jack up a low ride?
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I just pulled mine off and made a nice stainless steel one that is flat to the underside of the car.....just incase the exhaust drops off! :grin:
If you aint scrapping you aint dubbin.. :cool:
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Yeah think I will just flaten it or make one then. Many other cars don't have one so how do they stop exhaust drop?
Also with a low low car how is the best way to jack car up as my trolly jack no longer fits under my car. Is there a well known way to jack up a low ride?
Drive up bit of wood, or a brick.. Pikey style! :evil:
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Yeah but your scraping is just the metal to metal on your brakes ;)
Basically it just catches your centre box should it snap anywhere,stopping it falling on the road,digging in and ripping the lot off for the car behind you to collect :grin:
Also as said it is meant to be some kind of strenghener(sp)
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Yeah but your scraping is just the metal to metal on your brakes ;)
Not any more. ;)
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I have to use a couple of planks of wood to drive up in order to get my jack under..
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Ripped mine off the rear of my estate, right outside of a bar so everyone outside got a nice few sparks to the face :D had to jack it up and rip it off in a pub car park in the pissing rain, didn't have any problems with it removed.
Dan
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Lol kinda funny I started this thread today as iv just been proppa stuck on a stupid speed lump thngy. Got caught down a road with them small square ramps and couldn't go sideways as a car was parked. Had to go strait on. I new when I heard my front skirt scrape I was in trouble.
Metal sounding screech all the way down the car and had to give more power in the middle to get off it. Not good. Hope I aint buggered anything.
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TOok mine off as it was rattling and bashing about.
JAcking up, just use your widow maker until you can get a jack under it. Just be careful with it as they tend to fall over.
Also you still running helpers?
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Yeah still have helpers on coilys why?
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Ripped mine off the first day of being LOW!
Me and a friend looked at the piece of metal and decided that it was inferior and small so it would not be needed :afro:
Driving up on wood doesnt even get me high enough for jacks now :P
Friend and lifting the car from the arch is the only DIY way now :'(
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So what size wheels you running mate?
What's it like as an everyday driver?
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Running on 16's with 205/45 profile, 195 seemed a tad too extreme for London roads :(
Ride is pretty HARSH but it sticks to the road like glue :afro:
Scrape the splitter EVERYWHERE, smashed up the middle box in the snow and cant drive over the squared humps unless there are two which then means i have to slow down to a stand still and rock over them :D
One thing which amazes me is that i have been slammed for 6 months now and the tracking is still Bang on! RESULT!
I get the finger, flashing lights and Horns but it's ALL worth it :afro:
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Bloody hell I thought I was low and I'm not even to the bottom of me coily with the helpers still on.
I take it you have the inner wings removed then lol
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LOL arches rolled up and everything trimmed back and stuck back on OEM styleeyyyyyyy :cool:
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helpers?
why you running them! haha
mines got about 20mm of thread on the coils to go and with the helpers out, im down about 150mm i think!
cant even get a widow maker underneath!
need to take the split off, raise it slightly from the front and then put another jack under where the jacking points are and raise it like that.
i can just about get over some speed bumps but cant visit my nan due to a dip in the road hah
ifyour wondering about the exhaust
(http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m195/M70REL/IMAG0062.jpg)
its fine! just need a new one :P
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Looks as low as mine and i'm "Technically" 60mm down Muhahah Koni's FTW!
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the back is a bit higher than the front as i prefer running rake but still caught it :(
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Wish i had some of mine when i wasn't running on steels :( in sig if interested anyway, managed to get lower after that by running without bumpstops (effectively just a metal bar as a shock :D) and i couldn't get out my street with people in the car due to speed bumps and with me alone in it it scraped front to back, the worse noise you've ever heard :evil: put modified bump stops in though as that was just ridicules, subframe scraped if there was a slight change of camber in the road :shocked:
Dan
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so how low can i get with original gti wheels with 195 50 15 tyres. if i remove the inner wings?
dont have arches rolled yet tho.
will be buying an arch roller myself soon as no doubt im gona wona do it to another car in the future.
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so how low can i get with original gti wheels with 195 50 15 tyres. if i remove the inner wings?
dont have arches rolled yet tho.
will be buying an arch roller myself soon as no doubt im gona wona do it to another car in the future.
I had mine down 90mm on the front and still had the inner arches in, I would think long and hard before removing them.
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I have mine in and I'm running 185.45 tyres. It does scrub a little not as much as you think
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My mk3 is down 85mm front and 75mm rear and i have had no arch work done or removed the liners and it dosnt catch at all on the arches but what it does do is bottom out on the sump when theres a bad dip,i am running 165-40-16's on 7j wheels tho so the car is seriously low at the front,i also have to roll the car onto bits of wood to get a jack under it :grin:
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I am pretty low but I haven't got a clue how low as I didn't mesure it as it went down. I just put one coily to how low I wanted the did the rest the same.
How do I no how low I am?
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If your kit is 120mm measure.up from the bottom of the threaf. and take that away from 130 :)
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Ok just had a fiddle with my coilys. My kit is 120 and I am 10mm from bottom of thread with helpers still on.
Do does that make mine down 120 at front?
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nope makes it 110 roughly lol
im 20mm from the threads... but with helpers out! :D