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Offline jonnypolish

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Re: when lowering very low
« Reply #20 on: 14 January 2011, 21:09 »
LOL arches rolled up and everything trimmed back and stuck back on OEM styleeyyyyyyy  :cool:
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Re: when lowering very low
« Reply #21 on: 14 January 2011, 21:30 »
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

its fine! just need a new one :P

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Re: when lowering very low
« Reply #22 on: 14 January 2011, 21:50 »
Looks as low as mine and i'm "Technically" 60mm down Muhahah Koni's FTW!
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Re: when lowering very low
« Reply #23 on: 14 January 2011, 22:12 »
the back is a bit higher than the front as i prefer running rake but still caught it :(

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Re: when lowering very low
« Reply #24 on: 15 January 2011, 00:17 »
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:

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Re: when lowering very low
« Reply #25 on: 15 January 2011, 09:02 »
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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Re: when lowering very low
« Reply #26 on: 15 January 2011, 09:29 »
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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Re: when lowering very low
« Reply #27 on: 15 January 2011, 09:40 »
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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Re: when lowering very low
« Reply #28 on: 15 January 2011, 10:14 »
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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Re: when lowering very low
« Reply #29 on: 15 January 2011, 10:27 »
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?