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Offline MiiTCH-GOLF

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Re: How to make my front lower??
« Reply #20 on: 20 January 2011, 23:45 »

Offline MiiTCH-GOLF

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Re: How to make my front lower??
« Reply #21 on: 20 January 2011, 23:48 »
Car looks Tidy!!!!
But from them photo's, you are officially running DickH3ad Low Pretty much like me :)
The car looks on an even keel though? If you lower the front anymore you will have more than a burst sump!

I think the front wheels need to be spaced 3-5mm to make them fill the arches better, but thats just me :)
im gonna get some mate just no money yet :) thanks for comments though :)

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Re: How to make my front lower??
« Reply #22 on: 21 January 2011, 00:30 »
I'll make the point that if you are already all the way down on the coils that you should focus more on getting the wheels sitting that little bit flusher as going any lower won't be impressive unless it either sits really nice on the wheels or tucks like a motherf**k*r. Your car looks great at the moment and at that height but as jonnypolish said a bit more spacing on the wheels or wider dishes would make a world of difference.
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Re: How to make my front lower??
« Reply #23 on: 21 January 2011, 01:24 »
Your sump will be fine, will probably hang above the subframe only thing you should be worried about is the cat dragging but then just get a de-cat :D looks pretty sweet but as said i would focus more on getting the wheels sorted, if you wanna go lower without helpers chop the bumpstops down to about 10mm, mine run fine like that and then if you want more travel in the coilover drop me a PM ;)

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Re: How to make my front lower??
« Reply #24 on: 21 January 2011, 02:55 »
Cheers lads!! I will get spacers but just don't know how big might go for 5mm first to see what it would be like. I got 5 on back so I'll stick em on the front to see what's occurring lol

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Re: How to make my front lower??
« Reply #25 on: 21 January 2011, 07:56 »
Thats about same as mine but I have abit of thread left  :huh:

I can't get pics up otherwise I would. I sold my old car on here and had to text pics of my car for someone to post up lol

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Re: How to make my front lower??
« Reply #26 on: 21 January 2011, 09:27 »
Thats about same as mine but I have abit of thread left  :huh:

I can't get pics up otherwise I would. I sold my old car on here and had to text pics of my car for someone to post up lol
I wish someone would tell me how to upload them!!  :smiley:

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Re: How to make my front lower??
« Reply #27 on: 21 January 2011, 09:45 »
Space the wheels out as been suggested, then see what you have to play with.

You don't want the rears flush with the arch and the front inside the arch, would look silly in my opinion!

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Re: How to make my front lower??
« Reply #28 on: 21 January 2011, 11:32 »
Space the wheels out as been suggested, then see what you have to play with.

You don't want the rears flush with the arch and the front inside the arch, would look silly in my opinion!

Gonna order them asap!! I always thought that i would need more than 5mm spacers but after looking closely today it would be about right just hope it don't scrape the arch because I should of got the fronts rolled too.

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Re: How to make my front lower??
« Reply #29 on: 21 January 2011, 12:24 »
Seems odd that you had dropped it 120mm, doesn't like it in the pics.

I'd raise the back to match the front and space the wheels out til they're flush :cool: