My mkIV Golf ~ UPDATES! *Small update - new pics* Pg6

Well boys n birds, it been a while since ive had the pleasure of adding an update. This is mainly due to the fact that me and the mrs have purchased our first property!

but this then means less cash to plash

but on the up i started my new job about 4 weeks ago, with a pay rise of course, and just got my first payment!!

aaanyway, in a nutshell, ive bought some new goodies for the most important thing in my life, my loverly car!

here they are....





firstly, some FK Highsport coilies

secondly, FK 20mm spacers for the rear (3 months from order to delivery... nice one FK) and some 4mm spacers for the front, just to clear the coilies. and some adjustable droplinks to solve the ARB/driveshaft issues.

im planning a day where me and my mechanic friend can do the lot, and ive got a few other things planned for then aswell.

CANT WAIT!

 

right then, i know mk4's arnt really cgti's thing but here it is anyway.

ive had a serious car weekend this weekend! its been great, but flippin frustrating at times...

so, the coilies went on quite easily. the problem came when i wanted to adjust it all.



i wanted to go loooooow, and i knew i had to solve the ARB - Driveshaft issue. this is why i bought the adjustable droplinks. but ive come to the conclusion that they are crap. i had in my head the image that the links needed to extended to solve the clearance problem but the adjustable ones are at full stretch as long as the old ones and can only get shorter [:S]. but anyway, i thought it must one of those head churning thing that are just best left to the pro's.



so, after its all been fitted. the coilies, droplinks and spacers i had to adjust it all for it to look and sit right... 4 hours passed before that happened.



so, first off we (me and my mechanic mate Taphouse (cheers boy ) ) set the ride hight to what i wanted. this was pretty much governed by the back as they were wound as low as pos and i wanted to gap to be quite even all round.

this was sort of a pain because when we adjust the last coil the first one seemed to have got lower.. anyway we finally sorted it.

then the ARB and Driveshaft was fowling, 'no problem' i thought 'just adjust the drop link'. but for some reason the shorter i made it the worse the grinding got with the fouling.

so unfortunatly i had to raise the front up to sort it. not really what i wanted but for the time being it will have to do till i get a bigger hooped ARB.

(sorry for carrying on lol)

so that was Saturday 1.30pm till 7.30pm....

next day i carried on with some other mods; De-wiper the back (simple enough, the only bugger was finding a 27mm blanking grommet... thanks Ford Transit! lol) ~ bodge jobbed the Airbox ( again no real prob, just drill it full of holes!) ~ and i also fitted a fire extinguiser in the passenger footwell...

then i cleaned it... and this is the final result, i hope you all like!

 

right hight looks great, very clean mate. hows the ride? i hated the ride with collies tbh. with 20mm spacers, surely that scrapes the arches no?

 

Great stance

 

I would say I told you so!

Big hoop ARB seems the only feasible way around this.

 

tspec: thanks mate, the ride quality is not as bad as i thought it would be. its a little bouncy... ive been testing the scraping today, it seems i may have to highten it a smidgen as they scrape when cornering hard, but only on the drivers side for some reason.

jonny: cheers buddy, its pretty much what i wanted, maybe slighly lower on the front

sereph: lol, i know i know, i was blinded by my own tighness lol. a bigger hooped ARB or the Whiteline ARB that goes under the driveshaft is the way forward. them droplinks just dont adjust enough.

cheers all

 

looks gud mate. make sure to grease ur the coils so they dont seize!

 

cheers for the tip! they came with a wd40 type spray to lube em up with.

 

Lovely stance. Looking great. Admired this car at Stonor park.

 

thanks mate! very nice comments.

pssst. i wasnt at Stoner... who is the imposter?

 

Have you recently aquirred the plates then? I'm sure I saw this plate at Stonor this year.

 

thats wierd actually as i was going to say the same thing.... the culprit has the reg Y 18T VW. cant remember where i saw it.

edit : its a black mk4 with Ronal TTs, like mine but sprayed in gunmetal. cant get pic up tho.

 

Y 18T VW lives down the Road in Basingstoke. seen him a few times around, he is on CGTI too.
i think its mainly standard with a Revo remap.
funnally enough, my car came from Basingstoke too... weird.

 

Ahh, that clears it up then. Thought I was going mad.

 

nope, not yet! lol

 

Love them Wheels

 

Equally bizarrely so did mine!

 

cheers danny

 

shall we set up a 'Origionally From Basingtoke Crew' (OFBC)

...no, lets not

 

Nice work, looks good !

Don't forget to grease those coilover threads !