Well im glad thats cleared up!Si_GTi wrote:This also suggests that Chris, your kit from eBay wasn't the 80/80 kit after all
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Okay folks here is an excellent comparison of how low the Polo is now. I cleaned her this morning and took a couple of photos in the same location as my signature images. Forgive me for not having blacked the tyres haha. After getting back from this trip, I now have dirt and mud splattered up the sides and rear of the car again from damp roads and other cars. Stupid weather...
Oh and I've just noticed that the "crop image" markings are still on the first image (look at the leading edge of the bonnet just above the grille). D'oh!
Oh and I've just noticed that the "crop image" markings are still on the first image (look at the leading edge of the bonnet just above the grille). D'oh!
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Its roughly -60mm, I think. No worries with speed bumps so long as you take it nice and easy. We have a fair bit of street furniture in this town and none of them have stopped me yet. Only the work one is a touch higher than the other speed bumps so I take it slowly and at an angle and its fineshantybeater wrote:that looks awesome, what did you lower it to? any prob with speed bumps etc..
are those the standard RX II's with bbs caps?
And yes. Those are the standard rims with "carbon-look" BBS centre caps that I bought from VAGParts.
I'm going to see how things look with the G60 steels on first before thinking seriously about spacers. The back might need to come up just a little with the steels fitted as they are a lower offset. I'm trying to get a G60 steel sorted out this week from MintySE for a good price then will be off to get quotes on powdercoating. Looking at no more than £140 if I can help it but so far haven't gotten lower than £180, I'll keep looking!
Very tempted by a Raceland stainless manifold at the moment thanks to olop_chris but these BBS have to go, they're shot to bits IMHO. Then we can think of manifolds
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Very tempted by a Raceland stainless manifold at the moment thanks to olop_chris but these BBS have to go, they're shot to bits IMHO. Then we can think of manifolds
Cheers
OK so I have been sidetracked slightly from getting these steels finished and fitted. This lunchtime I bought... an OMP front upper strut brace! At long last but its going to take 15-28 days to arrive, bought from Demon Tweeks like olop_chris did and they get them direct from OMP in Italy AFAIK
Once its here I'll be fitting the upper and lower braces simultaneously which will sharpen up the handling nicely! Bit worried about the front lower brace though as the car at it's current height doesn't even clear dead pheasants (there is a thump from under the car and a load of feathers from the back bwahahaha) but does clear the vast majority of speed bumps and also drives fine through the local multi-storey car park
Still, we'll find out what its like once they're on
Once its here I'll be fitting the upper and lower braces simultaneously which will sharpen up the handling nicely! Bit worried about the front lower brace though as the car at it's current height doesn't even clear dead pheasants (there is a thump from under the car and a load of feathers from the back bwahahaha) but does clear the vast majority of speed bumps and also drives fine through the local multi-storey car park
Still, we'll find out what its like once they're on
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