brendans 20V AE86...... soon to be beams powered

[ae71]

oh deer...

cant get them on by heating the sleave??

[dr1ft-pig]

i dont have an oxy, pressing is good, i dont like heating stuff up lol, will all be in tomorrow arvo, i promise haha should be done by bout 5-6pm

[70XIN]

Re-arrange freezer. Place struts in freezer

Come back a few hours later, go for gold.

[dr1ft-pig]

no shit??? i dont have a freezer big enough only the gay spec one on top of my fridge, ill press em tomoz morning and should have em in tomoz arvo

[Bustin_86]

Cold = metal contracts
Hot = metal expands

Heat sleeve freeze strut bang bang

I know your getting them pressed on, but its still handy to know for next time

[ae71]

you can buy little heat torchs from places like bursons... not very expensive.. they are gas powered..

[dr1ft-pig]

yeah got em pressed on today, went to put the gland nut in and it grabbed thread then went in slightl;y cross threaded, c**t so i fucked the gland nuts doing that and still ahvent finished em its pissing me off so hard,ill get some new gland nuts, DOES ANYONE ON HERE HAVE ANY IN GOOD CONDITION??

[dr1ft-pig]

UPDATE!!! 18th september 2007

hey all i have finished coilovers and they sort of went well, first of all i had trouble with the threads in the struts and gland nuts aswell but i managed to get them in there very ghetto, i will be building new strut tubes when i get some good shocks as well but theese will work for the time being, also they dont go low enough so i need some shorter springs, and last of all i cleaned my shed so i can now walk all the way arpund my car without haven to step over anything haha

people who know me know i dont tend to clean up until things get really bad or i get really bored haha

anyways here are a few more pix, there will be another update tomorrow, interior paint will be done, cheers

cambertops


ride height, (at lowest setting) :wtf:


my car in my dirty ass shed


my car out of my shed that is clean


keep an eye on this thread tomorrow night for updates as i should have interior done

[hilton]

thats sick man, need enw springs so u can slam it

[dr1ft-pig]

yeah i hope ill be able to get it as low as i want it

anyone know what the lowest free height is with off the shelf 8kg springs??