Jonny doesnt take this whole car thing seriously at all....

fooking hell i though i was bad! is that all the way down on the coilies?

Ian83 wrote:

That picture doesn't display the odd shape the sump is now in

its proper messed up now, i'm surprised the pick up is still working to be honest.

cheers for all the comments guys! much appreciated! the RX7 is now broken and sold off, everything is gone apart from the shell which can still be seen in a couple of the above photo's. i'll dig out some older pics and put them somewhere on the forum.

vladimir wrote:

fooking hell i though i was bad! is that all the way down on the coilies?

fronts all the way down with helpers still in, rears have 8 threads left....

after the notch is done i'll raise the engine, remove the helpers and see how it sits then.

WeFoundThePark wrote:

vladimir wrote:

fooking hell i though i was bad! is that all the way down on the coilies?

fronts all the way down with helpers still in, rears have 8 threads left....

after the notch is done i'll raise the engine, remove the helpers and see how it sits then.

good work will look forward to seeing it! also quick question your sub, take it you dont have a spare wheel? and wheres the amp? as i might do something similar

haha :D

couldnt agree more its so much fun watching other peoples faces my girlfriend hated it specially when sparks used to fly up through the floor, i never did get a picture of the underneath of my golf before i sold it, but the new owner said it was fucked subframe was cracked and bits of it was missing the wishbones were worn thin as paper and the sump was leaking it was all worth it just seeing people faces

before i went silly low

love those rims

looked sick at the meet dude. making me want another mk3 now

This car is cool well done

vladimir wrote:

good work will look forward to seeing it! also quick question your sub, take it you dont have a spare wheel? and wheres the amp? as i might do something similar

there's no spare wheel, i just took out the boot carpet and cut a sheet of MDF to the same shape. Cut out the hole for the sub in the MDF and original boot carpet, and bolted the sub into the hole. The amp is mounted underneath which is a pain for setting it up but allows be to have full use of my boot. kind of.

love the way this car sits ! looked sweet at the meet last night , you got any more plans dude

cheers mate!

i've got a smooth front bumper that i need to give a final skim and paint, then work out how i'm gonna tuck my 17x8.5" 3 piece splits under the front arches and what i'm going to do with 9.5" at the rear......

i'm also toying with the idea of fitting some colour coded side mouldings to tidy the car up a bit?

and then i may paint it a completely different colour....maybe?

looked sweet as last night mate. the colour as it is is fine imo.

WeFoundThePark wrote:

cheers mate!

i've got a smooth front bumper that i need to give a final skim and paint, then work out how i'm gonna tuck my 17x8.5" 3 piece splits under the front arches and what i'm going to do with 9.5" at the rear......

i'm also toying with the idea of fitting some colour coded side mouldings to tidy the car up a bit?

and then i may paint it a completely different colour....maybe?

Keep the colour as it is mate.
I think it looks dam hawt in that dark red!

You need to get a crazy headliner on the go to match the side strips.
That'd look sick

im loving this car! the pictures from last night looks awesome, you should get a US splitter for it

cheers everyone, nice to know my ghetto style is appreciated by others!

decided to lower the car a bit more before last nights meet but the coilovers were wound all the way down so only one thing for it, take the helpers out.....



much to steph's amusement i jacked the car up, whipped the wheels off and took an angle grinder to the coilovers! so the car is as low as it can physically go on the current set-up, which is quite handy as the driveshaft now hits on the chasis leg on some bumps.

whilst i was at it i took the 10mm spacers off the rear and fitted them on the front and fit some new 15mm spacers to the backs and finished the whole lot off with some diy arch rolling (i hit the arch lip with a hammer until it didnt touch the tyres)

and now for a bit of daytime whoring......








beautiful, artistic, cultural cambridge.......

did you cut the bumpstops in half too?

i've left a small part of the bumpstop behind after hacking away at it whilst still on the damper....

oh right i would have though it would go lower tbh, im not saying its not low because its bloody low!, just ive planned doing all that and i thought the sills would be closer to the floor, i guess theres more work than i thought!

because i cut the helpers out and didnt take them out properly the two adjusting platforms are still in there so obviously one could be taken out to gain an extra few mm but thats it for hottuning / raceland / jom type coilovers.

raise the turrets or get different height springs and laying sill is easily achievable relatively cheaply, steph cant get her foot under the front of mine tho so not much more to go...

yea, i guess there will be alot of cutting and welding, good job the dude across the road is a welder

i want this ride hight, its on air but thats its driving stance my favorite mk3 ever

i love that car, prefered it when it was silver tho!

yea you know! its this car that is making me buy a mk3 and save up for th lines

dont like you anymore. seeing yours on friday makes me want to lower mine now!

do it! remember its kind of your fault my car is this low anyway, if you hadnt been lower in the first place i wouldnt have bothered to actually buy the coilovers........ do it!

this is true! will have to drop it when i get time and the weather is good! i like that pic, could you actually fit under the tailer???