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Author coilovers are finally on! :) Now Inc Pics!
chris_uk
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ordered them yesterday came today.

looks alot better, steering is a little lighter, i need to put a bit more of a positive camber on now, (i made it more negative than standard before the coilovers)

cant be bothered to do that now tho, i have to change the bulbs and that a 30 min job its self lol

ill try get some pics but its dark now, might have to wait till tomorrow

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[Edited on 29-12-2007 by chris_uk]
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what coilies are they?
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please dont say FK.
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they are Gaz Shocks

you can alter the stiffness aswell..£409 all in posted next day.

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good choice
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Awesome car mate, love that rear diffuser
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thats nice!!!
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bit of a tip, set the coilovers rather high with a low damping setting (1 full turn from the softest) fot around 200 miles. then set it up how you like after that. setting them low and hard to start with is the wrong way but a lot of people tend to do that.
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well its only one 2.5 turns from softest on front and 1.5 rear.

why would i benifit from doing that? as i really dont know.
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That look ace matey!!!! Has it improved the handling any? Supposed to be ace the Gaz kits too!!! Would love to wind the Tuscan down but its too low anyway!



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Coolios.
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its just that a lot of people that buy coilovers believe low and hard is the best setting so they go as low as possible and put the damping as hard as possible. by starting off soft and high you will realise that for road use it makes for a much better drive having near factory settings on the damping (around 1.5 to 2 turns) front and rear.
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Looks ace mate, almost done?
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well looks is almost done i think,

ive only planned to get a black V and turbo splitters for the front.

but im going to supercharge it i think.

i was gunna just sell it and buy a turbo but i like it now, ive grown too attached to its rattles.

dave - i know what you mean, thats why its on a low setting, you could turn it round 5 times.

i might soften them all 1/2 of a turn
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plans sound great!
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ive had a little look into it and the courtney kit costs about 5.5k all in for the supercharger and stage 2.

which is according to them about 240+

now its either spend 6k on that or sell it and spend 16K on a turbo.

the price of each option would be about the same, and there is no cambelt with the n/a and ive never owned a supercharged car before.
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Supercharge that for sure

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Very nice, a guy round the corner has just bought a black Turbo......looks mean!!

 
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