Steering column it is
Munch - that looks good mate. I like. I'm going to mount the single on top for now, then if I get any more gauges I'll mount them side by side.
Had a bit of a chill out today and went to Newbury with Tori, bit of shopping and a Costa, then back home and there was still some daylight left, so I decided to make a start on tomorrows work.
I dug these out from my box of new parts awaiting fitment:
And these out of the boot of the car, KW V3's
Quick check on the ride height before stripping it down:
Old dirty Weitecs ready to remove:
and thanks to my impact gun, 10 minutes later it was out:
Eibach offset top mounts built up onto the KW V3's
All threads and the base greased up and ready to fit:
And in it goes:
Turned the car round, now you see it:
Now you don't:
It took literally less than 5 minutes from jacking the car up to having the coilover out - did I mention how AWESOME it is having an impact gun?
KW all stripped down to grease up the threads:
And in it goes:
Very hard to make it show on a picture, but it's made the car look quite different in how the front end sits:
Went for a little drive and all feels great, stuck £30's worth of V power in it and did a few more miles then pulled over on a known level concrete surface and checked the cambers with my phone app:
Not too bad at all, obviously that's just a rough guide, but it's feeling amazing so far. I've set the mount sup to that the caster and camber is increased as much as they can give, so the offset of the topmount is at 45 degrees inwards to the rear. I could give them more caster, or more camber, but this is the most I can get of both together.
And on a totally random and seperate point, Jardo did this little photoshop earlier, which I think looks awesome:
Rear coilovers and camber shims coming tomorrow!