From China with Love

[witchcraftz]

Re: From China with Love

Great news! Glad it's working out for you!

[kujiwara]

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Great news! Glad it's working out for you!

Yeah thanks! Car is slightly sad looking rn but hopefully would look as good as new after their estimated 60 hours of work!

[Geobmx4life]

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Great to hear Kuji.....all that hard work rolls forward!!!

[kujiwara]

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Great to hear Kuji.....all that hard work rolls forward!!!

Yup! And here it's a hint on where it's heading next, the Internet is not teaching me much other than how to bolt in a turbo kit and bags these days so I'm going back in time and found two of the best books for building mk4s!

[flipstah]

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The beast is back

[MechEngg]

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Kuji, if you are ever back in town i have a turbocharging performance book you can take a gander through. It goes over all the calculations in a forced induction engine and would be great in helping select correct components or choosing where to spend you money.

[kujiwara]

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Kuji, if you are ever back in town i have a turbocharging performance book you can take a gander through. It goes over all the calculations in a forced induction engine and would be great in helping select correct components or choosing where to spend you money.

Sweet! I'll let you know if i ever need turbo advice haha! I'll be back in July hopefully and can't wait to go on cruises with y'all

[kujiwara]

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Since the car is at my good friend's shop he can keep me updated with the repair everyday. They took apart the rear today, supposably they will drill out the rear end panel and weld in a new one, quarter panel will be reformed by hand and unibody will be straightened on the rack.

[All_Euro]

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Just watched your dash-cam vid... sucks man!

Good to see you’ve got someone you know/trust handling the car though. Looking forward to see what kind of lemonaid you make with this

[kujiwara]

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Got notice from the shop saying my car will be back in two weeks, meanwhile in Europe I'm getting some ideas on how to change the car a little. I want to go a little lower in the front but the coilovers are maxed out to the last thread, how can I go lower? I already have camber plates that dropped it slightly. Should I remove the lock perch that'll give me around 5mm more low but is it safe to do so? Or should I remove my helper spring? Or will that destroy my shocks?

[MechEngg]

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Don't remove the locking perch, especially if you are right at the bottom of the threads. Terrible idea.
I don't think that removing the helper springs itself is what will destroy the shocks, the ride height itself is what typically destroys them, being too close to the end of the range.
Raise the strut tower in the engine bay?

[Danaldson]

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remove the helper spring, or get polo strut bushings/caps.

[MechEngg]

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remove the helper spring, or get polo strut bushings/caps.

He has upper camber plates, they use a different mounting system from OEM.

[Danaldson]

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He has upper camber plates, they use a different mounting system from OEM.

oops missed that.

[gheron]

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find out what your spring rate is and call swift for shorter springs (http://www.swiftsprings.net/) - like Sean said though you're going to be near the bottom range of shock travel as it currently sits going much lower may affect ride comfort. There is a reason Bilstein dont go as low as others