Vivek's Vert.

[Vivek]

Excited? You bet.

[stamar]

nice!

[Vivek]

Loving this mod already:

[Deathtoll]

Excited? You bet.

Shiny new stuff is always fun!

So are made by Eibach or Ground Control? Or are they Eibach Ground controls?

[Vivek]

Ground control coilovers use eibach springs and koni dampers.

[lambo]

No shortened struts?

[Vivek]

Unfortunately not. I had to get the street kit because of money but it's MUCH better than my original plan of running KYB and Tokico dampers.

[N2MYE30]

I'm digging the rear headrests V! I told you it was simple. :up:

[Vivek]

Looks like next weekend is suspension time. This week i'll order short sway bar end links (from some american car, I'll have to look it up again), 12mm raised subframe bushings and diff spacers, and a new diff mount. Hopefully over thursday evening, all of friday, all of saturday, and maybe buttoning a few things up sunday, I can replace every bushing, put on the coilovers (I've never opened up a strut/spring assembly before, I've only replaced the whole thing), install the cross brace, replace my shifter bushings front and rear (potentially replace my z3m shifter with a shorter z4 one), hopefully clean up my engine bay a bit more and finish cleaning my undercarraige, probably swap my rear pads/rotors and maybe replace my front rotors with less worn ones if I can find a pair laying around....

Sorry for the most convoluted sentence ever.

[Vivek]

Update time. Today was a bit underwhelming. Every fucking thing you do takes 2-4x as long as it should the first time. Cutting the spring perches was no different. I worked for around 4 hours on these today. I got the springs and top hats off (yes with parts flying across the driveway), cut the dust shields and perches, and wire wheeled the tubes so they're pretty clean. Tomorrow I'll fully degrease and paint them, weld on the coilover D rings, and install the front coilovers. I also need to get my AKG CAB's on there. I'll end up doing the rear bushings (subframe, TA's and diff) next weekend most likely. Hopefully tomorrow I can get the front setup finished, put on the cross brace and maybe my new shifter bushings, and throw the rear coilovers on there.

This was harder than it should have been:




Cleaned and done for the day:

I still need to get those damn locking nuts off that hold the strut inserts in. To say the least, they're fucking tight. I stuck it in a vice and tried to twist the whole strut housing, and it just slipped.

[Cabriolet]

LVB ill barrow my dad's impact.

[Vivek]

For what?

[Cabriolet]

to get that nut off.

oh u need a pipe wrench to get that thing off.

[ak-]

to get that nut off.

oh u need a pipe wrench to get that thing off.

Or the proper tool..

It's $4.

[Vivek]

Koni struts--what are these things and where do they go? There's nothing in the instructions or documentation mentioning them.