DYLAN8 01 Bora

[dylan8]

Stupid socket cost me a fortune and then I couldn't get mine to fit.

Yeah I managed to 'hire' one.
Wont be putting these bolts back in unless I cant find what I want

[SLAJ]

That looks so awesome man!
Did you end up finding out what globes match that sexy OEM blue?

[dylan8]

That looks so awesome man!
Did you end up finding out what globes match that sexy OEM blue?

not yet. I think if I put blue, one part will be blue and the other purple (red cover atm) so just going to stick to red for now

[dylan8]

Wheel swap again
some new rubber on the rear of the dials

[dylan8]

Some dodgy phone pics back home in bairnsdale on the weekend

Cant wait to get that front lower and the chrome trim replaced

[Cookie28]

The Bora's looking great Dylan!! Working on the Vento by any chance?

[dylan8]

The Bora's looking great Dylan!! Working on the Vento by any chance?

Cheers.
nar Vento is too far away from me to do anything atm.
Just collecting bits and pieces ready for when it does happen

[SLAJ]

^^ agreed, so awesome

[dylan8]

fair while since last update. better keep the diary going

So IDF adjustable control arms went in after some fluffing around with replacing dust covers (house mates dog ate/stole them) and then managing to cross thread one of the arms due to it still being filled with beads from blasting or something) much thanks to Waterboy, his dad, and his dads mates for coming to the rescue as usual!
after the 30 odd mm of toe out (those lowered car problems) was pulled out I had an extra deg of camber added, for those not fimilar with these arms it actually makes the wheel sit out even further, creating a massive wide track set-up on the front of my car compared to the rear.

Im happy with the arms, while it removes the comfort of the bush I had become accustom to driving around with dead bushes and control arms resting on the subframe, so if anything comfort increased by adding these.
Due to that part of the car being stiffer it exaggerates the fact I need a new dog bone mount, the motor is flapping around in the wind and gear changes between 1st, 2nd and 3rd make some lovely noises.

I ran the merc wheels again after the arms in with a even wider adapter on the front (25mm) and kept the existing 15mm on the back.
this really shows off how sunken the front of the mk4s get with a serious drop.

My rear Bilsteins I had ordered close to 2 years ago turned up, as expected still not right.
I had paid extra $$ for them to be professionally shortened, these are just standard which actually means I can no longer get the rear of the car to sit chassis on beam. body of them is about 1" longer then my coilover body.
When I can be bothered legal action will be taken to either get my money back or finally get the product I paid for. such a drainer.


So for DOVW off came the merc wheels. replaced them with some 17x8.5 ksports I had picked up a while back.
few issues had been sorted once I picked up the wheels (hub rings, cleaning up the redrill the previous owner had done with them being converted back to 5 stud).
with much help to water boy again and thestus angle grinder we took to my adapters to shorten the studs down to allow for clearance cap.

the result:




Then this happened one week later/yesterday:

Lucky was just a minor, did cop a 361$ fine though

[Silver dub]

Dem wheels!