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Since lou has like a 200 page thread about his car, i figured id make one about mine.

Ok, so in light of recent events the direction im taking the git has changed. Since the "race car" is getting to a point where we should be racing it soon, my car is no longer needed to fill my adrenaline prescription.


so.....near future plans.

Sell my roof basket (just for money, will probably make another)
Sell my black emblems (replacing with stock chrome)
Sell smoked corners (going with stock orange)
Sell MBC ( i dont need it)
Sell BBS wheels (if i can, for money)
Sell avus wheels (donated track tires to track car)
Sell Rear sway (would be overpowering with no front sway)

Buy coilovers

remove front sway

dump it

basically what i'm going for is Low stock-ish GTI. Later i'll build another basket, and do some other fun stuff.

With my problems with smoking and the wierd rev-down problem, the car will be much happier this way.

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u should be really cool and get like 14 inch tires in the back. then when ppl give u **** for it just say "w/e man"



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what?

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Yeah I'm kinda lost on that post too.

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I think he meant 14 inch WIDE tires and when someone makes fun of it, yell WEE MAN!!!!!!


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A4seen Racer wrote:

I think he meant 14 inch WIDE tires and when someone makes fun of it, yell WEE MAN!!!!!!





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BAHAHAHAHAHA lol!!!11

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yes i meant 14" wide, and "what ever man"

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What tires can you get in 14" wide? I wasn't aware tires were measured in inches... Thought it was 285/40 and such. I must not know a thing about anything.

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drag slicks are inches i think, maybe he means for like a drag car?

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ROFL lol hahaha!

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i think im makin fun of david's car and he is sayin to him self w/e man but doesnt wana type it so he made a rele lame comeback


buahaha



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this is what im going for....



plan is to sell all that junk and buy the coils. THEN sell my old suspension and the wheels and get some AMG Styling 1s in 17x7.5 and 17x8.5

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If the 8.5's go in the front I say its sick

but if the 8.5's go in the rear then its not cool.

Do something different, put the wides up front.

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no way, i gotta go for safety. with the wider wheels up front, it would have a tendancy to oversteer and thats not safe. therefore, the wider wheels are going in the back.

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^Um... But your car, being FWD is naturally going to understeer. Wouldn't doing that make it more nutural?

Like on GT3. To get all the FWD cars to handle better, I would always put the **** tires in the rear, so I could get the back end out under trail-breaking. And as we know, GT3 is 'real' life

And life revolves around the traction circle.



-- Edited by Raoul Duke at 13:38, 2006-10-12

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Raoul Duke wrote:

^ And as we know, GT3 is 'real' life






so true....so true

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Jamin's traction circle after the staggerds



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small update...i may be getting those bilstein PSS9s after all. an amazing deal that may allow more budget for wheels....



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i made an excel spreadsheet that calculates how much a wheel will tuck or poke on the front or rear of a golf 4. Here's the data on my stock wheel, CLK wheels, and Brock B1s.

the mercedes wheels will poke a little, but its fairly conservative. a little tire stretching is going to be necessary to achieve the right look.



p.s. negative poke is tuck

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nice little spreadsheet thing

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thanks, dave doesnt believe math though

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Because math sucks a giant pickle out of a gaping *sshole in the gorge of gilgamesh.

-- Edited by TRAF at 10:16, 2006-10-20

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leave dave alone ...he cant read or write

-- Edited by superdewey58 at 20:04, 2006-10-21

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TRAF wrote:

Because math sucks a giant pickle out of a gaping *sshole in the gorge of gilgamesh.

-- Edited by TRAF at 10:16, 2006-10-20


I didnt know math had that kind of sucking power. I wonder if it can vacum my car.

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superdewey58 wrote:

leace dave alone ...he cant read or write


The irony in that is staggering.



-- Edited by TRAF at 12:50, 2006-10-21

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ok, i got my coilovers on.  bilstein PSS9.  good news is that they are really freakin nice, fully adjustable and really stiff.  bad news is that they dont go low.  i have the helper springs out and the perches all the way down and i still have like a 1 finger gap. 


plan is to buy my new wheels and see how it looks.  later if i dont like it i can sell these and get some koni's or fk's. 


other good news is that mjm has these on sale right now for $1699.99 shipped.  so i should be able to get a good bit of money out of em. 



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oh i totally forgot, the kid that sold me the coils threw in a set for SPC camber plates (~$200 value) and they were brand new in the box.  now i have ~1.5deg negative camber up front

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check this out, our friend Ryan has a rig that magnets to the bottom of the car and has a big long pole that extends out the side. here's a shot we got last night with his new setup.



oh and this is w/ the coils on, but its too dark to really see. oh and the tint's off

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here's a really crappy pic that kinda shows the height of the car right now.



-- Edited by THE PRESIDENT at 15:51, 2006-10-25

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