A3. 8L. Black on black. On black.

[eltonking]

Remember you are on stockies atm. Wait till you have yoru new wheels/adaptors/tyres etc.

Yeah that's true I'll wait until wheels are fitted... Leaning towards burgundy/brown at the moment... :O

[eltonking]

picked up adapters and lips should be ready in the next couple of days - got these guys to polish my lips

Huntingdale Metal Polishers

Address: 156 Haughton Rd, Oakleigh South, VIC, 3167

Phone number: (03) 95792971

dodgey as place but the guy 'jimmy' is nice enough and for ~$25 a lip they've so far (from what i've seen) done a great job. also did the centre screw caps as well all for $130

[eltonking]

ok time for some quick snaps - got some new bolt in valve stems today so chucked them on the lips, the old ones were rooted and not one place i've been to in melbourne has had any or even known what they were... so ebay it was.
a few shots of how the car sits now, had to raise it up a tad as i was scrubbing on the front sway bar... car looks to have a big, high booty but i swear its just unphotogenic















a before and after of the bolts...





and how the new wheels sit with the adapters...

front





back

[Cookie28]

Love the fitment of the wheels man!! They're going to look so good when they're fitted

[Jarred]

this will be good! pretty aggressive up front though! :S

what did you do to clean up the bolts?

[Bflat]

You Mexican

[eltonking]

this will be good! pretty aggressive up front though! :S

what did you do to clean up the bolts?

left them in coke for a couple days, strained them (mum wasn't happy) using the kitchen strainer.. then put them in a bucket of boiling water and started polishing... one by one... by hand... great times were had by all.

You Mexican

and yeah man mexi-poke ftw

[Jarred]

I didn't think of coke! Did that clean up all the crap off the threads? (if yours had much crap on the threads)

Don't worry, I just finished cleaning/polishing up my RS bolts last week. Took over 10hrs! (infront of the Top Gear though, so not too bad)

[eltonking]

I didn't think of coke! Did that clean up all the crap off the threads? (if yours had much crap on the threads)

Don't worry, I just finished cleaning/polishing up my RS bolts last week. Took over 10hrs! (infront of the Top Gear though, so not too bad)

Yeah most of it - also used an old toothbrush to get any other gunk out!



... Turned out to be dads. Probably a good idea I took it he was well overdue for a replacement...

[GoLfMan]

Turned out to be dads. Probably a good idea I took it he was well overdue for a replacement...

i lol'd

Looking good man!

[eltonking]

i lol'd

Looking good man!

ahaha, but actually...

anyway, uncovered these little gems today
not sure if to keep them as is, or attempt to refurb them with a silver paint pen...

[Stiggy_21]

[dylan8]

...
I think, I got mk4 r32 bushings off ecs and am running them at theoment but they seem
Larger than the stock ones... Heard polo ones are smaller and add more lows??

R32 ones are the same size, just a bit more heavy duty.
they might look bigger then your old ones as the old ones were probably flat/compressed.
I have R32 ones in and they seem to cope with the coilovers better. there are a few models you can hijack them from but strut length poking out the top needs to be taken into account...

[dylan8]

Wheels are looking awesome btw.
keen to see how you go with that poke.
if you can get the front lower it will start to swallow it up.

[eltonking]

thanks man, think i'll also grab those camber shims off you

colour should be going on the wheels tomorrow!!