Mal's Mk3 Build.

[Golf Houso]

Eerrr... I did replace them

Obviously something isn't in right, back to the drawing board...

[schoona]

Are we deadset sure that is the problem then? Obviously it can't hurt to change them, but I believe they are installed correctly...

[MattyT]

mate, they poke up so much because the rubber top mounts are stuffed. you need new ones

Woah really?

Mine stick wayyyyyyyy out. WAYYY out. Are they meant to sit flush with the body?

[Tim]

they arent supposed to sit flush to the body.

[MattyT]

How are they meant to sit?

[Mrk_Mickey]

like 0.5-1.5cm off I reckon. My stuffed ones were 2cm off and made the car lower () but as soon as I put the new ones in it felt great, and they were just off of the body. The hats are there to top out on, when going over holes where your suspension stretches all the way out.

[V®6]

Call me an idiot but what happened to the good old, suspension tops bolt straight into the towers with three to four bolts each???

Seems like it would have been a better design to me

[schoona]

Call me an idiot but what happened to the good old, suspension tops bolt straight into the towers with three to four bolts each???

Seems like it would have been a better design to me

Yeah im of this opinion too. It looks VERY unsafe. The body can move around.
My mates have pulsars (SR20s are good engines ) and they have replaced springs/shocks and it has been quite easy, ands they have bolted the mount to the body. Makes sense doesn't it?

[schoona]

like 0.5-1.5cm off I reckon. My stuffed ones were 2cm off and made the car lower () but as soon as I put the new ones in it felt great, and they were just off of the body. The hats are there to top out on, when going over holes where your suspension stretches all the way out.

Perhaps, but thats a lot of "free range" to bounce around in

[schoona]

Euro lip will be shipped tomorrow also lads

[VR6child]

LHS:


RHS:

I thought those hat thingos were supposed to sit a little above the strut tower, similar to that... not like flush on the strut tower.

[rayray086]

Yeah, once on the ground they will sit like that, but the LHS one just looks stuffed with that large of a gap.

[schoona]

Ta Ray. Will look at replacing them. There were 5 of us at any one itme looking all going "**** that doesn't look right!"

[schoona]

Can anyone with any other brand of coilover (or JOM) post how their front struts sit for comparison?

TIA

[Mrk_Mickey]

I'll go grab a pic now mate