Treza360's .:R32

[ope126]

Looking good trent...

[Treza360]

Blue Babies

Replicated from the thread I created in the Photo Gallery of our Rides section:

So a few photos of the GF and my blue babies. Her's is a 2004 Mazda 323 SP20 and of course I think everybody knows what mine is. Both had a good clean this weekend so I thought I would get some pictures before it stormed.
Cheers,
Trent

[Treza360]

A few more of just the .:R...
Cheers,
Trent









Storms a brewing...

[geoff_gti]

Great shots man!!! Good work

Which one's faster though???? hahahaha

[No457 Snowy]

Nice mate, MK4 R32's are one car I never get sick of looking at.


Snowy

[Mrk_Mickey]

Nice mate, MK4 R32's are one car I never get sick of looking at.

Too right Snowy! Man I love this car...and a good choice of music to pump out of it too

[Treza360]

So anyway how about a bit of spot the difference...
Have a look at my previous pictures and tell me what's different with the R and no it's not that I've taken a photo from another angle or that there's more sunlight.
Cheers,
Trent

[DUB 20V]

i guess its lower?

[SoVeReIgN]

slotted rotors?

[schoona]

coilies?? (therefore "lower")

A great example all the same Trent

[Treza360]

So anyway I'm sick of playing games. Yes it's lower (by about 30mm).

Take one of these:


Add one set of slightly used Koni Yellow Sport adjustables and some H&R Sports Springs and some nice H&R adjustable swaybars as below:




And you get:


Looks pretty good and I can still get into my garage without scraping (grazes on the way out though, but only on the underside of the lip). Damping is much improved now and the handling is more neutral as opposed to bouncy bounce and understeer.

Cheers,
Trent

[DUB 20V]

nice man thats sweet i saw thoes shocks on ebay not long ago, were cheap good work.

[Treza360]

nice man thats sweet i saw thoes shocks on ebay not long ago, were cheap good work.

Yeah the bloke is a friend of Guy Harding's here in Brisbane. He put his R back to stock and traded it in down in Sydney (much better trade in price) and drove back in a brand new S3.
The suspension doesn't have too many kms on it and I agree it was a steal. I also picked up his BMC CDA and his stubby antenna all for a pretty damned good price. As he said he just wanted it gone as opposed to cluttering up his garage.
I believe Neil got his TST rear strut brace from him as well. Not sure who got his Haldex controller but I wish I had.
Top bloke and a big thanks to Guy for putting me onto him.
Cheers,
Trent

[balkanac]

that looks awesome! I love it, good work mate!

[goodfella]

I called Heasman's last week and he informed me that VW Aust fit Mk4 R32s with Monroes to lower the price point here, apparently R32s had Bilstiens in UK

Hmmm

I am now debating Koni Yellow with Eibach or Bilsteins shocks alone (obviously no lowering)