My car used to be quick

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Re: My car used to be quick

Post by vedran »

looks nice.

it should come stock, it makes the back look so much better.
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I'd get rid of those stickers in a hearbeat if I could, but in Hawaii every vehicle has to have an annual "Safety Inspection" and those stickers show the month and year of the last inspection. It's like having a registration sticker on your liscence plate...but on your bumper. Oh, and about the lowering, I've already bought a hacksaw from Home Depot and me and some friends are gonna cut about 4 inches off the stock springs so I can save a lot of $$$$ on expensive coilovers. Also, I let out some air from the tires and now I'm running about 12 PSI in them. That lowered me about an inch or so. Next mod will be adding a TON of weight in the hatch so that my cut springs will compress even more and my backend looks even lower. 8)
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Re: My car used to be quick

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Cut springs? Isn't that the wrong way to do it?
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Leedeth wrote:Cut springs? Isn't that the wrong way to do it?
He's obviously making a ricer joke. Nobody who's been on this forum for more than a month would snip their springs. It's a ricer method, and turns the suspension to shit.

Furthermore, anybody who knows cars would never run tires that low. They'd be destroyed so quick your head would spin.
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Re: My car used to be quick

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That is correct :)
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So theres no way around that sticker on the bumper rule? Can you put it on the rear window or on the plate frame or something?
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Post by pmacutay »

LAMBORAGHINI

Oh, and on your comment with the Audi TT

When you DO get the VR6 AWD version...it's the same exact thing as an R32!

It's cute how VW platforms are almost like big R/C cars...they engineer the bottom part and then the designers make shells that fit over the go-fast chassis.

Like the GTI W12-650
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