Re: Lowering spacers? Ground Control c/o's bad?

[Anthony Pelletier <vwnuts@yahoo.com>]

The lowering caps you are talking about I believe are
made by ABD.  They say the will lower the car by 1/2"
or so.  someone with a eurocar handy look at their ad
and get an exact measurement.

then you can lower you rears(cause they are threaded)
to match.  

.02
Tony

  
--- Neal Tovsen <sixteen.volt@gte.net> wrote:
> Whoo-hoo! I finally got a set of wheels (16" OZ
> Monte Carlos...I have to
> admit Riley's car looked too awesome and I became a
> copy-cat) and some nice
> tires (Yoko AVS-520) for the Scirocco. No more
> Bridgestones (w/ one
> Goodyear) on beat-up teardrops. Good thing too:
> there was a nail in the
> Goodyear! The thing looks great and handles like a
> dream, but now it
> definitely looks like I didn't get quite enough
> lowering effect from my H&R
> "lowering springs". I've got at least a good inch or
> more of fender gap,
> which is just a tad too much, IMHO.
> 
> I spoke to somebody in my home town last summer
> about some little spacers
> that could lower the front end of my Scirocco by a
> small amount cheaply and
> without serious modification, and I could use the
> lower spring perch on the
> rear Koni shocks to (hopefully) match. I don't
> remember the details, but if
> anyone has more info or knows who to talk to about
> them, I'd appreciate it.
> 
> My other choice would be putting a Ground Control
> kit on my Koni yellows.
> The tuner guy in town here says he had a real
> problem with them
> bottoming-out all the time and didn't like them, but
> he's the only one I've
> heard say anything bad about them. I remember
> several people on the list
> having good things to say. Does anyone have anything
> *bad* to say about
> them? For $400 vs. $1300 for "real" coil-overs (+
> having to sell/waste my <1
> year-old Konis) it might be worthwhile. Are the
> sleeves difficult to weld-on
> properly (as in: making sure they're all at an even
> hight) or is it pretty
> straight-forward?
> 
> Finally, are Neuspeed Race springs lower/stiffer
> than my H&R's? Riley's car
> looks a little lower, and there is another guy in
> town with (I think) Race
> springs and 16" tires, and IIRC his car looks a bit
> lower. MUCH stiffer
> too...I couldn't make the front springs move by
> pushing on the fender (he
> asked me to try)! I didn't get to ride in the car,
> but I'm guessing it's
> pretty harsh. Experiences/opinions?
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> Neal
> '88 Scirocco 16v
> 
> 
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