Ivan's coupe: roof stuccowork

[Ivan141]

I went over to Robokill's place yesterday and we had a go at the yellow/black coupe and my own car. We managed to replace the shocks and springs after a gruelling 4 hours of work, using more tools than I can remember.
The bolts holding the struts to the control arm (where you would place an RCA if you had one) were completely seized, and I nearly thought we werent going to get them loose any more. We tried using airtools to get them off but the bolts wouldnt budge. We then proceded to try a huge breakerbar for extra leverage but we only managed to crack 2 powersockets as if they were walnuts. Lucky for me robokills friend who owns the workplace we were using has 40 years of experience as a mechanic, he really saved the day. Out pops the torch and that really did the trick.


Anyway..my car is lowered now. I'm not completely satisfied with the springs though. They are supposed to be progressive, but the 4 closely wound lower coils dont do anything at all..they bind when the weight of the car rests on them. What's the use in having 4 coils doing nothing? The stiffness could be a bit better as well, though it rides a fair bit stiffer at the moment (really notice the shaking on rough roads). The old crap I took off the car were Monroe shocks. They suck balls... The springs I took off felt kinda good though. Couldnt notice the difference with my lowering springs, but then those had the softer coils which give way pretty easily.

Some pics of this afternoon (you cant see the lowering quie well here):