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So here is my idea for delocking the boot. I punched out some 36mm blanks in 2mm mild steel and concaved it on the rear to fit into the hole
left by the lock, then it will have a nut welded/epoxied onto the back of it it so the blank can be bolted on from inside the boot, its going to be painted red so from a certain distance the boot will appear smooth and saves messing with filler & rattlecans! same will be done with the boot washer jet, fook knows how Im going to tackle the aeriel yet!

Ok a little bit more shaping of the blank this morning
then I had a M10 x 40mm allen head bolt welded on.
Luckily found some quick drying enamel paint at work
which turned out to be nigh on a perfect match.

looks great! question tho, did you put a sealant around the key hole or something? just to negate any risk of water getting in there and causing some unwanted rust

ta, oh yes just a lick of clear silicone sealent

Looks great. Simple and does the job.

I'd buy one

fillpereira wrote:Looks great. Simple and does the job.

I'd buy one

Me tooo! $10 bucks a pop+shipping? hahah

Thanks for the interest I have some to make for the Uk Lads too, but damn I wish I had my own shop or atleast a house with a workshop, then i could do this s--- full time instead of my luchbreak. I'll see what I can russel up over time for you though

...and the work goes on! Picture for Mooneggs here, this is the original set up I had before flipping the mount, the rears are the pretty much the same with all collars together,


Now heres the flipped mount! This was insanely low!


so this is what we settled for....

thank you for the pics... did you have to do any major adjustments with camber when you flipped the mount? I know the top hole is slotted for some adjusment but what about the bottom when it is now on top?

No the bottom mount slotted right in upside down, the top mount is now adjusted fully inward!

im a noob with this whole suspension thing. but what exactly does camber do? my rear tires on my car got a nice amount of camber and the front a litttttle bit less then the back.

Slight amount of negative camber (1-2%) means you get a better contact patch between the tyre and the road during hard cornering basically, but people go to extremes though to fit in very wide wheels with low offsets.

had the tracking set by a local place near my work, who managed to unseize the offside track rod end that two previous garages failed to do!
The tracking is now perfect with the steering wheel dead centre, and ive also increased the damping on front suspension and once again so impressed with these XYZ coilovers, the adjustment to standard setting has made it so much more smoother ( rears are still on softest setting but with a bit more preload in the spring)

It no longer wants to batter the ground at any given opportunity either too much now
Tyres still rub on the plastic innner arch guard but im not too worried about that, it does however scrape just a little bit going in & out of my driveway which is pretty shallow really, so big speedbumps are off limits and even little ones scrape the underneath!

So new stance = new pictures immenently