A 350t

[Pugme]

so suspension day 1

as you can see the coilovers are pretty damn short!! custom made 34kg spring rated bc's with swift spring upgrademy camber arms havent arrived yet so just some lows for now

at no point in any of these pics am i cheating and using a jack to hold the wheel or any of the arms up just for cool pictures

[Confused]

Closer to the ground than a gnat's knackers!

[Pugme]

so, and for today...

well i pulled out the front seats so i could try and get a bit more room tucked into the back as im going to have to get to welding up in there soon. first i decided to tec screw in the first piece, which went in well enough to be welded, next ill join the underneath of the window into the inner skin and then move to the drivers side. but before i can seal up the drivers side i have a fuel cap to plan. so i traced the fuel line down to its first connector point and unbolted it and pulled it out, it had to be cut but shouldnt be an issue as its going to need messing with to get connected back up

and an odd panaramic shot of the side view now its dropped

[Pugme]

with my small little jack under the rear toe eye, once the cup has contact with the toe eye, one pump lifts the shell, then second lift lifts the wheel!!! they werent kidding that this **** is stiff!!

sorry about picture rotation!! ill check before uploading next time promise

[Nick Mann]

Good grief! Not to my taste at all, but as always it is spectacular!

[Pugme]

A new part came today that I've waited 12 weeks or so for!!

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Really want to get some work done to this over the weekend! Get that interior rear welded up

[Erni902]

Are you getting the side louvres to match? Always been a bit marmite with these. Granted all the cars I dont like them on are relatively standard ones and yours is going to be far far far from standard haha. Question is, are you going Big Gay Wing, Veilside or Rocket Bunny type on the rear? Or are we just going to have to wait?

[Pugme]

Going stillen spoiler

Although I have found a replica so not going to be 500 quid thankfully.

Nah not a fan of the side Louvre, they look a bit plastic ****ty this is a proper louvregang Louvre made of metal from the states

[Pugme]

So this setup

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[Erni902]

Going stillen spoiler

Although I have found a replica so not going to be 500 quid thankfully.

Nah not a fan of the side Louvre, they look a bit plastic ****ty this is a proper louvregang Louvre made of metal from the states

So this setup

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Aha yes I do like the Stillen rear spoilers to be fair.

Im with you on the side louvre's I think they look a bit odd. Not sure if you have read but a few people that have got the proper louvre have complained about a rattle from the individual horizontal slats (whatever they are called) where they rattle against the rear screen. Many ways you can get round this but I expect the sound system that is inevitably going to be installed will drown it out. Thats if your even going fast enough in it to generate any kind of wind to lift and rattle them

[Pugme]

Haha.... a rattle on the window!

That will be the least of the noises that will come from this chassis

[Erni902]

Haha.... a rattle on the window!

That will be the least of the noises that will come from this chassis

I wouldnt expect anything less!

[Colin Wiltshire]

Just think, every few 100 miles or so, you will have grounded enough of the metal on the underside to go even lower lol

[Pugme]

ok... so


more play time today

first up was the fuel cap, i bought some flexible fuel hose to use to extend the pipework but i wanted to retain as much of the oem pipework as possible, so now its thru the outside skin and inside, i will try to drill a precise hole in the floor to get the other half of the oem pipes back into the fittings i removed them from then use the flexi hose to connect them both up.

carried on piecing metal in to the rear quarters, i reckon one more day of cutting should do it, then it will be time to prep it all up and remove all rust and paint from the car and metal pieces so they can be welded

and finally i got a trial fit of the front upper camber arms. i needed to get one in so i could measure up the clearances between the coilover and the carrier at full negative, there was a tight 30mm gap so i will have the upper arm modified to allow another 20mm push of negative camber and then we will look at the lower arm setup.

my rear camber arms are being extended right now so hopeflly they will be back next sat.

[Pugme]

So the house was looking cool with my friend Martin's r34 rocket bunny, my housemates jdm arched 200, my SL and the 350 on the drive

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[Pugme]

So, it was camber time! The modified arms for the rear were back and it was time to be a moron!

I'm very happy with how it's sitting, and can't wait to get the 15j wheels On

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So end of day 1, it was clear I needed some spacers, the wheel required forcing in so Sunday was time to cut the arches with a grinder and slap a pair of 30 5mm spacers on to get the wheel away from the shock. We also whacked a 10.5j image wheel on off the 200

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Image wheel ^^

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And how we left it with the oem wheel on a 30mm spacer

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[Colin Wiltshire]

So the house was looking cool with my friend Martin's r34 rocket bunny, my housemates jdm arched 200, my SL and the 350 on the drive

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Looking more like The fast and the furious there

[Pugme]

Haha the neighbours love and hate us we also had the bbq out the front on the drive next to the 350 lol