lookin good brotha...
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After a little trial and error with painting them myself and then having it all go to pot when I tried compressing the springs I decided to take them to the metal coating place just up the road from work. I've had them do some front axles for my 90q and was very happy with the end result.
A before of the front springs. I took a few detailed pics of the paint marks so I will have a reference from which to reproduce them with.
Back from the powder coater.
It is "pollen season" here in GA and if you look closely you can see small grains of pollen on the spring. It isn't in the epoxy thank goodness!
I'm mounting them tomorrow!
Side note to all this. I've been having trouble starting my 90q turbo for the last few weeks and I've been pulling my hair out trying to find the problem. I've even had to get out the wiring diagram and all my notes on CIS for this one. Well tonight I found my problem. A chunk of metal had decided to magnetically attach itself to my engine speed sensor. I'm sure it came from the throw out bearing that decided to catastrophically fail during a track event over two years ago. Somehow it eluded me when I cleaned up the inner bellhousing. After removing this she started no problem. Glad for that!
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Tom.
Cant see no 'lipstick splodges' on them springs yet...
Be good to see how well the powder coat holds up on the springs...had any good/bad experience with powder on ferrous metals?Carlos.
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I've power coated springs ask Slow2 if they are still any good after 4 yearsComment
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Not yet!
My plans are to paint them on after they are mounted to avoid marring the paint marks with the spring compressor.
It should be fine as all H&R springs are powder coated and I've had no problems with the H&Rs on my S4. I figure H&R probably knows a little bit about springs.
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A few pictures of my struts assembled. I'll be adding the proper paint marks to the springs once everything is mounted on the car. Freshly powder coated OE RS2 springs, Bilstein Sprints, and refinished strut housing sure do look nice.
I'm glad to see small parts coming together into larger assemblies finally after all these years of collecting them from different places.
The front assemblies.
Rears
I'm still waiting on the machine shop to finish opening up the centerbore on my Cup2s. Once I have them I will have everything to put the car back on its RS2 suspension.
I've got to scrub the rear inner arches down, which will finish the pre-paint cleaning and then off to the paintshop.........FINALLY! I'm ready to see NOGGY!Comment
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Looking good, looking good mr
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Tom - all those struts are disgustingly clean... I feel ill. Really nice to see such time & detail applied... So hey - its 'RS Blue' - Noggy bad...Paul Nugent
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lol Paul. I know, it is just no fun saying RS blauey.
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Lovely work, I can't wait to see this all put together.
Are you going to drive it, or put it in a glass cube and look at it? (Compliment)
The Perfectionist
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That makes two of us. I've got 5 years worth of cool RS2 parts in boxes that I am dying to see brought together.
The plan is to drive her on sunny Sundays mostly and trailer her to auto shows. I will also track the car a few times early on as I want to feel the dynamics of the RS2 after hearing so much about how the car behaves at speed. I've driven a couple of RS2s on the street, but I never really got a sense of what the car was capable of. After that she goes in a glass box and I'll charge admission for a peek.
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Cool.
The Perfectionist
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Congrats !
Just awesome job man !!
i dream of making such a project when i retired ! lolS2 's and oldtimersComment
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Tom: Hope you don't mind but I have borrowed (Stolen) your engine speed sensor photo and developed a post on AudiWorld (linked to quattroworld) regarding checking the G28 for shrapnel during a no-start diagnostic. I am sure it will help somebody:
http://forums.audiworld.com/showthread.php?p=23763331RS2'd 93 UrS4 5 spd sedan
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Wow... how much longer until its all done?
Pete
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