El-cheapo coilovers

[Henka]

Well...

Ebay link'o

D'ya think that this is any thing worth something? Looks to cheap to be true...

[caterpillar]

suspect on ebay

:mischeif: suspect objects yea... too cheap to be true.....someone tryed this??

[s2avant95M]

not really cheap when you add the postage costs. the guy has 452 100% feedbacks.

[WabTheKing]

i have done this very cheap has the disired effect,

i paid £35 for platform/top/threaded tube

£25 2.25"id x 8" long springs

half a day with a welder and an angle grinder

[Henka]

i have done this very cheap has the disired effect,

i paid £35 for platform/top/threaded tube

£25 2.25"id x 8" long springs

half a day with a welder and an angle grinder

Ok, pics please..

What about spring rates and so on. Which kit did you use?

[WabTheKing]

400lbs x 8" long, will take pics later,
see my crude drawing of how i did it

took strut apart

cut platform off

got threaded sleeve slide on fit for strut OD

weld on round the bottom

2 C nuts one is the spring retainer the one below is the locking nut

re assemble shocker in strut

slide new spring over

put top mount on as usuall with new spring top retainer

[Henka]

AutoCad??

Ok, I get the pic. You welded it in place - does that mean they are steel collars? Won't that rust like "the-hot-place"??

[Stick Insect]

AutoCad??

"the-hot-place"??

This is from www.tas.uk.com and shows the threaded tube.

HTH

David

[WabTheKing]

AutoCad??

Ok, I get the pic. You welded it in place - does that mean they are steel collars? Won't that rust like "the-hot-place"??

yeah steel threaded seamless tube

probably will rust but how often are you planing on adusting them? you could get the paint blasted off the bottom of your strut and then get the whole thing electro plated

the aluminium C nuts are already anodised i think (well mine havent gone crappy yet) either that or they are high qualitly aluminium

i just sprayed my threads with waxoil

[AnLe]

How did you cut the orginals? The rears are easy but the front has a "arm" and I was talking to one specialist here in Finland few years back, he wanted to use mill to cut it, makes even and straight cut, and the front strut is impossible to put in a mill.

To the orginal question, it sell SPRINGS to coilovers, not full systems.

[WabTheKing]

i didnt go anywhere near the arm, i hacked off the platform, then tidyed up where it was welded on (which is much higher than the arm) with a grinder/flexi disc

i wanted to put it in a lathe to turn it off - dont get the advange of milling it off

[AnLe]

my bad, mixed up mill and lathe, of course lathe is used for cutting, sorry.

The problem was the balance or lack of it when the front strut is mounted on the lathe.

[ThatGUY]

Any more information Wab?

[WabTheKing]

a piccy

[Fat Audi 80]

Looks pretty good to me!