I'm aware that the left spring is upside down (wasn't me)

Thank you to ImTheDevil for the great deal

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IMG_3709 by adam_044, on Flickr

 

Changed all 4 of the stock struts this weekend to Bilstein struts with H&R race springs. Wasn't to difficult just time consuming. Only difficulty that I ran into was compressing the rear springs, ended up having to take them to a shop that could compress them, the AutoZone tool didn't cut it.

17 inch Avus wheels will be mounted and installed tomorrow.

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Lookin good man - should be really nice with the Avus set. You should look into painting your lower trim body color to visually lower it even more. Since you have a facelift car you can use Duplicolor Radiant Silvee right off the shelf and it's a very close match in color to your car.

 

Makes a difference visually:

 

Never thought about that actually. Does look good that way though. The black plasti dip it already peeling off for some reason which is very odd. Must of been poor prep work since I did it in my garage in the middle of winter. Plasti dipped it black because with all plastic it was faded and looked bad.

 

If you look closely in the 3rd picture you can see the dent I put in my bumper last week when I back into a metal water pump top. Never posted a picture but that will be fixed soon.

 

Very possible. I hit mine with some 600 grit sandpaper, then adhesion promoter, filler primer, and paint. Took about 8-9 hours including masking off the rest of the car, but it was worth it.

 

Looks good.
How long did it take you?

 

Thanks. Took a while since it was my first time ever doing this. Id say probably 10 hours in total. Wasn't hard. Wasting time trying to compress the springs really slowed my friend and I down. We were able to flip the front spring since it came upside down but the rears were impossible.

 

you need some tint on those windows