HOW Would you do this and why

[Josh_Cohen]

hi guys saw these pics and was pretty amazed

 

Why and how would you do this

 

 

 

just wondering about tyre wear and handling

 

Josh

[Alexg]

That golf photo caused a right royal ding-dong on Retro Rides the other month. But the photo just made me laugh

[VWPowered]

i'd presume handling is pants to say the least and the fact that it must eat bearings and CV joints about 5% of tread on the road will certainly get a knock from plod.. even i see no piont in that

[Ratdat]

I'm not sure why you'd do it because it has a kind of clown car look to it. great if you're a proffesional clown I suppose

[Josh_Cohen]

it just seems so silly i'm all for a little camber but!!!

 

 

like this is good

 

 

Lovely car too!

[VWPowered]

yes that nice, i presume they make plate extensions to go from the lower wishbone back to the hub

[Josh_Cohen]

what about the strut surely it would foul

[VWPowered]

http://clublexus.com/forums/sc-400-300/ ... sc400.html

 

some light reading although i didnt get off page 1

[Cavcraft]

In the case of the first one it's because it's a VW and it's 'scene' man.

[VWPowered]

not my scene i add

[Cavcraft]

not my scene i add

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

This is the white Golf from the first post.

 

[VWPowered]

fuck thats dangerous

[VWPowered]

notice how the spring also doesnt sit properly in its holder

[trigger]

It's the spring i noticed first , very dodgy plus it looks shit anyway.

[seth]

You'd do that because you can and because it would make you an internet legend*. Rants about it screwing up tyres/handling etc are not required in this instance.*Good or bad depending on the viewpoint of the reader

[Josh_Cohen]

ok seth i see your point but now i've seen those pick its the safety aspect of it that is a cambered COFFIN LOL

[garbaldy]

That is way to dangerouse to drive on the road like that but looks so funny abit like them speed freeks ornaments that you buy I think i may still have a set off wedges that i made years ago to do that to an auotx car, the neggy camber works well in the dirt the front struts are a simple redrill to get a few degrees camber but how you would get that amount is baffling

[Ratdat]

notice how the spring also doesnt sit properly in its holder

I suspect it's dropped out as the car's been jacked up to take the pic. That camber bodgery is mechanical imcompetence of an eye watering level though.I know there's a lot of hand wringing and gnashing of teeth over this new BIVA test for modified cars but even though this particular example is stateside, sadly it's stuff like this that proves it's necessary.

[VWPowered]

i presume chopped springs then too

[Ratdat]

i presume chopped springs then too

Springs that are too short more like... chopping them isn't an issue providing they don't come loose at full lift.

[mattblack]

As I understand it, it came about from the fact that if you lower the back of a swing axle Beetle by a significant amount, you end up with lots of camber. It then became a mod in it's own right. May also have something to do with tucking the tops of wide/stretched tyres under the arches. Then like a lot of things, fueled by the interwebz, it gets taken to extremes....or of course, I could be talking bollocks!

[Rusty Pelican]

Its just this sort of mad , dangerous , and fucking stupid mods that could get the EU to ban modding cars or even allowing home mechanics , TWATS

[FredTransit]

Sod that, looks like an instant nick to me.

[VWPowered]

+1 fred, i'm all for lowering and doing other things to maker the car safer, i mean we all take pride in our cars (ish) but that golf owner needs the book throwing at him for that

[pompei]

Mattblack, it's the same with the Fiat 500 rear swing arm assembly - lowered springs = neg camber. All the racing Abarth, Giannini etc tuners did that. But we're only talking about a couple of degrees.

[Station]

... because the driver is a stupid trendy twat.

[VWPowered]

... because the driver is a stupid trendy twat.

not trendy if his car got towed for being unroadworthy

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

+1 fred, i'm all for lowering and doing other things to maker the car safer, i mean we all take pride in our cars (ish) but that golf owner needs the book throwing at him for that

His car was impounded and he couldn't afford the release fee, so it's bean cans now.

[Des]

HOW Would you do this: I wonder how would you stop the twats doing this. And why: Easy, to be the worlds greatest VOLKSWANKER.

volkswank·er  [volkes-wang-ker] –noun Chiefly British Slang: Vulgar. 1.a contemptible person; jerk, male masturbator, no-mark self haterwho tastelessly modifys bland German autos for attention. Use volkswanker in a Sentence'That Golf with the stripped bonnet, roofrack-O-shit and widowmaker suspension must be owned by a right Volkswanker.'Origin: 2010, some nob on a forum called Des.â€â€Synonyms 1. See desperate, needy. 2. sad. 3. fag. 4. lives with ma.