Petchy's Touring- Tech II Kit fitted!!

[xstream]

Looking good mate

[Alpina99]

Nice looking car,
Love the Tech II kits on Tourings,

[petchy]

not done much on the car in the past month- had to get married and go on honeymoon etc!!.....

but things have settled down and have 2 weeks before i am back off to sea so one final push on the car until september.

eventually got the smoked headlights fitted, Thanks Rav




Awaiting delivery of my Replica dealer plates from Mr Pukar.



next on the list is to get these fitted once I get a dry day

Blasted and powder coated strutts, sports suspension lowered 60/40, new top mounts.

also have front polybushes which i will probably fit at the same
time!!

[magpie]

oooh shiny bits

[petchy]

New plates arrived from Pukar.

Old and New, great match!



if its dry tomorrow then I will be hopefully getting the new suspension on!!

[fastdiablo]

Nice ! . . . I like a Tech 2 touring . . .

I had the same issue with the tow bar, having to cut the rear bumper is a hard thing to have to do,but like you I need to be able to pull a trailer . . .



This is my old one . . .

[petchy]

Looks like you had a nice one, did u sell it?

[fastdiablo]

It rotted out unfortunately and was beyond repair, I considered putting the kit on the new one but decided to keep the standard look so sold it on about 2 years ago . . .

If your putting lowered springs on have you considered the camber correction kit for the rear beam ? . . . .

[petchy]

If your putting lowered springs on have you considered the camber correction kit for the rear beam ? . . . .

erm.... the who'dy what for what?? (take that as a no! lol!)
is it going to be much of an issue?

[fastdiablo]

Lowering the car looks great, and it'll handle a bit better too but when you lower the car it pushes out the camber for the rear wheels. There's no camber correction facility on the standard setup so if left as it is it can wear the inside edges of the rear tyres prematurely, the harder you drive it the quicker they'll wear.

"Dan The" was doing a kit that welds onto the rear beam or even a rear beam thats already been sorted and powder coated that gives you the option to correct the camber, also worth changing the rear beam bushes while you're there. I've not been on the site for a while and not sure if he still does it, but its well worth asking him the question.

[petchy]

Well a break in the weather alowed me to have a tinker on the car last week.

Jobs Done-
- Front Polybushes fitted
- Refurbed Strutts fitted
- Refurbed Calipers Fitted
- New Topmounts Fitted
- Lowering springs & shocks Fitted (60mm front/40mm rear)




/\ /\ What a B*STARD!! /\ /\ just noticed I have forgot to fit the protective cover on the shocker! P8ssflaps! it'll have to come off again tomorrow!









Jobs for next leave-
- Fit Plates
- Fit Maplight Mirror
- Spray job
- Think about tackling the fitting of my 6 button OBC!