Thats definately right, but ferdinand set the height of the front beam on the VW for a VW and a VW is not a porsche!
I do like the look of a slightly lower stance, but it has always been my experiance that if you play around with with stock settings, it compromises other things, its like a domino effect. I spose the easiest way to explain it is like this.
Take the stock VW gearbox, axle and wheel bearing assembly. Engineers use their stress & load formula's when they are desigining these componants. One of the things in this chain is the wheel and tyre, for my 56 the wheel is 15" and the tyre is a 5.60 crossply. If I put a modern 165x15 radial on the rim. the greater width of the tyre put's a stress and load on the rest of the drivetrain that it was not designed for, if you put even wider rims on (6" or 7") it then gets even worse. You may not think it is doing much, but what you can't see wont hurt, and a few years down the track the box and the bearings have worn more than they should have, it's starting to give trouble and the owner is saying Bloody VW's unreliable heaps of junk!
I have always keeped my cars and bikes stock, PPL are amazed when I tell them the mileage's I get out of my engines, clutches brakes and other running gear. My kombi has done over 300.000 and has never had the heads off or been opened up. she has gone through one set of wheel bearings in the front, the rears I have never changed since I have owned her, (over 15 years) I have only had one set of new CV's as well. I leave all the suspension settings stock and run stock tyre size's.
The 56 I just bought has been owned by the same man for 20 years he was the second owner. He has left her stock, even running the original size and spec new crossply tyres. She is still going strong, and is 48 years old.
I can tell you in all honesty without lying. I have a friend with a lowered Kombi, running mercedes rims and low profile tyres whenever he rides in my Kombi he always comments on how nice it rides and how comfortable it is, but lowered looks better! I have to have a little chuckle.
When I was a young bloke (decades ago) I used to have a hot 64 Holden with wide wheels and an engine built by a well known speedway mechanic. I used to look at those old blokes with their 1930's chev's and fords (box stock) and think "silly old buggars" but their cars had been going basicly untouched for more than 30 years! Now I am one of those silly old buggars trying to enlighten young blokes like Kafer!
Its a tough job, but someone has to do it!
Rob...😎
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hmmm well said, thats why i like to lower my car but still have it so it can be set back to original.
its like a passing fad low's the go now it was the "rat look" a little while ago it all comes and goes.
heheheh zac i finished those "games/puzzels" and im waiting anxiously for the "harder" one you were telling me of 😉
Founding member of the C'town Rat-Pack
i've just sourced that one for you...
http://www.albartus.com/motas/
i've got a full screen version somewhere...<insert 15min delay while i search for it>
i think this is it...
http://server-admin.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/motas/mystery/testgame.htm
well here is another one called 'the office'
http://www.anodeetcathode.net/office/
i will play that one after i actually post here...
oh and robo..... 'lalalalalalalalalalala'
😎😎:P:thumb
zac
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oo there is another 'secret room'
2 play The Blue Chamber:
http://www.fasco-cs.com/works/bluechamber/index_e.php
okay then scrap that..there is a room but the id i had was cancelled 'due to exposure to the public'
[Edited on 2-7-2004 by zac_smits]
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Oh well
At least I tried!!!
Rob...😎
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hey...ur online...yeh you can try and i can believe, but i don't know if i will actually ever get around to lowering it at the rate i'm going
(so basically i could be admitting here to being all show and no go!!!)
zac
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yay!!! 67000th post!!!
zac
(in case you were wondering how i know...i was looking at the stats page and i saw it said 66999 posts..so i just had to post again!!!)
[Edited on 2-7-2004 by zac_smits]
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Looks like your gardian angels are keeping watch over you and stopping you from doing anything silly!!!
Rob...😎
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haha...you don't know how right you are with that one mate!!!
one of the girls i know said that my angel must be working longer hours than i am (<----no easy feat!!!) just to keep me here!!!
i give you permission to ask me the same question in 10 years time...
that is, if your eyesight is still good enough to read this tiny text....
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Robo wrote:Thats definately right, but ferdinand set the height of the front beam on the VW for a VW and a VW is not a porsche!
I do like the look of a slightly lower stance, but it has always been my experiance that if you play around with with stock settings, it compromises other things, its like a domino effect. I spose the easiest way to explain it is like this.
Take the stock VW gearbox, axle and wheel bearing assembly. Engineers use their stress & load formula's when they are desigining these componants. One of the things in this chain is the wheel and tyre, for my 56 the wheel is 15" and the tyre is a 5.60 crossply. If I put a modern 165x15 radial on the rim. the greater width of the tyre put's a stress and load on the rest of the drivetrain that it was not designed for, if you put even wider rims on (6" or 7") it then gets even worse. You may not think it is doing much, but what you can't see wont hurt, and a few years down the track the box and the bearings have worn more than they should have, it's starting to give trouble and the owner is saying Bloody VW's unreliable heaps of junk!
I have always keeped my cars and bikes stock, PPL are amazed when I tell them the mileage's I get out of my engines, clutches brakes and other running gear. My kombi has done over 300.000 and has never had the heads off or been opened up. she has gone through one set of wheel bearings in the front, the rears I have never changed since I have owned her, (over 15 years) I have only had one set of new CV's as well. I leave all the suspension settings stock and run stock tyre size's.
The 56 I just bought has been owned by the same man for 20 years he was the second owner. He has left her stock, even running the original size and spec new crossply tyres. She is still going strong, and is 48 years old.
I can tell you in all honesty without lying. I have a friend with a lowered Kombi, running mercedes rims and low profile tyres whenever he rides in my Kombi he always comments on how nice it rides and how comfortable it is, but lowered looks better! I have to have a little chuckle.
When I was a young bloke (decades ago) I used to have a hot 64 Holden with wide wheels and an engine built by a well known speedway mechanic. I used to look at those old blokes with their 1930's chev's and fords (box stock) and think "silly old buggars" but their cars had been going basicly untouched for more than 30 years! Now I am one of those silly old buggars trying to enlighten young blokes like Kafer!
Its a tough job, but someone has to do it!
Rob...😎
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hey whats with the post count...lots....is that their way of stopping pointless posts for the purpose of inflating post counts ?
I dunno
Theres no hope for you blokes. I give ya's wisdom thats worth millions and ya's throw it all away! now I know how John Howard feels!
Rob...😎
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Hahaha...thats funny, i laughed out loud...
I have a lowered kombi with merc rims...and i've ridden in your stock standard panelvan...
I just happen to read this thread and I get a mention...
It does look better, and it rides Ok, just drove it to sydney...and didnt miss a beat...its not as low as my microbus was, and it travelled 300000ks as well...
Cmon Rob I only compliment your kombi to make you feel good...You wouldnt help me with the oval if i kept on at you about lowering it, Jodie wants it lowered, stop you perving on all those youngans in their hyundais...when its low you cant see them
Kafer dont listen to him, he's just getting old...you should see his tarten jacket...🙂
Posted by Byronbus
'Cmon Rob I only compliment your kombi to make you feel good...You wouldnt help me with the oval if i kept on at you about lowering it, Jodie wants it lowered, stop you perving on all those youngans in their hyundais...when its low you cant see them
Kafer dont listen to him, he's just getting old...you should see his tarten jacket
and that long post you did robo...i may've read it but i didn't 'comprehend' it!! (i also think that you have far too many stars underneat your name :P:P)
zac
hahahahahahaha
that has to be sooo true. (i bet he has one of the old person type 'baggy-green' hats..(not a baggy-green but u should know what i mean...))
[Edited on 3-7-2004 by zac_smits]
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He He
Actually I do have a cap. Its a Shandon, 8 pice made in Ireland. (not England) I don't have a tweed jacket with leather elbow patch's yet but Im working on it!
And Byronbus, your kombi has talked to mime on quite a few occasions and she wants to know why she is shorter than mine! I keep telling her not to worry it's only a passing fad and one day she will be restored. Pige keeps telling me she is a bit worried about her too! you know she will get arthritus if you dont do something about it soon.
Rob...
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hahaha some of the crap you guys spin is hilarious!!!
robo, i mean really...arthritis in a kombi??? you are probbaly far more likely to get tennis elbow while spending far to many hours on AVD
(wait..that sounds bad...tennis elbow from resting your arms on the deskk better 🙂)
zac
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Whats doing ? all this and before 6.am on a Sunday.
My Notch keeps asking when he's gonna be lower
Ahhh
Have to wax the Oval before a sunday club run, can't have her being disgraced by lesser machinery! Mustangs and Plymouth's and the like. I tell her everything that goe's on here, and about the way you bloke's gang up on me, and treat my advice with contempt. She just gives me some sounds of encouragement and tells me not to give up! Her brothers and cousins need someone to stand up for them.
Always remember the world is flat and Santa Claus is real!!!
Rob...😎
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Anybody Home!
Rob...😎
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see we have a copy of our thread "the people of the here and now".
Time to do some gate crashing.
The post count still freaks me out
Well we have our numbers back, I can understand why he didi it.
Rob...😎
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Still a ways to go for me to hit 1000
Has that dude still got the type 3 ?
Yes
Give him a ring.. Alan Atkins (stokers siding) 06 6677 9246. Tell him Rob white told you about it. Might get a discount.
Rob...
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yeh i actually like it more without the post count... (here's me that's likely to crap on more than the average avd)
we may gang up on you robo but you seem to enjoy having a go at us as well!! you give it back as good as you get it, and that's what we enjoy!!! (plus it's vw related so we are combining multiple interests!!!)
zac
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The post count is back...yaaaay...except for Rob who looks like he's lost a couple of hundred posts.
Rob you've gotta stop posting ijn the Buy Swap and Sell sections...they're bad for your count!!! 😀
No new news from here...just laying low for a bit...🙂
Heh Jen......noticed you online & just thought i'd say HI.:duh:duh:duh(sorry its just too cute!!!)
I've had 2 shipments of splitty repair panels arrive in the past few days so thats been exciting.I also took the bumpers to the chromers to see how much its going to cost to get them fixed & chromed with the overriders etc.....so its all happ'n....slowly but surely!!:bounce
so splittychick stuff is getting done? that's good to hear...i'm busy here at school with lots of stuff relating to the school play.
hehe robo is still at 1850..that'd suck to just keep getting knocked back over and over...(i could also be talking about your luck with women 😉😉😉)
hahaha i'm running away now...
zac
p.s i keep gatecrashing 'here and now' but then they welcomed me..so i got scared...(no one welcomes the likes of me hahahah)
[Edited on 5-7-2004 by zac_smits]
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Hey Robo i've worked it out so we're both happy.
Put 17" wheels on pige and then lower it 2" which will make it the same ride height but will bring it in to the new millenium......:bounce
From Kafer68...he..he..he
PS I was only joking about your post count but I bet you had a moment of concern...he..he..he
kafer69 wrote:LMAO....Robo you crack me up
Well I guess I'll leave it the way it is
Robo wrote:Why don't ya just LOWER it to Kafer68.
Rob...😎
I had to put that one in here for memories sake!! (talking about changing kafers nickname for those who didn't know....)
hahahaha..Robo is a regular comedian....keeps me entertained!!!
zac
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